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It’s someone’s job to name new medications. Drug Company A approaches Marketing Company B and says, “Hey, we’ve got this new drug. It makes people happy in the short run, but they’ll still have to deal with all their baggage in the long run. …

Always I remember the cemeteries, on this day when we pause to honor the ones who never came back. They are in France, the cemeteries, and too much forgotten as their war is too much forgotten, in this time seemingly without history.

Indiana’s legislative session addressed some of the most vexing public problems the state faces: hospital monopolies, housing, collapse in college attendance and a slew of social issues. But one aspect of the session is worth considering abov…

Memorial Day weekend is here again, and the buzz of boat motors in northeast Indiana’s lakes mix with the “zip, zip” sounds coming from the cars on the Speedway in Indianapolis. It marks the beginning of summer, and children and teachers are …

Driving home from Kroger, after I messed up another of Becky’s shopping lists, I listened to the car radio. Waylon Jennings was singing “America.”

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I just finished Tim Egan’s disturbing new book, “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them.” I could barely put it down. It reads like fiction, but here the truth is stranger than fiction. The book is a must-read for all Hoosiers wh…

As spring turns to summer, I love taking leisurely laps around my house to see what’s in bloom. Nearly every day, I find a new flower opening its doors for business to bees and butterflies.

The presumption of innocence is inextricably tied to the right to bail. The right to be free, before legal guilt has been established, is an essential check on the government’s power to punish people based on accusation alone, and it is criti…

There are so many things I worry about these days. Are we going to default on our debts? Can we adapt to the accumulating impact of climate change? How are we going to handle the dangers posed by China and Russia?