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 “...”
Krull Commentary: Micah Beckwith’s quarrel with America’s founders
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 14, 2026 Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith loves to prolong old quarrels. Even ones that his side lost a couple of centuries ago. The latest example of this is his escalating feud with Indiana Treasurer Daniel Elliott and the state’s “...”
Krull Commentary: The voters won this one
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 11, 2026 At last, some signs of both sanity and integrity have returned to Indiana politics. The Indiana Supreme Court finally put an end to Indiana’s closest and most divisive primary battle. The court ruled that state Sen. Spencer “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump, the bride at every wedding, the baby at every christening
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 9, 2026 Not everything is about him. That’s the thing—the fundamental truth—that President Donald Trump never has been able to grasp. His unceasing hunger for attention drives him to do and say offensive things. It’s almost as “...”
Krull Commentary: That day, before and after
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 7, 2026 The day began in an ordinary fashion. On Sept. 11, 2001, I drove my children to daycare. They were still small, not yet school age, but my daughter, the eldest, liked to talk on car trips, however short they might be. Once I “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump, ICE and the American Revolution in reverse
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 4, 2026 The immigration crackdown has come to Indiana. Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—ICE—showed up in the Indianapolis metropolitan area and elsewhere in the state and began taking an undetermined number of “...”
Krull Commentary: Lake America and other tales of presidential daycare
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 2, 2026 It turns out that the supposed master of “The Art of the Deal” has no idea how to close one. That’s the real takeaway from President Donald Trump’s temper tantrum over the breakdown in trade negotiations with Canada— “...”
Krull Commentary: Democrats get another chance to get it right
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com August 31, 2026 Democrats here in Indiana and across the nation face a test this November. That test is cognitive in nature. It will be administered to determine whether they can recognize reality. Sadly, it’s a test Democrats often have fail “...”
Krull Commentary: Donald Trump’s damage to the GOP
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com August 28, 2026 Years ago, during Donald Trump’s first presidency, I made a prediction. I wrote that, while Trump doubtless was going to do damage to many American institutions and aggravate Democrats to no end, he was going to hurt the Repub “...”