Indiana Republicans have held a supermajority for twenty years. They own every decision that has made this state less affordable for working families. They gave billion-dollar corporations sweetheart tax deals while Hoosiers watch their utility bills climb to match their rent. Childcare, if you can even find it, is out of reach for families who need it most. A pound of hamburger now costs more per pound than Indiana's minimum wage. And the highest gas tax in the nation? That's twenty years of Republican priorities on full display.
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It’s no longer possible to pretend that he’s not a lunatic. Stephen Beschloss recently described Trump as a “deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the seat of power.” Heather Cox Richardson has quoted journalist Aaron Rupar’s distress over the fact that “It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is.”
Alexandra Wilson is exasperated that she is still fighting to remain on the Republican state Senate ballot with less than a month left before primary voting ends. Her candidacy remained alive Wednesday as the four-member Indiana Election Commission again split 2-2 on a challenge, with the tie vote leaving her name on the ballot.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun—one of Trump’s loudest and most fervent Republican enablers—just announced that the state would temporarily suspend the tax on gasoline. Braun and other Trump apologists presented this move as a life buoy for Hoosiers drowning in rising commuting and transportation costs because of this president’s ill-advised and poorly planned war.
Indiana diners leaving the best tips in the Midwest is proof that Hoosier hospitality is real. Tips across the state averaged 20.6% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to Toast's latest restaurant trends report.
Indiana's gasoline excise tax rate of 36 cents per gallon is not impacted by the governor’s order.
In previous years, referendums — where school districts ask voters for extra funding through property taxes — could appear on primary ballots. But lawmakers changed that last year. Lawmakers also changed school board elections from nonpartisan to partisan but didn’t add primary elections for those positions.
There's nothing that makes Keith Potter more upset than a thief. A weekly report he said he received from CenterPoint Energy showed Potter's highest energy usage came at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning in March. But there was a problem, he told Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission members at Tuesday evening's listening session: he wasn't even home that day.
“Gas prices are up over a dollar per gallon and Braun’s solution is to give us back 17 cents? This is yet another 17 cent idea from a 17 percent approval rating governor,” said Tallian.
Indiana enrollment dropped 11% in one year
President Donald Trump is lining up behind more challengers to Republican state senators who opposed the Indiana congressional redistricting plan — along with giving his endorsement to numerous pro-redistricting legislators.
In an unprecedented move, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had filed lawsuits against several states to block their efforts to rein in prediction markets. Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois have variously sought to prevent Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Robinhood from running what they claim are “unlicensed gambling sites that circumvent state laws.” Several of these companies are business partners of President Trump and his family members.
Israel will rein in its attacks on Lebanon to preserve the ceasefire with Iran, JD Vance has suggested. The US vice-president, who has taken a leading role in peace negotiations, said Israeli officials had “offered to… check themselves a little bit in Lebanon, because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
President Donald Trump lashed out at The New York Times and CNN late on Wednesday, accusing the outlets of spreading a “totally FAKE TEN POINT PLAN” outlining Iran’s peace proposal as competing accounts of a potential deal emerge.
While the end point is unclear, Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken. And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day, it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime.
World mocks bizarre kind of victory: White House declares triumph despite Iran being emboldened and demanding tolls on the still-closed Strait - as attacks continue on Gulf states and Lebanon.
Donald Trump lashed out at Marjorie Taylor Greene on Truth Social, calling her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown" and "deranged" while boasting that her congressional seat was now “taken over” by his preferred candidate, Clay Fuller. Trump repeated his attacking on Greene comparing her to green grass that "turns brown under stress."
Israeli strikes rained down on residential areas and estates in central Beirut today without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced between the US and Iran.
Pope Leo XIV may never visit the U.S. under the Trump administration following a disastrous meeting between the Pentagon and a Vatican diplomat.
Social media influencer Dan Bilzerian shocked TMZ on Wednesday when he used a racial epithet in a conversation about his congressional opponent Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL).
The White House is considering a plan to punish some members of the NATO alliance that President Trump thinks were unhelpful to the U.S. and Israel during the Iran war, according to administration officials.
Kristi Noem's controversial $70 milion luxury jet will remain under the Trump administration's purview as First Lady Melania Trump will be among those who get to use it.
Ayo Dosunmu scored 24 points and Julius Randle and Bones Hyland each added 19 as the Minnesota Timberwolves picked up a critical 124-104 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night.
It’s mission accomplished for UCLA. Gabriela Jaquez, Lauren Betts and the rest of the UCLA seniors secured the first NCAA women's basketball national championship in school history — a goal that was set after losing in the first Final Four last season. Jaquez scored 21 points, Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday in the title game.
Pascal Siakam scored 25 points and the Indiana Pacers beat the Chicago Bulls 145-126 on Wednesday night to move out of the NBA basement.Coming off a home victory over Miami on Sunday, the injury-ravaged Pacers had their highest-scoring game of the season. They improved to 18-58 to move a game ahead of last-place Washington.
