Years ago, Republicans bought tickets on the Donald Trump train to political self-destruction. Now, following a jury’s determination that the former president was liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll, the only question that remains is how far they’ll tr “...”
The transformation is complete. In Indiana, the Republican Party now is the party of big government—the political faction that wants to use state power to control people’s choices and lives. That much became clear when Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law the “name” bill pas “...”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita seems to have just two problems with being a public servant. He doesn’t much care for the “public” part. And he absolutely detests the “servant” piece. That much is made clear by the lengths to which the attorney general will go to p “...”
The 2023 legislative session of the Indiana General Assembly has ended. It was a long march, one filled with hardship for the lawmakers. There were times during the four months of their labors that the legislators came perilously close to running out of innocent Hoosiers they cou “...”
Just when it seems as though the lawmakers in the Indiana General Assembly have demonstrated they are as far removed from reality as is humanly possible, they find another level. A new dimension of delusion and detachment from real people’s lives. On the same day that another m “...”
Just as night follows day, political power unjustly acquired inevitably will become political power unjustly exerted. The eyes of the nation and the world these days are on Tennessee’s House of Representatives. That chamber voted to expel two members, Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashv “...”
Some unfortunate moments and dumb acts are merely reasons to feel regret. Some, though, become enduring sources of shame. The measure approved by the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb banning gender-affirming care for minors falls into the latter c “...”
Jeff Smulyan delivered the line almost as a throwaway, but it had a sting. Speaking at an Economic Club Luncheon in Indianapolis, Smulyan, the founder and CEO of Emmis Corp., referred to the Indiana General Assembly’s obsession with punishing a small minority of Hoosiers. Smuly “...”
Shovel salespeople must love Todd Rokita. Whenever Indiana’s attorney general digs himself into a hole, his response is to just keep scooping. It’s hard to know whether short-sightedness or some compulsion toward self-destructiveness drives this tendency of Rokita’s, but it “...”
As they reached the halfway point of the 2023 legislative session, the members of the Indiana General Assembly made their priorities clear. They focused inordinate amounts of time and energy on making the already difficult lives of transgender students even harder, keeping studen “...”