Whitehead Commentary: How Christian Nationalism Weakens Democracy and What Can Be Done about It
This article was originally published on Andrew Whitehead’s Substack, American Idolatry. In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, various outlets highlighted how Project 2025—a massive blueprint directing the efforts of a possible second Trump admini “...”
Hicks Commentary: America Is Not in Decline, but Trump and Sanders Could Change That
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks August 24, 2025 One great irony of our times is that the claims of economic decline that animate both the MAGA movement and the Dem “...”
Krull Commentary: Make America gerrymander aggressively
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com August 22, 2025 I’m going to start this column with a confession. I hate writing about gerrymandering. That’s because the practice of drawing maps for legislative districts to g “...”
Krull Commentary: The Bayhs and a changing Indiana
The column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com August 20, 2025 The last time Indiana Democrats counted on a Bayh to rescue them was 40 years ago. In the mid-1980s, Hoosier Democrats had not held the governor’s office for nearly “...”
Krull Commentary: What did we expect?
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com August 18, 2025 This is what happens when we elect a man without a moral center to be president of the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump had the red carpet rolled out for R “...”
Leppert Commentary: It’s time for a new beat, but one last thing before I go
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen August 20, 2025 I started writing my column in the spring of 2014, and oh how things have changed since then! Barack Obama was president, and Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana. There were already Republican supermajorities in both chamb “...”
Krull Commentary: Micah Beckwith being Micah Beckwith
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com August 15, 2025 Where do we Hoosiers find these people? I know I’ve asked that question before—and I suspect I will ask it again often. I don’t understand why the good people “...”
Hicks Commentary: What Made Us Fumble Education Policy?
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael J. Hicks August 17, 2025 Indiana made a billion-dollar mistake based on a flawed jobs forecast a decade ago, and we’re still paying “...”
Kennedy Commentary: America’s Real Exceptionalism
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy August 13, 2025 As I recall, it was John Edwards who ran for President proclaiming that there were “two Americas.” He was addressing economic “...”
Krull Commetary: Stay focused, folks
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com August 13, 2025 There is one rule savvy citizens always should observe when President Donald Trump does something controversial or even outrageous. Don’t allow yourself to be distr “...”