ROBERTSON: Stand for American values by confronting bigoted behavior
I know taking action can come with consequences to individuals, but inaction will come with profound consequences felt across our entire society.
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State needs roundtable to focus on Indiana families
Far too many Indiana families today struggle for economic stability.
RITZ: Trump/DeVos budget out of touch with student needs
Perhaps they need to look at their definition of student achievement.
SHEPARD: Education and advancing Indiana’s economy
We are standing on a stronger platform for improvement than many places.
SIDDIQUI: Middle East policy: new hope or wishful thinking?
Although the president is having popularity problems in the United States, he has a very deep level of support among the people I met in Saudi Arabia.
SMITH: Focusing on policy through politics
Some pundits insist we were idiots. But, actually, we won a huge policy victory.
PARR: Newton’s third law and Trump’s new defenders
Extreme overreactions might be causing those who were wary of Trump to come to his defense.
LEPPERT: The rural/urban divide in Indiana politics
If support for RFRA had also been prevalent in the city of Indianapolis, I do not believe the largest tower in our skyline would have a Salesforce sign on it today.
SHABAZZ: The turmoil that is Donald Trump
Now, is the impeachment talk premature? I would say yes. But is the groundwork being laid for a constitutional crisis? Yes.
SHELLA: President Mike Pence. The president, Mike Pence?
A Pence presidency would be good for Indiana. Make no doubt about it.
SCHNEIDER: The problem with seeing the poor as ‘undeserving’
The implication? Those who are sick have themselves to blame.
WAGNER: The frightening erosion of respect for the media
The process of unearthing and sharing information can be as uncomfortable as it is critical to our democracy.
WOLLEY: Raising minimum wage for city workers is good start
People generally don’t get rich working for someone else, but unfortunately, more and more people are working hard and staying poor.
DANIELS: Minimum-wage-hike proposals aren’t so simple
You can’t increase wages significantly while also erasing the deficit.
CARTER: Should Indiana raise its minimum wage? In a word: yes
Raising the minimum wage can not only save money on public health outcomes, it can literally save lives.
UNDERWOOD: Upping minimum wage would be more over-regulation
The minimum-wage rate was never intended to feed entire families or be a rate that one worked at his or her entire life.
Lessons unlearned from the ’92 LA riots
We recently marked the completion of the first 100 days of the Trump administration. This milestone also coincides with a very important anniversary. Twenty-five years ago, on April 29, 1992, riots exploded in Los Angeles after four policemen were acquitted after being charged with the violent beating of Rodney King, caught on video for the […]
You’re too busy. You need a ‘Shultz Hour’
When George Shultz was secretary of state in the 1980s, he liked to carve out one hour each week for quiet reflection. He sat down in his office with a pad of paper and pen, closed the door and told his secretary to interrupt him only if one of two people called: “My wife or […]
Crime and different punishments
Last month, the state of Arkansas, which had executed nobody since 2005, put to death Ledell Lee for the crime of murdering Debra Reese in 1993. Why now—11 years after the last execution, 24 years after the crime? Because the chemicals used for lethal injection were about to expire. Reasonable people can disagree on the […]
The president’s degradation of the language
One of the more pernicious and insidious effects of the Donald Trump regime may well be the damage he does to language itself. Trumpian language is a thing unto itself: some manner of sophistry peppered with superlatives. It is a way of speech that defies the Reed-Kellogg sentence diagram. It is a jumble of incomplete […]