Curt Smith: Indiana doesn’t favor work over workers
Markets are not magic, but they beat a system that responds to political cues rather than economic truths everywhere it has been tried.
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Curt Smith: Indiana poised to emerge from pandemic strong
Many more changes are ahead. Many daunting challenges remain.
Curt Smith: A letter to Georgians: Stay steadfast
“Our experience here confirms that the organizations attacking our residents and elected leaders did not carry through on their threats.”
Curt Smith: Falling church membership should be societal concern
God help us if this trend continues and is not reversed by the faith community’s extraordinary success in helping us navigate the pandemic and the cultural crosswinds that come from growing secularization.
Curt Smith: Police must be able to do their jobs during tourney
The livelihoods of thousands and the quality of life of millions will be affected by how we conduct ourselves as hosts.
Curt Smith: Senate bill protects faith community’s right to meet
The action rights a wrong against churches, synagogues, mosques and other worship centers in the health crisis.
Curt Smith: After narrow leads, Democrats must cooperate
The voices these so-called leaders ignore are not easily dismissed as rancor from the right. This half of the Great Divide desires and deserves a voice in these deliberations.
Curt Smith: Hispanic voters are fueling pro-life candidates
Hispanics are religious practitioners, with 70% or more identifying as Catholic or evangelical protestant.
Curt Smith: Republicans, Democrats both have key wins
The GOP increased its already strong hold on the map-making process that will define legislative districts for the coming decade.
Curt Smith: We are not electing a pastor, but a president
Trump is far from my ideal for a president, but he is right for the job.
Curt Smith: Trump can win because order will prevail
Recent polling gives Trump the advantage due to the disturbing social unrest, this lack of order.
Curt Smith: Children do best when raised by their married parents
In certain Indiana political circles, it has become controversial to state that children do best when raised by their own married biological father and mother.
Curt Smith: Three voices worth hearing in fight to stop violence
The pandemic and perhaps other factors are driving general crime down. But murders are skyrocketing.
Curt Smith: Discontent emerges among some conservative voters
Governing from the middle works most of the time, but shoring up the base may become necessary in disquieting 2020.
Curt Smith: The pandemic is forcing us to stop tolerating stupid
We are indeed interdependent, and there is dignity in all work.
Curt Smith: The way Indiana defines ‘pro-life’ in coronavirus crisis
We value life over commerce, we readily invest wealth and will suffer sharp economic harm … to save lives.
Curt Smith: Conservatives are real winners of RFRA battle
RFRA is a shield to protect the faithful from government, not a sword to harm others. We were right and the left was wrong, again.
Curt Smith: Acquittal was good for country, Constitution, Congress
Is all this poisoned politics preventing a lack of positive progress? The trend lines and this columnist say ‘yes.’
Curt Smith: Attorney general, 5th District will be races to watch
Party insiders worry Curtis Hill is vulnerable, and anyone who wins the Democratic nomination could run a negative campaign.
Curt Smith: Barr speech clarifies what’s at stake in 2020
William Barr’s Oct. 11 address at the Law School of Notre Dame University offers the clearest critique yet of the status and significance of the left’s decades-long assault on religious liberty.