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.
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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.
SHEPARD: An opportunity to develop a new generation of leaders
Holcomb declared his ambition to “start moving toward taking Indiana to the next level” and, the not-for-profit being created for transition and inauguration tasks is called Next Level Indiana Inc. A central strategy in achieving this ambition should include empowering cadres of young trailblazers.
IRELAND: Fixing the disconnect between voters, Fourth Estate
Guarded from the thoughts and ideas of the world around them, journalists under-recognized and undervalued populist undercurrents like those of Trump.
SHABAZZ: Looking for Indiana’s next generation of political leaders
This election revealed up-and-coming leaders in both parties in Indiana.
MASSON: Go beyond abstract in politics: Engage in the process
Historically, Hoosiers had a more intimate understanding of government and the electoral process because they were rubbing elbows with it on a regular basis.