Reversing Orwell’s ‘1984’
While we were all busy monitoring the General Assembly as it slogged through proposed legislation, the Indiana Supreme Court sneaked a pretty...
Durham’s righteous investigation
From the perspective of several years ago, it’s the stuff of an implausible political thriller or a...
Zero tolerance for the word police
A white teacher in Chicago was fired recently for using the N-word in class.
Are you terrible at remembering names?
If you have a habit of forgetting names as soon as you’re introduced, join the club.
Is it racist to help Ukraine?
“Many in Mideast See Hypocrisy in Western Embrace of Ukraine,” read an Associated Press headline this week....
Some surprising lessons from COVID-19 learning loss
Last month, my colleague Dagney Faulk and I published a study on COVID-19-related learning loss in Indiana...
Indiana state senator owes women an apology
The Southern Indiana results weren’t surprising, and in the push to meet a midnight election day deadline sometimes the words editors read...
Approach Indiana tax cut with caution
Indiana is bursting at the seams with cash, so the General Assembly’s first instinct is to give it away.
Are shorter legislative sessions coming to Indiana?
Indiana’s part-time legislature could work less under a provision inserted into the state budget giving flexibility on the length of future sessions.
Everybody (almost) is getting CRT wrong
In 2020, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., included so-called whiteness traits in its “Talking About Race”...