Terry H. Schwadron Aug. 8, 2022 After a year of wrangling, the whittled-down, but still apparently mighty climate, tax and health conglomerate bill may serve as a mainstay for the Joe Biden administration finally pushed through the Senate yesterday. A House vote on the same bill is expected this week. …

Terry H. Schwadron Aug. 5, 2022 In so many ways, we’re reaping what we’ve sown. Ignoring climate changes, we see growing environmental catastrophes slipping beyond our control. At supermarkets and gas pumps, we wonder aloud at high prices while hearing about record corporate profits — and complaints about paying…

Terry H. Schwadron Aug. 4, 2022 The unusual emotional lift was as noticeable Tuesday night as the practical effects of the urgent message sent by voters in conservative Kansas scolding the most extreme anti-abortion forces to Back Off. The surprisingly emphatic majority that rejected an undoubtably sneaky plan to…

Terry H. Schwadron Aug. 3, 2022 Maybe it struck you, as it did me, that news coverage and public reactions to the precision drone killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on a Kabul balcony by pushing a button from half a world away was muted. There was a…

Terry H. Schwadron Aug. 2, 2022 While election attention this week will be on public votes over revising abortion rights in Kansas and Indiana and races where Donald Trump’s endorsements are deemed important, today’s lineup also feature the battle over the meaning of the ballot altogether. Far from the…

Terry H. Schwadron Aug. 1, 2022 There are legitimate policy debates to be had, and then there is the petulant foot-stamping that has come to mark our times watching Washington at work. Whatever else they do in our name, the politicians seem to spend tons more effort on the…

Terry H. Schwadron Jan. 30, 2022 They must think we’re idiots. Not only are critical texts missing from selected Secret Service phones for Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, but now we learn that the same two days are missing from updated phones of the former top leaders of Homeland…

Terry H. Schwadron July 29, 2022 So, despite the Department Justice secrecy, despite the hide-the-news campaign by the political right, despite look-elsewhere protests from Donald Trump himself, we’ve arrived at confirmation of a deepening federal probe of lawbreaking by Trump’s inner circle, including the probability of first-ever charges involving…

Terry H. Schwadron July 28, 2022 Really, does it matter whether we declare that our economy has entered or is ushering in a “recession”? Isn’t what matters what the effect is on prices and income, jobs and stability? By definition, a recession is the term used to describe consecutive…