Krull Commentary: Are there any Republicans who watch basketball?
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 30, 2026 Fool around long enough and eventually Schmitt happens. That’s what Republicans discovered when they dragged former Special Counsel Jack Smith before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing. They did so in the for “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Indiana’s Embarrassing Senator
By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 28, 2026 A recurring question with which many of us grapple is: How did we get here? What were the flaws in our systems, in our institutions, in too many of our people that allowed–facilitated!– the elevation of a morally repulsive, demonstra “...”
Krull Commentary: The future will not be kind
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com September 28, 2026 History can be a harsh judge. When the tumult surrounding controversial events quiets, people—not just scholars, but actual people—look at what happened. They peer through the confusion and, with a clearer gaze, determi “...”
Shabazz Commentary: As God Is My Witness, I Thought Prices Could Fly
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. IndyPolitics.org September 27, 2026 I spent the weekend in Cincinnati, the town that gave us Charles Keating, Larry Flynt and WKRP. Keating spent a good part of his life trying to put guys like Flynt out of business, and WKRP spent one Thanksgiving le “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Subsidizing Religion
By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 25, 2026 As I have noted, I recently participated in an event sponsored by the Fort Wayne chapter of Hoosiers United for Separation of Church and State. (Hoosiers is part of the umbrella organization Americans United for Separation of Church and “...”
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 “...”
Kennedy Commentary: About those ‘Christian’ nationalists
Publisher’s note: The Indiana Citizen covered the Hoosiers United event to which Sheila Kennedy refers in her column below. That story can be found here.  By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 24, 2026 A few days ago, I participated in an event sponsored by the Fort Wayne c “...”
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 “...”
Shabazz Commentary: Same Suit, Different Day
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz IndyPolitics.org September 23, 2026 Can you imagine an elected official literally banning media he or she doesn’t like from their news conferences and other media events? Well, I can, because it was me five years ago. In October 2021, Attorney General “...”
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 “...”