Opinion

Maybe former President Donald Trump didn’t listen to much top-40 radio in the 1960s.

This might age me, but one of my favorite songs from childhood was Janet Jackson’s “Control.” And I think the Republican supermajorities running the Indiana General Assembly could use it as their anthem:

The (Columbus) Republic

I just finished an article by Adam M. Rosen in the Wall Street Journal where I learned of some people and groups who are vocal critics of a particular genre of greeting cards.

For one parent, it was electric. For the other, crushing disappointment.

(Anderson) Herald Bulletin

Last month, the Pew Research Center released the results of an intriguing set of focus groups they carried out last year. Ordinarily, of course, survey research organizations test the sentiments of registered or likely voters to check in on their mood. But these groups were voters who, in Pew’s words, “look at the nation’s politics as a topic better avoided than embraced.”

On a recent road trip, my wife and I passed through Roswell, New Mexico. We managed to make it through the infamous town without stopping for anything related to UFOs. But passing through Roswell did lead me to think about conspiracy theories. And that led me to think about “The X-Files,” the paranormal series that ran from 1993 to 2002 and then again briefly in 2016.

The (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette

To the Editor: