KENNEDY: This time, Sharia law misunderstood
I participated in a discussion of “Sharia Beyond the Headlines” at the Indianapolis InterChurch Center.
Sheila Suess Kennedy
Articles
KENNEDY: Liar, liar, Romney’s pants on fire
The lies that mystify me are not those obviously motivated by political ambition.
KENNEDY: Sociological whiplash on maddening display
We are electing embarrassing buffoons.
KENNEDY: The real state of the state
Median household income fell 13.6 percent—the second-largest decrease in the nation.
KENNEDY: The party obsessed with looking back
Today’s GOP has come to be known as the Party of No.
KENNEDY: Trust continues to dwindle
We can’t rebuild social trust by wishing it back. We need a national “house cleaning” to ensure that our institutions are trustworthy, democratic and ethical.
KENNEDY: Republicans losing the 51 percent
In a recent New York Times column, Gail Collins observed “the thing that makes our current politics particularly awful isn’t procedural. It’s that the Republican Party has become over-the-top extreme.” She left out “mean-spirited and patriarchal.”
KENNEDY: Legislature has own band of bullies
Indiana’s legislators couldn’t find it in their hearts to pass a law that would protect vulnerable children against bullying in our schools. But at least 20 of them found the time to do a little bullying of their own.
KENNEDY: Tilting at the Enlightenment
Some people go through life like Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. Then there’s Rick Santorum. He wants to repeal the Enlightenment.
KENNEDY: The harmful problem with ‘principles’
I have my own “principled” critique of the Affordable Care Act.
KENNEDY: The realities of monsters under the bed
As one of my sons observed a few weeks back, when we were scratching our heads over an especially egregious bit of political buffoonery, very scared people desperately crave certainty in a world that has none.
KENNEDY: Confront the shampoo girls at your peril
There is statistical evidence that licensing acts as a barrier to entry into a profession, and also as a barrier to labor mobility (since states have different requirements, licenses are considerably less portable than one might imagine).
KENNEDY: If we could just educate the politicians
Citizens who were most knowledgeable about history, government and economics were the least likely to seek elective office.
KENNEDY: Pols playing games with right-to-work
Let’s get real: If so-called “right-to-work” laws generated economic growth, Mississippi would be an epicenter of economic activity.
KENNEDY: We could build our way out of this funk
It will never be less expensive to fix our decaying infrastructure than it is now.
KENNEDY: We need a recovery of real journalism
A healthy Fourth Estate is critical to democratic self-government.
KENNEDY: Navigating Byzantine health care costs
How many times do we fill out patient forms with identical information? How many insurance claims must be completed in different formats by all those white-haired ladies in colorful smocks sitting behind the glass partitions in your doctor’s office?
KENNEDY: A cautionary tale about politics and policy
The Litebox story makes a bigger point … about the entire policy of cities “buying” jobs by offering financial incentives to companies that promise to move and/or expand.
KENNEDY: In Indy, it’s still the economy, stupid
You can’t create bike lanes, improve schools, hire police or pick up garbage without money.