This Legislature—and especially this governor—has undone years of effort to position Indianapolis and Indiana as welcoming, business-friendly venues: We offered “Hoosier hospitality” at “the crossroads of America.”
According to the very apologetic caseworker, insurers deny approximately 50 percent of requested moves to acute rehab. There doesn’t seem to be a pattern for these refusals, which are issued without seeing the patients or consulting with their doctors.
The Internet puts enormous information resources at our fingertips, but it also connects us to massive amounts of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda.
How did a major political party produce not only “The Donald” but a whole crop of presidential candidates unable to do anything but ape him?
The legislation is just one of a number of “solution in search of a problem” measures that reasonable folks can only hope die a merciful death during the legislative process.
The U.S. Constitution protects citizens’ right to believe anything. It does not, however, protect an untrammeled right to act on the basis of religious doctrine.
As a blogger for the Washington Monthly recently put it, the billions of dollars being spent to support the various presidential candidates have yielded, at best, a “mixed bag” of results.
When citizens do not believe they can trust their government and other social institutions, they become suspicious of one another.
These are, by and large, the same politicians who are opposed to the most cursory of background checks for gun purchases, even for convicted felons and the mentally ill.
The mayor-elect recognized that “in victory comes enormous responsibility,” identifying the morning after his election the most important one.
Individual efforts matter—sometimes more than we think and often more than we know.
How sad that Pope Francis' frequent bromides on politics and economics are naive, ill-informed and wrong.
Think about the numerous ways in which we all rely on the trustworthiness of both government and business.
Originally conceived as an effort to reward those who had risked their lives for their country, the G.I. Bill had a number of other positive consequences: It raised the skill level of the American workforce and provided an avenue for social mobility.
The president will prevail on his Iran deal. But it is the foreign policy counterpart of the Affordable Care Act—a policy change of historic significance, pushed by President Obama in the face of major public opposition.
In my classes, one of the things I emphasize to my students is the importance of process. The way in which you achieve a goal is often just as important—sometimes even more important—than the goal itself. This is, of course, a core precept of the rule of law. There are plenty of examples: efforts to […]
The “victim of partisanship” note seems off-key, as it’s the Obama Justice Department that’s investigating things.
When acting on our religious convictions requires us to violate what lawyers call “laws of general application,” government can step in and say “sorry.”
What is even more offensive about this outrageous claim, particularly to those who worked for the 40th president, is Trump’s crudity compared to Reagan’s character.
Despite the propaganda, Planned Parenthood isn’t selling fetal tissue or profiting from its use in medical research.
