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EDITORIAL: Sanders' similarities with the Pope

By Editorial Board · Thursday, April 21,2016 6:34 p.m.

Social media was abuzz last week over news that Sen. Bernie Sanders had been invited to the Vatican by Pope Francis.  After rumors began to circulate that the above statement was incorrect, debate ensued, plagued with broad generalizations and sweeping characteristics about candidates and their respective parties, over how and why Sanders had actually been invited to the Vatican.  It turns out that the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, invited Sanders to address the Academy during their conference on social, economic, and environmental issues.  The conference celebrates the 25th anniversary of an encyclical by Pope John Paul II about the pitfalls of the market economy and the globalization of the aforementioned issues. No, the Pope himself did not wake up one morning and decide to invite Sanders to a meeting as some sort of subliminal endorsement of his candidacy. However, a bishop, who is quite close to the pope, did make a specific decision about which candidate for the United States presidency to invite to speak on these issues. And he chose Bernie Sanders.  This should be not overlooked or marginalized.

EDITORIAL: Thick colored skin

By Editorial Board · Thursday, April 21,2016 6:34 p.m.

Journalists are supposed to have thick skins. Right? As champions of the written word, we all have the authority vested in us to write anything we damn well please.

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COLUMN: All eyes on the Indiana primary

By Steven Aranyi · Wednesday, April 20,2016 8:19 p.m.

The Indiana Primary takes place on May 3, 2016, and the entire nation will be watching what happens on the Republican side of the aisle. As the primary season goes down to the wire, Sen.

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COLUMN: Baby business practices

By Maggie Eickhoff · Wednesday, April 20,2016 8:18 p.m.

A same-sex couple from Ontario, Canada, recently filed suit against an Augusta, Ga. sperm bank after they received notice of information they did not have at the time of their sperm collection: their donor has schizophrenia and a criminal record, and he had lied about the amount of higher education he had completed.  Typically, couples or individuals who choose to use sperm or egg donors spend a long time researching their options.

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COLUMN: Journalism in the information age

By Jacob Worrell · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:21 p.m.

I recently came across a bit of commentary in the New York Times article "For news outlets squeezed from the middle, it's bend or bust" about a topic I’ve always held a fairly firm position on, the role of journalism in the information age.

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Letter: Send in the Marine

By Brett Heinisch · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:19 p.m.

I have spent the past three years at IU studying politics. During my time there I was able to meet, work with, and campaign for Congressman Todd Young.

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Letter: Choosing a major

By Gerhard Glomm · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:18 p.m.

A bright ambitious student the other day asked what she could do with an econ major. To her, the path to a good career seemed more clear cut with a degree from a professional school.

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COLUMN: Want to stop abortions? Teach sex ed

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

During the Planned Parenthood trials, Republican Representative Jason Chaffertz pointed to an incorrectly labeled graph and stated that the number of abortions performed by planned parenthood had increased between 2006 and 2013.

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COLUMN: The faces on our money

By Zack Chambers · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

Does Andrew Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill? He was a slave owner and killed countless Native Americans in his quest for Manifest Destiny.  That being said, the man was so instrumental in forging our modern conception of democracy that his name is now an adjective for it: Jacksonian democracy. Perhaps the more appropriate question is whether or not he should be stripped of this placement today.  The removal of past honors is a complex subject.  When statues of dictators are felled in foreign countries, nearly all Americans celebrate alongside the newly liberated.  However, when the glorification of controversial figures in America is brought up for review, the issue is much less two dimensional.

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COLUMN: Hillary Clinton has no soul

By Therin Showalter · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

I don't often agree with Republicans, but when I do it's because we know that Hillary Clinton is a soulless, power-hungry politician whose presidency would hold America back from its greatest potential.

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