Marc C. Johnson
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Marc C. Johnson
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Political historian, columnist, former journalist and top aide to Idaho's longest serving governor Cecil D. Andrus.

Latest book (University of Oklahoma Press) is "Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate." Story of when the Senate worked.
Who knows what happens next in the latest U.S. Latin American escapade. You can bet Donald Trump doesn't have a clue.

My latest: marccjohnson.substack.com/p/now-what-a2d
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This book was given to my dad in about 1918. He gave it to me. And I remember him reading the story to me.
January 2, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I do believe this is called the urban wild land interface.

Oregon north coast.
December 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Two fascinating characters. Not discussing the pitch clock.

Branch Rickey born on this day in 1881.
December 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
An hour and a half west of the hell hole that is not Portland.
October 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
So, 90 minutes east is the war zone of Portland.

(Not really.)

You wonder if the Mango Mussolini has ever been here.

Spoiler alert: he hasn’t.
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Stalin would have blushed at such a group of groveling, ignorant buffoons.
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This guy launched his Senate career 45 years ago by running a smear campaign against John Culver. He’s a pretty good top tier example of the lies and sleaze that define the modern Republican Party.

I wrote a book about it.
July 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
After the January 6 pardons this obscene corruption is totally predictable, but no less disgusting. Good lord.
July 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Wonder where they got the idea?
July 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Reopen the Buckely Pit!

Make Butte Great Again!
July 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Marx Brothers, too.
June 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
North Oregon coast.
June 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Manzanita.
June 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Tiny Manzanita, OR. Population 640.
June 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
So many to which this applies.
June 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Among the most important sites in the modern history of the world.
June 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
So much winning …
April 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Of course he’ll try it.
March 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Trump tariffs are pain free, right?
March 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
As Idaho Gov. Brad Little repeatedly fails to stop an unhinged GOP legislature - here comes massive cuts to Medicaid - it must be recalled the state once had a real governor.
February 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Our half time show.

North coast of Oregon.
February 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Little straight up defense of democracy (at least by the political class) this week, but a defense of basic human decency by one courageous woman.

My latest: manythingsconsidered.com

And I consider a fearful little man from Idaho, Jim Risch, a law and order Republican until he wasn't.
January 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Yup.
January 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The old political hell-raiser, Montana Sen. B.K. Wheeler has been dead since 1975. But he can still turn out a crowd in Helena. Happy to report my bio of Wheeler is very much alive.
January 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM