DOGE

Democracy’s Breaking Point

March 23, 2025

by: Wim Laven As a person who consumes large amounts of information about peace and conflict in the world, I…

Trump administration targets Planned Parenthood’s family-planning grants
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More than 1 million people seeking care such as contraception or testing for sexually transmitted diseases and cancer could be affected by the Trump administration withholding […]
Bill adding Indiana to small group of states with partisan school board races squeaks by House
April 1, 2025
Legislation adding political party affiliations to Indiana's currently nonpartisan school board elections faced bipartisan opposition, but narrowly earned House approval.
‘Obscene performances’ public funding ban moves forward
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A bill that left the Senate with near-universal support picked up a “barnacle in committee,” as one House Democrat put it last week, leaving the House […]
‘Fixes’ to evictions expungement bill bring Indiana housing advocates back on board
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Seventeen states want to end an abortion privacy rule. A federal judge is questioning HIPAA itself.
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The decades-old federal law protecting the privacy of individual health information is threatened by multiple lawsuits that seek to throw out a rule restricting disclosure of […]