Ruthie Cohen’s kitchen is a reflection of her relationships in life. Her salad dressings are brightened by old acquaintances.

LP contributor Diane Walker, like many people who grew up in Cambridge City, Indiana, in the 1970s, still wonders at the ...

Life as a world-traveling documentary photographer was fast-paced for Megan Snook. But as she writes in this photo essay, becoming a mother “drastically changed my way of life, forcing me to slow down ...

What happens when local news coverage disappears? LP asked journalist Steve Hinnefeld to look at the daily news landscape in Bloomington, Indiana. He interviewed people at several local news outlets ...

Good things are always happening in our public schools. It’s hard to see that if you read the news these days. There are all-consuming culture wars being manufactured by individuals far away. These ...

Professors in the IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design are collaborating with the nonprofit Ethical Metalsmiths to inspire students to create jewelry made from ethically source materials.

Now that adopted-cum-prodigal-son Robert Montgomery Knight has returned to the town of his epic, mythical, mystical triumphs to live out his valedictory years, Bloomington again seems the center of ...

Murals have been around for as long as there have been walls and humans to paint on them. But as photographer and writer M.J. Bower shows in this photo essay, Bloomington, Indiana, has seen a ...

Medical training has long been incorporated into Bloomington Fire Department operations, with emergency medical technicians acting as first responders to medical emergencies. But two years ago, the ...

In February 2025, more than one thousand law professors and constitutional scholars, including sixteen from Indiana University, signed a bipartisan letter issued by the American Constitution Society ...

An architecture snob’s dream, Columbus, Indiana — a town of just 46,000 people, give or take — is a living museum filled with works by architectural titans. The built landscape of this tiny southern ...