Author: Jonah Baker

OPINION: Awaiting Iowa
Monday's calamity should be the final death knell of caucuses
Jonah Baker

We are merely days into the official 2020 election cycle and already the media is confused, the nomination system is broken and most importantly,people are tired.

Opinion: Super Bowl idiosyncrasies
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Jonah Baker

Each year, the NFL’s climax becomes more and more of a spectacle in spite of itself. The growing acceptance of sports betting has caused plenty of growth in what was […]

OPINION: History, now streaming
New Netflix offerings make world history uniquely digestible
Jonah Baker

When I was younger, I used to spend hours glued to the television at my grandparents’ house, casually flipping through the channels but usually ending up on three important ones. Channels
34, 44 and 46 were my holy trinity of Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and the History Channel. In the mid-aughts, one could rely on each for a combination of awe-inspiring content and genuine education about anything from sharks to chivalry. However, I was always taken by the entertaining and informative approach to the past and conquests I could get from the History Channel.

Administration
Return of the ERA
New momentum for the Equal Rights Amendment puts the spotlight on Idaho’s legal past
Jonah Baker

Sometimes, the most important news happens too far in the background to make reverberations befitting its importance. Concepts like judicial decisions often fit this mold as changes that seem incremental in the moment but explode into importance as time goes on. Against all the odds, Idaho might be right at the center of a political firestorm because of some shady politics from three and a half decades ago.

Reassessing Resolve
The new year brings new attempts at wellness, and new pitfalls to avoid
Jonah Baker

A quick Google search will return results about the likes of Statista, SAS, FiveThirtyEight and a host of other data aggregators that all confirm what we already know: the majority of people resolve to get healthier in some way in the new year. Often this is separated into subcategories of: exercising more, starting a diet and finding some other hobby or self-improving habit.