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Redistricting Disassembled O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.” (Othello 3.3.165-167) THERE IS A WAY to make sense of the Republican rift over redistricting. You start by eliminating all the stated explanations: Which leaves us with what is at the heart of every political story — Read the full article…
McGowan: Other Pitchers Who Could Hit
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. Now that the final 2025 MLB baseball game has been played, fans can start dissecting the past season. Of course, that also means examining the media coverage of the season, especially during the playoffs. Some observations easily avail themselves. If Ohtani’s greatness is owed in part to his being a two-way Read the full article…
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A Defense of ‘Christian Nationalism’ THE GENERATION now managing our words — the activist journalists and social-media influencers — seem to think nothing happened before they were born. No, they can’t really believe that on mature reflection, but they do act like that in practice. And with that state of mind comes the compulsion to rename Read the full article…
Franke: The Thankful Month
by Mark Franke Thanksgiving Day seems late this year and by the calendar it is. Contrast that with my general sense of time’s moving much too fast, especially as I am looking at leaves still on the trees and thinking in terms of mid-October. If I am not confused enough, I have four and one-half Read the full article…
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Rodric’s Redistricting Guess INDIANA SENATE PRO-TEM Rodric Bray and ex-governors Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels, in tacitly opposing a redistricting measure that would have improved the national party’s position going into the midterm elections, have made a two-part tactical calculation — a political guess, if you will. The first part is that the Indiana supermajority is Read the full article…
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‘The Mamdani Effect’ (Part II) “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” — Zohrnan MamdaniI READ that many cities are ready to make bids for businesses fleeing Zohran Mamdani’s New York. I assume that Indiana metropolises will be among Read the full article…
