Franke: Birth Citizenship
One of Donald Trump’s executive orders establishes an official administrative interpretation of the citizenship language of the Fourteenth Amendment. The question, contentious of course in these divisive times, centers on the right of “birth citizenship,” the automatic granting of United States citizenship to any baby born within the U.S. regardless of the parents’ citizenship status. Read the full article…
The Outstater
When Good Intentions Go Bad WE ARE GLAD to learn that Indiana University occasionally offers study-abroad courses in South Africa. What a wonderful chance for students to learn what happens when you discard the tenets of Western Civilization solely because they were developed by white people. To begin, because college students are interested in fairness above Read the full article…
The Outstater
The Statehouse: Our House of Mirrors SPRING IS IN THE AIR and now is the time everyone — the Indy media, the legislative leadership, everyone — scrambles to pretend they know how the session will end. They don’t have any idea, of course, for we once sent people to Indianapolis to represent us as our friends and Read the full article…
Keating: Freedom to Work
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. Consider the desperate job searches of a youth with limited skills in need of job training, a professional between jobs, or a worker constrained by location and personal responsibilities. Opportunities for flexible finite employment contracts enable individuals to freely negotiate wages, benefits and conditions of employment. In 1981, legal historian Tibor Read the full article…
Franke: The Aging of America
by Mark Franke By 2035 the number of senior citizens in America will exceed the number of children. I learned that fact at the annual meeting of a faith-based retirement community for which I am a voting delegate. While this may seem like a positive growth forecast for this ministry, it presents its challenges as Read the full article…
The Outstater
Tariffs Discombobulated THE FORMER CHAIRWOMAN of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce has written her list of “threats to democracy,” of chief interest here being her opposition to tariffs. Marilyn Moran-Townsend in a widely circulated letter calls on all Hoosiers — “progressive Democrats working with conservative Republicans, evangelicals working with Muslims and Jews, business leaders working with union leaders” — to join her. This Read the full article…
