Republicans cynically added provisions to the appropriations bill to relax regulations on pesticides; increase the legal maximum hours that drivers of big-rig trucks can spend on the road; and, most astounding and ironic, cut government funding of birth control services offered by Planned Parenthood.
It’s the inability to fully grasp and respect human emotion that puts conservatives, and their allied partisans the Republicans, in a bind.
The truth does not hold Trump back. He has been called out on his lies countless times, but that does not stop him.
The do-over battle between John Gregg and Mike Pence will either lead to the second term of a governor who’s proven unable to resist wading into divisive social issues or the first term of a governor whose main campaign message was not being the other guy.
We aren’t just planning for the upside of Indy; there are plans to address the disparities inherent in being two different cities in one place—the “two cities gap.”
There is a natural tension between our desire to keep people safe and to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. In the aftermath of a terrorist act, we need to be particularly careful about how we balance these two important goals.
There is really no reason to lack ambition when we consider the possibilities.
How would a train-like bus benefit more than a very small portion of the community? Is it equitable to charge someone for a service they likely never will use or for that matter even see? I just do not get it.
A yes vote for mass transit is a vote for growth and for giving local workers and families a better opportunity to reach the middle class through education and employment. It’s a vote to bring new investment to struggling neighborhoods, and to make our city even more appealing to new talent and business.
Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment. While throngs of young people are cheering loudly for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, socialism has […]
On the last day of May, the political arm of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of America’s most influential environmentalist groups, made its first presidential endorsement ever, giving the nod to Hillary Clinton. And it’s not hard to see why: At this point Donald Trump’s personality endangers the whole planet. We’re at a peculiar […]
First, a quiz: What’s the most common “vegetable” eaten by American toddlers? Answer: The french fry. The same study that unearthed that nutritional tragedy also found that on any given day, almost half of American toddlers drink soda or similar drinks. But for many kids, the problems start even earlier. In West Virginia, one study […]
We are now being forced to relive the decades-old sex scandals of Bill Clinton, as Donald Trump tries desperately to shield and inoculate himself from well-earned charges of misogyny. I say, if we must go there, let’s go all the way. Let’s do this dirty laundry, as Kelly Rowland, former Destiny’s Child member, once crooned. […]
Perhaps Americans have grown weary of being the world’s policeman and of nation-building.
Teachers are looking for real-time results that can influence their instruction to target student needs.
When I was a prosecutor, I thought the spread of addictive drugs was primarily a law enforcement problem. I now recognize this is in fact a major public health problem.
It is the responsibility of all of us as citizens, and particularly those in respected leadership positions in every aspect of American society, to speak out publicly and, importantly, enlist public media to point out the consequences of electing a buffoon as our president.
Pence’s disagreements with Trump aren’t really disagreements.
There is a certain amount of irony in the fact that the person Indiana Democrats have hated the most in the last 12 years might be their only salvation to recapture the office he took from them back in 2004.
The need to campaign differently, the public’s desire for authenticity and the evolving definition of presidential—again, how did I not see Trump coming?
