Krull Commentary: GOP’s luxury plane ride to recognition
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 14, 2025 There’s a story often attributed to the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw that speaks to this moment. Shaw, the story goes, found himself seated next to a pompous w “...”
Krull Commentary: Students blazed the trail
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 12, 2025 Sometimes, milestones arrive in near silence. This just-concluded legislative session of the Indiana General Assembly marked the 20th year Franklin College journalism s “...”
Krull Commentary: A pope who will lead with his ears
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 12, 2025 The world has a new pope. And, in the end, it wasn’t the mystery and the majesty—the puffs of smoke and the secretive ceremony—that was the most moving about the s “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump and Braun give it the old college try
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 7, 2025 President Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Braun don’t have enough to do. The demands of leading a nation and a state don’t seem to be enough to occupy Trump and Br “...”
Krull Commentary: Mike Pence’s profile in courage
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 5, 2025 More than 50 years ago, I read John F. Kennedy’s “Profiles in Courage” for the first time. I was in the fourth or fifth grade. It was five or six years after an ass “...”
Krull Commentary: Micah Beckwith teaches history that never was
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com by John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com April 28, 2025 If Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith ever took a U.S. history class in either high school or college, the teacher should retroactively flunk him. Because it’s clear Be “...”
Krull Commentary: Hiding in an imagined past
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull The Indiana Citizen April 25, 2025 Watching a state’s leaders decide to race backward would be fascinating if the consequences for their foolishness weren’t so likely to be devastating to so many peo “...”
Krull Commentary: The strength to be kind
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com April 21, 2025 When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the bishop of Rome in 2013, no one knew that his papacy would be blessedly out of pace with that of much of the world. Pope Francis s “...”
Krull Commentary: Now, deportations have a face
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com April 17, 2025 It’s easier, so much easier, to hate and fear people we don’t know. Once they have faces, once we see that others are human beings with hopes and pains similar to “...”
Krull Commentary: Republicans, property taxes and other family feuds
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com April 14, 2025 There used to be a saying in politics that was partly a joke, partly a cliché and partly a home truth. “Democrats have to fall in love while Republicans just fall i “...”