Longform

The Course Instructor

Meet the band of devoted home bakers who keep the Indiana State Fair in blue-ribbon desserts.

Afrofuturist author. Community builder. Nerd.

Purdue’s shaping of the American astronaut—now and in the years to come.

Hoosier astronauts describe the thrill of liftoff, the horror of mistakes, and that view.

Indiana: Crossroads of the Cosmos.

Is the Dunes’ promotion a one-time victory for conservation in Indiana, or the start of a new era of environmental activism in the state?

Almost 65 years after covering the murder trial that helped spark the Civil Rights movement, Dan Wakefield is finally gaining a fuller appreciation of the struggle.

How a Zionsville doctor secretly used his own sperm to impregnate more than 50 fertility patients.

Birch Bayh was born in Terre Haute in 1928, just before the start of the Great Depression. From the beginning, his life was marked by a mix of national and local, agriculture and ambition.

“How do you follow something like Slaughterhouse-Five? It can’t be done.”

“I started smoking weed in eighth grade, and I smoked pretty much all through high school. I was one of those girls who didn’t like to be told, ‘You shouldn’t do this.’”

A century ago, Eli Lilly and Company grew one of the nation’s largest cannabis farms to supply a variety of pharmaceuticals. Why does the drug maker seem determined to conceal the details of that history?

In the 30 years since I gave up marijuana, both the culture of it and I have changed.

With public opinion among Hoosiers surging in favor of legalizing marijuana and other Midwestern states taking the lead, many wonder how long the Indiana legislature can ignore the issue.