Politics

Adam Wren leads a conversation with Senator Todd Young (R) and Democratic hopeful Christina Hale.

“He does the kind of stuff the president isn’t willing to do.”

Yep, that one.

Mayor Pete eats and greets in Iowa. *burp*

“When Pete runs a race, he often changes frameworks when you think about other candidates or issues.”

Ahead of tonight’s democratic debate in Detroit, our follow-up scorecard for Pete Buttigieg Bingo.

“The reality is there are a lot of committed racists whose vote I’m never going to get and that’s alright.”

“The New Deal era ended with Reagan. The Reagan era ends with us.”

What’s happening—and what’s next—at the intersection of Indiana politics and business?

“We are in a little bit of a hole. But we’re climbing out of it.”

Ope, free space!

It could be a Hoosier battle royale, one that pits the gay Episcopalian war-veteran mayor against the evangelical former governor.

“He couldn’t hide the fact that he was the smartest person in the room. He was the opposite of ‘folksy,’ which was fine in my estimation—I have always felt ‘folksy’ was often phony, and that was a charge that could never be made against Dick Lugar.”

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.

The South Bend mayor’s surging candidacy has gone largely unchecked