Hale: IU institute’s role is more important than ever
Thank goodness for those neutral bodies that make it their business to provide the evidence needed to get things done the right way.
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Parr What it means to be a nation of laws
We could, I suppose, dispense with these constitutional protections and simply hold a people’s court by which an individual is found guilty or liable based solely on how a group feels on any given day or predicated on accusations alone. I’m not a lawyer yet, but I think that’s called mob justice.
Leppert: Politics draws distinction between wrong and illegal
Even after several months and countless tweets from the president declaring “NO COLLUSION” has occurred in the Russia-election investigation, it is clear it absolutely has.
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.
Shabazz: Here’s how you do immigration reform
I totally get border security, but we have to be smart about it.
Ritz: Virtual schools fail students
These companies lure many of these students through effective advertising. They take our money and enroll our most vulnerable with little result.
Wagner: Gun Range Barbie conquers her fear
There is something awesome—the actual definition of the word, not 1990s’ teen vernacular—about holding that power in the palm of your hand.
Shella: Forcing Republicans, Democrats to work together
Lawmakers in safe districts, be they in Congress or in the Indiana General Assembly, don’t need to cooperate with others because they have no fear of losing the next election.
Schneider: It’s time for mad women
It would be a step in the right direction for more women to be in positions of political and business strength, leading as editors, executives and officeholders.
Daniels: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ lessons remain vital today
The whole point of the book is to make people uncomfortable as we confront a past that helps to explain a great deal about our present.
Wolley: ‘I feared for my life’ is not enough
There must be a rebalancing of the legitimate concern for officer safety versus the use of lethal force in police interactions with the community.
Clere: Clean needles save lives, while sharp rhetoric kills
Compared to the cost of treating HIV or hepatitis C, clean needles are cheap.
Hill: Handing out needles does nothing to curb abuse
Providing items that enable and even encourage exactly the destructive behavior we want to stop is a self-defeating exercise.
Irresponsible Collins blocked serious health reform
When Maine Sen. Susan Collins announced her opposition to the Graham-Cassidy bill to reform Obamacare, she has slammed the door on this latest Republican effort to address our health care crisis. I’m just able to muster up one word to capture my sense of Sen. Collins: irresponsible. Collins expressed her concern that the bill would […]
Ritz: Literacy is key to better results—on tests and in life
A student’s ability to read impacts their learning in every content area and determines the outcome of every assessment. Every test is first a test on the student’s ability to read.
Parr: Why all conservatives should support school choice
Why not give a child an opportunity he or she might otherwise have never had?
Shepard: Appreciating Larry McKinney and Denise LaRue
Judges don’t have armies or taxing power at their disposal, only the power of thoughtful and impartial decisions to prompt people to follow their rulings.
Daniels: Keep monuments of past, but add to list of honored
Let us never seek to erase the signs of a past we must remember, in order to avoid repeating our collective sins.
Hale: U.S. must be more open, not wall itself off
This is domestic, economic policy that will drive new, closer relationships and a probable shifting of alliances over time.
Siddiqui: Obamacare not all good or bad, so let’s fix it
Perhaps parents who are under 65 but lack insurance should be allowed to be added to their children’s insurance.