Kennedy Commentary: Protection Of Religion?
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy May 21, 2025 Well well well…I think the veil has just come off the Indiana GOP’s pious concern for (certain) religious beliefs. Indiana media “...”
Krull Commentary: This should be for adults only
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 19, 2025 Here’s a serious question. Why is it so difficult to find functioning grownups to serve in leadership positions? In place after place, we see leaders blubbering over p “...”
Leppert Commentary: Braun fails Indiana’s hungry, and the buck stops somewhere else
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen May 21, 2025 Bureaucracy is a word that is often used as an excuse. It is the bogeyman that serves as the source of mysterious and insurmountable odds preventing government from delivering the obvious good and right things to its people. Why “...”
Hicks Commentary: It’s TDS to Suppose These Tariffs Are Working
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks May 18, 2025 Judging from email and social media, my last column, which revised my 2025 economic forecast in light of President Tru “...”
Krull Commentary: Todd Rokita wants to teach Notre Dame how to be Catholic
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 16, 2025 Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has a peculiar genius. He is better than anyone else around at identifying problems that do not exist and pursuing “solutions” t “...”
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 “...”
Whitehead Commentary: Gender, Christian Nationalism, and the 2024 US Presidential Election
This article was originally published on Andrew Whitehead’s Substack, American Idolatry. The desire for a society ordered according to a traditional social hierarchy is part of the Christian nationalist project the Trump administration is committed to achieving. We’re now “...”
Kennedy Commentary: About that War on Education…
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy May 14, 2025 I know, I know–those of you who follow this blog are tired of my periodic rants about MAGA’s war on public education. But the evi “...”
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 “...”
Leppert Commentary: ‘The Talk’ won’t get us through the evil of ICE’s mask-wearing
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen May 14, 2025 In the opening scene of the film, “The Hate U Give,” a father is having The Talk with his two young children. It is a common discussion Black families have in America to prepare for the inevitable contact with law enforcemen “...”