Opinion

The two Indiana candidates for governor might hold up their hometowns — New Castle for McCormick and Jasper for Braun — as models for the concerns surfacing lately about small-city survival.

Joe Biden’s irritation was evident.

It’s always popular for politicians to promise to cut your taxes. But is it realistic?

Finished at the self-checkout register, I proceeded to lug the bags of groceries into the cart.

I should have seen it coming.

Ever since I was a child, I’ve had the wish that everyone would be given at least one “do-over” in life. When I was young, I’m pretty sure that was my response to tragedy. I was only 10 years old when the janitor for the church where my father was pastor was seriously injured in a car accident and, after surviving a few weeks, died.

The “debate” between Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump was nothing less than an unfolding disaster for voters and the future of American democracy.

I have never met anyone who I believed to be intelligent who was also humorless. When comedian Nate Bargatze took the stage recently at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, he spent a few moments making sure the crowd knew he was not an educated man.

Most observers link identity politics with Democrats, as underrepresented groups have used their common fate as a vehicle for political action since the movement politics of the 1960s and ’70s.

Simply living in the United States is as easy as it gets, and almost always has been. However, fully participating in the American experiment is very demanding. No government before or since has asked citizens to do something as difficult as embracing the ideas of our founding documents. The rewards for doing so build the very foundation for American exceptionalism.