Wagner: Litmus tests for political parties are dumb
People can evolve on issues when they talk to each other and learn more not just about what others believe, but why they believe what they do.
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Ireland: Lesser-known candidates offer much in Senate race
Candidates who run on ideas—no matter the results—breathe life into their party and help move communities forward.
Shabazz: A few more facts about police-action shootings
With what we’ve seen in the news, you would think it was open season on unarmed black men by law enforcement. However, the data paints a different picture.
Shella: There is still good journalism out there, but …
Journalism has changed, the ways we consume it have changed, and the way people view journalism and journalists has changed, too.
Robertson: Bringing the service back to public service
In the days of Donald Trump, Anthony Scaramucci and endless talking heads—nay, screaming heads—on the left and right, it is easy to forget that running for office or working in government is supposed to be about public service. It is supposed to be an honor and the highest form of civic engagement.
Hale: Sue Ellspermann and the women in prison
Sometimes, elected officials do the right thing for the right reasons when no one is looking. Seriously. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s true.
Daniels: Defending the right to bear arms—with limitations
I agree in concept with John Lott’s “more guns, less crime” theory, based on data indicating that violent crime decreases when states are required to issue gun permits to law-abiding citizens. But I don’t see any need for the general public to own semi-automatic weapons.
Smith: Christianity in Indiana by the numbers
The church is about far, far more than worship on Sunday morning. It affects whom we elect, how we earn and spend money, and the ways we solve shared problems.
Leppert: Public health and education are infrastructure, too
Just as a company is only as good as “the intelligence of its people,” the same rule applies to “the health of its people.” And these two rules apply to our nation.
Parr: Now entrenched, government health care hard to purge
in cases of extreme expansion of federal power, the court of public opinion is arguably at least as important as the legal process.
Hollingsworth: Focus on central question: Who’s in charge?
Under Obamacare, these decisions are increasingly being taken from you and your family and made by bureaucrats who don’t know you, don’t know your needs, and don’t have a stake in your future.
Donnelly: Our top priority must be to do no harm
I won’t support any effort that undermines the coverage of those Hoosiers—or of the families whose children have complex medical conditions and rely on HIP 2.0 and Medicaid to get the care they need.
Wolley: Going to war with a racially biased education system
Winning this war means my son will proudly remain black, beautiful and intelligent as he graduates from college and graduate school. He won’t be society’s statistic
Schneider: How about less groupthink, more independence?
Courage is standing against a president of your own party when he is wrong.
Siddiqui: Eliminate public funding of political primaries
We should require each political party to develop, fund and implement its own mechanisms to select electoral candidates.
PARKER: The rise of the American welfare state
Blindly dropping taxpayer funds from helicopters is not compassion.
COLLINS: Putin and Europe meet an entire fleet of Trumps
Trump had begun to resemble a dinner guest who does nothing but talk about his superior tennis skills, better car and more interesting vacations.
WAGNER: Thank goodness for government close to the people
States are sometimes called the "laboratories of Democracy."
SMITH: Exploring what it means to be conservative
Our aim is to convene the brightest minds in politics and thought to come together to cast a vision for the conservative movement in Indiana.
PARR: What if America is destined for constant disagreement?
There has always been a tension in America between the costs and benefits of too much government and too much individual freedom.