DANIELS: Rest in peace, Bill Harvey, a giant in legal community
Dean Harvey was a giant to those of us who had the privilege of learning from him. His lectures were a wealth of valuable information about how law was actually practiced.
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MASSON: Bicentennial is reason to learn some Hoosier history
A year ago, I decided I did not know enough about Indiana’s history and set out on a project to blog all 200 years’ worth of it. The project spiraled out of control and ended up spanning more than 110,000 words and 100 posts over the course of a year.
BOEHM: Approach provides way to measure gerrymandering
It might be 2018 before the Supreme Court addresses potentially groundbreaking issues in redistricting with major implications for many states, including Indiana.
IRELAND: Trump’s phone call challenged ‘One China’ fiction
The United States has since spent 40 years both sustaining a tempered relationship with Beijing while holding a range of informal ties with the Taiwanese.
SIDDIQUI: How Bill Clinton pushed Republicans to the far right
Many have seen Bill Clinton’s triangulation as simply a pragmatic way of making public policy in the center. Through the lens of history, I disagree.
SHABAZZ: I’ve heard enough whining from the anti-Trump crowd
Seriously, folks, you all need to take a step back from the hyperbole, the histrionics and the hyperventilating. It’s getting really old really quickly.
WAGNER: Democratic Party has chance to rise from ashes
We can make excuses and say Democrats lost in 2016 because it was a wave. It was undetectable anger, a populist outcry that didn’t show up in the polls. Or we could recognize it as an opportunity.
DIETER: Trump’s picks for top posts add to post-election anxiety
Now Trump, having won election on the backs of people who can ill afford to carry him, is assembling a leadership team of moneyed misfits poised to usher in an oligarchy. It is clearer than ever that the Founders’ ideals are truly the stuff of history.
WOLLEY: With stakes so high, everyone just keeps fighting
The political left seems to have found some moral mandate snatching victory in the popular vote—even after enduring a compelling loss based on the rules everyone understood going into the American electoral process.
ROBERTSON: Opportunity knocks: Will the Republican Party answer?
Issues I have always believed can and should be solved through Republican leadership. We have all the opportunity and potential in the world. The question is whether we will live up to that potential.
MEREDITH: Here are four ways to help teachers feel inspired again
Hoosiers know we need the best educators to ensure a vibrant economic climate for our state and to ensure our kids have a secure financial future. If we’re serious about every kid’s future, let’s get serious about doing what works.
SHEPARD: Let’s view Carrier deal from glass-half-full perspective
The economists who saw the Carrier glass as half-empty said these recent events represented a “spot solution” rather than a policy or a strategy. “It’s not easily replicated,” said one. Another suggested the transaction could theoretically open a “floodgate” for businesses seeking tax breaks.
Coats ‘staff tree’ is tallest among Hoosier leaders
Over four decades of public service Coats groomed a team with more influence after leaving his staff than any Hoosier officeholder in recent memory.
TAMM: Trump should consider burdensome impact of rules
This rule is too much, too soon and it will have a far-reaching negative impact on the nation’s second-largest private-sector industry and the millions who work in the industry.
FRASER: Provisions would boost economy, help families
The Trump administration should defend the conservative benchmark of this overtime rule in order to boost the economy through higher wages, put more families on the path to economic self-sufficiency, and save us from coming back in the future to make large, burdensome and past-due changes to the salary-level test moving forward.
Making sense of the election night shocker
If your social circles are like mine, you spent election night swapping miserable texts. Not all, but many of my friends and family members were outraged, stunned, disgusted and devastated. This is victory for white supremacy, people wrote, for misogyny, nativism and authoritarianism. Those emotional reactions were a fitting first-night response to the greatest political […]
Obama forgot lessons of 2008 revolution
You know how desperate President Barack Obama is—as he contemplates his accomplishments going down the drain at the hands of a man he has total contempt for—when he is willing to do something so against his nature. He tried to persuade Donald Trump. We saw that unicorn glimpsed only fleetingly in the last eight years: […]
Democrats screwed up by ignoring a call for different
We geniuses in the news media spent only the last month telling you how Donald Trump was losing this election. We spent the last year telling you how the Republican Party was unraveling. And here we are, with the Democrats in tatters. You might want to think twice about our Oscar and Super Bowl predictions. […]
DANIELS: Obamacare helps defeat Democrats
Republicans warned in 2010 that a big-government approach based on mandates, excessive regulation and redistribution would be doomed to failure. Yet the Democrats marched on.
MEREDITH: Holcomb should chart new education agenda
As Holcomb readies himself to serve as governor, I urge him to ditch the out-of-touch, failed education policies pushed by his predecessors Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels.