Conservatives have led the way on critical federal and state legislation designed to empower those once living in the shadows. From deinstitutionalization to civil rights, we have been at the forefront.
Even in 2016, white male privilege is so ingrained and insidious in American culture that it goes unnoticed by many, particularly its beneficiaries.
Many university students might feel unsafe on campus for a variety of reasons, some very serious. In response, students create organizations or spaces where they feel totally comfortable being themselves.
Indianapolis, relative to other cities, has a number of community systems and sustained dialogues in place that operate behind the scenes for situations like this recent shooting. Did these systems and processes work?
Since 2014, every time a police officer is involved in the shooting of a civilian, the tension increases. We have now reached the point where outrage erupts even in justified shooting situations.
It has been quite a month in politics. On one side, the Democratic National Convention was very much a celebration of America. On the other side, the Republican nominee for president, pressed on the obvious support he is getting from Vladimir Putin, once again praised Putin’s leadership, suggested that he is OK with Russian aggression […]
Donald Trump has found aa way to save the Democratic Party. He’s abandoned great patriotic themes that used to fire up the GOP and he’s allowed the Democrats to seize that ground. If you visited the two conventions this year, you would have come away thinking Democrats are the more patriotic of the two parties—and […]
If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that people would be evenly or randomly distributed in incomes, institutions, occupations or awards, in the absence of somebody doing somebody wrong. Political crusades, bureaucratic empires and lucrative personal careers as grievance mongers have been built on […]
We have a presidential candidate displaying the hallmarks of a grifter rising to power by exploiting anxieties and weariness of change. In more than a few ways, his pitch resembles that of D.C. Stephenson in the ’20s.
The decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton is understandable but will serve as a defense in other cases where a lesser-known individual is accused of mishandling classified material. So it will now be harder for the government to prevent the leaking of classified information.
A majority of the suspects who were shot while armed were white.
Normal office pleasantries like being greeted with smiles or people just going along their day like nothing significant happened took a bizarre “Twilight Zone-esque” twist. I and a lot of my black friends found the silence of colleagues and friends deafening.
The culture wars of the ’60s were fought in legislative chambers. Today, summary justice is handed down by unelected judges.
A star named Barack Obama was born at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. John Kerry would go on to lose that election, but out of that loss would begin a new era for the Democratic Party.
If Democrats have to keep going back to Bayh to give them a shot at winning elections, how will they ever grow a respectable party in this state?
This year’s weirdness might have long-term repercussions.
Despite Evan Bayh’s lifetime of experience on the campaign trail, the landscape both politically and technologically has shifted since his last statewide campaign in 2004. Needless to say, it shows.
Trump now implies that the NATO treaty itself has become unenforceable, but he provided nothing to support that conclusion.
Republicans made the right choice in naming Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb as the party’s nominee to be the next governor of the state of Indiana. Don’t listen to what the Democrats are saying. They are still reeling from the realization that they are left without a message since the whole John Gregg campaign has been, […]
What passes for debate in this election seems to represent a new low in the annals of public dialogue. I suggest Indiana has the capacity to go through the next three months without doing damage to our civic fabric.
