Terry H. Schwadron July 4, 2022 On this Fourth of July, it’s hard to keep from being overwhelmed by the growing disputes in our public lives, though obviously it has been building towards this point for years. Not unlike 150 years ago, there is a shared feeling across political…

Terry H. Schwadron July 1, 2022 The rightward march of the Supreme Court finally came to a season halt yesterday with a strike against environmental regulation and the power of the federal government, stunning ignoring the practical issues that underscore the needs. Still, the day may be remembered as…

Terry H. Schwadron June 30, 2022 Yes, of course Joe Biden’s decision to support a three-month federal gas tax holiday is political. Yes, it probably will end up more symbolic than an effective slimming of gas prices, just as the gun measure facing a vote in Congress is largely…

Terry H. Schwadron June 29, 2022 Donald Trump was so petulant and maniacal about remaining president that he was willing to attack his own Secret Service detail in an attempt to join those marching on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the testimony of an adviser to…

Terry H. Schwadron June 28, 2022 The question is only now beginning to take hold: After a Supreme Court decision that allows states to end abortion, how are these states going to support women and babies? Among the many real-life questions that the court ignored in its snooty review…

Terry H. Schwadron June 27, 2022 We have three emergent, overlapping narratives from the Supreme Court’s summary rejection of any national abortion rights in the United States. Each is a cause for public anger and a promise of permanent divide in the country and on cultures that will not…

Terry H. Schwadron June 26, 2022 At this point, are the continuing exploration of details in the plotted march to Jan. 6 really “bombshells,” as cable tv tells us, or just more icing on an awful insurrection cake that was anything but spontaneous? Indeed, after this week’s concurrent, unrelated Supreme…

Terry H. Schwadron June 25, 2022 We may never get over the emotions roused by abortion. But it was clear even minutes after the Supreme Court decided 6–3 to toss 50 years of legal abortion as a right that, as a nation, we’re not done with arguing about the…

Terry H. Schwadron June 23, 2022 Was it a strike of psychic irony that the Supreme Court decision to vastly expand concealed handguns on our streets came as the Senate finally voted its first substantial law about gun violence in 30 years? Was it an expression of noblese oblige…