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August 11 2026

Kennedy Commentary: A Ban On No-Fault Divorce?

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy August 9, 2026 When women assert that bans on abortion are part of a wide-ranging war on women, the pious “Christian” activists behind these b “...”

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August 07 2026

Kennedy Commentary: About that Lincoln Party…

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy August 5, 2026 Here in Indiana, our status as a reliably “Red” state has depended to a significant degree on a lack of electoral competition. “...”

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August 03 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Where’s “Anti-Sharia” Beckwith Now?

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy July 28,2026 Indiana’s looney-tunes lieutenant governor refuses to moderate his all-out attacks on the Muslim religion (and is scarcely nicer ab “...”

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July 20 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Our Red State, Courtesy of Gerrymandering

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy July 19, 2026 My very Red home state of Indiana (I was born here and will undoubtedly die here) has been governed by Republicans for eons. Okay, m “...”

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July 07 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Hijacking Religion

This column was original published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy July 6, 2026 It has taken a while, but genuinely religious folks are coming out to fight the neo-Nazis, racists and assorted nut cases who  use the “...”

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June 04 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Oh, Indiana!

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy June 4, 2026 I guess I can no longer ignore the most recent evidence that my state of Indiana is governed–if “governed” is even the right wo “...”

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May 15 2026

Kennedy Commentary: The Electoral College

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy May 15, 2026 We never get too old to learn. A few days ago, I watched Andy Borowitz interview Heather Cox Richardson; one of the issues discussed “...”

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February 23 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Ranked Choice Voting

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy February 21, 2026 As I write this, Indiana’s legislature is close to passing Senate Bill 12, a measure that would prohibit the use of ranked-cho “...”

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February 19 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Religion, Common Sense–And Snark

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy February 18, 2026 Yesterday, I shared signs that the resistance to MAGA/Trump is gaining steam. Among those positive signs is the emergence of rel “...”

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February 01 2026

Kennedy Commentary: Christian nationalists are at it again

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy January 31, 2026 At the base of all policy disputes is a foundational question: What is government for? What sort of decisions are properly with “...”