OPINION: Freedom-loving Hungarians have rejected the Putin-Orban-Trump troika

OPINION: Attorney General Raul Labrador flunks the birthright citizenship exam

Labrador and 23 other Republican Attorneys General have asked the Supreme Court to overturn what has long been the well-established law of the United States.

OPINION: Idaho’s budgeting process — throwing together feathers, hoping for a duck

Idahoans should use the occasion of Vietnam War Veterans Day to remember and pay respects to veterans who have served in all of the nation’s wars.

OPINION: Raul Labrador chooses sides in Idaho’s Republican civil war

An Idaho Republican civil war has been raging for the last several years between an extreme-right, culture-warrior branch and a reasonable, pragmatic branch wh…

OPINION: The MAGA movement is headed for historic election losses this year

Trump grossly miscalculated the impact Iran could have on the world economy by closing off the Strait of Hormuz.

OPINION: Legislature should require an impact statement on health-related bills

While our lawmakers are required to provide a fiscal impact statement with each legislative measure (and truth be told, the statements are often wild estimates…

OPINION: Donald Trump’s war against Iran is based on lies or delusion

Pentagon briefers told Congress in a March 1 classified briefing that there was no intelligence suggesting that Iran planned to attack American forces. Trump w…

OPINION: Abraham Lincoln would be disgusted by today’s GOP standard bearers

OPINION: Idaho’s education system is overburdened with needless rules

There are hundreds of pages of statutes, regulations and standards that apply to the public school system. Some are necessary to ensure a proper education for …

OPINION: Governmental dysfunction at its finest in Idaho’s State Capitol Building

The $330+ million in tax cuts that the Governor and Legislature granted to some Idahoans, by conforming Idaho’s tax code to the BBBB, might have been just fine…

OPINION: Idaho’s top elected officials have turned their back on human rights

Instead of acting in ignorance, let’s continue to speak out for human rights in keeping with the Idaho tradition.

OPINION: The good, the bad and the ugly in Idaho’s political arena

Any reasonable and responsible legislative body would see the desperate need to increase state revenues to adequately fund essential programs.

OPINION: Idaho’s government embraces penny-wise, pound-foolish budgeting

We may save a few bucks today but end up spending gobs more in the future to address the consequences.

OPINION: Trump may be cruising toward a rendezvous with the 25th Amendment

OPINION: Trump's loose lips endanger lives of America's finest

Even a warrior nation owes it to their dedicated service personnel to maintain operational security so as not to put American lives at risk.