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December 17 2025

Krull Commentary: The big thing the Trump crowd doesn’t get

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 17, 2025 There’s something that President Donald Trump just doesn’t grasp. Neither does Vice President JD Vance. Or Gov. Mike Braun. Or Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. Or so m “...â€

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December 12 2025

Krull Commentary: Redistricting dies, the republic lives

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 12, 2025 In the end, it wasn’t even close. When President Donald Trump’s determined and deluded campaign to redistrict Indiana’s congressional maps in the middle of a “...â€

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December 10 2025

Krull Commentary: Indiana’s Trump-directed flights from reality

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 10, 2025 Power grabs are always exercises in absurdity—gross attempts to justify the unjustifiable in defense of a nakedly self-serving goal. The current attempt by Presi “...â€

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December 06 2025

Krull Commentary: A tale full of sound and fury

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 5, 2025 So many idiocies abound. And there is so little time to point them out. The Indiana House of Representatives adopted its ill-conceived plan to redistrict the state†“...â€

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December 03 2025

Krull Commentary: Decency takes a stand

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 1, 2025 Sometimes, basic decency asserts itself in unexpected places. Sometimes, it even trumps ideology and partisanship. In the past few days, two Indiana state senators “...â€

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November 30 2025

Krull Commentary: No more toddlers need apply

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 28, 2025 More and more, what I look for in a leader is a simple human quality. The ability to own and own up to a mistake. It doesn’t matter if he or she is a Republican “...â€

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November 26 2025

Krull Commentary: Trump’s ugly gift to the GOP

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 26, 2025 Two numbers explain the intensity of the struggle within the Republican Party over President Donald Trump’s frenzied campaign to further gerrymander red states. “...â€

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November 26 2025

Krull Commentary: Trump, MTG and the MAGA family feud

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 24, 2025 Maybe, just maybe, this is how the end begins. The announcement by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, that she would be resigning her seat in Congress ju “...â€

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November 23 2025

Krull Commentary: The spirit of Jan. 6 lives on

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 21, 2025 It turns out that Jan. 6, 2021, was just a preview of coming attractions, not the Donald Trump show itself. In what increasingly is looking like just another day i “...â€

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November 20 2025

Krull Commentary: Trump, Braun and lose-lose propositions

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com November 19, 2025 Before their wrongheaded fight to further gerrymander Indiana’s congressional districts ends, President Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Braun may accomplish s “...â€