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Indiana sits at the "crossroads of America," interposing itself between Chicago and points east like that old racist yutz at the end of your block that you hope isn't sitting on his porch when you walk by. Yesterday, with much fanfare, they became the first state to ban almost all abortions after Dobbs, for many of the same reasons that they once declared pi to be equal to 22/7: Indiana became the first in the nation to sign new restrictions into law – stripping away a right afforded to Hoosier women...

A few articles caught my attention this week: Jennifer Rubin says the GOP's opposition to literally everything President Biden has proposed is killing their popularity. The New Republic, in collaboration with the Chicago Reader, tells the story of the last remaining men's hotel in Chicago. NPR host Steve Inskeep describes his difficulties getting his adoption records from the State of Indiana. Writing in The New Yorker, Daniel Alcarón mourns the loss of Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory last December....

I've been out of town twice in the last 10 days. First, to New York, where I found this light at the end of a tunnel in Riverside Park: This weekend I went to Indianapolis for a wedding, and stopped by the Indiana State Capitol: That building is home to what may be the stupidest legislative body in the Western world. Don't even get me started.