Last week’s Presidential Address to Congress was a disappointment. Shame on President Trump, who acted anything but “presidential.” With the opening lines of his speech, Trump began to taunt the ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Micheál Martin affected the look of a man who suddenly had found himself involved in a carny sideshow as the president went a ...

Iowa State University students took to the campus library lawn Thursday to protest the immigration detainment of a New York ...

The Republican Party that was stood up by Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and more recently Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald ...

What has become of our country? Are we, as Abraham Lincoln warned before the Civil War, "a house divided?" Why have we become so divided? We are dividing our country ...

As President Donald Trump attempts to reshape American government in his own image, the question of whether our democracy can ...

In that one speech, Donald Trump tried to drag the United States back from being a victim-dependency country to its founding commitment to be a personal responsibility achievement culture. He truly ...

Trump postponed tariffs on Mexican goods once again last week. As Mexico's president celebrated the delay, some companies ...

Much of Idaho’s top political leadership met Saturday in Rexburg for the annual Multi-county Lincoln Banquet – featuring speeches by U.S. Senator Jim Risch, Gov. Brad Little and former Idaho Senate ...

See the personnel items from the Feb. 10 agenda of the Moline-Coal Valley School District. The School Board met at Willard ...