Andrew Ireland: Flexibility, transparency key for back-to-school decisions
The 25-year-old, first-grade teacher who lives alone faces a different reality than the high school educator of 40 years living with an elderly, disabled parent.
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Andrew Ireland: Patients need right to control genetic information
Creating a property interest in a person’s genetic information helps foster an efficient market for information, encourage ethical and equitable research practices, and mitigate the inherent risks of the exposure of genetic information to the world.
Andrew Ireland: Charter debate needs to get beyond online rants
You might be surprised to know that all charter schools in Indiana are by statute not-for-profit, public institutions.
Andrew Ireland: Use trading power to aid persecuted Muslims in China
Today, more than 12 million Muslims face an Orwellian hell in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
Andrew Ireland: Big Tech needs a public editor
To save these companies from themselves and earn back consumers’ trust, executives must look outside of Silicon Valley.
Andrew Ireland: Paul Ryan’s speakership ends with a whimper
Instead of going down in history for impressive legislative accomplishments, his legacy is likely to be defined by a failure to deliver.
Andrew Ireland: Korea plays foil to China relations
Whatever their next steps might be, President Trump and his team must continue to strike a delicate balance between engagement and pressure when dealing with the world’s second-largest economy.
ANDREW IRELAND: Leave data privacy to market forces
As with so many cases, even if politically and practically feasible, well-intended regulations will do more harm than good.
Andrew Ireland: Local journalism lacks depth
Too many outlets have shed their commitment to real journalism to chase declining ratings and ad revenue.
Ireland: The hollowness of ‘Stronger Together’
Our nation cannot afford to view political opposition as an absence of morality, a defect of the heart and soul of a man.
IRELAND: Our first virtual reality president is coming soon
This emerging technology is likely to redefine what it means to be a candidate.
IRELAND: Conservative groups shouldn’t groom just future politicos
The need for conservatives to infiltrate media, to produce art and films, and to develop and create new technologies has never been more apparent.
Ireland: Republicans must start painting in ‘bold colors’
Recent polling shows Democrats up double digits on a generic ballot, putting Republicans’ sizable majorities at risk.
Ireland: How doubling tweet length matters to public debate
While brevity is a welcome touch for encouraging access to discourse, it also fixes the discussion in favor of intellectually weak perspectives.
Ireland: Thomas Benton murals offer IU a teachable moment
Benton included this dark feature of our past—images of a Ku Klux Klan rally—as a unique reminder of our sins and a testament to our growth.
Ireland: Lesser-known candidates offer much in Senate race
Candidates who run on ideas—no matter the results—breathe life into their party and help move communities forward.
IRELAND: Trump’s actions portend meaningful progress in North Korea
As Republican infighting continues to stall the president’s domestic agenda, Trump has shown laudable strength as commander-in-chief.
IRELAND: Seeing the forest through the trees
Topics like that of Russian influence should be investigated, but clinging to the latest piece of circumstantial evidence or giving weight to anonymous sources and witty headlines does the nation a disservice. All the while, beltway media and Washington’s most powerful continue to largely ignore a culture of pervasive corruption.
IRELAND: Universities overstep bounds on executive order
I have grown accustomed to being a political minority in the classroom—studying journalism and public affairs only furthers this reality. In many ways, this has benefited my education; but, as I enter my final semester, I am concerned by our academic leaders’ foray into politics.
IRELAND: Trump’s phone call challenged ‘One China’ fiction
The United States has since spent 40 years both sustaining a tempered relationship with Beijing while holding a range of informal ties with the Taiwanese.