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What happens now that a government shutdown is underway

ASSOCIATED PRESS - October 1, 2025

By KEVIN FREKING, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington is bracing for what could be a prolonged federal shutdown after lawmakers deadlocked and missed the deadline for...

Opinion

Donald Trump the … socialist?

LARRY SMITH - September 11, 2025

Most Americans grow up with the following maxim: "Socialism is bad." This is despite the fact that relatively few of us actually know what...

Religion

We are WOKE and staying awoke

MICHAEL SAAHIR - September 4, 2025

“And He it is Who makes the Night as a Robe for you, and Sleep as Repose, and makes the Day (as it were)...

Opinion

Redistricting silences Black voters

ANDRE CARSON - September 4, 2025

Black Hoosier voices – and our vote – are under attack. Following Texas, Indiana is the latest state where the Trump administration has called for...

Community Voices

Good night and good luck, PBS

LARRY SMITH - August 1, 2025

Well, fortunately, it’s not just PBS. It’s CPB, NPR, PRX, and the rest of the alphabet menagerie of “public” radio and TV networks that exist...

Community Voices

Sex, lies and private jets

LARRY SMITH - July 24, 2025

One of the most arresting ancient symbols is that of the Ouroboros — a snake that is portrayed as eating itself. (The name Ouroboros...

Community Voices

Impeachment

ANDRE CARSON - July 15, 2025

Indianapolis, these are not normal times. That’s why I’m not calling for normal, status quo policies. In just the first six months of his presidency,...

Community Voices

McCarthy redux

LARRY SMITH - July 3, 2025

I’m enjoying a documentary about the Cold War, which, not surprisingly, includes a segment regarding the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy is infamously known as...

Community Voices

The wrong shoes

LARRY SMITH - June 27, 2025

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” That is the inviolable dictate of Western nations and of Israel. It is the justification for Israel (and, later,...

Community Voices

Indecision and inertia in the Democratic Party

LARRY SMITH - June 20, 2025

Following Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential bid (which came after several pundits and pollsters had predicted his victory), the Republican National Committee commissioned the...

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