by Richard McGowan, Ph.D I traveled back to my childhood hometown, Shoreham, New York, for the Fourth of July celebrations this year. From the town’s western border, the Long Island Sound, I could — and did — use my cell phone…

Potemkin village, noun: an impressive facade designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition. The promise of downtown redevelopment has a lot to do with advancing political narratives, plus selling overpriced consultation, depressed real estate and tons and tons of rebar and concrete.…

We welcome this week’s debate over which of the candidates for Secretary of State is the truest Hoosier. It allows us to address our concern that Indiana politicians have for some time been expatriating after building careers on the backs of Indiana voters and collecting…

by Mark Franke Most Americans can recall the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. “When in the Course of human events” and “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Perhaps that is as it should be, that we remember…

Could it be that the nation is divided not by east or west, urban or rural, colored or white, rich or poor, but by the attractive and the unattractive? I am speaking in relative terms, of course, but there is in life what sociologists…