LOPRESTI: The most enduring ‘what ifs’ in Hoosier basketball history
In an alternative universe, IU was a dynasty and Gordon Hayward hit the biggest shot of all time.
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Carmel bond bank story inflammatory, off base
The article as it was originally written—and eventually changed after we objected—gave readers the impression that Carmel’s creation of the bond bank was done incorrectly and possibly illegally. There was not enough research done to verify this inaccuracy.
DINING: All-you-can-eat sushi on Pendleton Pike? Just roll with it
At Watami Sushi, what you may give up in strong flavors, you gain in accessibility and low cost.
TWYMAN: Transit provides link to equal opportunities
Transportation barriers can create heightened challenges for marginalized populations, including many young black men.
McROBBIE: Biosciences institute to bring big payoff
The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute's focus on diabetes and metabolic diseases dovetails with one of the IU School of Medicine’s scientific research priorities.
LOU’S VIEWS: Bamboo beyond baskets
And as evidenced in Herron Galleries’ latest show, artists working in this medium can combine stunning craftsmanship with artistic vision to create a range of wonders.
URBAN DESIGN: Plat for Mile Square lacks street cred
The sameness of our downtown grid presents challenges for the city center.
KIM: Buffett tells shareholders ‘America’s never been greater’
As usual, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders contained both timely commentary and timeless investment wisdom, delivered with wit, simplicity and humility
BOHANON & STYRING: Playing politics with tariffs an unwise course
Tariffs provoke retaliation. Pretty soon you’re in a trade war. The objective of protecting American jobs winds up costing many times more jobs than the ones you set out to protect.
Hidden gold in college applications
If the gatekeepers at Davidson College had judged the teenager by her ACT score, she probably wouldn’t have gotten in. It was 25 out of a possible 36, and more than three-quarters of the students at Davidson, a liberal-arts school in North Carolina with about 1,800 undergraduates and an acceptance rate of just over 20 […]
Our politics aren’t keeping up
When the U.S. military trains fighter pilots, it uses a concept called the OODA loop. It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. The idea is that, if your ability to observe, orient, decide and act in a dogfight at 30,000 feet is faster than the other pilot’s, you’ll shoot his plane out of the sky. […]
Paranoid politics: Will voters believe the hype?
Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity—or lack of validity—of the arguments these candidates are using. It is as if what matters this election year is the fate of a relative handful of people running for their […]
ROOB: It’s time for ban on Sunday sales to go
We have a law that forbids what on six other days is a legal act simply to insulate a few family businesses from 21st century competition.
MEREDITH: Lawmakers, educators should work together
Perhaps one of the greatest impacts the federal Every Student Succeeds Act could have on classrooms will be its respect of the professionals in our schools.
MASSON: Schools need flexibility to craft testing
The recent wave of testing hysteria to which the state has succumbed is damaging our schools and our children.
SHABAZZ: ‘Diversity’ is about thought and opinion, not race
It’s offensive—and, in fact, quite racist—to think a black person or minority has “black” or “minority” opinions simply because of the color of his or her skin.
IRELAND: Candidates can win millennials with right agenda
A longtime—though unreliable—target group of the left, young adults for the first time in a generation could instead flip for conservatives this November.
DANIELS: Female candidates face unnecessary challenges
It is a sad truth that when men are forceful, they are viewed as strong, just the sort of leader we want. But when women are forceful, they are seen as strident, lecturing, even “bitchy.”
SIDDIQUI: Times may have changed, but our values shouldn’t
Voting against Trump is a moral imperative.
WAGNER: Politics without purpose is no fun
Like so many of my friends, I just can’t find much joy in mindlessly hurling insults to advance an agenda—if there even is one—that helps no one.