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1 week ago | 
schwartzreport.net | Colby Hall |Stephan Schwartz
“Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.”Those are the chilling words uttered by President Donald Trump to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele surreptitiously captured in a casual Oval Office conversation before the White House pool entered. Aaron Rupar captured and published a rough video conversation on social media.
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1 month ago | 
schwartzreport.net | David Brooks |Stephan Schwartz
Many years ago, I asked a friend who had been hired as a senior foreign policy official what he’d learned in government that he didn’t know beforehand. He replied: “I used to think policy-making was 75 percent about relationships. Now I realize it’s 95 percent about relationships.”It’s very hard to do big things alone. So competent leaders and nations rely on relationships built on shared values, shared history and shared trust.
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2 months ago | 
schwartzreport.net | Harold Meyerson |Stephan Schwartz
One of the themes recurring in conservative media these days is the normalization of Donald Trump by historical analogy. This kind of sweeping arrogation of power, we’re told by Wall Street Journal editorialists, columnist George Will, and other conservative commentators, has ample precedents in the records of progressive presidents particularly: Woodrow Wilson, both Roosevelts, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. So why this harping on poor Donald Trump?
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2 months ago | 
schwartzreport.net | Thom Hartmann |Stephan Schwartz
The Republican Taliban doesn’t want my wife, Louise Hartmann, to vote. And they may well put that desire into law this year. Republicans have always been wary of women voting or even engaging in politics, while Democrats are welcoming of women. About two-thirds of all female state legislators serve in Blue states; for example, Nevada (61.9%), New Mexico (53.6%), and Colorado (51%) — all Democratic-leaning states — rank as the top three for women’s representation in 2025.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
schwartzreport.net | Thom Hartmann |Stephan Schwartz
— The fossil fuel industry is apparently paying off Republicans — in a practice legalized by Republicans on the Supreme Court — to make sure Congress never passes legislation to hold them accountable for all the death and destruction they’ve caused by lying about climate change for the past 50 years.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
schwartzreport.net | Stephan Schwartz
President Joe Biden is removing Cuba from a U.S. government list of state sponsors of terrorism on Tuesday, according to administration officials. That move, and a number of other conciliatory actions, are being taken in the hope of securing the release of political prisoners on the island, the officials told reporters in a briefing ahead of the announcement.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
schwartzreport.net | Stephan Schwartz
Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the “masculine” Christian religion through online influencers. Some converts said they felt disillusioned with the “feminisation” of the Protestant church and were attracted to the “authenticity” of Orthodoxy, which they claim pushes them physically and mentally. Priests are now planning to open new parishes to accommodate the “tsunami” of young men who have converted since the pandemic.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
schwartzreport.net | Stephan Schwartz
Fracking CEO Chris Wright is on track to be the nation’s next energy secretary despite a few tense moments during his confirmation hearing. The tension largely centered around climate change. Wright acknowledges that the planet is warming, but has downplayed the phenomenon’s connection to extreme weather. Nevertheless, even some Democrats expressed support for his nomination, including Sen. John Hickenlooper (Colo), who introduced Wright at the start of the hearing.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
schwartzreport.net | Stephan Schwartz
China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation’s brand-new heavy lift rockets. Chinese scientists have announced a plan to build an enormous, 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) wide solar power station in space that will beam continuous energy back to Earth via microwaves.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
schwartzreport.net | Stephan Schwartz
President-elect Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024 prevented his conviction for crimes tied to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, according to special counsel Jack Smith’s newly released report. The Justice Department unveiled the 137-page document early Tuesday, obtained by the New York Times, and offered a detailed look at Trump’s actions following his 2020 loss.
