Hoosier politics has long operated on a kind of practical decency: the conviction that even when national passions run hot,… Read more
Category: Policy
Big Yellow Taxi Economics: A Letter of Gratitude to Jerome Powell
Big Yellow Taxi begins with a lament. Joni Mitchell warns that “you do not know what you’ve until it is… Read more
Understanding the National Defense Authorization Act and Why This Year Is Different
For more than six decades, the National Defense Authorization Act has been one of the quiet wonders of American governance…. Read more
Why Energy Policy Feels Different When Winter Arrives
The first cold snap always carries a kind of civic honesty test. There is that familiar moment when the furnace… Read more
An Open Letter to the WNBA and Its Stakeholders
Commissioner Engelbert, WNBPA leadership, team owners, and members of the basketball community: I am writing as a longtime supporter of… Read more
The Day the People’s House Went Dark
Congress is supposed to argue. It is supposed to debate, negotiate, and fight like hell over ideas that affect millions… Read more
The Legal and the Low-Risk: The People Insurance Markets Can’t Afford to Lose
A late October evening in Denver, and a software designer named Marcus sits at his kitchen table scrolling through his… Read more
The Big Ten’s Payday Loan
College football functions as civic ritual as much as sport. The stadiums resemble cathedrals. The rituals resemble holidays. Generations of… Read more
The Wisdom of the Ward and the Decline of Institutional Memory
There is a county clerk in Wisconsin who can tell you, without looking, which precincts always flip their absentee tallies… Read more
Curiosity is an act of courage
Thank you. That is the only honest way to begin. The past week brought a surge of new readers to… Read more