Krull Commentary: Baseball and seasons of heartbreak
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 7, 2026 CLEVELAND, Ohio—Baseball exists to break one’s heart. I’m back in Cleveland, the city where I was born. It’s the city where, more than 60 years ago, my father tried to teach me the game he loved most, tossing underhand p “...”
Krull Commentary: Rokita and the jet ski that runs on tax dollars
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 5, 2026 It’s time to give credit where credit is due. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has genuine gifts. He is spectacularly good at wasting time, squandering taxpayers’ money, starting silly fights and wallowing in self-pity. “...”
Krull Commentary: A polite but urgent little rant
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com October 2, 2026 What follows will be a rant. The other day, I made the mistake of following a social media discussion about the Indiana secretary of state’s race from start to finish. The opening salvo in this waste of time and energy was an “...”
Krull Commentary: Are there any Republicans who watch basketball?
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 30, 2026 Fool around long enough and eventually Schmitt happens. That’s what Republicans discovered when they dragged former Special Counsel Jack Smith before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing. They did so in the for “...”
Krull Commentary: The future will not be kind
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 28, 2026 History can be a harsh judge. When the tumult surrounding controversial events quiets, people—not just scholars, but actual people—look at what happened. They peer through the confusion and, with a clearer gaze, determi “...”
Krull Commentary: Rokita and Beckwith in black and white
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 25, 2026 Now we know. Neither Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith nor Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita likes the job he has. Each would prefer to be doing something else. Beckwith wants to be the worst coach in the WNBA. He made that “...”
Krull Commentary: An old lesson made new
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 23, 2026 Indiana Sen. Spencer Deery, R-Lafayette, sent me a note the other day. In it, he took me to task—gently, respectfully and fairly—for a line I’d written about him in a column. That column discussed the distressing tenden “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump’s tricks no longer entertain–or work
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 21, 2026 When a con man’s shtick grows old, the distractions and misdirection he relies on to divert attention from his failures stops working. That’s what President Donald Trump is discovering now. Ever since he descended the gol “...”
Krull Commentary: Coming up, a mud wrestling match
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 18, 2026 The race to be Indiana’s next secretary of state is about to get ugly. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is named after famed political analyst Larry Sabato and run by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, whi “...”
Krull Commentary: Mitch Daniels, page by page
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 16, 2026 Mitch Daniels hasn’t lost his touch. As I read “Impatience is a Virtue,” the memoir just published by the former Indiana governor and Purdue University president, I find myself thinking of a moment not long after Daniel “...”