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URBAN DESIGN: Plat for Mile Square lacks street cred
The sameness of our downtown grid presents challenges for the city center.
KIM: Buffett tells shareholders ‘America’s never been greater’
As usual, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders contained both timely commentary and timeless investment wisdom, delivered with wit, simplicity and humility
BOHANON & STYRING: Playing politics with tariffs an unwise course
Tariffs provoke retaliation. Pretty soon you’re in a trade war. The objective of protecting American jobs winds up costing many times more jobs than the ones you set out to protect.
Hidden gold in college applications
If the gatekeepers at Davidson College had judged the teenager by her ACT score, she probably wouldn’t have gotten in. It was 25 out of a possible 36, and more than three-quarters of the students at Davidson, a liberal-arts school in North Carolina with about 1,800 undergraduates and an acceptance rate of just over 20 […]
Our politics aren’t keeping up
When the U.S. military trains fighter pilots, it uses a concept called the OODA loop. It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. The idea is that, if your ability to observe, orient, decide and act in a dogfight at 30,000 feet is faster than the other pilot’s, you’ll shoot his plane out of the sky. […]
Paranoid politics: Will voters believe the hype?
Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity—or lack of validity—of the arguments these candidates are using. It is as if what matters this election year is the fate of a relative handful of people running for their […]
ROOB: It’s time for ban on Sunday sales to go
We have a law that forbids what on six other days is a legal act simply to insulate a few family businesses from 21st century competition.
MEREDITH: Lawmakers, educators should work together
Perhaps one of the greatest impacts the federal Every Student Succeeds Act could have on classrooms will be its respect of the professionals in our schools.
MASSON: Schools need flexibility to craft testing
The recent wave of testing hysteria to which the state has succumbed is damaging our schools and our children.
SHABAZZ: ‘Diversity’ is about thought and opinion, not race
It’s offensive—and, in fact, quite racist—to think a black person or minority has “black” or “minority” opinions simply because of the color of his or her skin.
IRELAND: Candidates can win millennials with right agenda
A longtime—though unreliable—target group of the left, young adults for the first time in a generation could instead flip for conservatives this November.
DANIELS: Female candidates face unnecessary challenges
It is a sad truth that when men are forceful, they are viewed as strong, just the sort of leader we want. But when women are forceful, they are seen as strident, lecturing, even “bitchy.”
SIDDIQUI: Times may have changed, but our values shouldn’t
Voting against Trump is a moral imperative.
WAGNER: Politics without purpose is no fun
Like so many of my friends, I just can’t find much joy in mindlessly hurling insults to advance an agenda—if there even is one—that helps no one.
Trump’s rise should prompt GOP to look in mirror
For decades, Republican leaders—desperate to boost dwindling numbers as old white men die and minority populations grow—have embraced anyone who would have them, from corporate CEOs to white supremacists, gun enthusiasts to evangelicals, anti-abortion activists to warmongers.
SEAT: Scott Walker is example of what others should have done
What if one, two or 10 of the other GOP presidential candidates had followed Scott Walker’s lead? What if Ben Carson, John Kasich and Ted Cruz got out before Super Tuesday?
LEPPERT: Character would naturally have culled field
I recommend Republicans re-energize their platform to be pragmatic and attractive to that moderate group of voters who have lost interest in them. One of the major parties will win the middle. Right now it’s not the GOP.
BOEHM: States should steer clear of refugee policy
Governmental actions classifying people by nationality, like race and gender, rarely survive judicial scrutiny.
MILLER: Hoosiers deserve paid family leave
Paid family leave is a unique issue in that it can unite both pro-choice and pro-life groups.