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 “...”
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 “...”