When police make mess of crime by seizing property
“Excuse me, ma’am. Can you prove that the money on your Starbucks gift card wasn’t procured through a marijuana sale?”
An odd,...
U.S. needs to withdraw from Afghanistan
America remains at war in Afghanistan. After almost 15 years it’s time to bring the last troops home.
In October 2001, George...
Protectionism is not the answer
(Fort Wayne) News-Sentinel
A few countries — most notably China — are said to be “dumping” cold-rolled steel in the United States,...
Klan’s appeal a century ago hard to grasp
During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan took Indiana by storm. Ninety years later, Hoosiers still struggle to grasp why.
The secretive...
Old wine in new bottles: GOP’s foreign policy
The Orlando shooting has eclipsed an important foreign policy report that House Speaker Paul Ryan and his Republican colleagues just released.
That...
No, guns are not a ‘public health crisis’
In a purely political stunt, the American Medical Association has decided that it is time to declare gun violence a “public health crisis.”
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Voting for change necessary to stop senseless gun violence
(Bloomington) Herald-Times
Orlando, Florida, can now add its name to the disturbingly growing list of U.S. cities where a mass shooting has...
The read consequences after ’20 minutes of action’
By this time, there’s not much to add to the outrage, the disgust and crushing loss of self and body rising from the sexual...
Our democracy more than president’s office
It’s so easy in a presidential election year to forget that our system is not about a single person. This year especially, when the...
Anti-poverty plan would help, not heal, policy
Recently, Paul Ryan and some of his House colleagues unveiled the long-awaited Republican plan for fighting poverty and reforming our dysfunctional welfare system —...