Politics

Your local guide to the 2022 midterm elections

By IDS staff and Servane Cloteaux · Tuesday, Oct. 4,2022 2:48 p.m.

All the IDS election coverage you need before Nov. 8, in one place

Meet your candidates for local Bloomington and executive state office

By Carson TerBush and Nadia Scharf · Monday, Oct. 3,2022 1:52 p.m.

Read about their top priorities before you vote in the Nov. 8 midterms

OPINION: How capitalism is driving the climate crisis

By Jared Quigg · Monday, Oct. 3,2022 12:12 p.m.

Capitalists choosing profits over people is devastating the planet.

OPINION: Debunking the myth of the ‘small government’ Republican

By Jared Quigg · Wednesday, Sept. 28,2022 4:37 p.m.

Republicans say they hate “big government.” They must be joking.

Take this quiz to learn how to vote in Bloomington

By Nadia Scharf and Sam Shi · Wednesday, Sept. 28,2022 11:25 a.m.

IU students and Monroe County residents — this quiz will help you you register and plan to vote

OPINION: Why American workers must unionize – and why that won’t be enough

By Jared Quigg · Monday, Sept. 26,2022 10:03 a.m.

Unionization is good, but it’s not a permanent solution to the problems of capitalism.

OPINION: Indiana Attorney General Rokita talks protecting individual liberties yet is against abortion

By Jared Quigg · Sunday, Sept. 25,2022 1:04 p.m.

The Indiana attorney general spoke Friday at the Indiana Memorial Union.

Meet Monroe County’s 2022 school board candidates

By Carson TerBush and Emma Uber · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2022 4:34 p.m.

Both of Monroe County’s school corporations have school board seats up for election.

OPINION: Her Majesty the colonizer: a critical view of the late Queen Elizabeth II

By Jared Quigg · Sunday, Sept. 18,2022 4:35 p.m.

Not everyone in the world is mourning the late Queen of England.

Democratic Senate candidate Thomas McDermott talks ‘the top issue’ — abortion access — and plans if elected

By Nadia Scharf · Thursday, Sept. 15,2022 5:01 p.m.

McDermott showed support for codifying Roe and opposed the decision in an IDS interview.

OPINION: In America, racism is even found in the drinking water

By Jared Quigg · Wednesday, Sept. 14,2022 8 a.m.

The water crisis in Mississippi is the consequence of racism.

OPINION: My kingdom for a Pizza Hut: Gorbachev and the disastrous dissolution of the USSR

By Jared Quigg · Monday, Sept. 5,2022 5:02 p.m.

The fall of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe. Blame the late Mikhail Gorbachev.

ACLU lawsuit filed against Indiana’s abortion ban in Monroe County

By Carter DeJong · Thursday, Sept. 1,2022 6:47 p.m.

The ban will go into effect Sept. 15.

Meet Bloomington’s 2022 state and federal Congressional candidates

By Carson TerBush and Nadia Scharf · Wednesday, Aug. 31,2022 12:44 p.m.

From key issues to political history, here’s everything you need to know.

OPINION: Thank you Mr. President, but you should cancel it all

By Jared Quigg · Monday, Aug. 29,2022 11:27 a.m.

Biden’s student debt cancellation plan is helpful, but it doesn’t go far enough.

OPINION: Good riddance, Liz Cheney

By Jared Quigg · Sunday, Aug. 21,2022 3:06 p.m.

Liz Cheney’s primary loss isn’t the tragedy liberals are making it out to be.

Indiana lawmakers meet to debate abortion rights in special session

By Christina Avery · Monday, July 25,2022 10:23 p.m.

The special session will debate three new bills and continue until August 14.

Protestors march to controversial Women’s Care Center during abortion rights protest

By Nadia Scharf · Monday, June 27,2022 8:52 p.m.

The June 27 protest was organized by the Indianapolis Party for Socialism and Liberation.

‘The worst-case scenario’: what IU experts have to say about a post-Roe world

By Marissa Meador · Monday, June 27,2022 3:02 p.m.

A ban in Indiana may worsen maternal mortality and create chilling effects.

OPINION: Why do we still think Supreme Court justice isn't a political position?

By Sean Gilley · Thursday, June 2,2022 2:20 p.m.

Ideology is becoming inextricably linked to partisan ID, this affects justices too.

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