But leave South Bend and it’s another world. Franks, who with his beard, white shirt and dark pants looks Hasidic, remembers stopping to buy tires at a Sears in small-town Indiana and being ...

One of the Democratic Party’s most skilled communicators explains how difficult it is to sell political accomplishments.

Improbably for such a small city, it was designed by Helmut Jahn, the famed German architect who created Chicago’s Thompson Center two hours to the west. Like all college towns, South Bend is ...