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I do not like confrontation and believe men’s brains are better wired for war than women’s. However, I am as guilty as the next guy of perpetrating bad karma.

“This misguided travel ban only shows that we need more exposure to diverse people, religions, languages, and ways of life, so that the unfamiliar becomes less feared,” says Butler University’s study abroad director.

“We, sir—we—are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights,” said actor Brandon Victor Dixon.

An in-depth chat on the outcome of the election and what it all means for the city, state, and Mike Pence in the White House.

Before political campaigning was a big dollar national venture, Benjamin Harrison addressed more than 300,000 people in 80-plus speeches from his front porch.

Indianapolis has one of the country’s prettiest polling sites in the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site on North Delaware.

Indianapolis was once proclaimed the “world’s tanning-bed capital.”

We talk local politics, political coverage, and a new gig for Brandon Smith on this week’s podcast.

This time, it’s an IU computer-science professor in a story about Trump, Russia, and computer servers.

“I went to Ohio State instead of one of your favorite schools,” Knight told the audience in Grand Rapids, which reacted with a hearty chorus of boos.

Both sides agree the referendum will drastically impact the future of Indianapolis.

I am a woman, I like women, and I wish I could support you. But I can’t.

“They normally have to pick on one of you, whether it’s the president or the vice president, and for the first three and half years, I was the target.”

Overlooked in the indignation over job exportation—which thrashed between sincere and synthetic—was the Hoosier State’s steadily growing reliance on job importation.

“I told the president I’d decided not to seek reelection. He was surprised. He asked if I was 100 percent sure, and then I made a mistake. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘I’m 98 percent sure.’”