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War of the Roses: The Aftereffects of RFRA

RFRA goes into effect next month—but the law won’t be the last battle over LGBT rights.

Tony Bennett, Now Florida's Education Chief, Talks to The New York...

Florida likes the way Tony Bennett, Indiana's uprooted Superintendent of Public Instruction, thinks: teacher evaluations based on student performance, schools receiving grades on the same scale used for their charges, and the headline-grabbing push for more charter education and voucher programs. The Sunshine State apparently longed for his leadership and initiative, offering him the reins to clean up its education system in the midst of his term as the Hoosier State's public schools czar. The Floridian version of the role boasted a salary that tripled his own in Indiana.
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Off the Wall: Mike Pence and Immigration

Before Trump became the face of anti-immigration, Pence championed a very different approach.

Only in Indiana: Donald Trump and Bob Knight

“The greatest endorsement in the history of Indiana, folks,” Trump said of Knight. “What a winner. What a winner. Such a great man. You know, our country doesn’t win any more. That’s what we need right there—let me tell you.”

‘Leave Indiana’s Civil Rights Law Alone,’ Says Conservative Activist Patrick Mangan

“The main problem with this [legislation],” says Mangan, “is that it’s creating legal tension between legitimate constitutional and human rights versus behavior-based groups that want to achieve a special status in the law.”

The Weirdest Result of Hoosier Woman's Anthony Weiner Scandal

The fallout from one Indiana resident's newly publicized relationship with the beleaguered politico has reached a bizarre level.
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Ask Me Anything: Pete Buttigieg

The Democrats' rising star talks about serving in a war zone, coming out of the closet, and how serving as mayor of South Bend sometimes feels as if it were ripped from the script of "The Wire."

Out Of Darkness

One morning when she was around five years old, Suzanne Crouch woke up in a tiny panic.“Where’s mom?” she asked her dad.“She went to...
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Holcomb Apologizes For Not Following Own Guidelines

"I should have gone back out to the car to get my mask."
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Councilman Zach Adamson’s Wedding Bells Will Ring out a Political Statement

City-county councilman Zach Adamson and partner Christian Mosburg flew to Washington D.C. today, only partly by choice: The two can’t tie the knot in their home state, so they’re going where same-sex marriages are legally recognized.