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2023-09-16T09:35:00Z	**The Paradox of the American West**
Kyle Paoletta,  Contributing Writer  -  Insider

_Stephan: I have told you there are going to be three major internal migrations with millions of Americans moving to new locales, and that it is going to create a great deal of stress and difficulty. As this article explains, it is now happening. This is going to become a major trend in the United States and other countries._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-15-at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/the-paradox-of-the-american-west/)
2023-09-16T09:34:00Z	**Reading is fundamental: Children who love books are happier, more physically active**
Sophia Naughton,  Associate Editor  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Here you see the positive side of the library issue. The raping of libraries by MAGAts, which also drives away staff, is the other end of the spectrum. Which do you want your kids to experience? The rightwing nonsense about libraries and books, should be driven back into the sewer from which it arose. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/reading-is-fundamental-children-who-love-books-are-happier-more-physically-active/)
2023-09-16T09:33:00Z	**Why some women still vote Republican and what can be done about it**
Valerie Tarico,  Psychologist and Contributing Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I have been thinking for some time, asking how can you be a Republican woman and how could that change? Here is a very thoughtful assessment, by a woman which, in this instance, I think this is important. It answers the question._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-38.png)_Image via  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/why-some-women-still-vote-republican-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/)
2023-09-16T09:32:00Z	**Watchdog Finds Trump Border Wall Harmed Environment, Indigenous Sites, and Wildlife**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -

_Stephan: Has criminal Trump ever done anything that didn't cause damage and degrade wellbeing? I can't think of anything. And now we have the fact-based report on what his hate wall along the Southern border actually did. None of it is good, as this report describes.

To read the report upon which this articl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/watchdog-finds-trump-border-wall-harmed-environment-indigenous-sites-and-wildlife/)
2023-09-17T09:33:00Z	**A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it.**
Sigal Samuel ,  Senior Reporter  -  Vox

_Stephan: Ever since Ronald Reagan and his "welfare queens" assertion, the Republican Party has been against granting very poor, often homeless people any cash assistance. Now we have objectively verifiable evidence that this, like most Republican social perspectives is crap, as this report describes. As it says, "According to Foundations f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/a-canadian-study-gave-7500-to-homeless-people-heres-how-they-spent-it-2/)
2023-09-17T09:36:00Z	**How a half-trillion dollars is transforming climate technology**
Casey Crownhart,  Climate Reporter  -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: While the septic circus that is the U.S. Congress wails about having an impeachment with no evidence, this is what the Biden Administration has done, and is doing. I don't know why the Democrats cannot work out a way to pierce the MAGAt miasma of misinformation, and get people to understand and appreciate what Biden and the Democr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/how-a-half-trillion-dollars-is-transforming-climate-technology/)
2023-09-17T09:35:00Z	**Gen Z Voices Lackluster Trust in Major U.S. Institutions**
ZACH HRYNOWSKI and STEPHANIE MARKEN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: I don't think older Americans realize how badly criminal Trump and his MAGAt world have damaged American democracy. But the christofascist, White racist, gender and sex obsessed world created by criminal Trump and the Republican Party has wrought damage that may take generations to repair -- if it ever gets repaired. Frankly, if your val ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/gen-z-voices-lackluster-trust-in-major-u-s-institutions/)
2023-09-17T09:34:00Z	**‘It will take years to recover’ from Tuberville blockade, top Navy nominee says**
CONNOR O’BRIEN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I was the Special Assistant to two Chiefs of Naval Operations, Admirals Elmo Zumwalt, and James Holloway, and before that the editor of Sea Power Magazine, and it taught me that in the culture of the military promotions have many implications virtually unknown to civilians. A typical tour in a specific job for an offi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/it-will-take-years-to-recover-from-tuberville-blockade-top-navy-nominee-says/)
2023-09-18T09:35:00Z	**How Conspiracy Culture Benefits the Ruling Elite**
Interview with Naomi Klein,  Author and Investigative Journalist  -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: I agree with Naomi Klein, and think she is a very smart person, and here she gives an interview that clearly lays out what she calls the "mirror world" of conspiracies, fantasies, and misinformation. Bravo. Now will Americans do something about it when they vote?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/im ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/how-conspiracy-culture-benefits-the-ruling-elite/)
2023-09-18T09:34:00Z	**Wealthy Elites Believe Capitalism Should Hurt Workers More**
Joshua Hill,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: The true attitudes of the uber-rich are rarely expressed so publicly. Capitalism is a system. But it must be governed by the morality that fostering wellbeing must be the first priority. What has happened since Reagan is that it is not. Instead, we have MAGAt social policies and that has created the worse wealth inequality since the 18th century. This  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/wealthy-elites-believe-capitalism-should-hurt-workers-more/)
2023-09-18T09:33:00Z	**Medical Debt Is Killing Our Patients**
Arvind Venkat, MD ,  Emergency Physician and Pennsylvania State Representative  -  MEDPAGEToday

_Stephan: Once again the social outcome data proves that we do not have a healthcare system committed to fostering wellbeing. Instead we have an illness profit system, and it is the worst in the developed world. The most expensive by orders of magnitude, with the worst social outcome data. Is it going to change? I don't think so while our Congress is paraly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/medical-debt-is-killing-our-patients/)
2023-09-18T09:32:00Z	**“A Watershed Moment”: CA Sues Oil Giants Over Decades of Climate Destruction**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is some very interesting and, I think, excellent news. Municipalities and states are beginning to sue big oil corporations for deliberatively covering up, and issuing misinformation about the role of their industry in causing climate change and doing great damage to the wellbeing of the planet and all the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/a-watershed-moment-ca-sues-oil-giants-over-decades-of-climate-destruction/)
2023-09-19T09:34:00Z	**Water and Pesticide Use Cut Nearly in Half After ‘Better Cotton’ Helps Farmers Become Sustainable**
,    \-  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. This is what the governments of the world, and certainly the United States, should be doing. Here is yet more proof that even in farming, pay close attention to the numbers cited, fostering wellbeing is better in all aspects, except the pesticide corporations that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/water-and-pesticide-use-cut-nearly-in-half-after-better-cotton-helps-farmers-become-sustainable/)
2023-09-19T09:33:00Z	**EVs are cutting the world demand for oil, but not in the way you may think**
Mark Sumner,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Here is an interesting good news on kinds of electric vehicles one rarely sees in the U.S. but that are having a significant impact on the pollution produced by internal combustion engines._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-45-1.jpg)_Electric tuk-tuk in India. Credit: Corbis / Getty_

The sam ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/evs-are-cutting-the-world-demand-for-oil-but-not-in-the-way-you-may-think/)
2023-09-19T09:32:00Z	**Americans are least likely to care about kids having good manners. Here’s what they prioritize instead**
Sophie Kiderlin,    -  make it

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-45-2.jpg)_A new report shows the attributes different countries value the most in kids.

Credit: Klaus Vedfelt \| Digitalvision \| Getty_

Having well-behaved kids is often a concern for parents. But not all adults ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/americans-are-least-likely-to-care-about-kids-having-good-manners-heres-what-they-prioritize-instead/)
2023-09-19T09:35:00Z	**Halliburton equipment worth $7.1m imported into Russia in past year, customs records show**
Daniel Boffey ,  Chief Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Take this as an example of corporate greed placing profit above all other considerations. This is only possible because since Reagan the Republican Party has been changing the tax structure, and loosening control of the corporations controlled by of the uber-rich, who rented them to m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/halliburton-equipment-worth-7-1m-imported-into-russia-in-past-year-customs-records-show/)
2023-09-20T09:35:00Z	**House GOP Unveils Budget With Trillions in Cuts to Medicaid, Food Benefits, and More**
Jake Johnson,  Seniors Editor and Staff writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: It is a measure of how sick American society has become that voters elect to Congressional offices Republicans who in turn vote to trash their lives, as this report describes._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-45.png)_Republican MAGAt Rep. Jodey Arri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/house-gop-unveils-budget-with-trillions-in-cuts-to-medicaid-food-benefits-and-more/)
2023-09-20T09:34:00Z	**Scientists warn entire branches of the ‘Tree of Life’ are going extinct**
Lucie Aubourg ,  Reporter  -  Agence France-Presse (France) / Yahoo! News

_Stephan: We are being warned again and again that we are destroying earth's ecosystems to our own detriment. And yet what are the Republicans in the House trying to do. Cut support for, Medicaid, and a host of other social programs designed to foster wellbeing. I think these MAGAt men and women are contemptible ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/scientists-warn-entire-branches-of-the-tree-of-life-are-going-extinct/)
2023-09-20T09:33:00Z	**US Behind More Than a Third of Global Oil and Gas Expansion Plans, Report Finds**
Fiona Harvey,  Staff Writer  -  Reader Supported News / The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The corruption of the U.S. Congress is so great that this is the result. American petroleum corporations continue to promote carbon energy to keep their profits high, even though it is destroying the earth's ecosystems._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/us-behind-more-than-a-third-of-global-oil-and-gas-expansion-plans-report-finds/)
2023-09-20T09:32:00Z	**Trump shames Jews during Rosh Hashanah for refusing to vote for him**
Sarah K. Burris,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Trump has a long history of anti-semitism, and as he becomes more deranged he is becoming more blatant about it, as well as his anti-Black racism. And yet he remains the leading candidate of the Republican Party, which tells one so much about Republican voters._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-46.png ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/trump-shames-jews-during-rosh-hashanah-for-refusing-to-vote-for-him/)
2023-09-21T09:32:00Z	**The Scheme Speech 5: The Federalist Society+**
Sheldon Whitehouse,  Democratic Senator for Rhode Island  -  Sheldon Whitehouse Senatorial Website

_Stephan: This is what honorable political discourse focused on fostering wellbeing sounds like. Such a different world from what we see on the electronic media. And what Senator Whitehouse is saying deserves your close attention. This is how the christofascist Republican minority took over the Supreme Court and much of the rest of the Amer ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/the-scheme-speech-5-the-federalist-society/)
2023-09-21T09:35:00Z	**Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps**
Matthew Daly,    -  Seattle Times

_Stephan: Here is some lovely good news. President Biden thwarted by the Congressional Republicans is using his executive authority to create a modern version of Franklin Roosevelt's WPA that so successfully change America for the better in ways we still benefit from. How is it possible that a convicted rapist, convicted scammer currently  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/biden-uses-executive-power-to-create-a-new-deal-style-american-climate-corps/)
2023-09-21T09:34:00Z	**Constitutional confusion: Survey reveals Americans woefully uninformed about their own rights**
John Anderer,  Contributing Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: A few weeks ago I ran a survey showing that a large percentage of Americans have no idea how their works (see SR archive). Their understanding of the country's democracy is so poor they can't even name the branches created by the Constitution. I was appalled and saddened by that s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/constitutional-confusion-survey-reveals-americans-woefully-uninformed-about-their-own-rights/)
2023-09-21T09:33:00Z	**Texas Fracking Billionaire Brothers Fuel Rightwing Media With Millions of Dollars**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-48-2.jpg)_John (left) and Farris Wilks Credit: Forbes_

Two billionaire Texas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped million of dollars into rightwing media outfits that have promoted climate-crisis denialism and sent more big checks to back an ar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/texas-fracking-billionaire-brothers-fuel-rightwing-media-with-millions-of-dollars/)
2023-09-22T09:20:00Z	**Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report**
Nick Robins-Early,    -  The Guardian (U.K)

_Stephan: If you want to help end the distribution of misinformation stop using Twitter/X. I took the SR edition off of Twitter as soon as I learned this, and hope you will do so as well._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-52-1.jpg)_None of the five major tech companies (Meta, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter) scored well. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/twitter-ranks-worst-in-climate-change-misinformation-report/)
2023-09-22T09:25:00Z	**‘Very Bad News’: Human Activities Increased Extinction Rate of Species Groups by 35 Times**
OLIVIA ROSANE,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Yet another warning that we humans simply are not taking the damage we are doing to the earth's wellbeing seriously enough. We are literally destroying the environment our children and their children, and their children will have to live in. We are destroying the earth's matrix of life out of s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/very-bad-news-human-activities-increased-extinction-rate-of-species-groups-by-35-times/)
2023-09-22T09:30:00Z	**American Hatred Goes Global**
Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware,  Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations \| Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations  -  Foreign Affairs

_Stephan: How do you feel about people all over the world seeing the United States, as a bully, a source of violence, and a spreader of hate? Frankly, it makes me quite angry that criminal Trump and the MAGAt world he has created has trash ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/american-hatred-goes-global/)
2023-09-22T09:35:00Z	**The Patriot – How Genereal Mark Milley Protected the Constitution from Donald Trump**
Jeffrey Goldberg,  Editor-in-Chief  -  The Atlantic Magazine

_Stephan: I wonder how many Americans realize how close we came to a military supported coup designed to keep criminal Trump in power. We owe a deep vote of thanks to General Mark Milley for saving our democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-49.png)_General Mar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/the-patriot-how-genereal-mark-milley-protected-the-constitution-from-donald-trump/)
2023-09-23T09:20:00Z	**In U.S., 47% Identify as Religious, 33% as Spiritual**
JEFFREY M. JONES,    -

_Stephan: Here is the latest on what is happening to religion in the United States, note the large difference between Republicans and Democrats, also the age differential._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-23-at-1.00.29-AM.png)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly half of Americans (47%) describe themselves as religious, another 33% say they are spiritual but not  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/in-u-s-47-identify-as-religious-33-as-spiritual/)
2023-09-23T09:30:00Z	**Pentagon-funded Study Warns Dementia Among U.S. Officials Poses National Security Threat**
Ken Klippenstein,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: If you look at McConnell, or Feinstein, and a number of others you can see that they are beyond their optimal age, and should consider resigning. It's not just age, look at Nancy Pelosi, it's cognitive competence. But age is an issue. We have the oldest government in our history. To quote th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/pentagon-funded-study-warns-dementia-among-u-s-officials-poses-national-security-threat/)
2023-09-23T09:25:00Z	**Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Shows**
Mack Lamoureux,  Staff Writer  -  Vice

_Stephan: The biggest threat of violence in the United States, and several countries in Euroe are militarily trained White Nationalists. Young aggrieved fearful White men training for violence. This is a growing trend, as this article describes. This trend is going to get worse and needs much greater consideration. These White men have already tried to overthrow demo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/neo-nazi-fight-clubs-are-growing-rapidly-new-research-shows/)
2023-09-23T09:35:00Z	**Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events**
Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan:  Think about this. Clarence Thomas is one of the six human beings who define the laws that control the wellbeing of the 339,996,562 rest of us and who is, on the basis of incontrovertible evidence, utterly corrupt. And yet nothing is being done. He should leave the court one way or another. That nothing is happening  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/clarence-thomas-secretly-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events/)
2023-09-24T09:30:00Z	**There were 1,396 cases of criminalized pregnancy in the U.S. between January 2006 and June 2022.**
,    \-  Pregnancy Justice

_Stephan: In the United States if you are a fertile woman, particularly if you are a non-White woman, you don't want to get pregnant in a Republican controlled state and have something go wrong. Not only may you find it is impossible to get needed medical care you may end up getting arrested and being sent to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/24/there-were-1396-cases-of-criminalized-pregnancy-in-the-u-s-between-january-2006-and-june-2022/)
2023-09-24T09:25:00Z	**A Nebraska mother who provided an illegal abortion for her daughter and helped dispose of the fetus gets 2 years in prison, report says**
Mitchell McCluskey,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: This is what is happening to women, what they are driven to in Republican controlled states. I have to confess that I do not see how it is possible to be a woman and vote Republican, yet I recognize that millio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/24/a-nebraska-mother-who-provided-an-illegal-abortion-for-her-daughter-and-helped-dispose-of-the-fetus-gets-2-years-in-prison-report-says/)
2023-09-24T09:20:00Z	**Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor**
Kasey Meehan, Jonathan Friedman, Sabrina Baeta, and Tasslyn Magnusson,    -  PEN America

_Stephan: States, both Red and Blue, are having their libraries attacked by hysterical semi-literate White people, mostly women, who seek to purge their libraries of books they often haven't read, nor seem to understand. There is a growing anti-intellectualism in the United States that is doing massive damage to libraries, once seen as c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/24/banned-in-the-usa-the-mounting-pressure-to-censor/)
2023-09-25T09:30:00Z	**US states relax child labor laws amid rise in illegal work**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse (France) / Raw Story

_Stephan: Corporations having rented state legislators and governors, particularly in Republican controlled states, are doing everything they can to be child labor legal. As this report describes, "the number of illegally employed minors has surged by 69 percent since 2018, according to Labor Department figures." It is just another trend showing us that as a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/us-states-relax-child-labor-laws-amid-rise-in-illegal-work/)
2023-09-25T09:25:00Z	**Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks**
Naomi Nix, Cat Zakrzewski, and Joseph Menn,  Reporters  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: As this story describes the Congressional Republicans led my MAGAT Representative Jim Jordan and others are doing everything they can to stop research on misinformation. They rely on misinformation in order to manipulate their voters whom they hold in obvious contempt, and they don't want researchers  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/misinformation-research-is-buckling-under-gop-legal-attacks/)
2023-09-25T09:20:00Z	**McCarthyism Rides Again at Texas Universities**
GABRIEL ARANA,    -  Texas Observer

_Stephan: The Republican Party, as this article describes, in the states it controls, is trying to gut colleges and universities that rely on public money to stop them from teaching the truth and, instead, indoctrinate them into the White Nationalist christofascist cult that they are trying to install and dominate our government. We have got to stop this. It will all turn on the 2024 election. Thin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/mccarthyism-rides-again-at-texas-universities/)
2023-09-25T09:35:00Z	**Pentagon’s Budget is so Bloated That it Needs an AI Program to Navigate it**
Ken Klippenstein,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The United States Congress manipulated by the corporations that make up the military-industrial complex that routinely rents its members has a budget larger than the next seven high budget nations on earth. We can't feed our children, we can't educate them properly, we have the worst healthcare system amongst developed ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/pentagons-budget-is-so-bloated-that-it-needs-an-ai-program-to-navigate-it/)
2023-09-26T09:30:00Z	**Traditional downtowns are dead or dying in many US cities — here’s what’s next**
John Rennie Short,  Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you will see this as the latest on a trend SR has been covering for several years (See SR Archive). American cities are undergoing a massive change that is not being properly or adequately covered. John Short gets what is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/26/traditional-downtowns-are-dead-or-dying-in-many-us-cities-heres-whats-next/)
2023-09-26T09:25:00Z	**Our new poll shows just how much GOP voters have diverged from everyone else on vaccines**
STEVEN SHEPARD,  Senior Campaigns and Elections Editor  -  Politico

_Stephan: The Republican view is a death cult. (See SR archive). The Covid death rate of Republicans compared with Democrats is absurd. It is an anti-vaxxer death cult._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-11.38.51-PM.png)

Vaccine ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/26/our-new-poll-shows-just-how-much-gop-voters-have-diverged-from-everyone-else-on-vaccines/)
2023-09-26T09:20:00Z	**A climate scientist on how to recognize the new climate change denial**
Avishay Artsy,    -  Vox

_Stephan: This is a dialogue between Michael Mann a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Sean Rameswaram. I absolutely agree with them._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-60.png)_CalFire firefighters combating the Rabbit Fire in Moreno Valley, California, on July 14, 2023.

 Credit: Jon Putman / SOPA Images/ LightRoc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/26/a-climate-scientist-on-how-to-recognize-the-new-climate-change-denial/)
2023-09-27T09:30:00Z	**Guns and Voting**
Sean Morales-Doyle, Robyn Sanders, Allison Anderman, and Jessica Ojeda,   Director of the Brennan Center Voting Rights Program \| Counsel with the Democracy Program’s Voting Rights and Elections Team \| Senior Counsel and Director of local policy, Giffords Law Center   -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: The MAGAts particularly in the states controlled by Republicans are literally trying to scare America's democracy out of existence. Contact your state representatives and senators and dem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/guns-and-voting/)
2023-09-27T09:25:00Z	**Oklahoma superintendent vows to ‘fight the radical myth of separation of church and state’**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you look at its social outcome data Oklahoma is a rather pathetic state run my MAGAts who don't even seem to understand how American government was set up by the Founders. The separation of church and state was a major issue to the Founders many of whom had been persecuted by the Anglican church in a Britain ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/oklahoma-superintendent-vows-to-fight-the-radical-myth-of-separation-of-church-and-state/)
2023-09-27T09:20:00Z	**Blame boomers? 65% of young adults fear older generations will damage their financial future**
Sophia Naughton,  Associate Editor  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: This is the first survey I have seen about how younger people see the older generation's role in their financial situation and future. BUt what I particularly took away from reading this was what a large percentage of Americans are having a very tough time financially while the uber- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/blame-boomers-65-of-young-adults-fear-older-generations-will-damage-their-financial-future/)
2023-09-27T09:35:00Z	**Mouths Full of Blood: Trump and His Backers Spread Lies, Violence and Fascism**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-61.png)_Donald Trump leaves after speaking to supporters during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election on July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Credit: Jeff Swensen / Getty_

Former President Donald Trump has achieved a unique status in United S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/mouths-full-of-blood-trump-and-his-backers-spread-lies-violence-and-fascism/)
2023-09-28T09:35:00Z	**In Texas, guns are everywhere, whether concealed or in the open**
Molly Hennessy-Fiske,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: There is a very important trend going on in the United States and I only very rarely hear anyone talking about it. If you live in a Republican controlled state you are much, much, more likely to be murdered.  Here are the top 10 states with the most gun deaths:

1\. Mississippi – 28.6 per 100k
2\. Louisiana – 26.3 per 100k
3\. Wyoming  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/in-texas-guns-are-everywhere-whether-concealed-or-in-the-open/)
2023-09-28T09:30:00Z	**‘Threats and harassment’ are causing America’s West to bleed election officials: report**
Alexandria Jacobson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The Republican Party recognizes that they are a minority and the basis of a functioning democracy they cannot win. So what to do? Destroy democracy. Literally, threaten and scare the election workers away. Scare the teachers away. scare the librarians away. Destroy or incapacitate the institutions  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/threats-and-harassment-are-causing-americas-west-to-bleed-election-officials-report/)
2023-09-28T09:25:00Z	**The Risk of Political Violence Looms Over US Elections**
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig / Common Dreams

_Stephan: White MAGAt men filled with hate, resentment, and grievances are seriously threatening violence in the coming election and, I think, particularly in Red states this may happen. I just don't think most Americans really comprehend that we have one party that is seriously thinking about violence as the way to keep themselves in power. Would you be co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/the-risk-of-political-violence-looms-over-us-elections/)
2023-09-28T09:20:00Z	**House GOP Shutdown Demands Include Gutting Billions From Dept. of Education, Costing Over 200,000 Teachers Their Jobs**
David Badash,    -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Do you have young children? Do you want them to be well-educated on the basis of facts? Well, if the Republicans have their way, that's not going to happen. In fact, your kid's school may not even be able to hire enough teachers to be a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/house-gop-shutdown-demands-include-gutting-billions-from-dept-of-education-costing-over-200000-teachers-their-jobs/)
2023-09-29T09:35:00Z	**UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a ‘Contemporary Form of Slavery’**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I had five different stories about the defacto slavery that is thriving in the U.S. in its prisons. But I have chosen this UN report because it makes it clear that not only do some Americans understand that this country is still embroiled in racist slavery -- the prisoners involved are overwhelming Black -- but tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/un-report-urges-end-to-forced-us-prison-labor-a-contemporary-form-of-slavery/)
2023-09-29T09:30:00Z	**Florida school district bans all library books containing LGBTQ characters, says they ‘cannot exist’**
Dartagnan,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Ron DeSantis, on the basis of his performance in office and his own words, is a not overly bright rather nasty thuggish man. He is the leader of the gutting library movement, and he is driving LGBTQ Floridians out of the state because of his sheer nastiness. Nothing but bad ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/florida-school-district-bans-all-library-books-containing-lgbtq-characters-says-they-cannot-exist/)
2023-09-29T09:25:00Z	**Americans have poor math skills. It’s a threat to US standing in the global economy, employers say**
JON MARCUS,    -  Associated Press \| The Hechinger Report

_Stephan: The Republicans are earnestly and actively trying to dismantle public education, trying to replace it with some bastardized profit-making system. They are also gutting libraries, gutting history programs because they don't want children to know the truth about slav ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/americans-have-poor-math-skills-its-a-threat-to-us-standing-in-the-global-economy-employers-say/)
2023-09-29T09:20:00Z	**The 10 States With the Highest STD Rates**
Steven Ross Johnson,   Public Health Reporter   -  US News & World Report

_Stephan: When I was a boy old enough to join my parents at the dinner table when there were family guests, most of the talk was about medicine. My father was an internationally recognized anesthesiologist, my mother had been a surgical nurse, one uncle was a cardiologist and head of a major clinic, another was a hospital administrator, two great aunts were famous nurses ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/the-10-states-with-the-highest-std-rates/)
2023-09-30T09:25:00Z	**Man hailed by Trump admin as a victim charged with dismembering his girlfriend: report**
David McAfee,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is Trump world. This is what Trump has done to American society. The news about him and the people associated with him is like reading a satire novel.  So absurd, so sleazy, so willfully ignorant. And yet day after day this stuff runs like a series. I don't like this series, and I am tired of it. What do you t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/man-hailed-by-trump-admin-as-a-victim-charged-with-dismembering-his-girlfriend-report/)
2023-09-30T09:30:00Z	**Here’s How Much Ron DeSantis’s Stupid Culture-War Laws Cost Taxpayers**
Tori Otten,  Associated Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: On the basis of objectively verifiable data Ron DeSantis, is a somewhat worse governor of Florida than if your dog had gotten elected. Everything in touches wilts or dies. The libraries in Florida have been debased, the schools and universities are losing a significant percentage of their teachers, the largest employer in the s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/heres-how-much-ron-desantiss-stupid-culture-war-laws-cost-taxpayers/)
2023-09-30T09:35:00Z	**Earth’s sixth mass extinction is underway and “rapidly accelerating,” study warns**
Ivana Saric,    -  Axios

_Stephan: We have got to end this puerile schoolyard acrimony going on in the House. We don't have time for the MAGAt nonsense, as this article should make clear to the dimmest. We have got to each of us think: what can I do to foster wellbeing?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-71.png)_Wild Puku antelopes  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-is-underway-and-rapidly-accelerating-study-warns/)
2023-09-30T09:40:00Z	**Homes “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American**
KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS,  Reporter  -  CBS News

_Stephan: We are a country in desperate shape. For nearly two hundred years we have been a two-party democracy, The parties have changed names but the agreement was that both parties supported democracy and demanded a level of integrity. That is no longer the case. The Republican Party has become a White nationalist christofascist cult and, as a result, we have a dy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/homes-unaffordable-in-99-of-nation-for-average-american/)
2023-10-01T09:25:00Z	**Energy production: Romania among world’s greenest economies**
Radu Dumitrescu,  Reporter  -  Romania-Insider.com

_Stephan: I have been following what is going on in other countries as they work through the required trend of ending carbon energy. Some of these reports put us to shame in the U.S. Here's an example from Romania. We are not taking the end of the internal combustion engine seriously enough in the United States._

![](https://cdn.romania-insider.com/sites/de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/energy-production-romania-among-worlds-greenest-economies/)
2023-10-01T09:20:00Z	**Veebs: now there’s an app for partisan shopping**
OLIVER BATEMAN ,    -  UnHerd

_Stephan: Those who have read The 8 Laws of Change will know about the Quotidian Choice. Briefly, everyday you make dozens of small choices, like choosing the things you buy at the grocery. Faced with a choice of which laundry soap, after picking organic, pick the company that has made wellbeing a priority. How do they treat their workers? That requires doing a little research. But now their is an app  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/veebs-now-theres-an-app-for-partisan-shopping/)
2023-10-01T09:30:00Z	**Science vs. ‘wokeism’: The growing tensions between the doctors’ lobby and the GOP**
DANIEL PAYNE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This article is interesting for two reasons. First, it shows how Republicans believe science is just a political position that can be altered to accommodate their beliefs. Second, it reveals the role and importance of profit as a part of the illness profit system. It illustrates what a universal birthright single payer would el ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/science-vs-wokeism-the-growing-tensions-between-the-doctors-lobby-and-the-gop/)
2023-10-01T09:35:00Z	**Some 40 Million Americans Will Resume Student Debt Payments Next Month**
Amy Goodman,    -  truthout / Democracy Now

_Stephan: We got 45 days of grace before the government shutdown starts up again. Hopefully, at least five Republicans will see this whole pissing contest is completely contrived and harmful and join the almost total Democrat majority in both the House and Senate in creating a functioning government. This entire business is the result of the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/some-40-million-americans-will-resume-student-debt-payments-next-month/)
2023-10-02T09:30:00Z	**Would-be ‘warlord’ yearns for white nationalist dictator to ‘destroy the left’ during event hosted by DeSantis ally**
Travis Gettys,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: There are White racist christofascists in the United States. That, in itself, is not notable.  There has always been such a community in this country. What stands out this time though is how large they are, how explicit, and how inclined to violence. Consider  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/would-be-warlord-yearns-for-white-nationalist-dictator-to-destroy-the-left-during-event-hosted-by-desantis-ally/)
2023-10-02T09:25:00Z	**GOP waging a “coordinated national effort to undermine American elections,” says leading official**
AREEBA SHAH,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Here is a very good and comprehensive assessment of what is happening to the American election system as a result of harassment and threatened or actual violence by MAGAts. I believe the federal government should have a structure to protect the elections at every level. The Republican Par ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/gop-waging-a-coordinated-national-effort-to-undermine-american-elections-says-leading-official/)
2023-10-02T09:40:00Z	**What the world would look like without fossil fuels**
Shannon Osaka,  Climate Zeitgeist Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is the first article I have seen in corporate media that addresses seriously and analysis of the transition out of the carbon era. That tells you something right there. I think this is the most important issue facing human cultures, including the United States. It is not getting anything like the attention it should, let along the action. We ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/what-the-world-would-look-like-without-fossil-fuels/)
2023-10-02T09:35:00Z	**He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court**
KIMBERLY WEHLE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This is how deeply the MAGAt obsession with gender and sexuality has invaded our culture, and how badly it is being handled by parents. I can't imagine having a child who constantly references themselves by the other gender, and not compassionately working with them, getting therapeutic help if necessary. And yet, as this report details that is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/he-she-they-the-pronoun-debate-will-likely-land-at-the-supreme-court/)
2023-10-03T09:25:00Z	**The Roots of Christian Nationalism Go Back Further Than You Think**
ROBERT P. JONES,  President and Founder of the Public Religion Research Insitute (PRRI)  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has written a book I strongly recommend. It tears off the lies and cover-ups of White Nationalists like Ron De Santis and presents a fact-based history of where White Christian Nationalism comes from and how it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/the-roots-of-christian-nationalism-go-back-further-than-you-think/)
2023-10-03T09:20:00Z	**White Christian nationalism threatens U.S. democracy**
Steve Corbin,  Contributing Writer  -  Michigan Advance

_Stephan: White Christian Nationalism, in my opinion, is the greatest threat to the future of America as a democracy. These are angry hate-filled racist White people who simply cannot accept that we are becoming a majority-minority society._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-7.png)_White nationalists attend a rally on October 28, 2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/white-christian-nationalism-threatens-u-s-democracy/)
2023-10-03T09:30:00Z	**North Carolina GOP-Passed Budget Creates “Secret Police,” Critics Warn**
Chris Walker,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Red states are becoming more fascist, more anocracies rather than democracies, as the Republicans who control those states seek ways to stay in power and give voters less and less to say about how their state is governed. Here is the latest from North Carolina. If you live in that state you will now have a "secret police" controlled by a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/north-carolina-gop-passed-budget-creates-secret-police-critics-warn/)
2023-10-03T09:35:00Z	**These MAGA Republicans long for a ‘Red Caesar’ to ‘impose a dictatorship’ on America**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: About a third of America likes and supports the idea of a White supremacist authoritarian head of state. This arises, in my opinion, because Americans in living memory have never experienced what such a government would be like. Nor has there been massive civil violence in this country in living memory. Talk ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/these-maga-republicans-long-for-a-red-caesar-to-impose-a-dictatorship-on-america/)
2023-10-04T09:25:00Z	**Rightwing activist helps fund ‘predatory payday lenders’ in supreme court case**
Martin Pengelly,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Leonard Leo is a leading monster created by Citizens United. He has done more damage to the United States than anyone else who comes to mind, and he is not finished. Here is his latest effort to damage the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-9.jpg)_Leo spent year ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/rightwing-activist-helps-fund-predatory-payday-lenders-in-supreme-court-case/)
2023-10-04T09:30:00Z	**Inside West Virginia’s Chernobyl**
JUSTIN NOBEL,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: As we exit the carbon era expect lots of Congressional and state legislature corruption produced by the corporations that profit from nuclear energy. Nuclear is, and always has been, an extremely dangerous technology. Think Chernobyl. Think Fukushima. Think of all the costs and dangers of nuclear's multi-century waste issues. Now think West Virginia. We do not want to go down the nuclear path when we ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/inside-west-virginias-chernobyl/)
2023-10-04T09:35:00Z	**Amy Coney Barrett’s Christian Group Probed by FBI: What We Know**
KHALEDA RAHMAN ,    -

_Stephan: Is it any wonder that respect for the Supreme Court is the lowest in over 200 years? Only criminal Trump and the MAGAt world could consider a woman who is a lifelong christofascist male dominant cult member appropriate to be made an associate justice of the Supreme Court.  Thomas, a vulgar fascist grifter, Alito a fascist grifter, Roberts, a grifter, Kavanaugh, a moles ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/amy-coney-barretts-christian-group-probed-by-fbi-what-we-know/)
2023-10-04T09:40:00Z	**Faith in the Supreme Court is down. Voters now say they want changes.**
STEVEN SHEPARD,    -

_Stephan: The reason I picked this report is the graph that heads the story. Look at it. What stands out for you? What stood out for me was the high percentage of people who have no idea who any of these people are. That correlates with the study (see SR archive) showing that a third of Americans can't even name the three branches of government. As I have said many ti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/faith-in-the-supreme-court-is-down-voters-now-say-they-want-changes/)
2023-10-05T09:20:00Z	**An Epidemic of Chronic Illness is Killing Us Too Soon**
Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley,  Akilah Johnson and Jahi Chikwendiu,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The United States is not a very healthy place to live. That is a factual statement. Not only the failings of the illness profit system, the gun violence and all the rest, but literally the length of one's life. This is a wake-up call if I have ever read one._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/an-epidemic-of-chronic-illness-is-killing-us-too-soon/)
2023-10-05T09:30:00Z	**Survey: Religion and race shape views on cause of climate change**
Russell Contreras and Andrew Freedman,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Humanity faces the largest most devastating crisis in our history, as essentially every scientist who has studied the issue concurs, and this well-conducted survey of 5,792 men and women reveals the correlation of race, and religion with these individuals' recognition of the climate change reality. Two things stand out for me ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/survey-religion-and-race-shape-views-on-cause-of-climate-change/)
2023-10-05T09:25:00Z	**Overworked and Understaffed, More Than 1 in 4 US Nurses Say They Plan to Leave the Profession**
Melissa Suran, PhD, MSJ,    -  Journal of the American Medical Association \| doi:10.1001/jama.2023.10055

_Stephan: While the House has become what amounts to a bad psychedelic circus, the American illness profit system is breaking down, maybe burning out would be a more apposite term. This paper in the leading medical journal explains what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/overworked-and-understaffed-more-than-1-in-4-us-nurses-say-they-plan-to-leave-the-profession/)
2023-10-05T09:35:00Z	**How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits**
Anna Maria Barry-Jester,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Another Big Pharma horror story. I don't know how the executives of these corporations live with themselves, I couldn't. They consistently choose profit over human wellbeing. It is disgusting. And, as this report makes clear, the pharmaceutical corporate cabal that controls pharmacy is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/how-a-big-pharma-company-stalled-a-potentially-lifesaving-vaccine-in-pursuit-of-bigger-profits/)
2023-10-06T09:25:00Z	**Income Inequality Impacted Availability of Career Role Models**
ANDREA MALEK ASH and KATE DEN HOUTER,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: This is a negative aspect of America's wealth inequality that is rarely recognized. Poor kids have a much harder time being successful than children raised in affluent family. Here are the facts._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-05-at-11.29.02-PM.png)

Career role models can [ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/income-inequality-impacted-availability-of-career-role-models/)
2023-10-06T09:20:00Z	**Pope Francis suggests gay couples could be blessed in Vatican reversal**
,    \-  Associated Press \| The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: When I think about the Roman Catholic Church what stands out for me is that for at least the last half century, what has dominated the Church are issues of sexuality. Interesting for an organization one of whose defining characteristics is celibacy. First, the molestation of children has cost dioceses billions of dollars, and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/pope-francis-suggests-gay-couples-could-be-blessed-in-vatican-reversal/)
2023-10-06T09:30:00Z	**To the World, McCarthy’s Exit Is Just Another Example of U.S. Disarray**
,    \-  DNYR

_Stephan: The Republicans are not only trashing our democracy they are also trashing our stature in the world. This report gives some measure of why I say this. This is producing all manner of negative geopolitical readjustments and, if the Republicans have their way and stop further support for Ukraine, the entire world order will alter, and America will never be seen in a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/to-the-world-mccarthys-exit-is-just-another-example-of-u-s-disarray/)
2023-10-06T09:35:00Z	**How Red-State Politics are Shaving Years Off American Lives**
Lauren Weber, Dan Diamond and Dan Keating,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is yet more evidence showing that if you vote Republicans into office you are voting against your own good health, and even how long you are likely to live. I confess, I simply don't understand how someone can vote for a party that is going to make their life more dangerous,  support for things like childcare harde ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/how-red-state-politics-are-shaving-years-off-american-lives/)
2023-10-07T09:20:00Z	**Experts shocked as ‘blockbuster’ new jobs report nearly double predictions**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  Alter Net / The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: President Biden is not getting the credit he is due concerning what he has done for the economy. It ought to be considerable. I think this is because at the day-to-day buying of things, it is absurdly expensive. Gas here is $5.49 a gallon. Heads of lettuce are $2.35 each.  It's hard to consider n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/experts-shocked-as-blockbuster-new-jobs-report-nearly-double-predictions/)
2023-10-07T09:25:00Z	**Gun Death Rate Among Children in US Grew 87 Percent Over Past Decade — Study**
Chris Walker,    -  truthout

_Stephan: Are you okay living in a country where guns are more important than the lives of children? You do. And here is further confirmation of this. (see SR archive) I'm sorry, I find this unacceptable. We need different gun laws._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-14.png)_Empty chairs displaying the names of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/gun-death-rate-among-children-in-us-grew-87-percent-over-past-decade-study/)
2023-10-07T09:30:00Z	**America’s nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don’t like organized religion**
Peter Smith,    -  Axios

_Stephan: SR has been following this very important culture trend for years, and here is the latest. Two things about this trend stand out for me. There is a growing community of men and women who are spiritual but not religious. It correlates with other studies showing fewer people involved with religion.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/americas-nonreligious-are-a-growing-diverse-phenomenon-they-really-dont-like-organized-religion/)
2023-10-07T09:35:00Z	**Book Banning Reaches Historic, Ominous Levels in the US**
Stephen Rohde,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: Florida, thanks to its Republican governor and legislature has been transformed from a democratic state to a fascist anocracy. Its public schools are being transformed into indoctrination centers, its colleges are losing faculty, its healthcare has seriously degraded, people can walk around with guns with no training, or license, and 40% of the ban banning  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/book-banning-reaches-historic-ominous-levels-in-the-us/)
2023-10-08T09:20:00Z	**How did Uruguay cut carbon emissions? The answer is blowing in the wind**
Erika Beras , Amanda Aronczyk , Keith Romer , Willa Rubin,    -  npr

_Stephan: To me, Uruguay is the most interesting country in South America. In glaring contrast to countries like Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Chile, whereas they are in almost constant turmoil Uruguay is a peaceful stable democracy. And they have taken climate change very seriously. This report descri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/how-did-uruguay-cut-carbon-emissions-the-answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind/)
2023-10-08T09:25:00Z	**The GOP Abdicates Their Responsibility to America**
John B. Alexander,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander names names and gives what I think, on the basis of the evidence, is an accurate presentation of what is going on with the Republican Party. The party acting as the spearhead for about a third of the White people in the voter population are working as hard as they can to destroy American democracy. The question for me is will my readers and millions of others who sup ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/the-gop-abdicates-their-responsibility-to-america/)
2023-10-08T09:35:00Z	**Corporate Lobbyists Are Breaking Spending Records in 2023**
Maia Cook,    -  truthout

_Stephan: Because Citizens United legalized bribery the United States at both the federal and state level has become a very corrupt country.  If you were defining another nation this level of corruption is one of the main things you would emphasize. But in America, it has become business as usual. Note particularly the millions spent by the pharmaceutical industry to get government fu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/corporate-lobbyists-are-breaking-spending-records-in-2023/)
2023-10-08T09:30:00Z	**Biden Cancels an Additional $9 Billion in Student Loan Debt**
Zach Montague,  Reporter  -  The New Yorsk Times

_Stephan:_

President Biden canceled an additional $9 billion in student debt on Wednesday as repayments [started up again this month](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/your-money/student-loan-payments-resume.html) after a three-year pause.

The move affects 125,000 people who qualify under existing programs, including for public-service workers such as teac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/biden-cancels-an-additional-9-billion-in-student-loan-debt/)
2023-10-09T09:20:00Z	**‘Something nefarious’: Florida Republicans look to loosen child labor laws**
David McAfee ,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is the latest from Ron DeSantis about a particularly nasty trend, child labor. The Republicans in Red States want to make it possible for the corporations that own their party to hire little children as workers. Why? Because kids are cheaper to employ and are more compliant._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/something-nefarious-florida-republicans-look-to-loosen-child-labor-laws/)
2023-10-09T09:25:00Z	**Abbott Demands Vouchers — Or Else**
JOSEPHINE LEE,  David McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow  -  Texas Observer

_Stephan: Here you see in Texas what the MAGAts and the billionaires who fund them are trying to do to public education. MAGAts don 't want public education. They want a profit making indoctrination system. Consequently, you see Red state children falling further and further behind in math, history, science, and English compared with their Blue state contemporaries._

![](https://ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/abbott-demands-vouchers-or-else/)
2023-10-09T09:30:00Z	**A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder**
Duaa Eldeib,  Reporter  -  Propublica

_Stephan: Post-Dobbs, the MAGAt Taliban is doing anything they can to scare and punish women who, for whatever reason, do not have a successful pregnancy. This is pure Republican nastiness._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-18.png)_Illustration by Chantal Jahchan for ProPubl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/a-lab-test-that-experts-liken-to-a-witch-trial-is-helping-send-women-to-prison-for-murder/)
2023-10-09T09:35:00Z	**Gun Deaths Among US Children Rose 87% in Last Decade, Study Shows**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The United States is the only developed nation in the world that loves and values guns more than its children. Gun wounds remain the leading cause of death of children and the death rate, as this article describes, has nearly doubled in the last decade. But because of the massive corruption of state legislatures and the national Congress, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/gun-deaths-among-us-children-rose-87-in-last-decade-study-shows/)
2023-10-10T09:30:00Z	**Nearly Half of US Nutrition Board Members Have Food and Pharma Industry Ties: Report**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I cannot adequately express my disgust with these endless stories about government corruption. Ours is not a government oriented to fostering wellbeing. It is all about profit and power. What this particular corruption is telling us is that one cannot entirely trust governmental nutrition advisories be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/10/nearly-half-of-us-nutrition-board-members-have-food-and-pharma-industry-ties-report/)
2023-10-10T09:35:00Z	**43 Million Children Forced From Homes Over Six Years Due to Climate Disasters**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Anyone who reads SR regularly knows I have been predicting this for years. The data was obvious, but it did not properly register. And now it is upon us. Think about 43 million children around the world sharing a common experience. It is estimated that there are two billion children 0-14 in age. So just over 2% of a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/10/43-million-children-forced-from-homes-over-six-years-due-to-climate-disasters/)
2023-10-11T09:20:00Z	**Garbage In, Toxics Out**
Schuyler Mitchell,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Yet another saga of corruption through lobbying and outright lies by The American Chemistry Council and the Braven Environmental Corporation. If you live anywhere near Zebulon, North Carolina you would be well advised to move elsewhere. I suspect in a few years we are going to be learning about something awful happening to the people of this small town, particularly the children, as a result of the lies and corruption t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/garbage-in-toxics-out/)
2023-10-11T09:30:00Z	**Humanity could lose up to half of future medicines through plant extinctions**
Danny Halpin,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / Evening Standard (U.K.)

_Stephan: Scientists keep warning us, but the governments of the world, including the United States, just aren't paying attention. The result is going to be enormous misery, and death, most of which could have been avoided if world leaders and the people themselves had done what they should have._

![](h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/humanity-could-lose-up-to-half-of-future-medicines-through-plant-extinctions/)
2023-10-11T09:25:00Z	**Medicare Is in Desperate Need of Modernization and Expansion — Not Privatization**
Jamila Headley and Nicole Jorwic,  Staff Writers  -  truthout

_Stephan: The United States, the richest country in the world, has a healthcare system that ranks 69th in the world, according to the Legatum Institute based in London, and yet it is nearly twice as expensive per capita ($12,914) than the far superior European healthcare systems which cost per capita betwe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/medicare-is-in-desperate-need-of-modernization-and-expansion-not-privatization/)
2023-10-11T09:35:00Z	**Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans**
Aaron Wagner,    -  Penn State University

_Stephan: I have done several reports warning the increasing temperatures on the planet are going to cause billions of people to have to migrate to somewhere else. Consider, this quote from this report."Results of the study indicate that if global temperatures increase by 2 C above pre-industrial levels, the 2.2 billion residents of Pakistan a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/climate-driven-extreme-heat-may-make-parts-of-earth-too-hot-for-humans/)
2023-10-12T09:25:00Z	**Students Across the U.S. Launch Green New Deal for Schools**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some more good news. Teens are beginning to get what climate change means, even if their parents and their political officials do not._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-30.png)_U.S. high school students have launched a Green New Deal for Schools campaign with the hope of influencing climate policy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/12/students-across-the-u-s-launch-green-new-deal-for-schools/)
2023-10-12T09:30:00Z	**Workers walk out of Ford’s most profitable plant as UAW expands strike**
Rebecca Falconer,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: What I find interesting about the UAW strike and the Writers Guild strike before that is that after years of seeing the number of workers unionized go down -- the percentage of workers represented by a union was 11.3 percent in 2022, down by 0.3 percentage point from a year ago -- this is now beginning to change and it is dawning on w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/12/workers-walk-out-of-fords-most-profitable-plant-as-uaw-expands-strike/)
2023-10-12T09:40:00Z	**An Epidemic of Chronic Illness is Killing Us Too Soon**
Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley, Akilah Johnson, and Jahi Chikwendiu,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: American voters just don't seem to get it. The United States has very poor health care, and I want to be clear here, the problem is not the physicians, nurses and other medical staff. They are burning out they work so hard. It is the financial structure of the American illness profit system ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/12/an-epidemic-of-chronic-illness-is-killing-us-too-soon-2/)
2023-10-13T09:20:00Z	**Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee**
Erica Orden,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I went through a lot of media in search of what I saw, and this is it. Menendez is an old fashioned corruption. Here's on the Democrat side. On the Republican side, particularly in the House, you have... you know the list. What stands out for me is how is that people like  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/menendez-accused-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt-while-helming-senate-foreign-relations-committee/)
2023-10-13T09:30:00Z	**America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow**
Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This research article is telling us something very important. The question I ask: is anyone in Congress. except the usual predictable Democrats and Independent Bernie Sanders listening? Can you imagine Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan even understanding what this report is telling us? ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/america-is-using-up-its-groundwater-like-theres-no-tomorrow-2/)
2023-10-13T09:25:00Z	**Is European higher education better than US?**
Educationcares,    -  Medium

_Stephan: A reader and I exchanged a few emails discussing what we would do today in considering going to college in Europe. It is an increasing trend. This is pretty sensible take on this question. The one thing I think it misses is that going to college in another country is an education far beyond the classroom._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-31.jpg)

The advantages  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/is-european-higher-education-better-than-us/)
2023-10-13T09:35:00Z	**Guns in America: Study reveals ‘troubling’ differences in firearm usage patterns across country**
Editorial Staff,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Other nations have a high percentage of gun ownership, but no other nation in the developed world has anything approaching the gun violence one sees year after year in the United States. Finally, researchers are digging into this phenomenon, and once again it is defined by the Red Blue Great Sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/guns-in-america-study-reveals-troubling-differences-in-firearm-usage-patterns-across-country/)
2023-10-14T09:25:00Z	**Pharma Nation: Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study predicts**
John Andere,  Contributing Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Have you noticed that about 50% of the ads on MSNBC or CNN and Fox Propaganda promote pharmaceuticals. We are all manipulated to produce the vast profits of the corporate drug manufacturers_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-32.jpg)_Credit: Burli ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/pharma-nation-americans-will-spend-half-their-lives-taking-prescription-drugs-study-predicts/)
2023-10-14T09:20:00Z	**Nearly 70% of active service members are overweight, report finds**
Meghann Myers,  Pentagon Bureau Chief   -  Military Times

_Stephan: Obesity has become a defining characteristic of Americans, as anyone who has travelled abroad has surely noticed. Fat men and women, even children, are almost always Americans. It is one of the reasons Americans live years less than people from other developed nations. And it is having a strong effect on our military as this arti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/nearly-70-of-active-service-members-are-overweight-report-finds/)
2023-10-14T09:30:00Z	**How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington**
BRENDAN BORDELON,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: The tech billionaires who understand AI far better than Congress members or their staffs are, as this article describes, moving to take control of a technology and shape how it develops. They correctly see is going to alter America and the world in the future. This is also yet another account of how incredibly corrupt the Congress has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/how-a-billionaire-backed-network-of-ai-advisers-took-over-washington/)
2023-10-14T09:35:00Z	**Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media Per Day**
JONATHAN ROTHWELL,    -  Gallup

_Stephan: Since social media is how young people mostly absorb information today What I see occurring in this is that the very well financed distribution of misinformation to young people is going to cause the country a great deal of trouble, particularly in Red states where concurrently they are doing their best to transform education into indoctrination.

Readers can find a more ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/teens-spend-average-of-4-8-hours-on-social-media-per-day/)
2023-10-15T09:20:00Z	**I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New.**
Zeke Hausfather,  Climate Research Lead at Stripe and Research Scientist at Berkeley Earth  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is the most sensible assessment of where we stand with climate change from someone who actually knows what he is talking about, that I have read. Some good news, but nowhere near enough._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-14-at-11 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/i-study-climate-change-the-data-is-telling-us-something-new/)
2023-10-15T09:25:00Z	**6 Stories Show the Human Toll of Poland’s Strict Abortion Laws**
Anna Pamula,    -  Pulitzer Center / Time Magazine

_Stephan: Over the last 30 years, as this report describes, 60 countries have liberalized abortion law, with only four rolling back its legality: the U.S., Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Poland. Nicaragua and El Salvador have very little in common with the U.S., but Poland is similar enough to make looking at what is happening there about women's body ri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/6-stories-show-the-human-toll-of-polands-strict-abortion-laws/)
2023-10-15T09:30:00Z	**What’s in a name? Why unmet medical needs are riling the pharma industry**
CARLO MARTUSCELLI,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I have been looking around the world trying get a fact-based idea how other nations are dealing with problems that so afflict the United States. Here is what the Europeans are doing to get the pharmaceutical industry to address social needs. It is a different world from the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/whats-in-a-name-why-unmet-medical-needs-are-riling-the-pharma-industry/)
2023-10-15T09:35:00Z	**Florida’s Insurance Crisis is About to Get Even Worse**
GIULIA CARBONARO ,    -  Newsweek Magazine

_Stephan: Here is the latest on the Florida real estate insurance market. Personally, I would not buy property in Florida, and would sell it if I owned it now. Ron DeSantis and this Republican legislature are simply not properly preparing the state for the dramatic effects climate change and sea rise are going to produce._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/floridas-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse/)
2023-10-16T09:20:00Z	**As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?**
JON HURDLE ,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: Fires in the previous article, flooding in this one. While our state legislators are consumed with subordinating a woman's rights to control her own body, or banning books or some other nasty nonsense, and Congress is functionally dysfunctional, the people of the United States are increasingly facing the consequences of climate change and getting little o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/as-waters-rise-a-community-must-decide-do-we-stay-or-go/)
2023-10-16T09:25:00Z	**In Wildfire-Prone Areas, Homeowners are Learning They’re Uninsurable**
Lois Parshley,  Contributing Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: People are moving into forested areas because they are so pretty and then, exactly as predicted in SR, they are finding they can't get home insurance.This is going to become part of the big internal migrations we are going to see develop._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-15-at-6.26.51-P ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/in-wildfire-prone-areas-homeowners-are-learning-theyre-uninsurable/)
2023-10-16T09:30:00Z	**A generation of Texas farmers are retiring. It’s not clear who will replace them**
JAYME LOZANO CARVER,  Reporter  -  Texas Tribune

_Stephan: This is a Texas story but you could examine any state in which farming is a major activity and you would see the same age issue. According to the Department of Agriculture the average age of American farmers is 57.5 years. We are heading into a farming crisis, and you don't hear anyone in government talking a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/a-generation-of-texas-farmers-are-retiring-its-not-clear-who-will-replace-them/)
2023-10-16T09:35:00Z	**How Industrial Agriculture Took Over Our Food System**
HAZRA KHATOON,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: I don't think many Americans have any idea about how their food is produced. They have the idea of idealized family farms, not profit is the only priority corporate food operations. My father and I, and an extraordinary Black man ran from whom I learned a great deal ran a registered Angus cattle farm. Our goal was to make the cows and bulls as comfortable and he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/how-industrial-agriculture-took-over-our-food-system/)
2023-10-17T09:25:00Z	**‘The Overwhelming Majority of Disasters Are Water Related’: WMO Report Finds Human Activity Disrupting Water Cycle**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Day after day I see these stories, each making it clear that water is destiny. Either too much or too little. And yet no national policies to address this crisis have emerged. And so it will go on._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/the-overwhelming-majority-of-disasters-are-water-related-wmo-report-finds-human-activity-disrupting-water-cycle/)
2023-10-17T09:30:00Z	**The US Government Has Abandoned the Nation’s Poor**
Liz Theoharis ,  Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice  -  truthout

_Stephan: Child poverty in the United States has doubled in the United States, meanwhile America's 748 billionaires have increased their collective wealth by 2.2 trillion dollars thanks to the way Trump and the Republican Party rigged the tax structure. And it isn't just billionaires. In 1965, the average CEO made 21 times what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/the-us-government-has-abandoned-the-nations-poor/)
2023-10-17T09:35:00Z	**Nearly 2 million kids have been kicked off Medicaid this year**
Dylan Scott,  Health Care Reporter  -  Vox

_Stephan: Why can't the United States do what every other developed nation on earth has the decency to do and create universal birthright single payer healthcare? Why? Because our healthcare system is owned by corporations who, in turn, own the American Congress, and who have created a healthcare system that doesn't care a damn about your wellbeing. All they c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/nearly-2-million-kids-have-been-kicked-off-medicaid-this-year/)
2023-10-17T09:40:00Z	**Covid-19: A case study on the psychology of exploitation**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist and Editor  -  Explore Journal

_Stephan: This will give you factual data on the real underpinnings of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a nasty and uniquely American story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-16-at-11.51.34-PM.png)

 When medical historians look back on the Covid-19 pandemic, years after the pain, suffering, and death of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/covid-19-a-case-study-on-the-psychology-of-exploitation/)
2023-10-18T09:20:00Z	**The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Prize winner, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As is usually the case, Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman sees an important trend others have missed. And, once again, the problem is the Republican Party. I think Krugman has it dead on._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uplo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/the-strange-decline-of-the-pax-americana/)
2023-10-18T09:25:00Z	**Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control**
Matt Burgess ,  Senior Writer  -  WIRED

_Stephan: Imagine this. You are a 16-year-old girl, a sophomore in high school and some boy who has been hitting on you, and whom you have turned down, takes a picture of you with his iPhone one day unbeknownst to you, and a few days later you discover that half the boys in your high school have been looking at a porn video of you having sex. Or you are a 24-year-old man, who just got a promotion that another man had want ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/deepfake-porn-is-out-of-control/)
2023-10-18T09:30:00Z	**What Does Friendship Look Like in America?**
ISABEL GODDARD,  Research Associate  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: How many close friends do you have? How do you compare with this research by Pew Research Center?_

[![A bar chart showing that 8% of Americans say they have no close friends; 38% report 5 or more.](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SR_23.10.12_friendship_1.png?w=620)](https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=442366)

Americans place a lot of import ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/what-does-friendship-look-like-in-america/)
2023-10-18T09:35:00Z	**Billion-dollar supersize prisons are slated to be built across the U.S. But do they help or hurt public safety?**
Marquise Francis,  National Reporter  -  Yahoo News

_Stephan: The United States has the largest prison gulag of any nation on earth, and it is extremely racially biased against Blacks.  Over five million people are under supervision by the criminal legal system. Nearly two million people are incarcerated i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/billion-dollar-supersize-prisons-are-slated-to-be-built-across-the-u-s-but-do-they-help-or-hurt-public-safety/)
2023-10-19T09:20:00Z	**New Research Finds Links Between Food, Higher Wellbeing**
ANDREW DUGAN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Here is some solid international data on the linkage between food and having a sense of wellbeing. Note: this is not about having enough food, it is about your feelings about what you are eating._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-18-at-10.06.51-PM.png)

Nearly nine in 10 people worldwide (87%) say they mostly enjo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/new-research-finds-links-between-food-higher-wellbeing/)
2023-10-19T09:25:00Z	**Scientists lay out a sweeping roadmap for transitioning the US off fossil fuels**
Tik Root,  Senior Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: The people who actually know what they talking about -- scientists, not politicians, or political commentators -- have even us a plan to exist the carbon power era. Will a Congress that can;t even elect a Speaker take it seriously, particularly since many of them are owned by corporations, we'll see. Time is running  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/scientists-lay-out-a-sweeping-roadmap-for-transitioning-the-us-off-fossil-fuels/)
2023-10-19T09:30:00Z	**‘Twenty-three thousand Floridians died’: A settlement over DeSantis’ Covid-19 lies imperils campaign**
Maya Boddie,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I don't think the Americans have really comprehended that hundreds of thousands of us died because they were Republicans. Think about that for a minute. Their political affiliation and their belief in the dangerous misinformation spewed out by their political party leaders resulte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/twenty-three-thousand-floridians-died-a-settlement-over-desantis-covid-19-lies-imperils-campaign/)
2023-10-19T09:35:00Z	**Large portion of Americans doubt democracy and view violence as acceptable, poll finds**
Brendan Rascius,    -  Miami Herald

_Stephan: This is the most alarming poll I have ever seen about the state of our country. It reports that not only a large percentage of the MAGAt world, but Biden supporters as well, have lost faith in the country's democracy, believe that violence is an acceptable outcome, and that states should be able to secede. If ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/large-portion-of-americans-doubt-democracy-and-view-violence-as-acceptable-poll-finds/)
2023-10-20T09:25:00Z	**Disinformation Researchers Are Feeling The Heat Ahead Of 2024**
Matt Shuham,  National Reporter  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: The MAGAt world lives and thrives on disinformation. I think the weaponization of lies, as I have published in SR, is the largest threat to the continuation of our democracy. Yet Congress and the Supreme Court is doing nothing about this. Young people spend 4.8 hours a day on social media, it is the main way they take in information, and most of it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/disinformation-researchers-are-feeling-the-heat-ahead-of-2024/)
2023-10-20T09:20:00Z	**The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world**
Ajit Niranjan,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some good news about how cities can deal with waste. Kiel, Germany is doing what every city needs to start doing. Why don't you talk to your city's administration, show them this story, and ask when they are planning to get serious about waste._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-52.png)_Janine Falke pro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/the-zero-waste-city-what-kiel-in-germany-can-teach-the-world/)
2023-10-20T09:30:00Z	**‘For Shame’: Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: In yesterday's SR I published a piece I had written on the obscene greed and financial exploitation of the public -- that's you and me -- by the pharmaceutical corporation, and how it created a whole new group of billionaires. When I say that we do not have healthcare in the U.S. we have an illness profit syste ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/for-shame-pfizer-to-charge-1390-for-lifesaving-covid-drug-that-costs-just-13/)
2023-10-20T09:35:00Z	**A timeline of Israel and Palestine’s complicated history**
Nicole Narea,  Contributing Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: In 1973 when the Yom Kippur War occurred I was the Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, and I had to really dig into the Arab Israeli history. As I was doing this I came to realize how complicated their history is and why Israel was created at that location in the first place. Almost all of this is never discussed in the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/a-timeline-of-israel-and-palestines-complicated-history/)
2023-10-21T09:20:00Z	**‘A Wake-Up Call’: 21 Species Declared Extinct by US**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I am so sad when I see these stories describing the destruction of our planet. How can we be so stupid, so greedy, so short-term in our thinking that we don't get what science is telling us almost daily about earth's matrix of life? And yet there can be no doubt that we are all those things. Here is why I say this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/a-wake-up-call-21-species-declared-extinct-by-us/)
2023-10-21T09:25:00Z	**The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.**
Marilyn W. Thompson,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The Republicans, increasingly a minority White party, are preparing for the 2024 election and trying to ensure they stay in power by rigging how voting districts are defined. Here is an example from Texas of what I mean._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-20-at-6.39.42-PM ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/the-gops-secret-to-protecting-gerrymandered-electoral-maps-claim-privilege/)
2023-10-21T09:30:00Z	**Military obesity rates soar, compounding recruitment challenges**
Mark Satter,  Staff Writer  -  Roll Call

_Stephan: You don't see or hear stories like this in big corporate media but in fact, trends like this have an enormous impact on major parts of our culture, in this case, the military. The U.S. adult obesity rate stands at 42.4 percent and has increased by 26 percent since 2008. Think about this, nearly half of Americans aren't just overweight they are obese ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/military-obesity-rates-soar-compounding-recruitment-challenges/)
2023-10-21T09:35:00Z	**Ex-Florida GOP lawmaker who sponsored so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill sentenced to prison**
GARY FINEOUT,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: What you see over and over is the lack of ethics, integrity, and general thuggery of MAGAt Republican politicians. I see these stories weekly and don't usually cover them. But I decided that it has become a trend and ought to be reported in SR. Also, Joe Harding is a particularly nasty example of the t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/ex-florida-gop-lawmaker-who-sponsored-so-called-dont-say-gay-bill-sentenced-to-prison/)
2023-10-22T09:25:00Z	**‘The Overwhelming Majority of Disasters Are Water Related’: WMO Report Finds Human Activity Disrupting Water Cycle**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  Eco Watch

_Stephan: Water is destiny. I have been telling you that for years, and the reality of that statement gets clearer day by day. The world is just not taking this issue seriously enough. Nor is there enough planning, nor enough money being a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/the-overwhelming-majority-of-disasters-are-water-related-wmo-report-finds-human-activity-disrupting-water-cycle-2/)
2023-10-22T09:20:00Z	**The Time Is Now for a Just Transition From Factory Farming**
GRACE HUSSAIN ,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: Yet another research study telling humanity that we absolutely have to change the industrial mono-crop chemical-based form of agriculture currently practiced, as well as the way animals are raised for meat. There is no question of this, but are we listening? That is not so clear.

To read the report upon which this article is based see: [_A just transition in animal a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/the-time-is-now-for-a-just-transition-from-factory-farming/)
2023-10-22T09:35:00Z	**Democrats Propose 18-Year Term Limit for Supreme Court Justices in Most Cases**
Chris Walker ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I don't know how much more obvious it could become that as a result of the last Republican appointments during the Trump administration that something has gone seriously awry with the Supreme Court. Finally, it looks like the Senate Democrats are willing to take this on. Whether this is finally what happens, to me, is l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/democrats-propose-18-year-term-limit-for-supreme-court-justices-in-most-cases/)
2023-10-22T09:30:00Z	**A flood of misinformation shapes views of Israel-Gaza conflict**
Elizabeth Dwoskin,  Silicon Valley Correspondent  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Quite apart from what is actually happening in the Gaza - Israel War what stands out for me is the glaring misinformation describing the war that is to be found on social media. This is only the latest example of what I see this as a growing international problem. Local newspapers are dying like elderly old friends, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/a-flood-of-misinformation-shapes-views-of-israel-gaza-conflict/)
2023-10-23T09:20:00Z	**Silicon Valley’s Perversion of Philanthropy**
Felix Salmon,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Today someone contacted me about getting funding from two well-known fascists who have become major figures in philanthropy and it made me realize that one of the byproducts of America's obscene wealth inequality is that scientists seeking support for their research often have to make a deal with the devil. I  could certainly use the funding but I turned him down, and it has left me thinking ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/silicon-valleys-perversion-of-philanthropy/)
2023-10-23T09:30:00Z	**Drugstore closures are leaving millions without easy access to a pharmacy**
Aaron Gregg and Jaclyn Peiser,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Where my wife and I live there are only two drugstores separated by about 15 miles. One, a non-chain pharmacy charges absurd prices, the other that we and most of the people we know use is a Rite Aid. It has left us wondering if we are going to lose our only functional pharmacy. Like the medical deserts  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/drugstore-closures-are-leaving-millions-without-easy-access-to-a-pharmacy/)
2023-10-23T09:25:00Z	**Abandoned Lands: A Hidden Resource for Restoring Biodiversity**
FRED PEARCE,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: The abandonment of farmland and forests is an important trend you never hear media talking about yet, as this article, points out it is going to play an important role in humanitys future. One thing I particularly note in this and other stories I have done in SR, is the reality that farming all over the world is increasingly an activit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/abandoned-lands-a-hidden-resource-for-restoring-biodiversity/)
2023-10-23T09:35:00Z	**The Medicare Advantage ripoff every American should know about**
Thom Hartmann,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: You probably see the advertisements several times everyday on your television, get Medicare Advantage for better healthcare. DON'T DO IT. Medicare Advantage has nothing to do with Medicare. It is just another insurance industry scam, and it can really screw up your life, even bankrupt you. It is a measure to the corruption of the Congress that nothing is being  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/the-medicare-advantage-ripoff-every-american-should-know-about/)
2023-10-24T09:20:00Z	**Group of GOP-led states asks Supreme Court to halt Biden cross-state smog plan**
Michael Macagnone,  Staff Writer  -  Roll Call

_Stephan: The Republicans as this story makes glaringly clear just do not care about the wellbeing of the people they purport to serve. They say they do, but they don't, and they don't care about societal wellbeing. Their actions on a wide range of issues demonstrate this again and again. And yet, Americans just don't seem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/group-of-gop-led-states-asks-supreme-court-to-halt-biden-cross-state-smog-plan/)
2023-10-24T09:25:00Z	**Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”**
JULIA LURIE,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Yet another horror story about the American illness profit system and the corporations that devised and control it. Note something in this story though. The only people trying to do anything about this nastiness are Democrats. Not a single Republican gives a damn about this racket built on exploiting foster children._

![](https://www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/inside-the-psychiatric-hospitals-where-foster-kids-are-a-gold-mine/)
2023-10-24T09:30:00Z	**$10 trillion in added debt shows ‘Bush and Trump tax cuts broke our modern tax structure’**
Jon Queally,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: George Bush just wasn't smart enough to be president, and Donald Trump has no ethics but self-interest. Under their watches, the Republican Party and its leaders have, as this article lays out, destroyed our tax structure to enrich the oligarchs who rent people like them and It has produced the obsce ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/10-trillion-in-added-debt-shows-bush-and-trump-tax-cuts-broke-our-modern-tax-structure/)
2023-10-24T09:35:00Z	**Rapid melting in West Antarctica is ‘unavoidable,’ with potentially disastrous consequences for sea level rise, study finds**
Rachel Ramirez,  Staff Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: Here is the latest report on Antarctic ice-shelf melting. This melting is going to produce disastrous sea rise. But except for the scientists who study this issue few politicians in the world seem to even be paying attention. In the Unit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/rapid-melting-in-west-antarctica-is-unavoidable-with-potentially-disastrous-consequences-for-sea-level-rise-study-finds/)
2023-10-25T09:20:00Z	**This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.**
Kenny Torrella,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: America's obsession with eating mammals, particularly cattle, is the cause of a host of health issues. But did you know it is also disrupting the ecosystems of America's land. No? That's not surprising, no one in media or politics ever talks about this. But it is a growing issue._

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Last mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/this-land-isnt-for-you-or-me-its-for-the-meat-industry/)
2023-10-25T09:30:00Z	**Sick and Tired of Industry Greed, Activists Across US Target For-Profit Health Insurers**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is some of what I hope will prove to be good news. The greed and poor service of the American illness profit system is finally causing voter pushback. Of course, the Republicans are paying no attention, but it looks like some Democrats are beginning to get the message._

![](https://www.schw ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/sick-and-tired-of-industry-greed-activists-across-us-target-for-profit-health-insurers/)
2023-10-25T09:25:00Z	**The loneliness epidemic: Nearly 1 in 4 adults feel lonely, new survey finds**
Taylor Nicioli,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: I think one of the lasting effects of the Covid pandemic is going to be loneliness. Three years of fewer dinner parties, less sports attendance, going to movies together, and a host of the small things that used to make up our social lives have left a lasting effect on people's lifestyles.

To read the Gallup survey see: [_Almost a Q ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/the-loneliness-epidemic-nearly-1-in-4-adults-feel-lonely-new-survey-finds/)
2023-10-25T09:35:00Z	**Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says**
Leigh Thomas,  Reporter  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Throughout much of the developed nations, the uber-rich have rigged the tax codes to protect their outrageous wealth. Think about this: in a world of 8,045,311,447 people 2,700 billionaires globally own $13 trillion of wealth, and this proposal to increase their taxes would only amount to 2% of their wealth, a fraction of what you pay._

![](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/global-billionaire-tax-could-yield-250-billion-annually-study-says/)
2023-10-26T09:20:00Z	**The Evangelicals Calling for War on Poor People**
Elle Hardy ,  Contributing Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Christianity is leaving the United States. People, particularly the young, are abandoning church affiliation in droves. Those still affiliated, overwhelmingly White, are involved with churches that use the language of Christianity but advocate a perversion of Christianity, having very little to do with Jesus' teaching, as this article describes. It is christofascism ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/the-evangelicals-calling-for-war-on-poor-people/)
2023-10-26T09:25:00Z	**Tennessee GOP is willing to reject millions in funding, if it avoids complying with federal strings**
KIMBERLEE KRUESI,  Reporter  -  ABC News / Associated Press

_Stephan: Here is further evidence of my two countries in one nation hypothesis. It also illustrates that Republicans care more about their ideology than they do the wellbeing of the citizens of their states. This is going to have all manner of negative implications_

! ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/tennessee-gop-is-willing-to-reject-millions-in-funding-if-it-avoids-complying-with-federal-strings/)
2023-10-26T09:30:00Z	**Teachers Are Leaving Jobs in Kentucky and Florida as Anti-LGBTQ Laws Proliferate**
Orion Rummler ,  Breaking News Reporter  -  truthout / The 19th

_Stephan: Further evidence that we are becoming two very different countries in a single nation one, the Republican Red states, increasingly inferior to the Democrat Blue States. Poorer healthcare, higher maternal mortality, increased child poverty, inferior education, and the list goes on. If this con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/teachers-are-leaving-jobs-in-kentucky-and-florida-as-anti-lgbtq-laws-proliferate/)
2023-10-26T09:35:00Z	**Governor hopeful quoted Hitler and downplayed the Holocaust in unearthed posts: Report**
Sky Palma,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Today the Republican Party voted for a christofascist to become Speaker of the House. The MAGAts now control the House. And here is an example of the kind of person they are putting forward at the state level for governor. There can be no question that the Republican Party is now openly against democracy,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/governor-hopeful-quoted-hitler-and-downplayed-the-holocaust-in-unearthed-posts-report/)
2023-10-27T09:20:00Z	**A Poultry Plant in Ohio Is Under Federal Investigation for Hiring 24 Children**
Zane McNeill ,  Breaking News Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This is a disgusting story, but there is something you can do to stop this. Never buy anything from Gerber Poultry or Amish Farm Chicken, and tell all your friends to do the same. If enough people do that this wretched company will either change or go out of business, preferably the latter._

![](https://w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/27/a-poultry-plant-in-ohio-is-under-federal-investigation-for-hiring-24-children/)
2023-10-27T09:30:00Z	**Tuberville Concocts Massive Falsehood About Who’s Responsible for Wars in Ukraine and Israel**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Tommy Tuberville for months now has been sabotaging the promotion of officers in the military to the detriment of the functionality of America's armed forces. Now he is perpetrating a massive lie he has concocted. This is what the Republican Party has become. Thanks, people o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/27/tuberville-concocts-massive-falsehood-about-whos-responsible-for-wars-in-ukraine-and-israel/)
2023-10-27T09:35:00Z	**Does MAGA Mike Johnson’s Election Prove All the GOP has Now is Hate?**
Thom Hartmann,    -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Do you want the United States to continue as a democracy? If you do you better vote and get everyone you know who thinks like you to. vote, and vote only for Democrats. The Democrats are not perfect, in some cases they are not even very good. But they do believe in democracy, and the Republicans do not. It is essential that the House flip t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/27/does-maga-mike-johnsons-election-prove-all-the-gop-has-now-is-hate/)
2023-10-28T09:20:00Z	**Koch network pushes Supreme Court to ‘undermine workers’ rights’ and ‘consumer protections’**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: More corruption by oligarchs to get what they want from the Supreme Court. How can anyone say that we are a law based nation when this is the reality of our Supreme Court? The Democrats control the Senate who aren't they doing anything about this; that's what I would like to know._

![](https://w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/koch-network-pushes-supreme-court-to-undermine-workers-rights-and-consumer-protections/)
2023-10-28T09:25:00Z	**‘Serious Ethics Issue’: Wealthy Friend Forgave Up to $267K of Luxury RV Loan for Clarence Thomas**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Clarence Thomas' corruption just goes on and on. How you can be an unethical grifter and a Supreme Court Associate Justice I do not know. But you obviously can. Have you noticed like me that no one in the top political ranks is ever held responsible for anything ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/serious-ethics-issue-wealthy-friend-forgave-up-to-267k-of-luxury-rv-loan-for-clarence-thomas/)
2023-10-28T09:35:00Z	**Speaker Johnson blasted for tying mass shootings to teaching evolution and no-fault divorce**
David Badash,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: He dresses well, speaks in a polite tone while smiling.  I suspect that is one of the reasons the Republicans chose him. He doesn't look or sound like Jim Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, or the other MAGAt nutcases.  And yet the new Republican speaker is as much a fanatical christofascist ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/speaker-johnson-blasted-for-tying-mass-shootings-to-teaching-evolution-and-no-fault-divorce/)
2023-10-28T09:30:00Z	**Congress’ Job Approval Drops to 13%, Lowest Since 2017**
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_Stephan:_

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid a prolonged search for a new House speaker that paralyzed the House of Representatives for three weeks while two U.S. allies are engaged in wars, Americans’ approval of Congress’ job performance fell from 17% to 13%. This is the lowest approval rating of Congress since Octo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/congress-job-approval-drops-to-13-lowest-since-2017/)
2023-10-29T09:20:00Z	**Mike Johnson’s Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest**
Jennifer Bendery,  Senior Politics Reporter  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: This is now the second person in line for the Presidency should something happen to Biden and the most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives. Mike Johnson is a racist bigot and christofascist, and makes no bones about it. In my lifetime, and probably yours, no person li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/mike-johnsons-wife-runs-counseling-service-that-compares-being-gay-to-bestiality-incest/)
2023-10-29T09:25:00Z	**New GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson Has Proposed Trillions in Cuts to Social Security and Medicare**
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: If you, like me, get Medicare and Social Security, get ready to have both attacked by the Congressional Republicans._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-83.png)_Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was applauded after being nominated fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/new-gop-house-speaker-mike-johnson-has-proposed-trillions-in-cuts-to-social-security-and-medicare/)
2023-10-29T09:30:00Z	**Nearly one in four Americans believe political violence justified to ‘save’ US**
David Smith,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: MAGAt world wants violence. They want to create a White supremacy  anti-LGBTQ, female equality anocracy and are prepared to bring out their guns and kill people to achieve those goals. You can pretty much bet that Congress is not going to do anything about White nationalist violence, so get ready for lots of mass murders._ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/nearly-one-in-four-americans-believe-political-violence-justified-to-save-us/)
2023-10-29T09:35:00Z	**Americans are following the news less closely than they used to**
NAOMI FORMAN-KATZ,  Research Analyst  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Americans as a whole are very poorly informed about how their government operates. The figures are breathtaking. The Annenberg Public Policy Center extensively polled the population and discovered a third of the country can't name a single branch of government, 21 percent can only name one branch, and only 13 percent can name al ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/americans-are-following-the-news-less-closely-than-they-used-to/)
2023-10-30T09:30:00Z	**Poor Wellbeing Linked to Formation of New Chronic Conditions**
DAN WITTERS and SANGEETA AGRAWAL,  Research Director \| Research Staff  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: This is why Americans hold their government is such low esteem. The entire system in this country has been rigged to produce profit for the few at the cost of the wellbeing of the many. This has arisen because of the Republican Party, and its creating the passage of Citizens United that legalized  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/poor-wellbeing-linked-to-formation-of-new-chronic-conditions/)
2023-10-30T09:25:00Z	**War Against Renewables Takes Terrifying Turn in Newsom’s Nuke-Powered California**
Harvey Wasserman ,  Contributing Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Greed, stupidity, and more greed. That's the nuclear power industry. California, as this article describes, could have a nuclear event that could kill tens of thousands of people and render a large part of southern California, just like Chernobyl, uninhabitable. Does Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) give  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/war-against-renewables-takes-terrifying-turn-in-newsoms-nuke-powered-california/)
2023-10-30T09:20:00Z	**For Many in Wyoming, a Biden Plan to Protect Land Is Beyond Unpopular**
Lisa Friedman,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Wyoming, a deeply Red state gives us an example of how Republicans either don't or won't understand the crisis of climate change and oppose the policies Biden's administration is trying to activate to deal with it. This is becoming a chronic problem and has become part of The Great Schism Trend. Within a decade I predict as the qu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/for-many-in-wyoming-a-biden-plan-to-protect-land-is-beyond-unpopular/)
2023-10-30T09:35:00Z	**Food insecurity spiked last year, new report shows**
Emily Peck,  Contributing Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: The United States is at once the richest country in the world and one of the most difficult in the world to live in if you aren't affluent. It is a national disgrace that thousands of families don't have enough to eat properly. It is also incredibly expensive because it results in all kinds of chronic medical conditions. Meanwhile the nasty circus we call Congress does not ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/food-insecurity-spiked-last-year-new-report-shows/)
2023-10-31T09:25:00Z	**Wisconsin GOP blocks pay raises for university staff unless they end diversity programs**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Two or three times a week now I see reports on how the Republicans are trying to dismantle education in the United States from kindergarten to college. Fascists historically never want fact-based education, they always want indoctrination in support of their distorted non-fact-based view of what e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/wisconsin-gop-blocks-pay-raises-for-university-staff-unless-they-end-diversity-programs/)
2023-10-31T09:20:00Z	**Chronic absenteeism in schools doubles since before pandemic, dragging down test scores**
LEXI LONAS,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: There are so many sectors of our culture that are breaking down. Schools and education generally are one example, including this. And what is becoming clear is that Americans, in this case American parents, are a big part of the problem._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ima ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/chronic-absenteeism-in-schools-doubles-since-before-pandemic-dragging-down-test-scores/)
2023-10-31T09:30:00Z	**‘Damning Evidence’ Mounts That Links Fracking to Health Impacts**
,    \-  truthdig

_Stephan: Yet another report on the damage fracking does to the environment and the people who live anywhere near a fracking installation. Who is opposed to this scientific research and in support of fracking? Why Republicans, of course, and the corporations who profit from this technology, and rent those MAGAts. Who is damaged by fracking, as reported by thousands of scientific stu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/damning-evidence-mounts-that-links-fracking-to-health-impacts/)
2023-10-31T09:35:00Z	**Pharma Nation: Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study predicts**
John Anderer,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: We are slaves of the pharmaceutical corporations as this research makes so very clear. It is all incredibly profitable for them.

To read the research study upon which this article is based see: [Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States](https://read.dukeupress.edu/demog ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/pharma-nation-americans-will-spend-half-their-lives-taking-prescription-drugs-study-predicts-2/)
2023-11-01T09:20:00Z	**Tired of tipping! 75% think the generous practice has gotten out of control**
Chris Melore,  Staff Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: The United States has one of the highest tipping rates in the world, and, as this article describes, people are getting tired of it.
Tipping around the world
EUROPE – CHECK FOR SERVICE CHARGE. ...
NORTH AMERICA – TIP MORE, AND MORE OFTEN. ...
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA – THINK 10% ...
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC – NOT USUALLY, AND  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/tired-of-tipping-75-think-the-generous-practice-has-gotten-out-of-control/)
2023-11-01T09:25:00Z	**‘I was extremely furious’: the dangerously high cost of insulin in America**
Lauren Mechling,    -  The Guardian

_Stephan: The American illness profit system is designed to suck as much money out of it can. And you don't really have any choice about participating. You don't have to buy a new car, or a new dress. But if you are a diabetic you do have to buy insulin. The corporate greedheads know it, and diabetics know it. It is a national shame and the Rep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/i-was-extremely-furious-the-dangerously-high-cost-of-insulin-in-america/)
2023-11-01T09:30:00Z	**Mike Johnson Urged a Religious Test for Politicians**
DAVID CORN,  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: American absolutely was not founded as a Christian nation, nor did the Founders intend church and state to be linked. That does not seem to be well understood by a large segment of the American population, including many Republican politicians. To the Founders the separation of church and state was very important. Many of the colonists had come to the Am ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/mike-johnson-urged-a-religious-test-for-politicians/)
2023-11-01T09:35:00Z	**The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory**
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W Gregg, Johan Rockström, Thomas M Newsome, Beverly E Law, Luiz Marques, Timothy M Lenton, Chi Xu, and Saleemul Huq ,  Research Scientists  -  Bio Science

_Stephan: Yet another scientific report telling us just how dangerous the human situation is has become. You would think that an existential threat to the matrix of life on earth could command the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/the-2023-state-of-the-climate-report-entering-uncharted-territory/)
2023-11-02T09:20:00Z	**Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education**
Peter Jamison, Laura Meckler, Prayag Gordy, Clara Ence Morse and Chris Alcantara,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: My takeaway from this research survey is that we are going to have a large portion of the next generation of American students who have been indoctrinated into all manner of nonsense and that the country's reputation as one of the best school systems in the wor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/home-schoolings-rise-from-fringe-to-fastest-growing-form-of-education/)
2023-11-02T09:30:00Z	**America’s Rifle Fetish Is Destroying Its Sense of Freedom**
Jamelle Bouie,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I think Jamelle Bouie makes the point few in media or politics will even acknowledge; Americans have fetishized guns, particular the AR-15. As a result as of today, 1 November 2023, 36,074 men, women, and children have already died this year from gun violence, and there have been 586 mass shootings. It has become so dangerous that fewer tourists are com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/americas-rifle-fetish-is-destroying-its-sense-of-freedom/)
2023-11-02T09:25:00Z	**Majority in U.S. Continues to Favor Stricter Gun Laws**
JEFFREY M. JONES,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Here is the latest data I could find on the current attitude of Americans about guns. I think it is pathetic. Click through to see all the charts._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-01-at-9.14.51-PM.png)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

- 56% want stricter laws; 31% kept as they are now
- Americans believe guns make homes safer  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/majority-in-u-s-continues-to-favor-stricter-gun-laws/)
2023-11-02T09:35:00Z	**Effort to expel George Santos from the House fails**
MYCHAEL SCHNELL,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The failure to expel an openly criminal member from the House, someone so blatantly criminal that his own party led the attempt to expel him, and who got support from Democrats should give you a sense of how corrupt the House has become. Both parties have covered themselves with shame, and shown us how the lower house of Congress has become a toxic clown circus instead o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/effort-to-expel-george-santos-from-the-house-fails/)
2023-11-03T09:35:00Z	**Arctic shifts are driving dramatic population swings among gray whales, study explains**
,    \-  Study Finds

_Stephan: Yet another study of the effects of human greed and stupidity on the earth's matrix of life.

To read the research paper upon which this report was based see: [Boom-bust cycles in gray whales associated with dynamic and changing Arctic conditions](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1847)_

![](https://www.schwar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/arctic-shifts-are-driving-dramatic-population-swings-among-gray-whales-study-explains/)
2023-11-03T09:30:00Z	**Over 400,000 Americans Demand End to Supreme Court Corruption**
JESSICA CORBETT,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig / Common Dreams

_Stephan: This, I hope, is the beginning of a new citizens' action trend. It calls for the Senate to impose a set of ethics standards on the Supreme Court since the Court will not impose one on itself. Never in our history has the court become this corrupt, and the corruption is limited to the six MAGAt justices. The question is: Will the Democ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/over-400000-americans-demand-end-to-supreme-court-corruption/)
2023-11-03T09:25:00Z	**America’s Adult Education System Is Broken. Here’s How Experts Say We Can Fix It.**
Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby and Anna Clark,    -

_Stephan: Forty eight million Americans struggle to read. Similar numbers can not do even simple math, and algebra...they can't do that at all. A third of the country can't even name a single branch of government. The fact is Americans constitute a very poorly educated society, and a good education is essential for u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/americas-adult-education-system-is-broken-heres-how-experts-say-we-can-fix-it-2/)
2023-11-03T09:20:00Z	**Mother, Son Charged with “Kidnapping” for Helping Idaho Minor Access Abortion**
Zane McNeill ,  Breaking News Writing Fellow  -  truthout

_Stephan: Idaho has become a fascist state in which even helping a woman leave the state to obtain an abortion can end up putting you in prison. Meanwhile most of the OB/GYN specialists in the state have left or are planning to leave. And much of the state has become a medical desert for obtaining OB/GYN medical care ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/mother-son-charged-with-kidnapping-for-helping-idaho-minor-access-abortion/)
2023-11-04T09:20:00Z	**The Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively legalize automatic weapons**
Ian Millhiser ,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: Bump stocks. Do you even know what a bumpstock is, or what it does? The answer is it is a simple addition to any semi-automatic rifle and turns its into a machine gun that fires multiple rounds in seconds. Do I have to suggest what they would mean in the hundreds of mass killings we have each year in A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/the-supreme-court-will-hear-a-case-that-could-effectively-legalize-automatic-weapons/)
2023-11-04T09:30:00Z	**Poll: Most Americans Oppose Speaker Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalist Views**
Chris Walker,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I think this report offers a hint of good news. Christofascism remains a minority position. Iy offers some hope that the 2024 election may not make the end of democracy. It all depends on each of us voting, and voting for Democrats._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-03-at- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/poll-most-americans-oppose-speaker-mike-johnsons-christian-nationalist-views/)
2023-11-04T09:25:00Z	**Incarceration Rates for Black Americans Decline**
CANDICE NORWOOD ,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: Here is some marginally good news. The United States has the largest incarceration population in the world and has hold this ugly first position for decades. And it is overwhelmingly racist against Black people. The good news is:From 2000 to 2021, the imprisonment rate fell by 70 percent for Black women and by 48 percent for Black men. MAGAts are now trying to change the numb ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/incarceration-rates-for-black-americans-decline/)
2023-11-04T09:35:00Z	**‘It’s an abomination’: battle brewing over proposed US laws to protect pesticide companies**
Carey Gillam,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: First, never, ever, allow Round up on your property. If you do you are putting yourself and your family at serious risk. Second, you can watch how the corruption of the Congress works as Bayer spends millions trying to protect its right to sell this poison. It's simple. If you want to promote wellbei ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/its-an-abomination-battle-brewing-over-proposed-us-laws-to-protect-pesticide-companies/)
2023-11-05T10:25:00Z	**Biden Admin Approves Largest U.S. Offshore Wind Farm off Virginia Coast**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some more good news from the Biden administration. It is surprising to me that American voters don't seem to get or understand that the Biden administration, on the basis of objectively verifiable data, is one of the best wellbeing fostering administrations in years. He gets no credit for what he is doing t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/biden-admin-approves-largest-u-s-offshore-wind-farm-off-virginia-coast/)
2023-11-05T10:20:00Z	**IRS free tax filing rollout faces hurdles after multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign**
Anna Massoglia,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Open Secrets

_Stephan: Yet another story of the corruption of the American Congress and the Republican Party. The tax preparation corporations pour tens of millions of dollars into Congress so they can make billions in profit. As a result most of us pay hundreds of dollars each year to have our taxes prepared. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/irs-free-tax-filing-rollout-faces-hurdles-after-multimillion-dollar-lobbying-campaign/)
2023-11-05T10:30:00Z	**Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.**
Republican Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher,    -  The Free Press

_Stephan: Now that it doesn't serve their interests the Republicans are beginning to understand the effect of the weaponization of social media lies. I have written about how social media, which basically has no ethical or honesty standards whatever, is being used to manipulate Americans, particularly the young. You might think Congress would do so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/why-do-young-americans-support-hamas-look-at-tiktok/)
2023-11-05T10:35:00Z	**EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water**
Tom Perkins,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some good news from Biden's EPA you probably won't hear much about but which may significantly improve your health. Efforts to ban the TCE chemical date back 40 years. The Obama administration proposed strong limits on its use in 2016 but, it should be no surprise the corrupt Trump administration undid those attempts to limit is in your water and i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/epa-to-push-ban-of-toxic-chemical-found-in-us-drinking-water/)
2023-11-06T10:20:00Z	**Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them**
Dylan Scott,  Healthcare Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: The United States has the lowest ranked -- 69th -- and most expensive healthcare in the developed world and, as this report describes, it is made deliberately confusing and complex in order to suck more dollars out of you. And let me warn you again, DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE. It has nothing to do w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/patients-dont-know-how-to-navigate-the-us-health-system-and-its-costing-them/)
2023-11-06T10:25:00Z	**Saturday Report – The Medicaid “Hunger Games” have begun…**
Thom Hartmann,  Columnist  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann is one of a few commentators whom I think really get what is going on in the United States, and here is his latest assessment. It agrees with my own thinking as your will recognize as you read it And it should scare the hell out of you. We are a nation in deep decline._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-9.pn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/saturday-report-the-medicaid-hunger-games-have-begun/)
2023-11-06T10:30:00Z	**How Russian disinformation toppled government after government in Africa**
Elizabeth Dwoskin,  Silicon Valley Correspondent  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The weaponization of disinformation (see SR archive) in my opinion is the leading political trend in the world today, and no one is better at it than the Russians and Chinese who saw the implications of what it could do while the American government was asleep in its chairs. The Russians used it to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/how-russian-disinformation-toppled-government-after-government-in-africa/)
2023-11-06T10:35:00Z	**How Mike Johnson’s “Covenant Marriage” Helps Explain His Politics**
MOLLY OLMSTEAD,  Staff Writer  -  Slate

_Stephan: I spent some time this weekend digging into Mike Johnson's background and worldview and I find it deeply alarming. The Republican Party has put into the Speaker's chair a fascist Christian religious fanatic who does not believe in the separation of church and state and seriously espouses that the United States is designed to be a fascist Christian  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/how-mike-johnsons-covenant-marriage-helps-explain-his-politics/)
2023-11-07T10:25:00Z	**‘We Feel Like We’re Drowning’: What We Heard This Week**
Editorial Staff,    -  MEDPAGE TODAY

_Stephan: The increasing corporatization of the illness profit system that constitutes healthcare in the United States is resulting in burn out in the medical staff of physicians and nurses, who are leaving the corporately owned clinics where they work. Perhaps you have noticed the increasing number of doctors who no longer take insurance, you just pay for each visit and it is painfu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/we-feel-like-were-drowning-what-we-heard-this-week/)
2023-11-07T10:20:00Z	**Mike Johnson Said He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Usage, and Yeah, It’s Exactly as Weird as It Sounds**
Daniel Kreps,  Staff Writer  -  My Gay Prides

_Stephan: If you are a father do you and your teen age son monitor each other's porn viewing? No. Well christofascist House Speaker Mike Johnson and his 17 year old son do just that. Does that sound weird to you? It certainly does to me._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/mike-johnson-said-he-and-his-son-monitor-each-others-porn-usage-and-yeah-its-exactly-as-weird-as-it-sounds/)
2023-11-07T10:30:00Z	**Just 4% of top companies meet UN climate target guidelines: study**
Simon Jessop,  Reporter  -  Raw Story / Reuters

_Stephan: Further proof that for large corporations profit is more important to them than your wellbeing. To these corporation you are just a peasant who health and wellbeing means nothing._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-06-at-6.18.32 PM.png?resize=637%2C422&ssl=1)_Credit: Reuters_

Half  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/just-4-of-top-companies-meet-un-climate-target-guidelines-study/)
2023-11-07T10:35:00Z	**A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon**
Dave Philipps,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This is a horrible story, a report on the complete failure of the American military to protect its own troops. And as is so typical of American today the only people held responsible or negatively effected are those at the bottom of the chain of command. No one at the top of the chain of command have been held responsible for anything. It has  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/a-secret-war-strange-new-wounds-and-silence-from-the-pentagon/)
2023-11-08T10:20:00Z	**Foster Care Admission Surged When Abortion Access Fell, Study Shows**
Rachael Robertson,  Staff Writer  -  MEDPAGE TODAY

_Stephan: For a number of years I have been searching for data to answer this question: In the Red States when a woman is denied control over her own body, how many women give up their babies to foster care? A significant percentage of children turned over to foster care have all kinds of psychological problems. I finally found some solid da ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/foster-care-admission-surged-when-abortion-access-fell-study-shows/)
2023-11-08T10:25:00Z	**New Report Reveals Big Oil’s Playbook to Silence Climate Protests**
Juliana Broad ,  Researcher, The Center for Media and Democracy  -  truthout

_Stephan: The Petroleum Corporations constitute and evil industry. They place their profits above any concern about humanity's wellbeing,and there can be no dispute about that. The data is incontrovertible. If you search the SR archive you will see their behavior for decades has been completely consistent across the yea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/new-report-reveals-big-oils-playbook-to-silence-climate-protests/)
2023-11-08T10:30:00Z	**85% of people worry about online disinformation, global survey finds**
Jon Henley,  Europe Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I consider this good news. People don't like to be manipulated, and it is beginning to dawn on people around the world that they are being subjected to just that through social media misinformation._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-15.jpg?resize=620%2C372&ssl=1)_Social media wa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/85-of-people-worry-about-online-disinformation-global-survey-finds/)
2023-11-08T10:35:00Z	**Young men in violent parts of Philadelphia, Chicago die from guns at a higher rate than US troops in the heat of battle**
Alex Knorre,   Research Fellow, Boston College  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: This is a very important article about the nature of gun violence and death in the United States. Two big points to take away. Gun murders take place in tiny sections of a few cities, and if you are wounded in ba ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/young-men-in-violent-parts-of-philadelphia-chicago-die-from-guns-at-a-higher-rate-than-us-troops-in-the-heat-of-battle/)
2023-11-09T10:20:00Z	**Virtual reality experiment reveals rats have imaginations just like humans**
,    \-  STUDY FINDS

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for 30 years (see SR archive) that we must understand that all nature of the beings on this planet have a measure of consciousness, and that we need to recognize that we must learn to foster wellbeing at every level if we are to survive as a species. Here is one more experimental study proving this._

![](https://i0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/virtual-reality-experiment-reveals-rats-have-imaginations-just-like-humans/)
2023-11-09T10:30:00Z	**Infants Are Born With Syphilis in Growing Numbers, a Sign of a Wider Epidemic**
Apoorva Mandavilli,  Science Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: In the United States we are seeing a terrible uptick in sexually transmitted illness like Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Why is this happening? Because we have such poor healthcare, and because Republicans have effectively blocked sex education in public schools. As with so many other health care issues Ameri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/infants-are-born-with-syphilis-in-growing-numbers-a-sign-of-a-wider-epidemic/)
2023-11-09T10:25:00Z	**‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ Wants Commission to Cut Social Security Formed ‘Immediately’**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I hope you are clear that if Republicans retain the majority in the House, and Trump wins the presidency, the chances are very strong that your Social Security payments will be severely curtailed, and Medicare is likely to be gutted. You would thank that particularly older Americans would get  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/maga-mike-johnson-wants-commission-to-cut-social-security-formed-immediately/)
2023-11-09T10:35:00Z	**Tommy Tuberville is not acting: he really is Trump’s useful idiot**
Sidney Blumenthal,  Commentator  -  THe Guardian

_Stephan: I got an email this morningfrom a retired two star Navy admiral, I have known since he as a Commander and I was Special Assistant to two CNOs. He told me that he thinks Trump is behind what Tuberville is doing, and he is trying punish the seniors military for not backing his attempt to overthrow democracy with his insurrection. Further, t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/tommy-tuberville-is-not-acting-he-really-is-trumps-useful-idiot/)
2023-11-10T10:20:00Z	**The middle class is not buying electric vehicles as hoped. What happened?**
,    \-  Chicago Tribune

_Stephan: In my view the entire conversion away from the internal combustion engine could not have been handled more badly. It should have started with a national policy covering the construction of roads that can charge vehicles that drive on them, and then provide an better tax levy to encourage people to buy EVs. Instead it has been done as we have all  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/the-middle-class-is-not-buying-electric-vehicles-as-hoped-what-happened/)
2023-11-10T10:25:00Z	**The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States**
Nat Lash, ProPublica, and Janet Wilson,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If you live in one of the seven states -- California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming -- that rely on the Colorado River for their water, you have probably noticed that almost all discussions on this issue talk about states. That is a grossly misleading way ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/the-20-farming-families-who-use-more-water-from-the-colorado-river-than-some-western-states/)
2023-11-10T10:30:00Z	**Peter Thiel is Taking a Break From Democracy**
Barton Gellman,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: This is a very revealing very deliberately chosen portrait of an anti-democracy oligarch Peter Thiel. I encourage you to read it because it will give you some insight into how the oligarch community thinks._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-18.png?resize=480%2C600&ssl=1)

It wasn’t clear at first why Peter Thiel agreed to talk to me.
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/peter-thiel-is-taking-a-break-from-democracy/)
2023-11-10T10:35:00Z	**The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault**
Margaret Sullivan,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I watch a lot of media of all biases doing research for SR so that I can keep it fact-based and not partisan. I agree with Margaret Sullivan. Corporate media is not accurately conveying to their audiences what is really going on in America. The Republican Party funded by christofascist oligarchs is trying t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/the-public-doesnt-understand-the-risks-of-a-trump-victory-thats-the-medias-fault/)
2023-11-11T10:20:00Z	**Amazon deforestation falls more than 20% to its lowest levels in 5 years**
Reuters editorial staff,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Here is some news about the Amazon forest that confirms earlier reports I have published. (See SR archives). So multiple reports from different sources tends to suggest the news is accurate and good news indeed._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-21.png?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)

_Aerial view of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/amazon-deforestation-falls-more-than-20-to-its-lowest-levels-in-5-years/)
2023-11-11T10:30:00Z	**We asked every member of Congress about child care policy. Only 5 Republicans answered.**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-20.png?resize=800%2C532&ssl=1)_The House of Representatives holds a vote on speaker of the House on Jan. 3, the first day of the 118th Congress.

Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times/ Getty_

In September, when billions of dollars in child care fundin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/we-asked-every-member-of-congress-about-child-care-policy-only-5-republicans-answered/)
2023-11-11T10:25:00Z	**A lot of Americans embrace Trump’s authoritarianism**
Philip Bump,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It is my view that the central problem America faces is that a large number of us, mostly low education Red state Whites, will support criminal Trump even if he is convicted and sentenced to prison. He speaks to their resentments, hates, and grievances, and that is all they care about. Will some of these people awaken to their own stupidity. Maybe if he really is con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/a-lot-of-americans-embrace-trumps-authoritarianism/)
2023-11-11T10:35:00Z	**Why Are Republicans Fiddling with Fascism While the Shutdown is Looming?**
THOM HARTMANN,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: As is frequently the case, I agree with Thom Hartmann. It should be obvious to anyone, and certainly will be to historians, that the U.S. Congress is essentially dysfunctional. Instead of doing its job on behave of the people who voted them into office, they behave like neighborhood children in a petulant fight. This, of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/why-are-republicans-fiddling-with-fascism-while-the-shutdown-is-looming/)
2023-11-12T10:20:00Z	**EU Scientists ‘Can Say With Near Certainty’ That 2023 Will Be Hottest in 125,000 Years**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This year is the hottest in 125,000 years. Do you think that would prompt governments and corporations to reassess policies whether governmental or for profit? If you do you are going to be disappointed. The United States and most of the developed nations made only a meager effort ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/eu-scientists-can-say-with-near-certainty-that-2023-will-be-hottest-in-125000-years/)
2023-11-12T10:30:00Z	**Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Sows Chaos in States**
PHIL GALEWITZ, KATHERYN HOUGHTON, BRETT KELMAN, SAMANTHA LISS / KFF HEALTH,    -  truthdig / Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: The United States has the worst health care system in the developed world -- we rank 69th compared to other developed nations. And it is getting worse, particularly for people of low income who are on Medicaid. What amazes me is that Americans don't seem to get any of this, and there is no national uprising of voters  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/medicaid-unwinding-sows-chaos-in-states/)
2023-11-12T10:25:00Z	**South Carolina Is Ripping Infants Away From Their Mothers Over Pot Use**
Emily Janakiram ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The Republicans who control Red States are always on the lookout for a way to control women. This report is the latest horror story. It's from South Carolina but come from any number of Southern states. I'm sorry but I have been forced to conclude that being a Republican is to be an accessory to a series of social crimes, and this ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/south-carolina-is-ripping-infants-away-from-their-mothers-over-pot-use/)
2023-11-12T10:35:00Z	**How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits**
Anna Maria Barry-Jester,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The people of the United States pay more than those of any other country for pharmaceuticals. And this difference is not a small one, it is orders of magnitude, and it is obscene. Go to my weekly podcast, because this week I have focused on the outrageous way the pharmaceutica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/how-a-big-pharma-company-stalled-a-potentially-lifesaving-vaccine-in-pursuit-of-bigger-profits-2/)
2023-11-13T10:25:00Z	**Catholic dioceses are declaring bankruptcy. Abuse survivors say it’s a ‘way to silence’ them**
Robin Buller,  Contributing Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Roman Catholic Church constantly proclaims it morality and high ethical standards, but the law tells a very different story, which this article describes. To protect the institution the church has developed a strategy of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganization, but has don ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/catholic-dioceses-are-declaring-bankruptcy-abuse-survivors-say-its-a-way-to-silence-them/)
2023-11-13T10:20:00Z	**Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?**
Tori Otten ,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: This is an amazing story getting virtually no coverage in corporate media. Christofascist Speaker of the House Mike Johnson displays a Christian Nationalist flag outside of his office in the halls of Congress, and no one seems to care. Suppose it was a swastika flag. Do you think anyone would notice or care? This is what our natio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/why-is-mike-johnson-flying-a-christian-nationalist-flag-outside-his-office/)
2023-11-13T10:35:00Z	**What Americans know about their government**
GABRIEL BORELLI and SHANAY GRACIA,  U.S. Politics Research Associate  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: American's knowledge of how their government operates is pathetic. The Pew Research Center looked into this at length. Here is what they found. You can click through and take their survey._

[![A dot plot showing that virtually no partisan differences emerge in civic and political knowledge.](https://i0.wp.com/www.pewresearch.org/wp-conte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/what-americans-know-about-their-government/)
2023-11-13T10:30:00Z	**It’s getting increasingly dangerous to be a newborn in the US**
Keren Landman,  Contributing Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Yesterday I did a piece on the rise in syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that had virtual disappeared in the United States. Today I want to expand on this medical crisis because the data is now clear that the main research this is happening is the christofascist Supreme Court's cabal overturning Roe v Wade, followed by the Red states passing a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/its-getting-increasingly-dangerous-to-be-a-newborn-in-the-us/)
2023-11-14T10:20:00Z	**Amid blowback over Clarence Thomas travel, Supreme Court says it will adopt first-ever code of conduct**
John Fritze,  Staff Writer  -  USA Today

_Stephan: The Supreme Court, the lowest rated court in American history, has made a largely symbolic gesture -- there is no enforcement mechanism -- at ethics probably to offset their low rating. The thing no one in media talks about is that all the corruption involves the christofa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/amid-blowback-over-clarence-thomas-travel-supreme-court-says-it-will-adopt-first-ever-code-of-conduct/)
2023-11-14T10:25:00Z	**The Inflation Reduction Act has created nearly 75,000 jobs**
Sarah Kennedy,  Staff Writer  -  Yale Climate Connections / ChavoBart Digital Media

_Stephan: It is amazing to me that American voters simply do not recognize that Joe Biden has been one of the most effective President's in decades, based on actual objectively verifiable evidence. Instead they think he is to old, but a fascist criminal just three yers younger seems to be quite acceptable. Biden has a good rec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/the-inflation-reduction-act-has-created-nearly-75000-jobs/)
2023-11-14T10:30:00Z	**Ohio Republicans lay plans to overturn this week’s election**
Laura Clawson,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: This story confirms that the Republican Party is now a fascist party that is not interested in a healthy democracy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-28.png?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_Credit: AFP / Getty_

Ohio voted [56.6% to 43.4%](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/07/us/elections/results-ohio-issue-1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/ohio-republicans-lay-plans-to-overturn-this-weeks-election/)
2023-11-14T10:35:00Z	**Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings**
JILL COLVIN,  National Political Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Criminal Trump makes it clear what he intends to do if re-elected. This ought to scare every American voter. That it does not suggests to me that the United States may not survive the 2024 election. Note particularly that you hear no anguished outcry from the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/trumps-plans-if-he-returns-to-the-white-house-include-deportation-raids-tariffs-and-mass-firings/)
2023-11-15T10:20:00Z	**The Trouble With America’s Ultra-Processed Diet**
Andrea Petersen,    -  Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: Americans have shorter lives, particularly men, than the populations of any other developed nation -- as much as six years shorter life. Why? Largely because of a diet that is based mostly on profit not healthy nourishment. This is something you can do something about. Are you prepared to do it, or do you just want to die years before people in other countries?_

![](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/the-trouble-with-americas-ultra-processed-diet/)
2023-11-15T10:30:00Z	**Trump’s transition to fascism is now complete**
Bill Blum,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: As I have listened to Trump at his rallies, and read his social media posts I hear echoes of Hitler and Mussolini. Not even echoes in many cases the same words and images. Trump is now a blatant fascist, and what worries me, and should worry you, is that millions of Americans virtually worship Trump, and will do anything he asks. I'm not sure we are going to survive the 2024 election as  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/trumps-transition-to-fascism-is-now-complete/)
2023-11-15T10:25:00Z	**The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden**
Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman,  Reporters & Correspondents  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This piece was written nearly six months ago, and I am running it today for two reasons: First: no one in the future will ever be able to say Americans were not warned about Trump and his intentions. Second, because it shows, by the party's months of silence, that the Republican Party is com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/the-radical-strategy-behind-trumps-promise-to-go-after-biden/)
2023-11-15T10:35:00Z	**As Trump Vows Vengeance Against ‘Vermin,’ Republicans Look The Other Way**
Igor Bobic and Jonathan Nicholson,  Senior Politics Reporter \| Politics Reporter  -  Huffington Post

_Stephan: I think Trump has moved past anything resembling normal politics. He cares only about the MAGAts, and anticipates that if he loses the MAGAts will create a civil war that will put him in power._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-31.png)_Tr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/as-trump-vows-vengeance-against-vermin-republicans-look-the-other-way/)
2023-11-16T10:20:00Z	**Global decline in male fertility linked to common pesticides**
Evan Bush,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: Yet another reason why we must end industrial chemical mono-culture farming. It is literally killing our ability to propagate. Here is the story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-38.png)_Credit: Getty /  Westend61_

A prolonged [decline in male fertility](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mens-health/plunging-sperm-counts-major-public- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/16/global-decline-in-male-fertility-linked-to-common-pesticides/)
2023-11-16T10:25:00Z	**Nuclear Panel Packed With Defense Industry Interests**
ELI CLIFTON and BEN FREEMAN,    -

_Stephan: The United States is unbelievably corrupt. And yet do you see discussion about it as a major trend? No, neither do I. Here is a classic example of how corruption works in America. One corporate group taking control of the country's decision about their industry.This is a major issue affecting our democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/16/nuclear-panel-packed-with-defense-industry-interests/)
2023-11-16T10:30:00Z	**Speaker Mike Johnson calls separation of church and state ‘a misnomer’**
Ed Pilkington,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Johnson is incorrectly informed, willfully ignorant. The separation of church and state was a very big deal to the Founders. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were states founded on the basis that the national government and the state were separate. Franklin, jefferson, and Madison, particularly felt very strongly about this. We hav ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/16/speaker-mike-johnson-calls-separation-of-church-and-state-a-misnomer/)
2023-11-17T10:20:00Z	**New Supreme Court Ethics Code Is Designed to Fail**
Michael Waldman,  Staff Writer  -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: It is my view that the just published Supreme Court ethics code with no form of enforcement is basically a scam to improve the extremely poor respect the Court currently suffers with. When I see something happen to hold Clarence Thomas, Alito, or Roberts accountable for their gross corruption I will believe there are any established ethics standards to wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/new-supreme-court-ethics-code-is-designed-to-fail/)
2023-11-17T10:30:00Z	**Elon Musk Shares His Thoughts on Jews**
Thomas Germain,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: Oligarch Elon Musk reveals he is an anti-semite. More than that he distinguishes between Whites and Jews. That is a level of anti-semitism I have not heard anyone say for decades. I wouldn't go on X if you paid me._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-40.png)_Elon Musk Credit: Associated Press_

For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/elon-musk-shares-his-thoughts-on-jews/)
2023-11-17T10:25:00Z	**The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.**
Emily Stewart,  Business and Economy Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: I think this article explains why Biden is getting to little credit from American voters. The truth is very few Americans have anything more than the dimmest understanding about how the economy works. Study after study shows this. So all the good things Biden and his administration have done just goes over their heads. What they do understand is what things cost. When you pay $1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/the-problem-isnt-inflation-its-prices/)
2023-11-17T10:35:00Z	**Expat nation: Why more young Americans than ever are emigrating**
Erica Prush,    -  Preply

_Stephan: I have a sister who has left the United States for France, and a dear friend who recently left for Mexico, as well as several young couples who tell me they are looking for some place to which they would emigrate. The two issues all of them have in common is America's desperately poor healthcare system, and the fact that women are not treated as equals to men. Wha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/expat-nation-why-more-young-americans-than-ever-are-emigrating/)
2023-11-18T10:20:00Z	**Judge rules former President Donald Trump is eligible for Colorado’s primary ballot**
JESSE SARLES and JENNIFER MCRAE,  Reporters  -  CBS Colorado

_Stephan:  And so it gets down to the voters, you and me. A man with 91 indictments, numerous convictions, an man who represents the worst in American culture will be running for President. We will see who Americans chooses, because it will shape American culture, and end democracy._

![](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/judge-rules-former-president-donald-trump-is-eligible-for-colorados-primary-ballot/)
2023-11-18T10:25:00Z	**Students Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate**
Sarah Mervosh,  Education Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The MAGAt generation is literally physically and psychologically damaging America's youth, and the young are fed up with the MAGAt view of healthcare and education. They are consumed and influenced by social media, and a large segment of them don't make school as a priority._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-44.png)_Far more st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/students-are-missing-school-at-an-alarming-rate/)
2023-11-18T10:30:00Z	**Rising Seas Imperil US Sites, Military Bases Worth $387 Billion**
Stephen Lee, Paul Murphy, Atthar Mirza, and Jon Meltzer,  Staff Writers  -  Bloomberg News

_Stephan: Somewhere back in the early days of SR, 1991, or 2, I was living in Manhattan Beach, California, and I studied projected climate change maps and realized that about 30% of Norfolk and Virginia Beach were going underwater, and that a big part would be the Naval Station in Norfolk. I predicted this woul ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/rising-seas-imperil-us-sites-military-bases-worth-387-billion/)
2023-11-18T10:35:00Z	**Terror on Repeat**
Silvia Foster-Frau, N. Kirkpatrick and Arelis R. Hernández,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I hope you will click through and look at the pictures, the kind you almost never see, of what mass murder sites look like after the killings are over. It my view that we should be seeing these pictures including the bodies lying on the floors or the grass. I don't think Americans really understand what is happening in this country. Maybe seeing the pictures would wake us from our nation ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/terror-on-repeat/)
2023-11-19T10:20:00Z	**Inside the American Redoubt**
Jacob Furedi,  Deputy Editor - Unherd  -  Unherd

_Stephan: With almost no media attention a block of states and counties has become the center of a survivalist violence prone christofascist community. Counties on the east side of Washington and Oregon are trying to secede from their states and become a part of Idaho to join what is called Redoubt. It is dangerous to go to this part of the U.S. and be heard saying anything supportive of Biden or Democrats. As this artic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/inside-the-american-redoubt/)
2023-11-19T10:25:00Z	**Teen Boys Are Falling for a Snapchat Nude-Photo Scam. Here’s How to Avoid It.**
Julie Jargon,  Staff Writer  -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: For several weeks now I have been tracking a trend about another very dark side of social media. I got started on this when a reader wrote me to tell me that a boy in her daughter's school, whom her daughter had rejected, got hold of a picture of her face and using AI combined her face with a porn photo that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/teen-boys-are-falling-for-a-snapchat-nude-photo-scam-heres-how-to-avoid-it/)
2023-11-19T10:30:00Z	**280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles**
Muhammad Rizwan Azhar and Waqas Uzair,  Scholars Edith Cowan University  -  ars technica

_Stephan: Here is some good news e-bikes involving a trend, I confess, I had not considered. Individuals are making choices for a better future._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-46-1.jpg)_Ryan L. Jane / Getty_

We hop in the car to get groceries or dr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/280-million-e-bikes-are-slashing-oil-demand-far-more-than-electric-vehicles/)
2023-11-19T10:35:00Z	**Tropical diseases move north**
Claire Ainsworth,  Freelance Science Journalist  -  nature

_Stephan: Exactly as I have been predicting in SR for years (see SR archive), climate change is causing other beings to move North as the climate changes. This is a warning story about mosquitoes and the neglected diseases they are bringing into Europe and in the U.S. The governments of the world are not preparing properly for what is happening, because they are controlled by corporate interests whose only in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/tropical-diseases-move-north/)
2023-11-20T10:20:00Z	**How a flood of congressional retirements is rocking the 2024 elections**
STEVEN SHEPARD,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: The growing number of Congressional retirements is going to become a major factor in the 2024 elections. It offers an opportunity, if voters awaken to it, to flip both houses to Democrat majorities, which means our democracy will survive. If it goes the other way, it will be the end of America as you and I have known it._

![](https ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/how-a-flood-of-congressional-retirements-is-rocking-the-2024-elections/)
2023-11-20T10:30:00Z	**Texas Officials Reject Textbooks Over Climate Science**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is an example of what happens in states in which anti-science Republicans are in charge. They don't want to talk about climate change on a factual basis in the textbooks used by children -- as if this will stop climate change from happening. I am increasingly concerned that the willful ignorance of the Republican officials is rendering the nation unprepared ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/texas-officials-reject-textbooks-over-climate-science/)
2023-11-20T10:25:00Z	**A hospital’s abrupt closure means, for many, help is distant**
Scott Wilson,  Senior National Correspondent  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The American healthcare system is an ongoing tragedy, particularly for women. You've seen the stories that I have done on what is happening in Red states, but the system is so bad that it is now happening in rural sections of Blue states as well. It continues to surprise me that Americans don't seem to grasp the implications for  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/a-hospitals-abrupt-closure-means-for-many-help-is-distant/)
2023-11-20T10:35:00Z	**Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline**
BRIAN KENNEDY and ALEC TYSON,  Staff Researchers  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Social Media is destroying American society, as we have known it. I have now done fact-based story after story about what is happening to American culture,in both daily SR and my SR podcast, and here is the latest. Thanks to social media Americans, particularly younger Americans, no longer b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/)
2023-11-21T10:20:00Z	**It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk**
Michael Tomasky,  Editor  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Michael Tomasky, in my opinion, has made the correct assessment of Trump. My only difference with Tomasky is that he does not address the deeper issue and that is the large percentage of Americans who are racist, male dominant, christofascists. How else to explain that in spite of his actions, his blatant criminality, and his words, T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/its-official-with-vermin-trump-is-now-using-straight-up-nazi-talk/)
2023-11-21T10:25:00Z	**2024 House Appropriations Bills Slash Vital Programs**
David Reich,   Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is an excellent assessment of what is happening with Appropriation Bills in Congress and the devastation the Republicans seek to impose on middle class and poor families. It is horrible, and if you vote Republican be prepared to have your life seriously degraded._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/2024-house-appropriations-bills-slash-vital-programs/)
2023-11-21T10:35:00Z	**The Great Carbon Divide**
Jonathan Watts, Ellen Wishart, Rich Cousins, Alessia Amitrano and Pip Burkett,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This the latest report on the grotesque wealth inequality currently shaping the world, it is the worst in over a century. In the United States as of 2023, there are a 735 billionaires and 22 million millionaires. In contrast, the average median income in the U.S. is $67,521, but in some Southern Red states it is only %50,000. That means there are people w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/the-great-carbon-divide/)
2023-11-21T10:30:00Z	**How Big Tech Generated Billions In Fines… Then Didn’t Pay Them**
Joseph Boyle and Peter Murphy,  Staff Writers  -  Barron's / Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: Part of the wealth inequality crisis that plagues the world is that corporate interests, which control governments through various kinds of bribery, are increasingly just disregarding fines they incur from breaking the law. Here is an example of what I mean._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-conte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/how-big-tech-generated-billions-in-fines-then-didnt-pay-them/)
2023-11-22T10:20:00Z	**‘Climate Change Is Here’: Every Part of the U.S. Will Suffer Climate-Related Disasters, Report Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I continue to read Republican websites and publications and what notably stands out for me is the continued climate denialism. Climate change is not a political argument, it is a scientific reality, and whether you believe in it or not it is still happening and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/climate-change-is-here-every-part-of-the-u-s-will-suffer-climate-related-disasters-report-finds/)
2023-11-22T10:25:00Z	**Pentagon Failes Sixth Audit in a Row, Claiming “Progress Sort of Beneath the Surface”**
Ken Klippenstein,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The miitary-industrial complex, as President Eisenhower warned, is beyond corruption. Americans spend via their taxes more on the military-industrial complex than the budgets of the next seven nations of the world combined. It has become a legitimized vampire scam whose corporations suck more money  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/pentagon-failes-sixth-audit-in-a-row-claiming-progress-sort-of-beneath-the-surface/)
2023-11-22T10:35:00Z	**The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming**
MADELINE OSTRANDER ,  Science Writer  -  Undark

_Stephan: Here is a good essay on the struggle going on about climate change. You would think this would be a simple issue, but it isn't. Greed for profit and just unhappiness about change itself has made this issue far more complicated than it needed to be._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-54.jpg)_A levee on the M ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/the-fervent-debate-over-the-best-way-to-confront-global-warming/)
2023-11-22T10:30:00Z	**40% of Americans are afraid to walk alone at night — most in decades, poll says**
Brendan Rascius,  Reporter  -  Miami Herald

_Stephan: Over my life I have travelled to 119 countries, including several involved in war or civil violence. Some I have especially enjoyed. Some I have loathed. One of the things I particularly pay attention to is: Can I walk alone at night? Japan, China, Sweden, Netherlands, Taiwan, Canada never give it a thought. Argentina ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/40-of-americans-are-afraid-to-walk-alone-at-night-most-in-decades-poll-says/)
2023-11-23T10:20:00Z	**Talk of “Border Crisis” Is Misleading. The Real Crisis Is US-Imposed Poverty**
C.J. Polychroniou ,    -  truthout

_Stephan: This is the most sensible thing I have read about the immigration issue in many months. The corporate media has made a complete hash of this trend, and most peopledo not have a correct understanding of what is going on. This interview will being clarity and accuracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/talk-of-border-crisis-is-misleading-the-real-crisis-is-us-imposed-poverty/)
2023-11-23T10:30:00Z	**How Electricity Is Changing, Country by Country**
Nadja Popovich,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Although it is not great news, on balance I think this should be seen as good news. The world is waking up to the damage of carbon emissions and most countries are trying to bring the use of carbon energy to and end. Not fast enough, but at least they are trying, wand we should all be grateful this is happening._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/how-electricity-is-changing-country-by-country/)
2023-11-23T10:25:00Z	**Food aid for low-income mothers, babies becomes spending flashpoint**
MARCIA BROWN and MEREDITH LEE HILL,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I confess I do not comprehend how any politician with any integrity could use adequately feeding children as a political maneuver. And yet Republican members have been doing this routinely as if it were no big deal._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-58.jpg)_Unlike other federal nutrition programs ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/food-aid-for-low-income-mothers-babies-becomes-spending-flashpoint/)
2023-11-23T10:35:00Z	**Court Guts Key Provision of the Voting Rights Act**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -

_Stephan: Trump appointed judges have just gutted the Voting Rights Act, and what I see is yet another breakdown of American democracy. What is standing out for me is that it is not the political leaders like Trump it is Americans themselves. Look at the polls I think a large number of Americans are not just willing, they want the United States to become a racist male dominance christofascist st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/court-guts-key-provision-of-the-voting-rights-act/)
2023-11-24T10:25:00Z	**Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda**
Robert Reich,  Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and Former US Secretary of Labor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Robert Reich is correct. The oligarchs who increasingly control the United States recognize criminal Trump as their path to power and their goal of turning the country into a racist christofascist anocracy, and you into a powerless p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/billionaires-are-lining-up-to-fund-donald-trumps-anti-democratic-agenda/)
2023-11-24T10:20:00Z	**Poll: Gun ownership reaches record high with American electorate**
Alexandra Marquez,  Political Researcher  -  NBC News

_Stephan: Forty percent of Americans are afraid to walk down a dark street alone. The main cause of childhood death in the United States is a bullet in the child's body. And we have a gun psychosis as this article describes. For God's sake what kind of country are we becoming?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Scre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/poll-gun-ownership-reaches-record-high-with-american-electorate/)
2023-11-24T10:30:00Z	**Neocolonialism: Pillaging the Earth for the ‘Climate’**
Christopher Ketcham,  Contributing Editor  -  truthdig

_Stephan: This, in contrast to the earlier story, is exactly the wrong way to go into the future. This is the corporate greed led by greedy individuals, that is destroying the earth's ecosystems and threatening the very existence of human society._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-60.png)_The pipeline takes aim at the camp. Credit: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/neocolonialism-pillaging-the-earth-for-the-climate/)
2023-11-24T10:35:00Z	**Ecosystems as Infrastructure: A New Way of Looking at Climate Resilience**
RICHARD SCHIFFMAN,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: This, in my opinion, is the attitude and approach we must adopt to survive as a functioning society as climate change fundamentally alters earth's ecosystems. If we fail to learn this lesson we are going to experience much misery and death that could have been avoided._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/ecosystems-as-infrastructure-a-new-way-of-looking-at-climate-resilience/)
2023-11-25T10:30:00Z	**The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.**
Timothy Noah,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Here is yet another aspect of the Red Blue schism. Doctors, nurses, professors, teachers,librarians are emigrating out of Red states to Blue ones, as this report details. The result is that like water in the preceding article, a growing brain drain is yet another aspect of the increasing inferiority of the quality of life in states controll ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/the-red-state-brain-drain-isnt-coming-its-happening-right-now/)
2023-11-25T10:25:00Z	**El Paso Residents Say “Border Crisis” Is Manufactured, Reject Militarization**
Sam Carliner,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I have been wondering for some time whether the whole migrant southern border business is as the MAGAts describe it, or yet another racist hate lie begun by criminal Trump and used by MAGAt governors DeSantis and Abbott to stoke racism and fear. Well, here is what seems the real answer._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/el-paso-residents-say-border-crisis-is-manufactured-reject-militarization/)
2023-11-25T10:20:00Z	**US coal power plants killed at least 460,000 people in past 20 years – report**
Nina Lakhani,  Climate Justice Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of the damage coal burning does to humans that you may never have ever heard of. This is the first story in the media I have seen. Four hundred and sixty thousand people, think about all those lives destroyed, how many families left in grief. Why can our society not seem to understan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/us-coal-power-plants-killed-at-least-460000-people-in-past-20-years-report/)
2023-11-25T10:35:00Z	**As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change**
Claire O'Neill, Matt McCann and Umi Syam,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: American greed time after time trumps any planning for long term wellbeing, particularly in Red states, and water is perhaps the most primary example of this stupidity, as this report spells out in great detail. I predict these Red states are going to become largely uninhabitable. If you own property in these states I would start th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/as-groundwater-dwindles-powerful-players-block-change/)
2023-11-26T10:25:00Z	**Wages are rising. Jobs are plentiful. Nobody’s happy.**
Emily Stewart,  Business and Economics Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: I have been doing research on why Biden's poll numbers are so low, inasmuch as most of the things economists usually think positively influence polls don't seem to be working on his behalf. Here is one of the best essays on why people feel as they obviously do that I have come across in my research. However, it does not address what I think is the main  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/wages-are-rising-jobs-are-plentiful-nobodys-happy/)
2023-11-26T10:20:00Z	**Americans think the American dream is dying**
Dave Lawler,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: This is what prompted me to pick the two previous stories. How are you feeling about America? As a country we have got to make fostering wellbeing for everyone our national first priority. That is the only way our children and their children are going to live in a wellbeing oriented democracy. It's your choice how you vote._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/imag ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/americans-think-the-american-dream-is-dying/)
2023-11-26T10:30:00Z	**Corporate America Just Threw A Party Celebrating Tax Cuts For The Ultrarich**
Igor Volsky,  Director of Stop Deficit Squawks  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Wealth inequality has become, in my opinion, the major reason for the deep unhappiness that pervades this country. Because bribery was legalized with the Citizens United Supreme Court decision the tax system has been deliberately rigged by the Congress members the rich have purchased so that it serves ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/corporate-america-just-threw-a-party-celebrating-tax-cuts-for-the-ultrarich/)
2023-11-26T10:35:00Z	**Nearly 40% of conventional baby food contains toxic pesticides, US study finds**
Tom Perkins,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you have a baby or a young child DO NOT feed them baby food from Beech-Nut, Gerber and Parent’s Choice. This article explains the dangers, which are considerable. Either cook their food yourself and use a baby food grinder, or only buy organic baby food._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/nearly-40-of-conventional-baby-food-contains-toxic-pesticides-us-study-finds/)
2023-11-27T10:20:00Z	**Texas Republicans take aim at climate change — in textbooks**
Agence France-Presse,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The greed and stupidity of Republican politicians who have sold themselves to the carbon industries should be seen as legendary. But the voters of Texas don't seem capable to understanding just how damaging these politicians are to their personal lives. What amazes me about Texas Republican politicians is that they seem to think that censuring the textbooks use ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/texas-republicans-take-aim-at-climate-change-in-textbooks/)
2023-11-27T10:25:00Z	**Archaic’: the Tennessee town that made homosexuality illegal**
Ava Sasmi,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republican hysteria and fear about LGBTQ folk I see as a form of mental illness, and this Tennessee story is an example of how extreme and out of touch with reality it gets. It is also yet another part of the Great Schism Trend that is creating two countries in one nation. I predict you are going to see a big emigration of LGBTQ people out of Tenness ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/archaic-the-tennessee-town-that-made-homosexuality-illegal/)
2023-11-27T10:30:00Z	**No Laughing Matter: Women’s Health Is Not a ‘Women’s Issue’**
Stacey E. Rosen, MD,  Senior Vice President of the Katz Institute for Women's Health and Professor of Cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell University  -  MedPageToday

_Stephan: Here is some good news from the Biden administration. Joe Biden is actually going to fund and emphasize women's healthcare, something no Republican President has ever even considered._

![]( ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/no-laughing-matter-womens-health-is-not-a-womens-issue/)
2023-11-27T10:35:00Z	**Paternity leave pays “lifelong dividend” in parental instincts, research finds**
April Rubin,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: I keep telling readers that policies that foster wellbeing are always the best option because they are more efficient, more effective, more fostering of social wellbeing, more productive, nicer to live under, and always cheaper. Here is an example that you probably won't hear about on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, or any of the big newspa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/paternity-leave-pays-lifelong-dividend-in-parental-instincts-research-finds/)
2023-11-28T10:25:00Z	**A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners**
Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Alan Feuer,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It is amazing and very depressing to me, and perhaps to you, that day after day, week after week, month after month, a constant litany of the criminality of the Trump and Kushner families emerges in the press, involving almost everyone who worked or was associated with Donald Trump. And yet none of them are in pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/a-troubling-trump-pardon-and-a-link-to-the-kushners/)
2023-11-28T10:20:00Z	**Antagonisms flare as red states try to dictate how blue cities are run**
Molly Hennessy-Fiske,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of The Great Schism Trend that doesn't get much media coverage. In many Red states their large cities are Blue. So in Red states all across the country Republican Red statehouses and governors, are trying to take autonomy away from the governments of their Blue cities. I think this is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/antagonisms-flare-as-red-states-try-to-dictate-how-blue-cities-are-run/)
2023-11-28T10:30:00Z	**The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do**
Dylan Scott,  Healthcare Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: The United States illness profit system is the worst healthcare system in the developed world -- we rank 69th. But a few states are making important wellbeing fostering changes in their state policies that move their state closer to full healthcare coverage. Do I need to tell you these states are all Blue states controlled by Demo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/the-us-doesnt-have-universal-health-care-but-these-states-almost-do/)
2023-11-28T10:35:00Z	**Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil**
Damian Carrington,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan:
This is what corporate and national greed and evil look like. Saudi Arabia knowingly is trying to destroy earth's matrix of life. Do not buy anything from Aramco or Valvoline._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-68-1.jpg)_A Saudi Aramco oil refinery, one of the organisations involved in th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/revealed-saudi-arabias-grand-plan-to-hook-poor-countries-on-oil/)
2023-11-29T10:20:00Z	**Moms for Liberty Official Is Registered Sex Offender**
Ryan Bort,  Staff Writer  -  Advocate

_Stephan: Moms for Liberty, ostensibly a group of mothers trying to protect their children by devastating public libraries, is now revealed to be yet another MAGAt Republican scam. The Philadelphia chapter leader is now revealed to be a convicted registered sex offender. Do the MAGAt woman in this organization seem to care? They do not. I find increasingly notable that MAGAt Republi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/moms-for-liberty-official-is-registered-sex-offender/)
2023-11-29T10:25:00Z	**‘Explosive’ lawsuit accuses longtime Trump aide of rape**
Brad Reed,  Managing Editors  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Yet another MAGAt who appears of have raped a woman. There is something very sick about the MAGAt view of women, but Republican women don't seem to care._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-72.png)_Screen grab of Jason Miller appearing on Fox_

[The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-staffer-aj-del ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/explosive-lawsuit-accuses-longtime-trump-aide-of-rape/)
2023-11-29T10:35:00Z	**Was the Trump White House Selling Pardons?**
THOM HARTMANN,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann makes what I think is the critical and relevant point. Why isn't Merrick Garland investigating and prosecuting the Trump/Giuliani/Kushner pardon for sale racket? Come to that, why isn't anyone being held responsible, why are the Trump trials running on for almost three years? These people are destroying our democracy in front of our eyes._

![](https://www.schwartzr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/was-the-trump-white-house-selling-pardons/)
2023-11-29T10:30:00Z	**In Alabama, another small-town paper hit in ‘open season’ on free press**
Paul Farhi,  Media Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Yet another story about the Republicans attempting to sabotage a free independent Press. I think that in Red states freedom of press is going to under increasing threat. Republicans don't like a free press because a free press can report their criminality and corruption. If you live in a Red state prepare yourself for the en ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/in-alabama-another-small-town-paper-hit-in-open-season-on-free-press/)
2023-11-30T10:25:00Z	**Dozens of migrants wait at Finland-Russia border after Helsinki blocks crossings**
Anne Kauranen in Helsinki, Attila Cser in Nuijamaa, and Kevin Liffey in London,  Reporters  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Finland which has an over 800 mile border with Russia has had enough. They have closed their borders to Russian immigrants fleeing the disaster Putin has made of Russia. For over a decade I spent a lot of time in Russia, and find what Putin has done to R ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/dozens-of-migrants-wait-at-finland-russia-border-after-helsinki-blocks-crossings/)
2023-11-30T10:20:00Z	**Vladimir Putin demands Russian women have ‘eight more children’ to make up for war deaths**
CHARLIE BRADLEY,    -  Express (U.K.)

_Stephan: Vladimir Putin, Just like his buddy Donald Trump, has trashed his country, albeit in a different way. Russia has become a very sad nation. Hundreds of thousands have immigrated or been killed in the war Putin started in Ukraine that has made Russia's economy a disaster. The only thing they have to sell ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/vladimir-putin-demands-russian-women-have-eight-more-children-to-make-up-for-war-deaths/)
2023-11-30T10:30:00Z	**Republicans continue effort to erode US child labor rules despite teen deaths**
Michael Sainato,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: In contrast to the previous report on Democrat Governor Whitmer here is an example of how Republican governance operates. If you live in a Red state maybe your 14 year old should be looking for a job instead of doing their homework._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-74.jpg)_Workers a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/republicans-continue-effort-to-erode-us-child-labor-rules-despite-teen-deaths/)
2023-11-30T10:35:00Z	**Whitmer Praised for ‘Game-Changing’ Michigan Clean Energy Bills**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is both good news and an example of how Democrats govern. I simply do not understand why Americans, particularly Americans in Red states do not seem to be able to comprehend the difference and how it affects the quality of their personal lives. But they don't._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/whitmer-praised-for-game-changing-michigan-clean-energy-bills/)
2023-12-01T10:20:00Z	**Co-founder of Students for Trump charged with assaulting a woman with a firearm**
Emily Olson,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: The other day I did a report on how the man who was the spiritual leader of Moms for Liberty in Philadelphia was a convicted sex offender. Today the co-founder of Students for Trump has been charged with assaulting a woman with a firearm. Si here is the question. Are there any honorable ethical leaders in MAGAt world? It d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/co-founder-of-students-for-trump-charged-with-assaulting-a-woman-with-a-firearm/)
2023-12-01T10:25:00Z	**Fl. GOP chair and husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder accused of sexual battery: report**
Kathleen Culliton,  Assistant Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The other day I did a report on how the man who was the spiritual leader of Moms for Liberty in Philadelphia turned out to be a convicted sex offender. Today, it is the Florida GOP chair and husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder who has been accused of sexual battery by a woman ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/fl-gop-chair-and-husband-of-moms-for-liberty-co-founder-accused-of-sexual-battery-report/)
2023-12-01T10:35:00Z	**If At First You Don’t Secede**
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN ,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: As each day goes by I become ever more concerned that the Republican Party is destroying our democracy. These are men and women who seem to have no loyalty to our democracy and who seem to care only for their own power and privilege. What is even worse it is obvious that a large percentage of Americans not only don't understand how a democracy works, but have little interest in sustaining ours._

![](https://www.schwartzrep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/if-at-first-you-dont-secede/)
2023-12-01T10:30:00Z	**Consuming content from Fox News is associated with decreased knowledge of science and society**
Eric W. Dolan,  Editor PsyPost  -  PsyPost

_Stephan: I have written at length about the major negative effects produced by social media (see SR archive), and today I wondered how that compared to the effects of watching the Fox fascist propaganda operation, and went looking for some data. Here's what I found. This is clearly one of the rea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/consuming-content-from-fox-news-is-associated-with-decreased-knowledge-of-science-and-society/)
2023-12-02T10:25:00Z	**Japan Debuts Six-Story Experimental Fusion Reactor**
DENNIS NORMILE,  Staff Writer  -  Science

_Stephan: For almost 20 years scientists all over the world have been trying to create fusion as a non-polluting energy source without success. But now there is some interesting and potentially good news. This may be the technology the remote viewers are talking about when I ask them to look at the future._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-1.png)_ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/japan-debuts-six-story-experimental-fusion-reactor/)
2023-12-02T10:20:00Z	**New Battery Crushes Tesla’s Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge**
Jeannine Mancini,  Staff Writer  -  Yahoo Finance

_Stephan: Here is a third good news story, which is going to have a big effect on the adaptation of EVs, and which will also reduce the risks of both the pollution associated with lithium mining and the fire hazards associated with con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/new-battery-crushes-teslas-tech-unveils-a-solid-state-marvel-with-300-higher-energy-density-15-minute-ultra-fast-charge/)
2023-12-02T10:35:00Z	**America once valued life more than guns. How did that change?**
Dominic Erdozain,  Historian  -  CNN

_Stephan: Boy, do I agree with Dominic Erdozain. The people of the United States are suffering from a national form of mental illness. We have a gun psychosis, and we are willing to see tens of thousands of us die from gunfire every year. What country other than the U.S. would tolerate that the largest cause of childhood death was a bullet in a child's body? The Ameri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/america-once-valued-life-more-than-guns-how-did-that-change/)
2023-12-02T10:30:00Z	**Natural superhero fungi boosts crop yields by 40%**
Bronwyn Thompson,  Staff Writer  -  New Atlas

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know for the past several years I have done a number of reports on how industrial chemical monoculture agriculture is destroying the health of the soil in which this kind of farming is carried out. This has all kind of implications for farming and increasing foo0d scarcity. (see SR archive) Well, here is some just reported good news.

If you w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/natural-superhero-fungi-boosts-crop-yields-by-40/)
2023-12-03T10:20:00Z	**Audiences are declining for traditional news media in the U.S. – with some exceptions**
MICHAEL LIPKA and ELISA SHEARER,  Research staff  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: As I have reported Americans, particularly young Americans pay little or no attention to local newspapers and television. They get all their information from social media much of it politicized misinformation. This year researchers surveying this little discussed issue found t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/03/audiences-are-declining-for-traditional-news-media-in-the-u-s-with-some-exceptions/)
2023-12-03T10:25:00Z	**The oil baron running the climate talks — and the US envoy who’s had his back**
ZACK COLMAN, KARL MATHIESEN and CORBIN HIAR,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: I chose this article because it shows the complexity and difficult relationships that impact any attempt to exit the carbon energy era. John Kerry, I think, has been doing about as good a job as any American official could. It isn't perfect, or even sometimes good, but he is at least leaning  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/03/the-oil-baron-running-the-climate-talks-and-the-us-envoy-whos-had-his-back/)
2023-12-03T10:35:00Z	**A Giant Inland Sea Is Now a Desert, and a Warning for Humanity**
Jacob Dreyer,  Editor  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It is happening all over the world. This is the story of the loss of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, but similar stories are happening in the U.S.. Consider The vanishing Great Salt Lake, or Lake Mead. Water is destiny, and human just can't seem to undertand that.The result is going to be great misery._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/03/a-giant-inland-sea-is-now-a-desert-and-a-warning-for-humanity/)
2023-12-03T10:30:00Z	**Fascism and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand**
Stan Cox,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: I think Stan Cox makes a very important point in linking fascism with the denial to make the necessary changes to deal with climate change. We are producing the most oil in our history, and the corporations whose profits are tied to carbon energy are spending millions bribing politicians and buying misinformation ads on corporate media. And, if that were not bad enough, about 30 per cent of Am ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/03/fascism-and-climate-change-go-hand-in-hand/)
2023-12-04T10:25:00Z	**Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels**
Damian Carrington and Ben Stockton,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Yesterday I presented a story about how John Kerry was working with some seeming success at COP28 with the man selected as president of the conference, who is also chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company Adnoc, Sultan Al Jaber, seeking to find a way t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/cop28-president-says-there-is-no-science-behind-demands-for-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels/)
2023-12-04T10:20:00Z	**The Medicare Advantage Trap**
MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM-COOK,    -  The American Prospect

_Stephan: I have warned you several times not to fall for the Medicare Advantage schemes that have and will plague every advertising break on any television channel until the 7th December. Don't fall for these offers. Here's why._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-8.png)_Medicare was founded in 1965 to end the crisis of medical care being denied to senior citizens in America, but pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/the-medicare-advantage-trap/)
2023-12-04T10:30:00Z	**Fevered Planet: How a shifting climate is catalysing infectious disease**
John Vidal,    -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: From my own extensive research, and from my 2060 remote viewing project, I have been warning my readers for almost 10 years that this was coming. We are going to have more pandemics that are going to change the earth's matrix of life. Viruses and bacteria are going to mutate as the climate changes and the ecosystems change to accommodate those c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/fevered-planet-how-a-shifting-climate-is-catalysing-infectious-disease/)
2023-12-04T10:35:00Z	**America’s Adult Education System Is Broken. Here’s How Experts Say We Can Fix It.**
Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby and Anna Clark,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The United States as in most things has the most unequal education system amongst the developed nations. Public education has gotten so bade in America that according to the National Center for Education Statistics 48 million adults in this country struggle to read schoolchild basic  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/americas-adult-education-system-is-broken-heres-how-experts-say-we-can-fix-it-3/)
2023-12-05T10:20:00Z	**‘It worked!’ GOP Senate candidate floats return to barter system to pay for health care**
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is the kind of stupidity the Republican candidates talk about. Just what we need, another Boebert, Greene, or Jordan to name just a few. I think there must be a difference of 20 or 30 points between the IQs of Republican and Democratic Congress members._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/05/it-worked-gop-senate-candidate-floats-return-to-barter-system-to-pay-for-health-care/)
2023-12-05T10:25:00Z	**Mexico Has Become a Haven for Americans Seeking an Abortion**
ABBY VESOULIS,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: This was entirely predictable. In fact, I think I did predict it. How pathetic the Red states of America have become. I have been doing research not just for my daily SR, but for the monthly SR in Explore Journal and the weekly SR podcast, and what has become clear is that America is no longer a world leader in anything but weapons that kill people. E ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/05/mexico-has-become-a-haven-for-americans-seeking-an-abortion/)
2023-12-05T10:35:00Z	**Speaker Johnson wrote foreword for book filled with conspiracy theories and homophobic insults**
Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck,,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: We now have a man, Mike Johnson, who is Speaker of the House, and the second in line to become president should something happen to Biden who is an open homophobic White supremacy christofascist. That is how far down the road to fascism America has gone. It also tells anyone wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/05/speaker-johnson-wrote-foreword-for-book-filled-with-conspiracy-theories-and-homophobic-insults/)
2023-12-05T10:30:00Z	**Extreme Rainfall Increases Drastically With Global Warming, Study Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: It seems like almost everyday now I see yet another well-conducted research study screaming at humanity to take climate change as an existential threat, and yet look at the report I published yesterday about COP28, and the oil executive who is leading it. We are getting very close to the tipping point, or maybe we  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/05/extreme-rainfall-increases-drastically-with-global-warming-study-finds/)
2023-12-06T10:20:00Z	**As Climate Risk Grows, US Fossil Fuel Production Is Setting Records**
OLIVER MILMAN,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Biden administration is not doing very well resisting the corruption being funded by the petroleum industries. Here is the report._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-05-at-5.26.22 PM.png)

The United States is poised to extract more oil and gas than ever before in 2023, a year that is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/06/as-climate-risk-grows-us-fossil-fuel-production-is-setting-records/)
2023-12-06T10:30:00Z	**The U.S. is losing the global science race: STEM worker survey**
Alison Snyder,  Contributing Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: I just did my 13th episode of the SR podcast, and it was about the increasing failure of American education. How is it possible that 48 million America adults are functional unable to read about early elementary school level and 32 million are not competent enough with a computer to do a Google to find a recipe. American adults rank 21st in the de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/06/the-u-s-is-losing-the-global-science-race-stem-worker-survey/)
2023-12-06T10:25:00Z	**Oil, gas and coal interests swarm global climate summit in Dubai**
Timothy Puko,  Climate Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Not surprisingly, like roaches crawling over an abandoned doughnut, COP28 has been overwhelmed by a coalition of petroleum advocacy groups as described in this report. They don't care about your wellbeing, or the damage climate change is doing as a result of carbon energy. All they care about is their profit._

![](https://www.schwa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/06/oil-gas-and-coal-interests-swarm-global-climate-summit-in-dubai/)
2023-12-06T10:35:00Z	**How Millennials Learned to Dread Motherhood**
Rachel M. Cohen,  Senior Reporter  -  Vox

_Stephan: This is a very thoughtful and insightful look at what is happening to women in our culture, Millenials and Gen Zers particularly, as they consider having children and entering motherhood. I urge you to read it, and think deeply about what it is saying. In addition to everything else I took away from this article, what particularly stood out for me was how disordered and sick American so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/06/how-millennials-learned-to-dread-motherhood/)
2023-12-07T10:20:00Z	**As offices sit empty and housing costs soar, some Texas developers are converting workspaces into apartments.**
JOSHUA FECHTER,  Urban Affairs Reporter  -  Texas Tribune

_Stephan: Readers will recognize this trend; it is evolving as SR has described, and it is popping up in cities other than Dallas; I chose this becauwe that city is taking it more seriously._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uplo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/07/as-offices-sit-empty-and-housing-costs-soar-some-texas-developers-are-converting-workspaces-into-apartments/)
2023-12-07T10:30:00Z	**Cost of lead poisoning drug jumps from $3,500 to $32,000, making it hard for hospitals to stock**
Meg Tirrell,  Correspondent  -  CNN

_Stephan: Yet another pharmaceutical ethical cesspit. This is a classic example of why we do not have healthcare in the United States, we have an illness profit system, in which making money is more important than human wellbeing. Except like a few in Congress such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/07/cost-of-lead-poisoning-drug-jumps-from-3500-to-32000-making-it-hard-for-hospitals-to-stock/)
2023-12-07T10:25:00Z	**The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All**
Michael T Klare,  Defense Correspondent, Professor Emeritus of Peace and World-security Studies at Hampshire College and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Arms Control Association   -  The Nation

_Stephan: This is a very smart assessment of the AI trend as it has developed. The only thing that will save us from disaster, is character. Beingness. As individuals, and as societies, is wel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/07/the-pentagons-rush-to-deploy-ai-enabled-weapons-is-going-to-kill-us-all/)
2023-12-07T10:35:00Z	**Has “Corporate Personhood” Delivered America to the Brink of Dictatorship? You Betcha…..**
,    \-  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann and I often agree, and in this essay, he makes a point I have written about and with which I totally agree, corporate personhood. It is the result of a Supreme Court decision in 1886 which should be eliminated as should the Citizens United decision be reversed. This is why the American government has be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/07/has-corporate-personhood-delivered-america-to-the-brink-of-dictatorship-you-betcha/)
2023-12-08T10:20:00Z	**Wirelessly charge electric vehicles anytime, anywhere**
,    \-  electreon

_Stephan: You have read my saying a number of times on SR that I don't think that EV charging will end up being an EV version of the gas station model. Instead I think a system will develop in which EVs will be charged as they drive over the road because the roads will have evolved into a charging system. Well, it is happening in several countries, and here is a report from one such project, this one ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/08/wirelessly-charge-electric-vehicles-anytime-anywhere/)
2023-12-08T10:30:00Z	**The GOP has Declared War on Their New Mortal Enemy: Zoomers**
Thom Hartmann,    -

_Stephan: Here is Thom Hartmann again, and once again he is correct and insightful. The Republican Party is trying to turn the United States into an anocracy like Hungary ruled by Viktor Orbán. My question, and it haunts me, is will American voters wake up to what is happening, or are they just too disconnected from reality to comprehend what Trump and the Republicans are trying to do? I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/08/the-gop-has-declared-war-on-their-new-mortal-enemy-zoomers/)
2023-12-08T10:25:00Z	**Former Confederate states openly defying court rulings on Black voting rights: analysis**
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Racism and White supremacy were baked into the founding of the United States, an historical fact MAGAt world wants to deny and hide. How many Americans even know that of the first five Presidents of the United States four were slave owners -- John Adams being the lone exception. How many Americans know t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/08/former-confederate-states-openly-defying-court-rulings-on-black-voting-rights-analysis/)
2023-12-08T10:35:00Z	**‘A bizarre coalition’: Red and blue states weigh big changes to testing requirements**
KATELYN CORDERO and JUAN PEREZ JR.,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Public education in the United States, elementary through high school, is amongst the worst in the developed world. It is shamefully bad, and now, as this report describes, Republican controlled states particularly are trying to make easier or eliminate altogether testing, particularly at the high sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/08/a-bizarre-coalition-red-and-blue-states-weigh-big-changes-to-testing-requirements/)
2023-12-09T10:20:00Z	**Sixt Dumping Teslas Due To High Repair Costs & Depreciation**
Zachary Shahan,  Contributing Writer  -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: A Tesla owner who is trying to sell her Tesla -- it turns out not to be as easy as one might think -- sent me this to warn other SR readers. If you are thinking of buying a Tesla you might consider this._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-22-1.jpg?resize=800%2C445&ssl=1)

Wowza. For years, we’ve arg ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/09/sixt-dumping-teslas-due-to-high-repair-costs-depreciation/)
2023-12-09T10:25:00Z	**Missouri lawmakers propose allowing homicide charges for women who have abortions**
DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Missouri Republicans want to designate a woman who gets an abortion as a murderer, with her physician as an accomplice. As a result I think OB/GYN physicians will be leaving Missouri in droves, just as they are doing in other Republican controlled states, further exacerbating the already ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/09/missouri-lawmakers-propose-allowing-homicide-charges-for-women-who-have-abortions/)
2023-12-09T10:35:00Z	**Atmospheric CO2 Has Reached Levels Not Seen in 14 Million Years, New Study Finds**
Olivia Rosane ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: As the petroleum industry pours millions of dollars of bribe money into the U.S. Congress to assure their subsidies and tax breaks remain assured, and no regulations are passed to slow down their profits the science community runs around with their hair on fire because of what they see happening to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/09/atmospheric-co2-has-reached-levels-not-seen-in-14-million-years-new-study-finds/)
2023-12-09T10:30:00Z	**It’s one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in**
Nurith Aizenman,    -  npr

_Stephan: Yet another proof that policies that foster wellbeing are cheaper, more effective, nicer to live under, and more productive. Then why don't we do this regularly? The answer I think is that affluent people mostly don't like to help poor people. It is basically a kind of nastiness._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzrep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/09/its-one-of-the-biggest-experiments-in-fighting-global-poverty-now-the-results-are-in/)
2023-12-10T10:20:00Z	**How Mike Johnson Helped Open The Door To Creationism In Louisiana Public Schools**
Paul Blumenthal,  Contributing Writer  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: For several decades now the Republican party has sought to undermine fact based public school education and inject into curricula far-right fundamentalist christian fantasies. Now they have their hero in an office where he can do real damage to education. Christofascist White supremacist Mike Johnson, now ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/10/how-mike-johnson-helped-open-the-door-to-creationism-in-louisiana-public-schools/)
2023-12-10T10:25:00Z	**High-speed rail gets a multibillion-dollar White House boost**
,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is a good news about rail. For many years American passenger rail travel has been notably inferior to rail travel in other developed nations. Like so many things we used to be a world leader, now we are a poor catch-up. But the Biden Administration is making long needed investments that will significantly improve rail travel, and reduce air travel pollution. It is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/10/high-speed-rail-gets-a-multibillion-dollar-white-house-boost/)
2023-12-10T10:30:00Z	**Coral Scientist Predicts Massive Bleaching Events in 2024**
Paige Bennett and Chris McDermott,  Contributing Writer \| Editor  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: While the COP28 nonsense goes on, scientists are issuing drastic warnings and temperatures and the destruction of ocean ecosystems through coral bleaching. Here is the coral warning; it is getting essentially no attention in cable media or most newspapers, and yet its impact of your life may be dramatic._

![](https://i0.w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/10/coral-scientist-predicts-massive-bleaching-events-in-2024/)
2023-12-10T10:35:00Z	**Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet**
George Monbiot,  Columnist  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: COP28, headed by an oil executive from a country that has no other income source but oil and gas to keep the rich, rich, 2,400 petroleum lobbyists hovering over every day's meeting. What could possibly go wrong. George Monbiot spells it out._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/10/cop28-is-a-farce-rigged-to-fail-but-there-are-other-ways-we-can-try-to-save-the-planet/)
2023-12-11T10:25:00Z	**How Fat Pride became the new battleground in America’s culture wars: One in six US deaths linked to obesity but liberal states are banning fatphobia with discrimination laws**
TOM LEONARD,  Reporter  -  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you have ever travelled in another country, like Japan or Italy, you know that you can always tell who are Americans because  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/11/how-fat-pride-became-the-new-battleground-in-americas-culture-wars-one-in-six-us-deaths-linked-to-obesity-but-liberal-states-are-banning-fatphobia-with-discrimination-laws/)
2023-12-11T10:20:00Z	**A financial news site uses AI to copy competitors — wholesale**
Max Tani,    -  Semafor

_Stephan: This report, I think is just an early account of an emerging trend that is going to notably transform American media. Newspapers are dying, misinformation has tkaen over social media, and television channels are owned by a handful of corporations. AI is going to be an irresistible temptation because of the money it will save publications. Getting the actual facts about s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/11/a-financial-news-site-uses-ai-to-copy-competitors-wholesale/)
2023-12-11T10:30:00Z	**Senate Budget Chair Rips GOP Deficit Hawks Over Trillions in Tax Cuts for Rich**
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The American wealth inequality, which the direct result of the Republicans rigging the tax system, after a Republican majority of the Supreme Court legalized the bribery of Congress members with the Citizens United decision, is the worst in amongst all the developed nations. There is no other country in which the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/11/senate-budget-chair-rips-gop-deficit-hawks-over-trillions-in-tax-cuts-for-rich/)
2023-12-11T10:35:00Z	**There’s No Stopping the Newspaper Death Spiral**
JACK SHAFER,  Senior Media Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: A recently released report from Northwestern University "found the decline in the number of local newspapers nationwide has accelerated. A key takeaway from Medill’s annual 'State of Local News Project' is that since 2005, there have been 2,900 newspapers that have stopped. There are now approximately 6,000 newspapers remaining with most of them (4,790), weeklies. In 2005 ther ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/11/theres-no-stopping-the-newspaper-death-spiral/)
2023-12-12T10:20:00Z	**Republicans Are Secretly Meeting With Allies of ‘Putin’s Buddy’ Orbán to End Ukraine Aid: Report**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Christofascist Republican American Congress members are meeting secretly with Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, also a christofascist, and a pipeline to Putin. These are the same Congress members who are trying to stop further funding for Ukraine. Here is the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/12/republicans-are-secretly-meeting-with-allies-of-putins-buddy-orban-to-end-ukraine-aid-report/)
2023-12-12T10:25:00Z	**Local elections officials inundated with records requests by rightwing activists**
Jewel Wicker ,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Republican christofascists are already trying to do everything they can to screw up the election process in their county. Here's the story and how the underpaid overworked election workers are dealing with this. I think we can anticipate that the Republicans are going to do everything they can to confou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/12/local-elections-officials-inundated-with-records-requests-by-rightwing-activists/)
2023-12-12T10:30:00Z	**Texas GOP Rejects Ban on Association with Nazis**
JUSTIN MILLER,  Political Reporter  -  Texas Observer

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-32.png?resize=800%2C536&ssl=1)_Nick Fuentes (middle) a White Supremacist photographed exiting offices of Pale Horse Strategies with Chris Russo (right), founder and president of Texans for Strong Borders, in Forth Worth on Oct. 6, 2023. Pale Horse is a consulting firm owned by the far-rig ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/12/texas-gop-rejects-ban-on-association-with-nazis/)
2023-12-12T10:35:00Z	**Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Block a Global Deal to End Fossil Fuels, Negotiators Say**
Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and Vivian Nereim,  Climate Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I don't know why anyone is surprised that Saudi Arabia is doing everything it can to block any agreement at COP28 that would limit oil or gas, and encourage non-polluting alternatives. If it weren't for the petroleum assets under its desert the Saudis would be what  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/12/saudi-arabia-is-trying-to-block-a-global-deal-to-end-fossil-fuels-negotiators-say/)
2023-12-13T10:20:00Z	**How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.**
Manuela Andreoni and Leanne Abraham,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here, thank heavens, is some good climate change news. It shows why creating protected wilderness spaces is so important and can make such a difference._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-9.24.28 PM.png?resize=397%2C600&ssl=1)_Source: Pro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/13/how-much-can-forests-fight-climate-change-a-sensor-in-space-has-answers/)
2023-12-13T10:25:00Z	**So much for the world-beating NHS! UK doesn’t even rank in the top 20 for patient safety – and the US scores even lower**
,    \-  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is a British report focused mostly on the damage the Tories have done to the once once superior British healthcare system. I decided to publish it because it shows once again that conservatives just don't care about fostering wellbeing. In contrast no ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/13/so-much-for-the-world-beating-nhs-uk-doesnt-even-rank-in-the-top-20-for-patient-safety-and-the-us-scores-even-lower/)
2023-12-13T10:30:00Z	**44,000 Species Are Threatened With Extinction, IUCN Reports**
: Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Because, as COP28 demonstrates, humanity just can't seem to be able to make fostering wellbeing at every level, this is what we are doing to the earth's matrix of consciousness. We are creating day-by-day the catastrophe that is going to ruin the lives of our children and their children, but we don't seem to be capable of waking up to this reality. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/13/44000-species-are-threatened-with-extinction-iucn-reports/)
2023-12-13T10:35:00Z	**Climate summit draft decision drops fossil fuel phaseout language, instead calling for reduction**
RACHEL FRAZIN,  Energy and Environment Reporter  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Well, COP28 ended pretty much as one would have predicted, given the conference was chaired by a oil company executive, from an utterly oil dependent country, and there were more than 2,400 oil and gas lobbyists hovering over the conference like vultures. What we s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/13/climate-summit-draft-decision-drops-fossil-fuel-phaseout-language-instead-calling-for-reduction/)
2023-12-14T10:20:00Z	**Japanese Refineries Close As The Country’s Petroleum Consumption Falls**
Jeff Barron,    -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: This, I think, is good news about the coming future._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-14-at-1.49.53 AM.png?resize=798%2C410&ssl=1)

In our [_Short-Term Energy Outlook_](https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/), we forecast the lowest annual petroleum consumption in Japan in 2024 since at  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/14/japanese-refineries-close-as-the-countrys-petroleum-consumption-falls/)
2023-12-14T10:30:00Z	**MAGA evangelicals are like drug users stuck in ‘cycle of addiction’: Duke Divinity prof.**
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: American Evangelical christianity (I do not capitalize the C) is Christianity in name only. It talks about Jesus and his teachings but does not live them or even use them. It is a christofascist White supremacy male dominant political cult masquerading as a religion. From what they say it seems they are f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/14/maga-evangelicals-are-like-drug-users-stuck-in-cycle-of-addiction-duke-divinity-prof/)
2023-12-14T10:25:00Z	**White House announces new state-based gun violence initiative**
MYAH WARD,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is what could be some good news about dealing with America's gun crisis We will see._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-37.jpg?resize=630%2C420&ssl=1)_Vice President Kamala Harris will announce a new gun violence initiative at the White House on Wednesday. Credit: Alastair Grant / AP_

Vice President Kamal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/14/white-house-announces-new-state-based-gun-violence-initiative/)
2023-12-14T10:35:00Z	**‘Old Demons,’ New Stress and the Pandemic’s Surge in Eating Disorders**
Lauryn Jiles,  Staff Writer  -  U.S. News & World Report

_Stephan: As I look at stories like this it becomes ever clearer to me that we are a very stressed and unhealthy society. And very few in Congress either now about this, or seem to care about it. Instead we have the what is almost the worst Congress in two centuries. Each of member gets very impressive perks, lots of status, a six fig ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/14/old-demons-new-stress-and-the-pandemics-surge-in-eating-disorders/)
2023-12-15T10:20:00Z	**Bombshell report accuses James Comer of same business practices central to Biden inquiry**
Travis Gettys,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: No sooner had I read the previous article on Comer than I came across this one. Like criminal Trump, Comer apparently has used his own criminal schemes as the basis for his projection onto the Bidens._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-38.png?resize=800 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/15/bombshell-report-accuses-james-comer-of-same-business-practices-central-to-biden-inquiry/)
2023-12-15T10:25:00Z	**Comer Says His Most ‘Damning Evidence’ Against Biden Is a Long-Debunked Conspiracy Theory**
David Badash,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: It is hard to tell whether MAGAt Republican Representative James Comer of Kentucky is as stupid as he sounds, or whether he knows better and just lies. This is what the Republicans are focused on instead of actually doing their jobs for the people who voted them into office. Either way I do wis ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/15/comer-says-his-most-damning-evidence-against-biden-is-a-long-debunked-conspiracy-theory/)
2023-12-15T10:35:00Z	**In U.S., Physical Health Plummets After the Pandemic**
DAN WITTERS,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The Gallup Organization gives us, sadly, more bad news about the health trends in the United States. These are the facts, and we need to face them. As I wrote yesterday we have become a sick country, and I think this in large measure is because our Congress, and the Red state legislatures are under the control of the Republican MAGAt cult and are doing virtually nothing ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/15/in-u-s-physical-health-plummets-after-the-pandemic/)
2023-12-15T10:30:00Z	**Shadow majority: House Democrats outvoted GOP on every major bill passed**
Stef W. Kight,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Again, here are the facts. What little that got done in the present Congress happened because of the Democrats. I don't understand why this seems to be so hard for people to understand._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-14-at-8.52.01 PM.png?resize=847%2C372&ssl=1)

Republican ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/15/shadow-majority-house-democrats-outvoted-gop-on-every-major-bill-passed/)
2023-12-16T10:20:00Z	**Florida Lawmaker Declares 16 Year Olds Are ‘Not Children’ But ‘Youth Workers’ Amid Labor Shortage**
David Badash,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: One of the biggest scare factors used by Republicans to manipulate their MAGAt world is fear of immigrants. Like almost everything Republican officials say it is a lie. But what it is resulting in is their attempt to allow child labor to be legal once again. The Republicans, I thi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/16/florida-lawmaker-declares-16-year-olds-are-not-children-but-youth-workers-amid-labor-shortage/)
2023-12-16T10:25:00Z	**Why so many Americans feel powerless — and some are turning to Trump’s neofascism**
Robert Reich,  Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have been telling you, my readers, about the legalization of bribery as a result of the Citizens United decision, and what it has done to the country. Now Robert Reich confirms that he views this in the same way I do. We need to have ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/16/why-so-many-americans-feel-powerless-and-some-are-turning-to-trumps-neofascism/)
2023-12-16T10:30:00Z	**The GOP has Adopted Orbán as their Official Role Model – Here’s Why That’s Scary…**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann, in my opinion, is absolutely correct. The Republican Party wants to turn America into an anocracy, what Viktor Orbán has done to Hungary. That should disgust and anger you. It is time for Americans who care about the United States remaining a democracy stand up and call these scum out, and vo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/16/the-gop-has-adopted-orban-as-their-official-role-model-heres-why-thats-scary/)
2023-12-16T10:35:00Z	**Immusoft Administers the First Engineered B Cell in a Human Clinical Trial**
,    \-  Business Wire

_Stephan: This is potentially very big news and a medical game changer. It takes genetic engineering to a new level and begins a trend in medicine whose implications provide a new approach. Sean Ainsworth, CEO, Immusoft the research company that did this said, “This is the first patient in the world to receive an engineered B cell therapy – a major accom ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/16/immusoft-administers-the-first-engineered-b-cell-in-a-human-clinical-trial/)
2023-12-17T10:20:00Z	**Texas could vote on referendum to secede from the United States this spring**
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Texas MAGAt Republicans want Texas to secede and become a separate country again, and they think they have enough voter support to do it. Personally, if the voters of Texas vote to pass this referendum, I think they should be allowed to do secede. Within five years Texas will become a third world country. One-third of the Tex ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/17/texas-could-vote-on-referendum-to-secede-from-the-united-states-this-spring/)
2023-12-17T10:30:00Z	**Homelessness in the U.S. jumped to record level in 2023, government says**
April Rubin,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Because wellbeing is not a national priority except to make the rich richer, less regulated, and more powerful, homelessness is another one of the growing negative trends that define the United States. Here are the actual facts as to how bad homelessness has become in America. I think we should be ashamed of what is happening._

![](https://i0.wp.c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/17/homelessness-in-the-u-s-jumped-to-record-level-in-2023-government-says/)
2023-12-17T10:35:00Z	**Billionaires Are Bankrolling Judges’ Luxury Travel**
Andrew Perez,    -  The Lever

_Stephan: The level of corruption in the United States us mind-boggling, not jujst the Congress and state legislatures, but all levels of the judiciary. Corporate media, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox propaganda, NewsMax propaganda, barely cover any of this. What I find partcularly offensive is the corruption of George Mason university. As it happens I am a Mason scholar (see the Smithsonian website and sea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/17/billionaires-are-bankrolling-judges-luxury-travel/)
2023-12-18T10:20:00Z	**Teachers sue Florida over pronoun restrictions in schools**
ANDREW ATTERBURY,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Florida is a state with all kinds of problems that are not being properly addressed, including it is almost impossible in many areas to buy home insurance. None of that seems to matter to MAGAt De Santis and his colleagues. What they are focused on, obsessed with one could say, are pronouns. This is what is going on in the state._

![](https://i0.wp.com/ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/18/teachers-sue-florida-over-pronoun-restrictions-in-schools/)
2023-12-18T10:25:00Z	**How Putin Turned a Western Boycott Into a Bonanza**
Paul Sonne and Rebecca R. Ruiz,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is the first fact-based assessment of what has actually happened in Russia as a result of Western Companies leaving. It looks like Putin outplayed the West, at least in the short term. But I must say, those Western corporations did the right thing morally. In the interest of full disclosure when Putin came to power I sold, I believe to KGB operat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/18/how-putin-turned-a-western-boycott-into-a-bonanza/)
2023-12-18T10:35:00Z	**US Groundwater Is Being Shipped Overseas**
MICHAEL MECHANIC,  Senior Editor  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Western states are experiencing growing water difficulties, and yet they continue to ship out a high percentage of their water in the form of alfalfa a water intensive crop. It is an aspect of the water issue that has received almost no consideration in corporate media, but it is going to affect millions of people. We, as a country, just are not thinking about water in a comprehen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/18/us-groundwater-is-being-shipped-overseas/)
2023-12-18T10:30:00Z	**A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married**
Richard Fry,  Senior Researcher  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: In the 1970s when I was a part of several academic futurist research groups the big issue on all of them was over-population and lack of resources. So much for academic futurism. The reality is we do not have a sustainable birthrate. That is more people die than are born. Women are also having children later than their ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/18/a-record-high-share-of-40-year-olds-in-the-u-s-have-never-been-married/)
2023-12-19T10:25:00Z	**Body Cameras Were Sold as a Tool of Police Reform. Ten Years Later, Most of the Footage is Kept From Public View**
Umar Farooq,    -

_Stephan: American police are the least educated, least trained, most violent, and least accountable of all the police in other developed nations. The idea for body cameras was excellent but, as this report describes, it was never really put into practice as originally planned. The kill ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/19/body-cameras-were-sold-as-a-tool-of-police-reform-ten-years-later-most-of-the-footage-is-kept-from-public-view/)
2023-12-19T10:20:00Z	**Plan by Trump appointee still overseeing USPS could ‘destroy the postal service’: workers**
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Have you noticed how long it take a first class letter to get where you mail it? Or how much it now costs? I do not understand why Biden has not dealt with DeJoy, an appointee of criminal Trump, who owns a company which is in competition with the Postal Service._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzrep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/19/plan-by-trump-appointee-still-overseeing-usps-could-destroy-the-postal-service-workers/)
2023-12-19T10:30:00Z	**Defeating Trump Is Just a Start**
Jamelle Bouie,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Jamelle Bouie lays it out. Criminal Trump is just the leader. It is the troops, the White minority for fascism, that are the problem. The only way we are going to keep a country we recognize is rewrite the tax laws, so the rich are not favored, and to make fostering wellbeing the core value of all social policies, a massive rewrite of our laws just as happened with Roosevelt after WWII._

![](https://i0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/19/defeating-trump-is-just-a-start/)
2023-12-19T10:35:00Z	**‘Poisoning the blood’ of US: Trump’s harsh words grow support among likely Iowa caucusgoers**
Galen Bacharier,  Reporter  -  Des Moines Register

_Stephan: I think it time for each of us who want democracy to survive to realize that there is a very strong chance that the United States is likely to become a fascist dictatorship if criminal Trump is re-elected as President, and there is a considerable probability that may happen unless you an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/19/poisoning-the-blood-of-us-trumps-harsh-words-grow-support-among-likely-iowa-caucusgoers/)
2023-12-20T10:20:00Z	**It’s Official: GOP House did a whole lot of nothing this year**
Joan McCarter,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: As this article describes, this is one of the worst House of Representatives in over 200 years. The MAGAt Republicans control it and it has been a catastrophe for the country. Why? Because Republicans are not interested in fostering wellbeing in the United States. They are only interested in personal greed and personal and party power. I would say they ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/20/its-official-gop-house-did-a-whole-lot-of-nothing-this-year/)
2023-12-20T10:30:00Z	**Gen Z has discovered a whole new source for news**
Dan Whateley,  Senior Media Reporter  -  Business Insider

_Stephan: Newspapers are dying all over the country, which means that local coverage good and bad, is largely just disappearing. Instead it is being replaced with social media, and particularly TikTok, and that is where GenZers are getting what passes for news. The fact is that Americans are appallingly ignorant of any accurate understanding of the actual facts about new ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/20/gen-z-has-discovered-a-whole-new-source-for-news/)
2023-12-20T10:25:00Z	**The ridiculously stupid reason the US is letting animals spiral toward oblivion**
Benji Jones,   Senior Environmental Reporter  -  Vox

_Stephan: Yet another example of the corruption and failure of the federal government. Neither the Presidency nor the Congress seems to understand the importance and urgency of protecting the earth's matrix of life. Future generations are going to hate us for our stupidity and greed._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.sch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/20/the-ridiculously-stupid-reason-the-us-is-letting-animals-spiral-toward-oblivion/)
2023-12-20T10:35:00Z	**Is the US going to approve the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth?**
Roishetta Ozane and Bill McKibben,  Contributing Writers  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: We are about to see how serious Biden is about climate change. It is a clear case of it's not what he says, it is what he does._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-50.png?resize=800%2C480&ssl=1)_‘The CP2 terminal in Cameron parish, Louisia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/20/is-the-us-going-to-approve-the-single-biggest-fossil-fuel-expansion-on-earth/)
2023-12-21T10:20:00Z	**FULL CHARGE: New road plans promise to ‘charge electric vehicles while driving’ – people are calling it a ‘tremendous evolution’**
Jacob Willeford,  Reporter  -  The U.S. Sun

_Stephan: I told you this was coming, and here it is. I think this is where EV charging is heading. The gas station network model was almost mandatory for internal combustion engines, but not suited for EVs. How ironic that it is star ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/21/full-charge-new-road-plans-promise-to-charge-electric-vehicles-while-driving-people-are-calling-it-a-tremendous-evolution/)
2023-12-21T10:25:00Z	**Favorable views of Supreme Court fall to historic low**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-53.png?resize=381%2C600&ssl=1)

Following a series of high-profile rulings addressing such issues as affirmative action, LGBTQ rights and student loans, the share of Americans with a favorable opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to its lowest point in public opinion surveys dating to 1987.

Fewer than half of A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/21/favorable-views-of-supreme-court-fall-to-historic-low/)
2023-12-21T10:30:00Z	**Why are Americans getting shorter?**
Andrew Van Dam,   Department of Data columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is yet another, and very surprising, to me at least, negative trend going on in the United States. We are getting shorter and fatter, less healthy, and with shorter lives, and a declining democracy compared to people in other nations. I don't know how much clearer one could get that the United States is on the wrong track. Our only social priority is cultivating greed and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/21/why-are-americans-getting-shorter/)
2023-12-21T10:35:00Z	**From powerhouse to afterthought: US Steel, once a symbol of America’s economic might, set to be sold to Japanese rival**
Chris Isidore,  Reporter  -  CNN Business

_Stephan: This is yet another example of the overall trend of decline in the United States. If you look at almost any social outcome trend you care to name, America is not only not a leader it is usually at the bottom of the pack, education, healthcare, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/21/from-powerhouse-to-afterthought-us-steel-once-a-symbol-of-americas-economic-might-set-to-be-sold-to-japanese-rival/)
2023-12-22T10:20:00Z	**Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples that must not resemble marriage**
NICOLE WINFIELD and DAVID CRARY,   Reporter \| News Director of The Associated Press’ Global Religion Team  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Pope Francis is doing something yet again of historical importance. It is just another step but slowly the Pope is trying to make the Roman Catholic Church more relevant in the modern world. It is driving conservatives in the church craz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/22/pope-approves-blessings-for-same-sex-couples-that-must-not-resemble-marriage/)
2023-12-22T10:25:00Z	**The minimum wage is going up in 22 states on Jan. 1**
Emily Peck,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: If you live in a Red state your minimum wage may be less tdhan half of what it is in a Boue state. For example, the minimum wage in Texas on the 1st of January 2024 will be $7.25 per hour; if you live in Washington state it will be $16.28. It amazes me that hourly wage workers continue to vote for Republicans who are responsible for this dramatic differential. Red staters have  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/22/the-minimum-wage-is-going-up-in-22-states-on-jan-1/)
2023-12-22T10:30:00Z	**US says it will run out of funds for Ukraine this month**
LARA SELIGMAN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: When you hear this covered in media it is framed as a fight between MAGAt Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and arguments over our southern border. I am sorry to tell that is the least of it. This may cause Ukraine to lose the war. If that happens it is only a matter of time until Putin starts another war somewhere else. He needs a war to justify maintaining ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/22/us-says-it-will-run-out-of-funds-for-ukraine-this-month/)
2023-12-22T10:35:00Z	**See 10 pieces of classic literature banned from schools in a Florida county**
Brad Reed,  Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I don't think most Americans understand the nasty stupidity of what amounts to book burnings being carried out by MAGAts, mostly MAGAt women. MAGAt Republicans as a group are lower education individuals, and the oligarchs and Republican leaders who support these people are on board with this censorship because every researc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/22/see-10-pieces-of-classic-literature-banned-from-schools-in-a-florida-county/)
2023-12-23T10:30:00Z	**Scientists claim they’ve had a 20 minute conversation with a WHALE – and say it could pave the way for conversations with aliens someday**
WILIAM HUNTER,    -  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is a fascinating example of the new trend I wrote about in the first story. It has implications that will change our culture. Research is beginning to convince scientists that all life from fungi in the s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/23/scientists-claim-theyve-had-a-20-minute-conversation-with-a-whale-and-say-it-could-pave-the-way-for-conversations-with-aliens-someday/)
2023-12-23T10:36:00Z	**Editor’s Note — May Your Holiday Time be Happy and Nurturing For You and Those You Love and Care About**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: The current time, in my opinion, is the most difficult period in American history since the Civil War. I recognize that even as I send you and yours my best wishes for a wonderful holiday time, however you celebrate it. Culture is created by individual choice, and if we each commit this coming year to make onl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/23/editors-note-may-your-holiday-time-be-happy-and-nuturing/)
2023-12-23T10:35:00Z	**Science Slowly Accepts the Matrix of Consciousness**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore - The Journal of Science and Healing

_Stephan: In the midst of all the negative trends that are so shaping American culture at the moment there is what I consider to be not only an emerging positive trend, but one which is going to fundamentally change our society and all human societies. The matrix of consciousness is beginning to become an essential part of our view of the wor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/23/science-slowly-accepts-the-matrix-of-consciousness-2/)
2023-12-24T10:25:00Z	**‘Starving your own constituents’: Republicans’ plan to gut food stamps could end House majority**
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: In contrast to Canada the Republican christofascist House majority want to severely cut back the food stamp program upon which hundreds of thousands of American children depend. So deep in the American population is the desire for fascism that Republican voters routinely vote against their  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/24/starving-your-own-constituents-republicans-plan-to-gut-food-stamps-could-end-house-majority/)
2023-12-24T10:20:00Z	**From pools to bowling alleys – inside the bunkers where billionaires will ride out the apocalypse**
Katherine Fidler,  Science and Technology Editor  -  METRO

_Stephan: Don't think for a moment that the oligarchs who increasingly own and control the United States are unaware of where the country is headed and what climate change will mean. They are, as this article and pictures describe, making appropriate preparations. Meanwhile t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/24/from-pools-to-bowling-alleys-inside-the-bunkers-where-billionaires-will-ride-out-the-apocalypse/)
2023-12-24T10:30:00Z	**Canada is promoting child care for $10 a day**
Rachel M. Cohen,  Senior Reporter on Social Policy  -  Vox

_Stephan: Here is another report about Canada. The United States has the worst infant mortality and child care amongst the developed nations of the world. In Canada, again they are going in a very different direction, one that fosters wellbeing. Why is it that all the other developed democratic countries in the world seem to understand the importance of social policies that fost ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/24/canada-is-promoting-child-care-for-10-a-day/)
2023-12-24T10:35:00Z	**Canada to End Sales of Gas-Powered Cars by 2035**
,    \-  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: While the U.S. has a large part of its population that wants and is planning on voting to make the country become a government of fascist authoritarianism, Canada is going in a very different direction and will be ending the sales of petroleum powered vehicles in just over a decade._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-57.png?resize=800%2C534&ssl=1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/24/canada-to-end-sales-of-gas-powered-cars-by-2035/)
2023-12-25T10:20:00Z	**‘They will be refused care’: Inside an American ally’s decision to warn citizens about the US**
ZI-ANN LUM,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I ran a report last August about Canada warning its citizens to be careful travelling, or not to travel at all, to the United States, particularly to Southern states. That warning is still in place, and other countries have issued similar warnings. In the eyes of the rest of the world we have become a dange ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/25/they-will-be-refused-care-inside-an-american-allys-decision-to-warn-citizens-about-the-us/)
2023-12-25T10:30:00Z	**Thinking about quitting your job? So are 39% of US employees**
KATY MCGUINNESS ,  Reporter  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The American job market has utterly changed in the last decade. For starters there are many more jobs available than people to fill them. For another, job applicants are much fussier than they were a decade ago about what they will and will not put up with. Also unions are coming back as workers realize there is power in collective intention. And finally,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/25/thinking-about-quitting-your-job-so-are-39-of-us-employees/)
2023-12-25T10:25:00Z	**Biden Ordered the DOJ to Stop Using Private Prisons. Thousands Are Still Being Held Inside.**
Madison Pauly,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world and, particularly under criminal Trump and Republicans warehousing humans badly, became a big profit center for investors with no ethics or compassion. Biden made an initial effort to fix this, but it has not been entirely s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/25/biden-ordered-the-doj-to-stop-using-private-prisons-thousands-are-still-being-held-inside/)
2023-12-25T10:35:00Z	**Fewer young men are in college, especially at 4-year schools**
RICHARD FRY,  Senior Economics and Education Researcher  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: America, compared to the rest of the world, has lower literacy, math skills, and the ability to solve problems and, as this report describes it is getting worse, particularly as it concerns young men. We are becoming a nation with a population that is very different from the populations of other developed nations, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/25/fewer-young-men-are-in-college-especially-at-4-year-schools/)
2023-12-26T10:25:00Z	**The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment**
Dylan Matthews,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: Here is a follow up report on a story I published several months ago, and it is more good news. It gives us some proven information on fostering wellbeing, and helping the poor._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-64.png?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_Residents of a Kenyan village learn they will recei ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/26/the-first-results-from-the-worlds-biggest-basic-income-experiment/)
2023-12-26T10:20:00Z	**What an Independent Texas Would Look Like**
James Bickerton,  Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: The christofascist Republicans who control the Texas government are committed to their "Texit" vote in March 2024 to secede from the United States and create a Republic of Texas. It is an astonishing stupid play because it will turn Texas into a third world country. Texas is already so badly governed that it social outcome data, from education to maternal mortality is already dreadful, and it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/26/what-an-independent-texas-would-look-like/)
2023-12-26T10:35:00Z	**The Good News About Democracy in 2023**
Ashleigh Maciolek,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: As the year ends there is so good news about the preservation of our democracy. It is not definitive but it made me feel more optimistic to read it._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-62.png?resize=800%2C457&ssl=1)_Credit: Alex Wong / Getty_

Over the past few years, states across the country have passed laws that make voting more difficult and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/26/the-good-news-about-democracy-in-2023/)
2023-12-26T10:30:00Z	**More than 3 million U.S. workers have clean energy jobs, report finds**
YCC Editorial Team,    -  Yale Climate Connections

_Stephan: In spite of everything else going on in the U.S. and all the negative news, we are beginning to create a clean energy infrastructure, and I see that is good news for the future._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-63.png?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)_Clean energy workers Credit: Mario Tama / ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/26/more-than-3-million-u-s-workers-have-clean-energy-jobs-report-finds/)
2023-12-27T10:25:00Z	**‘Deplorable’: Iowa’s GOP Governor Opts Out of Summer Food Program for Kids**
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Iowa is a state controlled my MAGAt Republicans and the quality of life, particularly for lower middle class and poor families, ought to be a matter of embarrassment to anyone in the state who seeks to foster wellbeing. Republican governance throughout the country is always inferior to Democrat governance, but Iowans don't s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/27/deplorable-iowas-gop-governor-opts-out-of-summer-food-program-for-kids/)
2023-12-27T10:20:00Z	**Georgia offered Medicaid with a work requirement. Few have signed up.**
MEGAN MESSERLY and ROBERT KING,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: Another sad tale of the inferiority of Republican governance. I don't understand why Democrats don't deal with this fact-based reality. It is so obvious and so easily objectively verified. Republicans just don't make wellbeing a priority. Their only priority is to protect the interests of the uber rich who rent them._

 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/27/georgia-offered-medicaid-with-a-work-requirement-few-have-signed-up/)
2023-12-27T10:35:00Z	**Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries**
Sarah Mervosh,  Education Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The United States is one of the least literate developed nations in the world, Americans are also the least capable of doing basic math. This is the latest factual data and it has significant implications for our future. This poor showing is mostly the result of deliberate cultural choices in the public schools in Red ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/27/math-scores-dropped-globally-but-the-u-s-still-trails-other-countries/)
2023-12-27T10:30:00Z	**Why People Still Believe Climate Disinformation**
KATE YODER,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: As hard as it may be to believe, given the weather news day-by-day, as this report describes there is still a large group of low IQ low information Americans who read and watch only MAGAt media who don't believe or understand what climate change is doing, and who have been indoctrinated not to trust scientific research. We are facing an existential crisis, and they are lost in MAGA ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/27/why-people-still-believe-climate-disinformation/)
2023-12-28T10:25:00Z	**Trump supporters slam Colorado official with death threats amid ballot battle: report**
Kathleen Culliton,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I think this is a much bigger deal than the media is making it. Trump is using his cultist thugs to threaten anyone who opposes him, and I think that is creating fear up to an including Supreme Court Justices. It is going to take real courage to rule against Trump, and with many judges and justices I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/28/trump-supporters-slam-colorado-official-with-death-threats-amid-ballot-battle-report/)
2023-12-28T10:20:00Z	**Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done**
Sam Meadows,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Uruguay is, to me, the most interesting nation in South America. In the midst of the corruption and craziness of most of its neighbors in the region, vouchsafed by the tens of thousands who are fleeing Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and other South American nations, Uruguay has become a strong largely middle-class d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/28/uruguays-green-power-revolution-rapid-shift-to-wind-shows-the-world-how-its-done/)
2023-12-28T10:30:00Z	**A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide**
Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan and Zenebou Sylla,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: This is how sick and morally corrupt the Republican men in the Ohio legislature have become. This is a story about the abuse of a woman that should outrage every ethical person. I do not see how any woman can vote Republica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/28/a-woman-who-had-a-miscarriage-is-now-charged-with-abusing-a-corpse-as-stricter-abortion-laws-play-out-nationwide/)
2023-12-28T10:35:00Z	**America’s best example of turning around a dying downtown**
The Editorial Board,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: As report after report makes clear the centers of a number of cities around the country are dying. What's to be done? Cleveland, as this report spells out appears to hold the answer. This also agrees with what my 2060 project remote viewers describe._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-27-at-5.59.11 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/28/americas-best-example-of-turning-around-a-dying-downtown/)
2023-12-29T10:20:00Z	**Young Voters See Abortion as Key Motivating Factor, Poll Finds**
Susan Milligan,  Staff Writer  -  US News and Worlds Report

_Stephan: In my view the only hope for the future of America is women voters who think women should control their own bodies, and young voters who feel the same. Will they be enough? We'll have to see._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-75.png?resize=800%2C534&ssl=1)_Abortion rights activists march ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/29/young-voters-see-abortion-as-key-motivating-factor-poll-finds/)
2023-12-29T10:25:00Z	**Experts ‘Terrified’ of AI-Driven Misinformation ‘Tsunami’ in 2024 Election**
Olivia Rosane,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This is what really concerns me about the 2024 election, AI manipulation and distribution of misinformation. Such a large percentage of American voters already believe in MAGAt misinformation that it is not hard for me image an elective majority being created through intensive misinformation distribution. I think American de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/29/experts-terrified-of-ai-driven-misinformation-tsunami-in-2024-election/)
2023-12-29T10:30:00Z	**Once Public Schools are Largely Dead, Here’s What Happens Next…**
THOM HARTMANN,  Editor  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Once again Thom Hartmann and I see eye to eye. White supremacy has been the curse of America since its founding. The strength of it comes and goes, and right now it's a strong and growing fever. And, as Hartmann describes since Reagan, who was an awful president, and who allowed MAGAt world to come into existence, the Republican party has been t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/29/once-public-schools-are-largely-dead-heres-what-happens-next/)
2023-12-29T10:35:00Z	**10 actually good things that happened in 2023**
Izzie Ramirez, Oshan Jarow, and Kenny Torrella ,  Staff Writers  -  Vox

_Stephan: As this article describes 2023 has been a very difficult and ugly year. I was looking for some good news about the year and came across this good news. I hope it is just the beginning of what will become a whole new spectrum of good news trends. You and I can help make it happen if we will just vote only for Democrats. I know they aren't perfect, and ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/29/10-actually-good-things-that-happened-in-2023/)
2023-12-30T10:20:00Z	**Endangered Species Act turns 50, saves hundreds of species**
Shauneen Miranda,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is some good news about what the Endangered Species Act has accomplished. It is an example of why fostering wellbeing at every level produces overall wellbeing for the entire planet._

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the [Endangered Species Act](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/25/emperor-penguin-endangered-species-act-protections) — one of the U.S. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/30/endangered-species-act-turns-50-saves-hundreds-of-species/)
2023-12-30T10:30:00Z	**Want to know if your future home might flood? These states are requiring disclosure.**
Brady Dennis,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It is beginning to dawn on people that before you buy a property you would be wise to you find out what climate change is going to do to that property. Here is some possibly useful information that may help._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-76.png?resize=8 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/30/want-to-know-if-your-future-home-might-flood-these-states-are-requiring-disclosure/)
2023-12-30T10:25:00Z	**Public Christian schools? Leonard Leo’s allies advance a new cause**
HEIDI PRZYBYLA,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is what the MAGAt christofascists want to do with America's public schools. They have been at this for years, and think they are getting close to accomplishing their goal. They want you and I to fund the indoctrination of our children to turn them into christofascists. Our public education is already one of the worst systems in the devel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/30/public-christian-schools-leonard-leos-allies-advance-a-new-cause/)
2023-12-30T10:35:00Z	**Media Confidence in U.S. Matches 2016 Record Low**
MEGAN BRENAN,  Research Consultant  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Americans have very little trust in the corporate media, and even less in the Congress and Supreme Court. I take this as signs of a dying society, caused by greed, corruption, and lack of ethics. The only thing that is going to change this is how we vote in November. It has to be for Democrats. Not because they are anything close to perfect but because we a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/30/media-confidence-in-u-s-matches-2016-record-low/)
2023-12-31T10:25:00Z	**Poll: Discrimination against Asian Americans is rampant but ignored**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-30-at-6.50.00 PM.png?resize=845%2C837&ssl=1)

Asian Americans continue to face widespread discrimination, which is exacerbated by fears that the broader public doesn’t particularly care, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

**Why it matters:** Asian Americans are  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/31/poll-discrimination-against-asian-americans-is-rampant-but-ignored/)
2023-12-31T10:20:00Z	**The link between climate change and a spate of rare disease outbreaks in 2023**
Zoya Teirstein,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: I told you this was going to happen and now it has. Covid is far from the last pandemic. Because we are not taking climate change seriously enough viruses and pathogens are going to spread and mutate to accommodate their changed environments. A lot of people are going to die as a result. Here is the first report I have se ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/31/the-link-between-climate-change-and-a-spate-of-rare-disease-outbreaks-in-2023/)
2023-12-31T10:30:00Z	**Spirituality Among Americans**
BECKA A. ALPER, MICHAEL ROTOLO, PATRICIA TEVINGTON, JUSTIN NORTEY and ASTA KALLO,  Researchers  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Americans are leaving affiliation with organized religion but, and I consider this very good news, they are increasingly recognizing nonlocal consciousness and that all living beings have a measure of consciousness. This is central to seeing all consciousness as interconnected and interdependent and that we exist in a matrix of consciousnes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/31/spirituality-among-americans/)
2023-12-31T10:35:00Z	**House may nullify millions of votes to get back at states that disqualified Trump: GOP congressman**
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I have been wondering how the MAGAt christofascist plan to respond to Maine, Colorado, and possibly other states, taking criminal Trump off their state ballots. Here's a statement from MAGAt Kentucky Representative Thomas Massive proposing one response. If there is a third state th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/31/house-may-nullify-millions-of-votes-to-get-back-at-states-that-disqualified-trump-gop-congressman/)
2024-01-01T10:21:00Z	**Happy New Year**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/happy-new-year-2024-780.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)

Stephan’s computer is malfunctioning, so he is unable to post today’s issue of the Schwartz Report. We wish you all a happy and healthy New Year. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/01/happy-new-year-10/)
2024-01-02T10:28:00Z	**No Schwartz Report Today**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Due to ongoing computer issues, there will be no report today. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/02/no-schwartz-report-today/)
2024-01-03T10:23:00Z	**SR Outage Continues**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Due to the holiday, Stephan’s computer has still not been repaired. There will be no report today. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/03/sr-outage-continues/)
2024-01-04T10:23:00Z	**No Articles Today**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Stephan’s computer problems have still not been resolved. There will be no edition today. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/04/no-articles-today/)
2024-01-05T10:20:00Z	**SR Update**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

My computer was attacked in the night by a hacker, and the damage was so bad I have to get a new one. Right now the repair technician is trying to see whether the Time Machine was also attacked because, if so, I have lost 30 years of work.  This has become an increasing problem as MAGAts and other fascists who do not like the facts I find and publish attack SR. We had over 7,000 hacking attempts in 2023, and it has started again. Now they have attacked my personal computer. I  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/05/sr-daily-editions/)
2024-01-06T10:30:00Z	**Iowa school principal was shot trying to distract shooter so students could flee, his daughter says**
Kerry Breen,  Reporter  -  CBS News

_Stephan: I don't think this High School tragedy even registered with many Americans, nor the bravery of Principal Dan Marburger. American schools are dangerous but these murders happen so frequently that the only thing that remains in people's memories is that schools are dangerous. This is a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/06/iowa-school-principal-was-shot-trying-to-distract-shooter-so-students-could-flee-his-daughter-says/)
2024-01-06T10:25:00Z	**Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Must  Recuse Himself From the Trump Cases**
ANKUSH KHARDORI ,  Attorney and Former Federal Prosecutor  -  Politico

_Stephan: I think Ankush Khardori makes exactly the right statement of why Clarence Thomas should recuse himself. However, I think Thomas and the Supreme Court are so corrupt he won't. I hope I am wrong. It would certainly bolster the Court's reputation, which is very low._

![](https://i0.wp.com/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/06/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-must-recuse-himself-from-the-trump-cases/)
2024-01-06T10:35:00Z	**Record Low in U.S. Satisfied With Way Democracy Is Working**
Jeffrey M. Jones, PhD,  Senior Editor  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: It is my opinion that the reason so few Americans are supporting democracy is because of issues that are mostly not even discussed by corporate media but that affect the daily lives of every American. We talk a little bit about racism and anti-semitism, but rarely that 50 milion Americans are constantly worrying about whether they or  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/06/record-low-in-u-s-satisfied-with-way-democracy-is-working/)
2024-01-06T10:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note — Update**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Using an old Mac laptop I hadn't used in years, I have jury-rigged a way to get SR back into publication. It is clunky and not easy, I cannot hook everything up, but doable.

In 2023, as in the previous year, and the one before that, and so on back more years than I can remember attempts to hack and crash SR have typically run over 7,000 a year. They come from Russia, China, Hungary other authoritarian countries and, parti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/06/editors-note-update-2/)
2024-01-07T10:25:00Z	**Utah Bills Itself as “Family-Friendly” Even as Lawmakers Have Long Neglected Child Care**
Nicole Santa Cruz,    -  ProPubllica

_Stephan: The thing that strongly stands out with Red states, especially states where Christian Nationalism is particularly strong, and Utah is essentially a theocracy controlled by the LDS (Mormon) church, is that they endless rant on about how strongly they support families, yet the truth is it is all a lie. Red st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/07/utah-bills-itself-as-family-friendly-even-as-lawmakers-have-long-neglected-child-care/)
2024-01-07T10:20:00Z	**Supreme Court Allows Idaho to Enforce Its Strict Abortion Ban, Even in Medical Emergencies**
Mark Sherman,    -  Time Magazine / Associated Press

_Stephan: Although an overwhelming majority of American voters in all states who feel women should have the right to control their own bodies the Supreme Court's conservative cabal and the Republican controlled state legislatures have combined to create two levels of healthcare in the Red state ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/07/supreme-court-allows-idaho-to-enforce-its-strict-abortion-ban-even-in-medical-emergencies/)
2024-01-07T10:35:00Z	**Why People Still Fall for Fake News About Climate Change**
,    \-  Grist

_Stephan: Lower IQ + lower level of education + Trumper + misinformation = anti-climate change fanatic. Personally, given what you can see in the media any day of the week, I find it amazing that there are still millions of Americans who passionately believe climate change is some kind of left wing scam that either isn't real, or is just normal climate change. The Republican Party feeds on this, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/07/why-people-still-fall-for-fake-news-about-climate-change/)
2024-01-07T10:30:00Z	**Rising seas could swallow millions of U.S. acres within decades**
Brady Dennis,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is what everyone, including the MAGAt climate change deniers are about to learn. I have telling my readers for years now, if you own a coastal property please take some time to Google what is predicted for your area before it happens. Don't lose your investment, as is already happening to people who own homes and buildings on the Florida ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/07/rising-seas-could-swallow-millions-of-u-s-acres-within-decades/)
2024-01-08T10:25:00Z	**Number of local daily and non-daily newspapers in publication in the United States from 2004 to 2023**
Amy Watson,    -  Statista

_Stephan: American culture is being transformed day by day. We are becoming more ignorant, yet far more emotional. There is more racism, more hate, more fear. I think it is being driven by the fact that we are becoming a majority minority population, and part of the White population does not underst ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/08/number-of-local-daily-and-non-daily-newspapers-in-publication-in-the-united-states-from-2004-to-2023/)
2024-01-08T10:30:00Z	**Largest U.S. radio company Audacy files for bankruptcy protection**
Annie Nova,  Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: If you are like myself and my wife the only time you listen to radio is driving. For us it is limited to two locally owned listener supported FM stations, one jazz the other classical, and neither has much advertising. In the house we listen to our special channels on Pandora. The only time I listen to AM now is when I do an interview. The age when radio  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/08/largest-u-s-radio-company-audacy-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/)
2024-01-08T10:35:00Z	**How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business**
Thomas Schatz,  Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin  -  The Nation

_Stephan: Two oligarchies now control most of what you view, listen to, and read. They shape the news, and define what will and will not be discussed. That's why what you read in SR, or view on the SR podcast is so very different from what corporate media talks about or covers. The American culture is b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/08/how-2-companies-came-to-dominate-the-media-business/)
2024-01-08T10:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note- Thank You.**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I want to thank all the SR readers who have sent me something to help with this hacking mess so that I can make sure it does not happen again because it is going to cost several thousand dollars to sort out. I have already transferred to a new more secure and expensive internet provider and subscribed to two new security services, and then there is the computer. I really want you to know how much I appreciate this su ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/08/editors-note-thank-you-7/)
2024-01-09T10:20:00Z	**Report: Police find a second sex video of Moms for Liberty co-founder**
Walter Einenkel,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: The sleaziness and moral hypocrisy of the Republican Party is so clearly illustrated by the Ziegler story. I don't care if Bridget Ziegler wants to make porn with another woman. What I care about is her moral posturing and attempt to censure public school libraries and control what children are taught in public schools. It is so typi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/09/report-police-find-a-second-sex-video-of-moms-for-liberty-co-founder/)
2024-01-09T10:30:00Z	**Trump says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months: ‘I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover’**
Sarah Fortinsky,  Staff Wrriter  -  The Hill

_Stephan: I find criminal Trump the most loathsome public figure not just in the present day but in the history of the United States. I think of him as a villain out of a Marvel comic book, and can only wonder what the Founders would have thought of him. The fact that millions of Americans worship him I t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/09/trump-says-he-hopes-economy-crashes-in-next-12-months-i-dont-want-to-be-herbert-hoover/)
2024-01-09T10:25:00Z	**DOJ boosts spending on security for Jack Smith**
Betsy Woodruff Swan,  National Correspondent  -  Politico

_Stephan: The United States is in a kind of low key civil war, and I do not understand why it is not a felony crime for Trump to provoke these threats and attacks, and why the people who make these threatening calls and emails are not also charged. It is sabotaging the wellbeing of the entire government that this goes on day after day._

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2024-01-09T10:35:00Z	**2023 saw record killings by US police. Who is most affected?**
Sam Levin,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The police in the United States are dangerous. Particularly, if you are a person of color, you don't want to get involved with them. As this report describes they kill more people than law enforcement in any other democracy in the world. Police and sheriffs are also the worst trained, least educated, law enforcement amongst all the democracies in the world. An ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/09/2023-saw-record-killings-by-us-police-who-is-most-affected/)
2024-01-10T10:20:00Z	**Top 1 percent paying lower tax rates than other residents in most states: Study**
Lauren Sforza,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: According to Forbes Magazine, "As of 2023, there are...735 billionaires in the U.S. The millionaires are more plentiful -— almost 22 million..." The United States has the worst wealth inequality of any developed democracy. The entire taxation system starting with the Reagan administration has been very deliberately r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/10/top-1-percent-paying-lower-tax-rates-than-other-residents-in-most-states-study/)
2024-01-10T10:25:00Z	**Discrimination Experiences Shape Most Asian Americans’ Lives**
NEIL G. RUIZ, CAROLYNE IM and ZIYAO TIAN,  Researchers  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Racism in the United States, which means basically passionate hatred by about a third of Whites for non-Whites, has become a dangerous and nasty inflammation, a kind of cancer, in the national character. There is a lot of conversation about anti-Black racism, but not much about anti-Asian hate. There should be much mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/10/discrimination-experiences-shape-most-asian-americans-lives/)
2024-01-10T10:35:00Z	**Older Americans say they feel trapped in Medicare Advantage plans**
Sarah Jane Tribble,  Reporters  -  npr

_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for some time now not to be seduced by the advertising and getting involved with "Medicare Advantage." It can get you into serious financial and access to care problems. Here is yet another report confirming this._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-8.jpg?resize=800%2C599& ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/10/older-americans-say-they-feel-trapped-in-medicare-advantage-plans/)
2024-01-10T10:30:00Z	**The Fifth Circuit just made it even more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state**
Ian Millhiser ,    -  Vox

_Stephan: Here is yet another report on what I consider to be an increasingly alarming trend in the United States. In Republican controlled states, legislatures and Trump appointed judges are increasingly creating two tiered healthcare systems, one for men, and a second, inferior one, for women. If Trump were to be re-elected I think it wo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/10/the-fifth-circuit-just-made-it-even-more-dangerous-to-be-pregnant-in-a-red-state/)
2024-01-11T10:20:00Z	**Leading News Outlets are Doing The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing**
Amy Westervelt and Matthew Green,  Staff Writers  -  The Intercept.

_Stephan: Everyday I spend hours finding for you material I am sure is factually accurate and not misinformation. It is a tedious and difficult task, made all the more so because even major respected news outlets are being corrupted by the tens of millions of dollars the petroleum industry is pouring into financially s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/11/leading-news-outlets-are-doing-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-greenwashing/)
2024-01-11T10:30:00Z	**Meet the Plutocrats Buying Up the American Dream**
SAM PIZZIGATI ,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: This is what wealth inequality is doing to residential real estate in America -- making it impossible for young couples to buy a home, and turning hundreds of thousands of people into forever renters. I bought my first house in Chevy Chase, Maryland for $48,000 when I was 28, editor of a national magazine, with $5,000 down and a 7% mortgage. I doubt anyone my equivalent today ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/11/meet-the-plutocrats-buying-up-the-american-dream/)
2024-01-11T10:25:00Z	**AI Threatens to Crush News Organizations. Lawmakers Signal Change Is Ahead**
Winston Cho,  Staff Writer  -  The Hollywood Reporter

_Stephan: Here is another report on the growing changes n media, and the decline of journalism as an authentic fact-based information activity. Misinformation is becoming the dominant form of information distribution. It is also radically changing the finances of journalism._

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2024-01-11T10:35:00Z	**The rich now own a record share of stocks**
Matt Phillips,  Contributing Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: The United States has the worst wealth inequality of any developed democracy in the world. Listen to my podcast Friday to get the real facts on how bad this and the horrible negative impact this inequality has on everything in American society from life expectancy to child mortality. This is not what the Founders had in mind when they created the United States._

![](https://i0.wp.com/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/11/the-rich-now-own-a-record-share-of-stocks/)
2024-01-12T10:25:00Z	**House Republican game-plan: Impeach everyone**
Andrew Solender,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: I'm not sure the United States still has a functioning House of Representatives, therefore I'm not sure we have a functioning Congress. The Republican members no longer seem to have any interest in governance, as this article describes. If this same group of people are re-elected in November, even if Biden wins, we are still going to be in a state of chaos. If Trump were to win we'll ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/12/house-republican-game-plan-impeach-everyone/)
2024-01-12T10:20:00Z	**Mind the Gaps: How the UN Climate Plan Fails to Follow the Science**
Fred Pearce,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: The reality is that the main takeaway from the recent climate conference, as described in this report, is that humanity simply lacks the will to do what needs to be done to preserve civilizations across the world in the face of climate change. The greed for profit continues to be the dominant priority. This is why I think the remote view ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/12/mind-the-gaps-how-the-un-climate-plan-fails-to-follow-the-science/)
2024-01-12T10:30:00Z	**West Virginia Bill Could Ban All Transgender People From Schools**
Tori Otten,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: One of the defining characteristics of the MAGAt personality is sexual hysteria. It is notable that this involves more that trans and LGBTQ issues. in Republican MAGAt controlled states there are higher rates of out of wedlock pregnancies and higher divorce rates. MAGAts simply are highly uncomfortable with anything that has to do with sex. And yet the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/12/west-virginia-bill-could-ban-all-transgender-people-from-schools/)
2024-01-12T10:35:00Z	**In attempt to shield kids from sexual content, Florida school district bans dictionaries**
Heidi Stevens,  Staff Writer  -  Tribune News Service / Raw Story

_Stephan: Sexual hysteria is one of the most prominent characteristic of the MAGAt personality. The entire craziness about the LGBTQ portions of the American population is the most glaring example. But it has also become a major issue in schools and their libraries. How crazy has it go ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/12/in-attempt-to-shield-kids-from-sexual-content-florida-school-district-bans-dictionaries/)
2024-01-13T10:20:00Z	**Ohio Grand Jury Decides to Not Charge Woman for Home Miscarriage**
Zane McNeill,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Here is some good news that is getting little or no coverage in media. Brittany Watts who went to the hospital four times because of complications with her pregnancy, was not helped and who, sitting on her toilet the next day had a spontaneous miscarriage and was subsequently arrested by MAGAt politicians and police for abuse of a corpse. She has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/13/ohio-grand-jury-decides-to-not-charge-woman-for-home-miscarriage/)
2024-01-13T10:30:00Z	**“Tectonic shift in power”: How MAGA pastors boost Trump’s campaign**
Sophia Cai,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: The second trend I see shaping the American culture in a profoundly negative way is the transformation of Christianity into a political White supremacy cult that uses the language of Jesus but reflects none of his beliefs. The movement's real savior is not Jesus but Trump. Here is a description of what I mean._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzrepor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/13/tectonic-shift-in-power-how-maga-pastors-boost-trumps-campaign/)
2024-01-13T10:25:00Z	**DeSantis Frames Same-Sex Marriage Supporters as Threat ‘Against Our Religious Institutions’**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: I find it quite interesting that a true spiritual leader Pope Francis is moving the Roman Catholic Church into acceptance of same sex partnerships, while christofascists like Ron DeSantis, who have no spiritual qualities that I can see, are moving the christofascist transfor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/13/desantis-frames-same-sex-marriage-supporters-as-threat-against-our-religious-institutions/)
2024-01-13T10:35:00Z	**Judge hits Trump with massive bill over failed attempt to sue New York Times**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have found the failure to hold criminal Trump responsible for what he has done peerhaps the most important political trend in today's United States. How is it possible that a convicted rapist, guilty a scam after scam -- university and steaks, for example -- and indicted on over 90 felonies still be considered a poli ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/13/judge-hits-trump-with-massive-bill-over-failed-attempt-to-sue-new-york-times/)
2024-01-14T10:20:00Z	**One liter of bottled water found to contain 240,000 plastic fragments**
Paul McClure,  Staff Writer  -  New Atas / Columbia University Climate School

_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for some time about plastic bottles of water because of micro-plastic particles. Here is the latest report on this, and it is even worse than than any of the earlier studies I had seen. This has become a issue you really should take notice of._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/14/one-liter-of-bottled-water-found-to-contain-240000-plastic-fragments/)
2024-01-14T10:25:00Z	**Many Republicans support abortion. Are they switching parties because of it?**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![Two white women with blond hair and two grade school-age boys with brown hair, holding red, white and blue signs that says ‘For preoven leadership/Carol Whitman/Manatee County Commission’.](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/11c473f4b1691480f951e5caa7c741e526f80751/0_0_1096_1301/master/1096.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1)_Carol Whitmore, left, with her grandchi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/14/many-republicans-support-abortion-are-they-switching-parties-because-of-it/)
2024-01-14T10:30:00Z	**Independent Party ID Tied for High; Democratic ID at New Low**
Jeffrey M. Jones,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: This is further evidence that a large percentage of Americans no longer care whether the country remains a democracy. They worship criminal Trump in a way that is unique in American history. It is my view he should as quickly as possible be convicted and imprisoned and cut off from media like any other felon. Will it happen? Probably not. I watched ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/14/independent-party-id-tied-for-high-democratic-id-at-new-low/)
2024-01-14T10:35:00Z	**Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics**
,    \-  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: To be honest unless something happens to change what is taking place in the United States today. I would say we have about a 50% chance of American surviving as a democracy, maybe a little less. Voters are just fed up with the corruption and the noise. The MAGAts worship criminal Trump, I think, and nothing will change them. Will enough democracy supporters turn out. We will see._

![](https ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/14/americans-dismal-views-of-the-nations-politics/)
2024-01-15T10:20:00Z	**Fast-food giants overwork teenagers, driving America’s child labor crisis**
Lauren Kaori Gurley and Emmanuel Martinez,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Fast food child labor violations. Yet another reason to never eat at any of these food chains. Not only will their food make you obese, and shorten your life by as much as five years, you will also be supporting the exploitation of children. Surrely that is enough reason to never eat at these p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/15/fast-food-giants-overwork-teenagers-driving-americas-child-labor-crisis/)
2024-01-15T10:25:00Z	**U.S. does not support Taiwan independence, Biden says**
Steve Holland, Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt,  Reporters  -  Reuters

_Stephan: I am surprised this was not a bigger story in the corporate media, but it was not. Biden doesn't support Taiwan's independence but he does pledge to defend Taiwan against an attack from China, a U.S. position of "strategic ambiguity" dating back to Carter's administration. Given what has happened in Ukraine, it is a position for a future  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/15/u-s-does-not-support-taiwan-independence-biden-says/)
2024-01-15T10:35:00Z	**Dramatic decline in cigarette use among U.S. teens over three decades**
Gisele Galoustian,  Media Contact  -  Eureka Alert / Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine / Florida Atlantic University

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. Young people are smoking cigarettes far less and infrequently developing the habit. I have noticed. this when out in public spaces, and perhaps you have as well. As a result we will see a big decrease in lung cancer. All goo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/15/dramatic-decline-in-cigarette-use-among-u-s-teens-over-three-decades/)
2024-01-15T10:30:00Z	**As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better**
Duaa Eldeib ,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The United States ranks 37th in the developed world in the quality of its healthcare, which is, or ought to be a national shame. And what really stands out for me is that in Red states there are really two levels of healthcare, one for men and the other, and much inferior for women, especially ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/15/as-the-u-s-struggles-with-a-stillbirth-crisis-australia-offers-a-model-for-how-to-do-better/)
2024-01-16T10:20:00Z	**Americans are Angry — and Think Their Leaders Don’t Care**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-15-at-7.04.52-PM.png?resize=565%2C486&ssl=1)

Americans agree on at least one thing: A huge margin say their political leaders don’t care about them, according to findings from the [Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll](https://www.axios.com/2024/01/11/americans-red-state-us-economy-axios-vibes).

**Why  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/16/americans-are-angry-and-think-their-leaders-dont-care/)
2024-01-16T10:25:00Z	**The wealth of the world’s Five Richest Men More Than Doubled Since 2020**
Tami Luby,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Because Republicans have rigged the U.S. Tax structure to specifically favor the rich, we have become a nation with a wealth inequality to great it represents the creation of two different societies. I saw another report that suggests that within 10 years one of these en wil become history's first trillionaire. We have become a country with a we ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/16/the-wealth-of-the-worlds-five-richest-men-more-than-doubled-since-2020/)
2024-01-16T10:30:00Z	**In Genocide Case Against Israel at the Hague, the U.S. is the Unnamed Co-conspirator**
Jerremy Scahill,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Yet another international event which has left the United States with diminished status. Biden, for reasons I do not understand, has been sending weapons to Israel that have killed tens of thousands of people, and people throughout the Muslim world are all to aware of this._

[![](https://i0.wp.com/th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/16/in-genocide-case-against-israel-at-the-hague-the-u-s-is-the-unnamed-co-conspirator/)
2024-01-16T10:35:00Z	**America is retreating from global health leadership at the worst possible time**
Dylan Scott,  Staff Writer for Health  -  Vox

_Stephan: AS a result of Republicans blocking American world health funding, as described in this report, millions will suffer and the reputation of the U.S. will be further diminished. America's status as an international leader is fading like a dispersing fog._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uplo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/16/america-is-retreating-from-global-health-leadership-at-the-worst-possible-time/)
2024-01-17T10:20:00Z	**To Reverse a Troubling Trend, Farmers Are Adding Rocks to Their Fields**
Ann Leslie Davis,    -  Modern Farmer

_Stephan: Decades of industrial chemical mono-crop agriculture has left the soil in much of the United State badly over-acidic, and climate change is just making things worse. This has all kinds of negative implications not just for farmers but for everyone who buys the crops those farmers grow. But a new organic technique is providing an answer, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/17/to-reverse-a-troubling-trend-farmers-are-adding-rocks-to-their-fields/)
2024-01-17T10:25:00Z	**Why the World Is Betting Against American Democracy**
NAHAL TOOSI,  Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent  -  Politico

_Stephan: Corporate media barely touches on this, but I am majorly concerned that what is taking place in the United States is altering not just our culture but our place in the geopolitical world. Listen to my podcast this Friday and next Friday because I share my thinking about the tragedy that is happening in our society. The world order as we have known i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/17/why-the-world-is-betting-against-american-democracy/)
2024-01-17T10:30:00Z	**More than half of US’s 25,000 cities are predicted to become ghost towns by 2100… so, will YOUR area be affected?**
Peter Hess,  Reporter  -  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I have been telling you for years, we are going to have three internal migrations, away from coasts, out of the Southwest, and ut of the central states. Here is a projection that offers a bleak picture of what this may look like._

![](https://i0.wp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/17/more-than-half-of-uss-25000-cities-are-predicted-to-become-ghost-towns-by-2100-so-will-your-area-be-affected/)
2024-01-17T10:35:00Z	**What is ‘new denial?’ An alarming wave of climate misinformation is spreading on YouTube, watchdog says**
Rachel Ramirez,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Climate denialism is part of the evangelical movement. This is what Christianity has become. Fifty percent of evangelicals also do not believe in evolution. Their worldview is an amalgam of misinformation, and willful ignorance, and it is having a very negative impact, particularly in Res ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/17/what-is-new-denial-an-alarming-wave-of-climate-misinformation-is-spreading-on-youtube-watchdog-says/)
2024-01-18T10:25:00Z	**Japanese scientists capture plants communicating with each other on video**
Bryan Ke,    -  Yahoo News

_Stephan: Nonlocal consciousness research for half a century has made it clear to me that all life is interconnected and interdependent. All the beings in the Matrix of Consciousness have consciousness. Studies are emerging from all over the world proving what I am saying._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/18/japanese-scientists-capture-plants-communicating-with-each-other-on-video/)
2024-01-18T10:35:00Z	**Big Oil Launches Propaganda Campaign to Thwart US Energy Transition**
Dharna Noor,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-26.png?resize=800%2C449&ssl=1)_Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Midland, Texas. **Credit: Tony Gutierrez / AP**_

TheAmerican Oil Lobby launched an eight-figure media campaign this week promoting the idea that fossil fuels are “vital” ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/18/big-oil-launches-propaganda-campaign-to-thwart-us-energy-transition/)
2024-01-18T10:30:00Z	**Republicans put U.S. species on ‘direct path to extinction’ with poison pill riders**
Editorial Staff Common Dreams,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Would you please do me a service? Work to get 10 friends to join you, and ask them to get 10 of their friends to join as well and vote only for Democrats. We have to see that the Democrats win the Presidency and win a majority in both Houses. This is not about partisanship. The Democrats have all kinds of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/18/republicans-put-u-s-species-on-direct-path-to-extinction-with-poison-pill-riders/)
2024-01-18T10:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note — Some Very Nice Good News**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-17-at-9.36.09-PM.png?resize=404%2C512&ssl=1)

In the midst of the hacking attack on my personal computer, and the fact that I have to go in for surgery on Friday, as well as all the evil and madness I see every day as I do research for the daily SR and the weekly SR podcast, which leaves me very p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/18/editors-note-some-very-nice-good-news/)
2024-01-19T10:25:00Z	**As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge From the Marshes**
Lisa Held,  Staff Writer  -  Civil Eats

_Stephan: Yet another story about how agriculture is changing to accommodate climate change. The entire structure of the farming tthat produces our food is undergoing radical change, not only how the food is grown but also the economics. We are going to see radical change and it is going to change our lives._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/19/as-saltwater-encroaches-on-farms-solutions-emerge-from-the-marshes/)
2024-01-19T10:35:00Z	**‘Emergency’ or Not, Covid Is Still Killing People. Here’s What Doctors Advise to Stay Safe.**
,    \-  Kaiser Health News

_Stephan: My wife and I wear masks whenever we are in a public space, and I recommend you do the same. Covid may no longer be a pandemic but it is still killing thousands of people. And get used to this. There are going to be other pandemics as viruses and bacteria mutate to accommodate for the climate change we are not a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/19/emergency-or-not-covid-is-still-killing-people-heres-what-doctors-advise-to-stay-safe/)
2024-01-19T10:30:00Z	**‘This Is Not Self-Defense… This Is Ethnic Cleansing’: Israel Blows Up Gaza University**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Something very nasty and evil is taking place in Gaza but getting very little coverage or commentary because the Trump chaos is almost the only thing being covered by most of media. I see this differently, more inline with this article, but with the addition of historical context. The Jews were persecute ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/19/this-is-not-self-defense-this-is-ethnic-cleansing-israel-blows-up-gaza-university/)
2024-01-19T10:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note — Hospitalization**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: There will be no SR over the weekend. I go into the hospital Friday to have a pacemaker installed. Please hold me in healing intention. SR will begin again Tuesday._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/19/editors-note-hospitalization/)
2024-01-23T10:30:00Z	**Childless Future? Birth Rate Plunging as Millennials Decide Against Being Parents**
,    \-  StudyFinds

_Stephan: This is a report is about the U.K, But the trend is the same in the U.S. Young people as I have reported several times in SR are having fewer children because they feel frightened and insecure about the future. The result is going to be a declining population. In the United States, because of the cost of college, we are also becoming  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/23/childless-future-birth-rate-plunging-as-millennials-decide-against-being-parents/)
2024-01-23T10:25:00Z	**‘Shame’: 3 Democrats Join GOP to Advance Backdoor Attack on Social Security**
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: If you vote Republican, and you are on Social Security, you are voting to destroy your personal financial wellbeing. It is amazing to me that Republican voters don't seem to get this, but they don't_

“Republicans are plowing ahead with their closed-door commission designed to cut Social Security and Medicare,” said Socia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/23/shame-3-democrats-join-gop-to-advance-backdoor-attack-on-social-security/)
2024-01-23T10:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note – Thank you**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan:_

I want to thank both for the financial support for SR, which has made a huge difference, and also for the many notices you sent to me telling me that you were holding me in healing intention. I deeply appreciate all of this. It has made a big difference in this difficult time. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/23/editors-note-thank-you-8/)
2024-01-23T10:35:00Z	**Record Low in U.S. Satisfied With Way Democracy Is Working**
Jeffrey M. Jones,  Staff Writer  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Americans of all kinds are unhappy with what is going on with American democracy and poorly educated Republicans are the most unhappy of all.  Unless the Democrats can figure out how to meaningfully present all  the success they have achieved I am very fearful 2024 is going to be the last of democracy in the United States_

![](https://i0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/23/record-low-in-u-s-satisfied-with-way-democracy-is-working-2/)
2024-01-24T10:20:00Z	**Drought Cuts Panama Canal Traffic by 36%**
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Between the Houthi violence in the Red Sea and the lack of water in the Panama Canal, shipping companies are having to reroute their ships around South Africa. That adds at least another week to transport time, as well as tens of thousands of dollars in costs. Expect prices on anything that has to be shipped by sea to go up significantly in 2024._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzrepo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/24/drought-cuts-panama-canal-traffic-by-36/)
2024-01-24T10:25:00Z	**The Guardian view on inequality and the super-rich: the status quo is unsustainable**
The editorial Staff,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Guardian newspaper, which is owned by a foundation not a corporation, is finally willing to say that which is not said by anyone on American corporate media. Wealth inequality is one of the trends tearing the United States apart. I have been saying this for years, but few seem to be listening. Sadly, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/24/the-guardian-view-on-inequality-and-the-super-rich-the-status-quo-is-unsustainable/)
2024-01-24T10:35:00Z	**Men are going to brutal boot camps to reclaim their masculinity. How did we get here?**
Charles Trepany,  Staff Writer  -  USA Today

_Stephan: American men are having problems figuring out what a man is supposed to be, and are devolving to a primitive kind of manliness, as this article describes. They also don't seem to have many friends, I find this very sad not just for the men, but for American culture._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/24/men-are-going-to-brutal-boot-camps-to-reclaim-their-masculinity-how-did-we-get-here/)
2024-01-24T10:30:00Z	**Unionization rate dropped to new low in 2023**
Nathan Bomey ,    -  Axios

_Stephan: The American Union movement, plus the Roosevelt Veterans' Rights Acts created the middle class in America, but somehow this has been forgotten. The idea that workers can improve their collective wellbeing through union actions seems to have been lost, and the result has been the disempowerment of workers, and a growing wealth disparity between workers and management._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schw ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/24/unionization-rate-dropped-to-new-low-in-2023/)
2024-01-25T10:20:00Z	**Around 4 in 10 Americans have become more spiritual over time; fewer have become more religious**
ASTA KALLO,  Researcher  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: A very important trend in the U.S. has gotten only a small amount of attention. One of the schisms splitting America into two countries is that a large percentage of the population is becoming less religious and more spiritual. What does that mean? I suggest to you that what it m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/25/around-4-in-10-americans-have-become-more-spiritual-over-time-fewer-have-become-more-religious/)
2024-01-25T10:25:00Z	**Fear of Discrimination Deters LGBT Americans From Fostering**
SARAH FIORONI and ANDREA MALEK ASH,  Researchers  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: MAGAt world is condemning millions of boys and girls to live their lives in impersonal institutions rather than having caring parents who love them.  It is part of the anti-DEI movement and I thinking is disgusting and evil._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-24- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/25/fear-of-discrimination-deters-lgbt-americans-from-fostering/)
2024-01-25T10:30:00Z	**‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-DEI Crusade**
Nicholas Confessore,  Reporter  -  RSN / The New York Times

_Stephan: This is an excellent article explaining how the anti-DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) movement came into existence and grew to thrive. Particularly in Republican-controlled states, this movement is dismantling fact-based education from K to 12 as well as in colleges and universities. It is a well-funded by billionaires attempt to indoctrinate ch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/25/america-is-under-attack-inside-the-anti-dei-crusade/)
2024-01-25T10:35:00Z	**The Corporate Media’s Deceptive Coverage of Trump’s GOP Primary Dominance**
Robert Reich,  Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley   -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I have noticed the same thing Robert Reich has. Corporate media is grossly misreporting what is happened in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries. I read it as Reich does, although I see it as even worse. Trump is winning but nothing in the numbe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/25/the-corporate-medias-deceptive-coverage-of-trumps-gop-primary-dominance/)
2024-01-26T10:20:00Z	**The End of Europe As We Know It?**
John Feffer,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: The attempt of the MAGAt christofascists to take over the United States is not a singleton event, it is part of an international trend. Around the world, this is happening, and Europe is part of the trend, as this article describes. Because of fear, manipulated by misinformation, the future of humanity is beginning to look much darker, and climate change is going to dramatically affect this change._

![] ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/26/the-end-of-europe-as-we-know-it/)
2024-01-26T10:30:00Z	**Measles outbreaks are occurring in some pockets of the US. Here’s why doctors are concerned**
Mary Keatos and Youri Benadjaoud,  Reporters  -  abc News

_Stephan: The World Health Organization (WHO) has just issued a fresh warning over measles after an almost 45-fold rise in cases across Europe. Epidemologists from the organization said Europe is seeing an “alarming rise” in the spread of the disease, which has “accelerated in recent mont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/26/measles-outbreaks-are-occurring-in-some-pockets-of-the-us-heres-why-doctors-are-concerned/)
2024-01-26T10:25:00Z	**States With Abortion Bans Saw Over 65k Rape-Related Pregnancies After “Dobbs”**
Sharon Zang,  News Writer  -  Truthout

_Stephan: If you are a woman, or girl in a Republican-controlled state with the usual abortion ban that party advocates, and you are raped and become pregnant, you will probably be one of the over 65,000 women or girls who this year had to bear the child of that rape and have your life changed forever. It amazes me that a woman in a R ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/26/states-with-abortion-bans-saw-over-65k-rape-related-pregnancies-after-dobbs/)
2024-01-26T10:35:00Z	**Covid, Year Four**
Gregg Gonsalves,  Staff Writer  -  The Nation.

_Stephan: If you think Covid is over you are wrong, as this article spells out. More than that if you don't realize and acknowledge how badly Republican state governments have dealt with this pandemic than you are either willfully ignorant or just lying to yourself.  Covid is still a major threat and the Republican governance, the anti-vaxxer movement, from RFK, Jr to The horrible DeSantis' quack Surgeon General, have killed hundred of thousands ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/26/covid-year-four/)
2024-01-27T10:30:00Z	**GOP Governors Have Already Sent Troops to Texas Amid ‘Civil War’ Fears**
Nick Mordowanec,  Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: This is what I mean when I say this situation in Texas is much more concerning than it is being treated by the media, and much further along than most Americans, I suspect, had any idea. This is why, to my mind, the Great Schism trend I have been writing about (see SR archive)  for almost a decade now is coming to some kind of crisis, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/27/gop-governors-have-already-sent-troops-to-texas-amid-civil-war-fears/)
2024-01-27T10:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note – Civil War**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: In today's SR I am only doing two stories because I want my readers to become fully aware and focused on a trend going on in the United States that is not getting enough attention and that is leading us to a civil conflict between the Federal and Red state governments that is on the verge of becoming violent -- a modern civil war. It is also yet another aspect of the process that is making us two countries in a single  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/27/editors-note-civil-war/)
2024-01-28T10:20:00Z	**Good News on the Green Energy Front**
JUAN COLE ,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: There is so much bad news in the United States, that I am always searching the world for some good news about a positive trend. And here is some good news from Germany. The Germans, in contrast to the American Congress, are taking climate change very seriously and will see great benefits from their proactivity in the future._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-4 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/28/good-news-on-the-green-energy-front/)
2024-01-28T10:25:00Z	**The Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme**
Alex Kotlowitz,  Contributing Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: Here is another dramatic change in American society that is occurring with almost no media coverage, the racial transformation of the country's suburbs. This is part of what is causing the fear and resentment that infects MAGAt world. There are so many of these trends that get almost no attention from either politicians or the media. I read a paper in the academic literature and go lo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/28/the-suburbs-have-become-a-ponzi-scheme/)
2024-01-28T10:35:00Z	**The News Business Really Is Cratering**
JACK SHAFER,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Small newspapers across the country are going out of business, so there is no one left to cover local news except, perhaps if there is one, a local television channel. Big national papers have been bought by oligarchs who, as this article lays out, are gutting staff, and restructuring the nature and kind of coverage the paper will do. Meanwhile the weaponization of misinformation, from tweets to fake ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/28/the-news-business-really-is-cratering/)
2024-01-28T10:30:00Z	**Divorce in America gets a glow up**
April Rubin,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: The change in how divorce in viewed in the United States is a major social trend that is hardly discussed as a cultural transformation, but along with marriage occurring later in many people's lives, and later pregnancies, and few children, it defines an enormous cultural restructuring in American society._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-41.png?resize=800%2C450&ss ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/28/divorce-in-america-gets-a-glow-up/)
2024-01-29T10:20:00Z	**Meet the communities trying to take over their local electric utility**
Akielly Hu,  News and Politics Fellow  -  Grist

_Stephan: Here is what I consider to be good news. I believe public utilities should be owned by the people they serve with wellbeing of those people their first priority, not maximum profit. And where it has been tried it always works better._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-45.png?resize=800 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/29/meet-the-communities-trying-to-take-over-their-local-electric-utility/)
2024-01-29T10:25:00Z	**Where billions of cicadas will emerge this spring (and over the next decade), in one map**
Brian Resnick,  Science and Health Editor  -  Vox

_Stephan: This is what is coming this Spring. Be prepared._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-44.png?resize=774%2C600&ssl=1)_Credit US Forest Service via Wikimedia Commons_

For 17 years, cicadas do very little. They hang out in the ground, sucking sugar out  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/29/where-billions-of-cicadas-will-emerge-this-spring-and-over-the-next-decade-in-one-map/)
2024-01-29T10:35:00Z	**Two Warring Visions of AI**
Ethan Zuckerman,  Associate Professor of Public Policy, Information and Communication at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.  -  Prospect

_Stephan: Here is a good exegetic essay on the current debate about AI and its effect on humanity. Well-reasoned and detailed but, like the entire AI debate based on materialism. It does not recognize that consciousness is causal and fundamental and that, as Max Planck the founder of quantum mechanics said in 1931, "spacetime aris ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/29/two-warring-visions-of-ai/)
2024-01-30T10:30:00Z	**Measles outbreaks a wake-up call for the unvaccinated**
JOSEPH CHOI ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: I am seeing more and more reports on measles. If you have an unvaccinated child, or are yourself unvaccinated, I urge you to rectify that.  I have had both kinds of measles. Not something I would like to have again, and people die from catching the long form. Also measles are very contagious. Someone who catches measles and comes into contact with someone unvaccinated ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/30/measles-outbreaks-a-wake-up-call-for-the-unvaccinated/)
2024-01-30T10:35:00Z	**China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Because of the Great Schism Trend that is rendering Congress dysfunctional and tearing America apart, we are falling further and further behind the other developed nations. It isn't just China that is leaving us behind, in everything from healthcare, to literacy, to the transition out of the carbon era, we are second ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/30/china-installed-more-solar-panels-last-year-than-the-u-s-has-in-total/)
2024-01-30T15:57:21Z	**Internet Outage**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Due to an Internet failure at Stephan’s office, there are only two stories in today’s edition. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/30/internet-outage/)
2024-01-31T10:20:12Z	**Republicans now say it might be okay to ignore the Supreme Court**
Aaron Blake ,    -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: When I tell you that the Republican Party is trying to destroy America's over two-century-old democracy I want to be clear that I am not exaggerating. Here is yet another example of what I mean. If you care about democracy, if your family and friends care about democracy you must all vote for only Democrats. Why? Because if you d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/31/republicans-now-say-it-might-be-okay-to-ignore-the-supreme-court/)
2024-01-31T10:25:00Z	**Arizona Republican says state lawmakers, not voters, should pick president**
Rachel Leingang,  Democracy Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I think it is time that we admit that about a third of the White population in the U.S. neither understand nor want America to be an equalitarian democracy -- where all people are created equal. Instead they are Republicans, which means they are White nationalist fascists who see women as a subordinate specie ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/31/arizona-republican-says-state-lawmakers-not-voters-should-pick-president/)
2024-01-31T10:30:00Z	**American Values Gone Awry**
John Alexander,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander lays out an excellent outline of how American culture has changed. It is a very sad and tragic outline, and I hope you will take some time to think about it in depth and what you can do to counteract this decay in the spirit of the United States._

Over 350,000 people had starved to death in Somalia. Then, [“In 1992, President George Bush](http://%20https//apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA598979.pdf) de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/31/american-values-gone-awry/)
2024-01-31T11:35:00Z	**Right-wing media escalate DEI panic, embrace blatant racism against Black pilots and airline employees**
CHARIS HOARD and CHLOE SIMON,  Staff Writer \| Researcher  -  Media Matters for America

_Stephan: The MAGAt world has reached a level of racism and genderism, worse in some ways than the 1950s. Something has gone seriously awry with the psyche of about a third of the White population, as well as a small group of self-loath ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/01/31/right-wing-media-escalate-dei-panic-embrace-blatant-racism-against-black-pilots-and-airline-employees/)
2024-02-01T10:20:00Z	**Lucas faces backlash and calls to apologize after flashing gun at high schoolers**
Kyra Howard,  Reporter  -  The Statehouse File.com

_Stephan: This is the level of stupidity to which the Republican Party and its voters have sunk. MAGAt moron Republican Representative of Seymour, Indiana Jim Lucas, when visited at the state capitol by students concerned about gun violence flashed his gun to show them that he was carrying a firearm. I do not under ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/01/lucas-faces-backlash-and-calls-to-apologize-after-flashing-gun-at-high-schoolers/)
2024-02-01T10:25:00Z	**Scientists Discover Stunning Evidence of Multiple Lost Prehistoric Societies**
Mirjam Guesgen,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: There is so much bad news, that I thought readers might be interested in these new archaeological discoveries that rewrite the history of our ancient past. We think we have it all worked out, only to have new discoveries rewrite the book._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-50.jpg?resize= ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/01/scientists-discover-stunning-evidence-of-multiple-lost-prehistoric-societies/)
2024-02-01T10:35:00Z	**Silence Is Dangerous in the Current Age of Rising Fascism in the US**
Henry A. Giroux ,   McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy.   -  truthout

_Stephan: I listened to interviews with a number of Trumpers over the past few days, from teenagers to older men and women, and was very saddened by what I heard. Unless criminal Trump a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/01/silence-is-dangerous-in-the-current-age-of-rising-fascism-in-the-us/)
2024-02-01T10:30:00Z	**4 Million People Killed by Climate Change Since 2000**
ZOYA TEIRSTEIN ,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: I have been warning you for years about the death and misery that would arise caused by climate change. The Republican Party has been blocking significant policies to prepare for climate change, and about a third of MAGAt world still doesn't really accept the implications of climate change. Well, here is a first report. And this is just the very beginning._

![](http ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/01/4-million-people-killed-by-climate-change-since-2000/)
2024-02-02T10:20:00Z	**Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control**
Matt Burgess,  Senior Writer  -  Wired

_Stephan: About a week ago I got an email from a reader who had a friend whose daughter had someone create and post to social media a series of fake porn images of the girl, in which her face had been transferred onto the body of a woman whose body shape and hair color were similar. She said her friend thought it was done by a boy in the girl's school when she turned him down for a date, but no one could prove it, and he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/02/deepfake-porn-is-out-of-control-2/)
2024-02-02T10:25:00Z	**Skipping School: America’s Hidden Education Crisis**
Alec MacGillis,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Here is the factual future of the pandemic generation, and the United States as a nation. We are becoming the least educated, least literate,  least numerate, least employable, and least competent country in the developed world. We have a crisis that, as this article describes in detail, almost no one in politics is even thinking about, let alone doing anything about: Large n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/02/skipping-school-americas-hidden-education-crisis/)
2024-02-02T10:35:00Z	**Fossil Fuel Industry Was Aware of Climate Threats as Early as 1954, New Documents Reveal**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: This article describes the most perverse greed in modern history. It illustrates exactly what is wrong with American capitalism which places profit above all other considerations. Let me be clear. I am not against capitalism and profit-making. I simply think that the facts are clea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/02/fossil-fuel-industry-was-aware-of-climate-threats-as-early-as-1954-new-documents-reveal/)
2024-02-02T10:30:00Z	**Haley says states have the right to secede**
BRAKKTON BOOKER,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I don't think Nikki Haley has any chance of becoming the Republican nominee unless one of the slower-than-slugs courts convicts criminal Trump, and the issue suddenly becomes: will he serve prison time or will it be house arrest, and in either case he is rendered unable to campaign.  But that apart Haley makes it clear, as this article describes, that she is just another MAGAt cultist w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/02/haley-says-states-have-the-right-to-secede/)
2024-02-03T10:25:00Z	**Charles Koch’s Sinister Attack on Regulation**
PHIL MATTERA,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: Here is further detail about how the oligarchs are using the rigged Supreme Court to take control of the country. As I keep telling you, there is only one way we are going to get out of becoming a christofascist oligarch controlled nation, and that is to vote while voting still matters. And to vote only for Democrats. The corporate media won't touch these trends, but the evidence for what I am sayi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/03/charles-kochs-sinister-attack-on-regulation/)
2024-02-03T10:20:00Z	**Largest US Solar Storage Project Goes Online – Enough for a Quarter Million Homes**
Andy Corbley,  GOOD NEWS NETWORK  -

_Stephan: Here is some good news about how, in spite of the Congressional bribery and all the rest of it, we are still slowly making our way out of the carbon era. Here is the evidence._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-4.png?resize=800%2C420&ssl=1)_Edwards Sanborn Solar Storage proje ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/03/largest-us-solar-storage-project-goes-online-enough-for-a-quarter-million-homes/)
2024-02-03T10:30:00Z	**U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried.**
Jules Roscoe,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: It is amazing to me that President Biden has done as well as he has. We have a Congress, particularly a House, that is essentially dysfunctional, filled with nasty little trolls who serve only their own interests. Our Supreme Court has been deliberately rigged to support the rich and the corpo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/03/u-s-corporations-are-openly-trying-to-destroy-core-public-institutions-we-should-all-be-worried/)
2024-02-03T10:35:00Z	**U.S. economy added 353,000 jobs in January, much better than expected**
Jeff Cox,  Reporters  -  CNBC

_Stephan: I was really struck by the power of misinformation on social media. I watched a series of interviews with young Black men who were asked whether they favored criminal Trump or President Biden. A surprising number favored Trump. How could any Black person favor Trump, I thought? He is a blatant racist who did nothing for anyone but privileged Whites.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/03/u-s-economy-added-353000-jobs-in-january-much-better-than-expected/)
2024-02-04T10:20:00Z	**Republican Hits Clarence Thomas With Lawsuit Over His Taxes**
Katherine Fung,  Staff Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: This is a very interesting development. As the article describes a Republican is suing MAGAt Associate Justice Clarence Thomas for tax fraud. It is going to be very interesting to see how this develops._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-7.jpg?resize=790%2C527&ssl=1)MAGAt _Associate Supreme Court Justice Clare ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/04/republican-hits-clarence-thomas-with-lawsuit-over-his-taxes/)
2024-02-04T10:35:00Z	**Threats and Intimidation Are Distorting U.S. Democracy**
Michael Waldman,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: The outcome of the primary in South Carolina I was thought was heartening, and this essay by Michael Waldman also gives me hope that a democracy movement is arising that is pushing back against the White supremacist, sexism, hate, entitlement, and resentment that so clouds our present day. Maybe there are enough of us to push back against the MAGAt scum and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/04/threats-and-intimidation-are-distorting-u-s-democracy/)
2024-02-04T10:30:00Z	**This ancient material is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry**
Marta Vidal,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is some good news, but the main reason I picked this report is that it shows something I think is very important. A green approach to solving a need previously met by plastics, the worst pollutant in the world. This is the kind of approach we should think about with all manner of issues like this._ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/04/this-ancient-material-is-displacing-plastics-and-creating-a-billion-dollar-industry/)
2024-02-05T10:20:00Z	**Ted Cruz wants lawmakers to get security escorts through America’s airports**
ORIANA PAWLYK,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: How interesting. The Republicans having stirred up civil violence to a level never before seen are now becoming frightened by what they have done. They also want to keep their travels secret from the public. And who reveals this? None other than MAGAt Republican Senator Ted Cruz. It is a case of reaping what you sow, and so  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/05/ted-cruz-wants-lawmakers-to-get-security-escorts-through-americas-airports/)
2024-02-05T10:25:00Z	**Abbott Appointee Slams Brakes on American Indian / Native Studies Course**
Josephine Lee,  David McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow  -  Texas Observer

_Stephan: MAGAt Republicans are purposely and deliberatively willfully ignorant. They do not want children to be taught factual history, they want them to be indoctrinated into the pseudo-history they want Americans to believe. Texas, with its MAGAt Republican Governor Greg Abbott, is one of the strongest  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/05/abbott-appointee-slams-brakes-on-american-indian-native-studies-course/)
2024-02-05T10:30:00Z	**Idaho librarians contemplate leaving work–and the state–as a result of proposed legislation**
Mia Maldonado,  Reporter  -  Idaho Capital Sun / The Guardiand

_Stephan: Idaho, like many Republican-controlled states, is a state whose social wellbeing is in decline.  Female medical care is greatly diminished. In some areas there are no longer any OB/GYN specialists. In one city, Sandypoint, the only hospital in town no longer offers Obstet ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/05/idaho-librarians-contemplate-leaving-work-and-the-state-as-a-result-of-proposed-legislation/)
2024-02-05T10:35:00Z	**‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-04-at-5.59.28-PM.png?resize=800%2C483&ssl=1)_Fake research papers could jeopardize drug development, warn academics. Credit: Westend61 / Getty_

Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in jour ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/05/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point/)
2024-02-06T10:20:00Z	**Inflation has fallen. Why are groceries still so expensive?**
Abha Bhattarai and Jeff Stein,  Economic Correspondent \| White House Economics Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Most Americans as the polls indicate have very little understanding of how the government works, or what drives the economy. Large numbers can't even name the three branches of the government, many can't read or do math above a 5th or 6th grade level. What they do know is grocery prices  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/06/inflation-has-fallen-why-are-groceries-still-so-expensive/)
2024-02-06T10:30:00Z	**Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds**
Jonathan Watts,  Global Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I have been telling readers for decades, all life is interconnected and interdependent. Here finally is data proving this, and giving humanity an alternative to industrial chemical monoculture agriculture.  When you interact with anyone in Congress, ask them what they are doing to support t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/06/move-to-sustainable-food-systems-could-bring-10tn-benefits-a-year-study-finds/)
2024-02-06T10:25:00Z	**Pope Francis Rebellion Grows as 90 Catholic Figures Sign Scathing Letter**
James Bickerton,  Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Although it still has millions of followers, with the exception of Pope John XXIII, I have always thought of the Roman Catholic Church as a deeply corrupt, and sexually perverted institution. Now the Church has a new enlightened leader in Pope Francis who is trying to bring the institution he leads into the 21st Century. Not surpri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/06/pope-francis-rebellion-grows-as-90-catholic-figures-sign-scathing-letter/)
2024-02-06T10:35:00Z	**After a Decade of Planning, New York City Is Raising Its Shoreline**
ANDREW S. LEWIS,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: Here is some good news, an early report on a critically important emerging coastal trend. American coastal cities are beginning to learn something the Dutch have long recognized and practiced. What is now called "living with water." The sea is rising, and it is too late to do much about that. But while many politicians ba ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/06/after-a-decade-of-planning-new-york-city-is-raising-its-shoreline/)
2024-02-07T10:20:00Z	**How Forests Heal Us**
H. PATRICIA HYNES ,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: Spending time in forests and wilderness has been a very big part of my life, for exactly the reasons this article describes. Do yourself a favor. Find some wooded trails in a park and a couple times a week go for a walk in the woods. It will change your perspective and your sense of wellbeing._

Korean scientists have confirmed that walking through forest areas improved older women’s blood pressure, lung capacity and elasticity in their art ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/07/how-forests-heal-us/)
2024-02-07T10:25:00Z	**Shock video shows Atlas robot training for automotive work**
Loz Blain,    -  New Atlas / Boston Dynamics

_Stephan: This, I think, is an early sign of a trend that is going to radically change societies around the world, and is going to affect literally billions of people. AI and robots are going to change how everything is manufactured, which is going to radically change employment. What are those workers displaced by AI and robots going to do. Few in this dysfunctio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/07/shock-video-shows-atlas-robot-training-for-automotive-work/)
2024-02-07T10:30:00Z	**DeSantis and Florida GOP Targeting Kids With Cuts to Food, Healthcare, Work Protections**
David Badash,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: The voters of Florida are getting what they voted for, a state government reconstructed by their MAGAt Republican governor and legislature to harm hundreds or thousands of children, the poor, the elderly, females, and the LGBTQ community. Florida is becoming a sad failed state. Oh, I should also me ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/07/desantis-and-florida-gop-targeting-kids-with-cuts-to-food-healthcare-work-protections/)
2024-02-07T10:35:00Z	**The Rise of the American Oligarchy**
Tim Murphy,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/essay-bubble-chart_web_c.png?w=1080&ssl=1)

_When the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not only had our nation become a haven for shady foreign money, but we were also incubating a familiar class of yacht-owning, industry-dominating, resource-extracting billionair ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/07/the-rise-of-the-american-oligarchy/)
2024-02-08T10:20:00Z	**World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit**
Mark Poynting,  Reporter  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is the latest report on global warming. It is not a happy report, and it makes it clear that unless humanity takes climate change far more seriously than it has we are in for catastrophe. "Doom is not inevitable," we are told but it is getting much closer._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-9.49. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/08/worlds-first-year-long-breach-of-key-1-5c-warming-limit/)
2024-02-08T10:25:00Z	**1 in 10 Premature U.S. Births Linked to Chemicals Found in Common Plastic Products**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here we go again. Medicine has known for decades that what are called Phthalates produce negative health effects. But they are oh-so profitable for the plastics industry. Yet one more example of profit being more important to an industry than fostering wellbeing because the people who lead the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/08/1-in-10-premature-u-s-births-linked-to-chemicals-found-in-common-plastic-products/)
2024-02-08T10:30:00Z	**As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires**
DAVID BERREBY ,  Editor - the Robots for the Rest of Us  -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: The AI revolution that is taking place, in my opinion, is not receiving anything like the attention from Congress that it should command. The United States Congress, particularly the House, reminds me of a kindergarten of spoiled brats arguing over who gets to get on the rocking horse. It is the worst most dysfun ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/08/as-use-of-a-i-soars-so-does-the-energy-and-water-it-requires/)
2024-02-08T10:35:00Z	**Joe Biden just did the rarest thing in US politics: he stood up to the oil industry**
Bill McKibben,  Contributing Writer / Founder of Third Act  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Bravo Joe Biden. Finally, as this article describes, someone has stood up to the petroleum industry. A step towards moving out of the carbon era. Will most Americans know about or appreciate this? I doubt it, and that ignorance is part of America's ongoing political tr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/08/joe-biden-just-did-the-rarest-thing-in-us-politics-he-stood-up-to-the-oil-industry/)
2024-02-09T10:20:00Z	**Getting Wall Street out of our houses**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-16.png?resize=784%2C600&ssl=1)_Drawing by Robert Reich_

Ask average Americans why they’re grumpy — why, for example, they don’t credit Joe Biden with a good economy — and lack of affordable housing comes high on the list.

An important but little understood reason home prices and rents have skyrocketed across America — causing so many young people, in  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/09/getting-wall-street-out-of-our-houses/)
2024-02-09T10:25:00Z	**A big idea for small farms: How to link agriculture, nutrition and public health**
Selena Simmons-Duffin,    -  npr

_Stephan: Here is some more good news about what is becoming a growing trend in American agriculture.  With all the bad news we all see every day this trend is one of the positive wellbeing fostering developments._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-16.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1)_A purple da ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/09/a-big-idea-for-small-farms-how-to-link-agriculture-nutrition-and-public-health/)
2024-02-09T10:35:00Z	**How AI is quietly changing everyday life**
OLIVIA OLANDER, MACKENZIE WILKES, KATY O'DONNELL, DANIEL PAYNE and RUTH READER,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is a good overview of what AI is doing to U.S. society. It is much more extensive and pervasive than I think most Americans realize, and we are just at the beginning of this transition._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-14.png?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_Illustrations by Anna Kim / Politico_

A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/09/how-ai-is-quietly-changing-everyday-life/)
2024-02-09T10:30:00Z	**Prison Lockdowns Are Becoming More Frequent and More Brutal Across the US**
Silja J.A. Talvi ,  Investigative Journalist  -  truthout

_Stephan: The United States has and has had for decades the largest number of people incarcerated in the world -- roughly 1.8 million men and women at the end of 2023. And the conditions in American prisons are amongst the worst in the developed world and getting worse. Here is a major trend that is going on in U.S. priso ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/09/prison-lockdowns-are-becoming-more-frequent-and-more-brutal-across-the-us/)
2024-02-10T10:20:00Z	**The US Population Is Shifting**
Michael Sasso,    -  Bloomberg. News / Microsoft Start

_Stephan: Here is an interesting report on what has been happening to population movements over the last few years largely as a result of housing prices and mortgage rates going dramatically up. People are moving into the South, particularly Texas and Florida, two of the most poorly governed states in the Union. I am going to pay close attention to what effect these movementa have on politics in the states wher ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/10/the-us-population-is-shifting/)
2024-02-10T10:25:00Z	**Donald Trump and His Boomer Base**
James Risen,  Contributing Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Here, in my opinion, is a very insightful article by a Boomer generation writer about his generation. I am not a Boomer being older, but I lived through and remember the history of that generation, and consider it a tragic one for the reasons James Risen lays out in his exegetic essay. History is not going to treat the Boomers well._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/10/donald-trump-and-his-boomer-base/)
2024-02-10T10:35:00Z	**In Red States, the Bill for School Voucher Bait-and-Switch Is Coming Due**
JENNIFER C. BERKSHIRE and JACK SCHNEIDER,  Education Podcast Host \| Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst  -  The Nation

_Stephan: The MAGAt Community, working through the Republican Party which they control, is trying to restructure or even eliminate public schools that students can attend without fees. Why? Because they  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/10/in-red-states-the-bill-for-school-voucher-bait-and-switch-is-coming-due/)
2024-02-10T10:30:00Z	**How the Far Right Took Over a Pennsylvania School Board—And How Parents Took It Back**
Kathryn Joyce,  Contributing Writer  -  Vanity Fair

_Stephan: This is the kind of thing that is going on in school districts around the country, and it is not a story that makes America look good. What all this says to me is that unless people who want education to be based on facts not indoctrination in falsehoods, and who support democracy get out and wor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/10/how-the-far-right-took-over-a-pennsylvania-school-board-and-how-parents-took-it-back/)
2024-02-11T10:25:00Z	**US Court Bans Three Weedkillers and Finds EPA Broke Law in Approval Process**
Johnathan Hettinger,  Reporter  -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: Here, amongst all the bad climate news, is some good news. A federal judge, as described in this report, has reversed a decision by criminal Trump and banned a weedkiller that has done terrible damage all over the United States. Never, ever buy a product manufactured by Bayer, BASF, and Syngenta, the makers o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/11/us-court-bans-three-weedkillers-and-finds-epa-broke-law-in-approval-process/)
2024-02-11T10:20:00Z	**Monarch Butterflies Wintering in Mexico Drop to Second-Lowest Level Ever Recorded**
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: This is very alarming bad news, telling us, yet again, that our form of chemical industrial monoculture agriculture, augmented by climate change and the destruction of milkweed, their food source is destroying America's ecosystem. The Monarch annual migration may seem a small thing, but it is not._

![](h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/11/monarch-butterflies-wintering-in-mexico-drop-to-second-lowest-level-ever-recorded/)
2024-02-11T10:30:00Z	**The Earth is getting greener. Hurray?**
Benji Jones,  Senior Environmental Reporter  -  Vox

_Stephan: Here is a very complex warning, that I had not previously read about.  It makes the fact-based assertion that just making the earth greener in color is not going to solve our problems; it may make some of them worse.  This shows how complex it is to effectively deal with climate change, and how poorly humans seem to understand what needs to be done. This is what our politicians ought to be  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/11/the-earth-is-getting-greener-hurray/)
2024-02-11T10:35:00Z	**Study Shows Collapse of Critical Atlantic Current System More Likely Than Thought**
Brett Wilkins ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: As the world centers on genocide in Gaza, and criminal invasion in Ukraine, climate change is gaining momentum and we are about to see major changes like the collapse of the Atlantic Current System, as this article describes. The United States, particularly, has been derelict in its response to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/11/study-shows-collapse-of-critical-atlantic-current-system-more-likely-than-thought/)
2024-02-12T10:20:00Z	**The Loss of Things I Took for Granted**
ADAM KOTSKO,  Professosr Shimer Great Books School at North Central College  -  Slate

_Stephan: For the past week after several weeks of research, I have been writing a research paper on the growing illiteracy of Americans. Here is some data from my paper:_

_1. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022
2. 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level
3. 45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level
4. 44% of the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/12/the-loss-of-things-i-took-for-granted/)
2024-02-12T10:30:00Z	**Evangelicals’ Trump Worship Looks More Like QAnon Every Day**
Ron Filipowski,    -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: Evangelical religiosity in the United States has nothing to do with Christianity except the forms of the meetings, and the words they use. It is a racist fascist political cult that sees, criminal Trump as a new King David. It has nothing to do with Jesus, indeed, it violates almost every one of his teachings. The hypocrisy is so overwhelming that should make an a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/12/evangelicals-trump-worship-looks-more-like-qanon-every-day/)
2024-02-12T10:25:00Z	**Texas Abortion Ban’s Ripple Effect on Medical Care for Pregnant People**
Kendall Turner ,  Contributing Writer  -  truthout / OpenDemocracy

_Stephan: Because of the Republican Party healthcare for women in the United States is third rate. We have the worst maternal mortality, the worst infant mortality in the developed world. If you are a woman in a Republican-controlled state just standard gynecological care can get tricky, and if you are pregnant your lif ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/12/texas-abortion-bans-ripple-effect-on-medical-care-for-pregnant-people/)
2024-02-12T10:35:00Z	**Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little**
Edward Helmore / Associated Press ? Agence France-Presse,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Peace amongst the developed Democratic nations has prevailed for 75 years since NATO was founded on 4 April 1949. But it is now under threat from criminal Trump. It began  when he was President he worked against what is arguably one of the most important peace and mutual securit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/12/trump-says-he-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-allies-who-pay-too-little/)
2024-02-13T10:20:00Z	**Inside my quest for a climate-friendly bank**
PEARL MARVELL,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale Climate Connections

_Stephan: This article explains how you can foster social wellbeing by something you do. Change your bank to one that is not investing and supporting carbon energy. You can click through the article to find a list of banks that meet that standard. If enough people do this the carbon supporting banks will change their policies. This is how individual actions can change a soc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/13/inside-my-quest-for-a-climate-friendly-bank/)
2024-02-13T10:25:00Z	**Why I Am Now Deeply Worried for America**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate Economist and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York   -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is Paul Krugman's view of the state of America, which I read after writing my commentary for the previous article. I was very pleased to discover we saw things much the same way. The illiteracy and ignorance of American voters, particularly the MAGAt crowd, and the failu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/13/why-i-am-now-deeply-worried-for-america/)
2024-02-13T10:30:00Z	**Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction Level Event?**
Clare Malone,  Staff Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: I think Clare Malone and The New Yorker have published a critically important coherent report on what is happening in the media. The media you grew up with, and read, listened to, and watched is dying, and fact-based journalism is disappearing. Replaced by misinformation, biased reporting, and AI. I have been doing SR since 1991, because as long ago as that I was f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/13/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event/)
2024-02-13T10:35:00Z	**Majority of Americans think both Biden and Trump are too old to serve second terms**
,    \-  IPSOS

_Stephan: Personally, I think both of them are too old. I think Trump is a criminal who was the worst president in American history, and he ought to be in prison. Biden has been a good and effective President but will be 86 by the end of a second term, and that is simply too old. My preference would be for a younger progressive president, and my  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/13/majority-of-americans-think-both-biden-and-trump-are-too-old-to-serve-second-terms/)
2024-02-14T10:20:00Z	**Human activity pushing more than 1 in 5 migratory species toward extinction: UN**
Julia Conley,    -  Alter Net

_Stephan: One of the rarely discussed negative consequences of the materialist paradigm which fails to recognize that all life is interdependent and interconnected in the matrix of consciousness is the greedy stupidity that is driving our fellow beings on earth to extinction. This report suggests we may be awakening to this. I certainly h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/14/human-activity-pushing-more-than-1-in-5-migratory-species-toward-extinction-un/)
2024-02-14T10:30:00Z	**Retraction Notice on Mifepristone Paper Used by Judge in His Decision**
,  Reporter  -  Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology

_Stephan: You may remember a federal judge in Texas ruling that Mifepristone the drug that induces abortions should be taken off the market citing a peer-reviewed journal published by the academic publisher Sage. It turns out, however, that the paper was misinformation submitted by a group of anti-choice researchers. S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/14/retraction-notice-on-mifepristone-paper-used-by-judge-in-his-decision/)
2024-02-14T10:25:00Z	**Trump and the GOP’s Fascist Rhetoric Has Broad Appeal: Poll**
TIM DICKINSON,    -  Rolling Stone

_Stephan: MAGAt world is largely a White, low education, low literacy, racist christofascist cult. Why? I think one reason that gets almost no discussion is that no living Americans have ever experienced organized massive civil violence in their own town, city, or county; it hasn't happened since the Civil War. I think that is an important reason so many people in the Unite ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/14/trump-and-the-gops-fascist-rhetoric-has-broad-appeal-poll/)
2024-02-14T10:35:00Z	**A Growing Number of Economists Are Joining the Fight to Rein In the Big Banks**
C.J. Polychroniou ,  Contributing Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Here is a very important interview about the grotesque and, in my view the evil wealth inequality that is doing such damage to America's social wellbeing. It also discusses how to reverse this negative trend. One of the key steps is reversing the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. That isn't going to ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/14/a-growing-number-of-economists-are-joining-the-fight-to-rein-in-the-big-banks/)
2024-02-15T10:25:00Z	**Missouri senators vote against allowing abortions in rape, incest cases**
LAUREN SFORZA ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: It was not my intention when I started to plan SR for Thursday to focus on Missouri. But the wellbeing of this Republican-controlled state is deteriorating so alarmingly and so quickly that when one compares it to what is happening in Texas, Florida, or a dozen other Republican-controlled states one sees The Great Schism Trend play ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/15/missouri-senators-vote-against-allowing-abortions-in-rape-incest-cases/)
2024-02-15T10:20:00Z	**Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, study finds**
Aliya Uteuova,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The problem with the Republican Party is Republican voters. Here, in this report on who does and does not believe in climate change, you can see why I say this. Our problem as a country is we have a large percentage of the population who are poorly educated barely literate racists. I think what this is telling us is that as a count ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/15/nearly-15-of-americans-dont-believe-climate-change-is-real-study-finds/)
2024-02-15T10:35:00Z	**‘Gun-loving’ GOP governor reportedly seen ‘running scared for his life’ from mass shooting**
David McAfee,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Missouri is a state with very poor social wellbeing based on objective facts. Poor Healthcare, closing its libraries, terrible laws to control women, and awful, basically insane, gun laws. A 12-year-old can carry an unlicensed AR-15. Today the voters and the governor lived with the consequences of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/15/gun-loving-gop-governor-reportedly-seen-running-scared-for-his-life-from-mass-shooting/)
2024-02-15T10:30:00Z	**‘Utter stupidity’: Missouri Republican bids to bring back dueling for senators**
Martin Pengelly,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Just how stupid are the MAGAt Republicans of Missouri? Read this. This is why 18,854 Americans died by gunfire in 2023. America's gun psychosis has warped our entire society and made attending any mass event in the United States potentially dangerous, as the Kansas City Mass Shooting makes clear. Will anything happen to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/15/utter-stupidity-missouri-republican-bids-to-bring-back-dueling-for-senators/)
2024-02-16T10:20:00Z	**Child labor remains a key state legislative issue in 2024**
Nina Mast,  Staff Writer  -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: Child labor is becoming a significant, although little covered by media, trend. Backed by corporations who want to be able to employ children, and are funding/bribing state legislators across the country, America's decades-long tradition of ending child labor is being weakened. Look at the map at the head of this article. If you live in one of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/16/child-labor-remains-a-key-state-legislative-issue-in-2024/)
2024-02-16T10:25:00Z	**The Six Months That Short-Circuited the Electric-Vehicle Revolution**
Mike Colias, Nora Eckert, and Sean McLain,  Reporters  -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: The EV vehicle market is crashing, and this article gives the details. Why is this happening? In my opinion, because people who buy EVs discover that there is no nationwide system for charging them. Why does this not exist? Because under criminal Trump, in contrast to Republican Dwight Eisenhower's a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/16/the-six-months-that-short-circuited-the-electric-vehicle-revolution/)
2024-02-16T10:30:00Z	**FBI informant at heart of GOP’s Biden bribery allegations indicted over false statements**
REBECCA BEITSCH,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The Republican attack on President Biden, claiming he had accepted a bribe was centered on the testimony to the FBI of Alexander Smirnov who has just been indicted for lying in his testimony.  As a result, the whole Republican case against Biden falls apart, not that I think that will make any dif ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/16/fbi-informant-at-heart-of-gops-biden-bribery-allegations-indicted-over-false-statements/)
2024-02-16T10:35:00Z	**Do People in Conservative States Really Watch More Porn? A Hierarchical Analysis**
Samuel L. Perry and Andrew L. Whitehead,  Assistant Professor of Sociology - University of Oklahoma \| Associate Professor of Sociology - Clemson University  -  American Sociological Association

_Stephan: An ex-Mormon reader wrote to tell me that I was missing an important trend, the fact that conservative religious groups and Republicans are the biggest consumers o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/16/do-people-in-conservative-states-really-watch-more-porn-a-hierarchical-analysis/)
2024-02-17T10:25:00Z	**Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa**
Colette Coleman,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As White supremacy increases and democracy declines in the United States an increasing number of Black people are moving to Africa, Blaxit it is being called. I see it as yet another sign of what is happening in America in response to criminal Trump and the rise of MAGAtdom, and the Great Schism Trend they are causing._

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2024-02-17T10:20:00Z	**Oklahoma GOP Advances Bills That Would Ban Emergency Contraception**
Zane McNeill,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: They watch more porn, they have more out-of-wedlock children and a higher divorce rate, and they are in the top 10 states where women and girls are raped and Oklahoma MAGAt Republicans are clear about one thing: women should not have control of their own bodies, and the state should keep a database on those who try._

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2024-02-17T10:35:00Z	**Alarming levels of weed killer found in study of pregnant women**
Johnathan Hettinger and Carey Gillam,    -  The New Lede

_Stephan: I have been following and warning you about the pollution of the bodies of Americans, particularly pregnant women, by chemicals used in both industrial chemical non-culture agriculture and home landscaping. It gets very little coverage in television media, and not much more in newspapers. Well, here is yet another study warning Amer ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/17/alarming-levels-of-weed-killer-found-in-study-of-pregnant-women/)
2024-02-17T10:30:00Z	**Greenland is getting greener. That could have huge consequences for the world**
Angela Dewan,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Greenland is becoming green and it should alarm all of us because it is another alarm warning us what climate change is doing. For one thing it tells us sealevels are going to rise, so if you live near a seacoast get yourself prepared, or move. Climate change is happening whether 15% of MAGAts believe it or not._

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2024-02-18T10:25:00Z	**The EPA is Backing Down From Environmental Justice Cases Nationwide**
Delaney Nolan,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I thought I was aware of all the negative effects arising from the bias of criminal Trump's Supreme Court but I did not realize just how wide the bias of that christofascist MAGAt cabal affected the wellbeing of America. I was so appalled when I read this report that I checked three other sources. It is an accurate account._

![](http ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/18/the-epa-is-backing-down-from-environmental-justice-cases-nationwide/)
2024-02-18T10:20:00Z	**Trump Booed as He Drops $399 Official Gold Sneakers at Sneaker Con**
Mike Roe,  Staff Writer  -  The Wrap

_Stephan: The Republican Party is putting forward as their probable candidate a man who was the worst President in 240 years, has been found guilty of multiple crimes, owes hundreds of millions of dollars to multiple recipients as a result of court judgments against him, and still has multiple court cases to go, including criminal ones. And now he has begun ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/18/trump-booed-as-he-drops-399-official-gold-sneakers-at-sneaker-con/)
2024-02-18T10:35:00Z	**Some House members forgo program to boost their home security**
Chris Marquette,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: Thanks to criminal Trump, and the rise of the violent White christofascist movement that has become the Republican Party, this is the kind of nation the United States has degenerated into. Never before in over two centuries have Congressmembers, judges, prosecutors, election workers, and librarians had to fear for their lives. Now each Congressmember who choos ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/18/some-house-members-forgo-program-to-boost-their-home-security/)
2024-02-18T10:30:00Z	**Republican legislators push bills requiring government to collect reasons for abortion**
Kelcie Moseley-Morris,    -  AlterNet / States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today

_Stephan: Although vote result after vote result has shown that the majority of Americans do not want pregnancy termination bills to become law, the MAGAt community and the party it controls keep trying. Meanwhile, healthcare for women in the United States, especially in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/18/republican-legislators-push-bills-requiring-government-to-collect-reasons-for-abortion/)
2024-02-19T10:20:00Z	**Data Broker Sold Data From 600 Planned Parenthood Visits to Anti-Abortion Group**
Zane McNeill ,  Trending News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Yet another story about the inferiority of American wellbeing compared to that of other developed democracies. Europe has passed its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to protect the privacy of its citizens. But the corrupt American Congress is incapable of passing such protection for us, and this is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/19/data-broker-sold-data-from-600-planned-parenthood-visits-to-anti-abortion-group/)
2024-02-19T10:25:00Z	**‘The Investment Firms Leave Behind a Barren Wasteland’**
JACK SHAFER,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is the latest on the dying newspaper trend and the evaporation of the ethical code that once governed journalism. I think this is a big deal because if you don't have a local ethical press how do you learn about what is going right and wrong in your local government and community? Social Media? How do you know it is not misinformation?_

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2024-02-19T10:30:00Z	**The Powerful Constraints on Medical Care in Catholic Hospitals Across America**
,    \-  Kaiser Health News

_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned about health care for women in the U.S..  Three things are going on. First, the United States is the only developed democracy that lacks universal birthright healthcare, and doesn't have a healthcare system instead an illness-profit system.  Second, even that inferior system is further constrained by Repub ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/19/the-powerful-constraints-on-medical-care-in-catholic-hospitals-across-america/)
2024-02-19T10:35:00Z	**U.S. Fears Russia Might Put a Nuclear Weapon in Space**
David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I am following this Russian space program because I see real danger in this scheme. This represents a major geopolitical threat to the world. I think Putin is frightened and I think he thinks this is his backup move. It won't kill people, so the U.S. won't be able to physically attack Russia; it will just disrupt the world's communication ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/19/u-s-fears-russia-might-put-a-nuclear-weapon-in-space/)
2024-02-20T10:20:00Z	**Capital One to buy Discover for $35.3 billion**
,    \-  Raw Story / Agence France-Presse

_Stephan: Fewer and fewer people are owning more and more of our economy while 1.6 million people work for minimum wage, and 48 million workers (34%) are paid less than $20 per hour. Wealth inequality in the United States is a national obscenity and another indication of our corrupt Congress._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-19-at-11. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/20/capital-one-to-buy-discover-for-35-3-billion/)
2024-02-20T10:25:00Z	**Will Egocentrism Destroy America?**
John B. Alexander,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: I think John Alexander raises the central issue in our culture, and I am not sure how this is going to turn out and, apparently, neither is he. This is Alabama writ large. As he says, how can a woman vote for a man who is a convicted rapist, who was cheating on his wife with a porn actress as his wife lay at home with a just born baby?  How can anyone, man or woman, vote for a convicted anti-cho ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/20/will-egocentrism-destroy-america/)
2024-02-20T10:30:00Z	**Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling**
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: One to two percent of women need in vitro fertilization in order to begin a family. But that help will no longer be available in Alabama. The state is controlled by Republicans because the people in Alabama who can and do vote, vote for what this state has become. By every fact-based social outcome study Alabama is essentia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-cites-the-bible-in-terrifying-embryo-ruling/)
2024-02-20T10:35:00Z	**Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds**
Oliver Milman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some good news and clear evidence of what we should be doing as a national program. The problem with the American government is that they are more interested in playing their political power games than actually governing. Look at what our yo-yo Speaker of the House and his MAGA gang are doing by blocking aid to U ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/20/very-cool-trees-stalling-effects-of-global-heating-in-eastern-us-study-finds/)
2024-02-21T10:25:00Z	**A reporter investigated neo-Nazis. Then they came to his house in masks.**
Will Sommer ,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: The United States is becoming an increasingly dangerous country, particularly for judges, prosecutors, election workers, and journalists, the White supremacy MAGAt neo-nazis become more violent. You would think that, as in the civil rights era, the President and Congress would respond to this growing violenc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/21/a-reporter-investigated-neo-nazis-then-they-came-to-his-house-in-masks/)
2024-02-21T10:20:00Z	**Right-wing extremism linked to all extremist murders in 2023: ADL**
Russell Contreras,  Contributing Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Here are the facts on the increasing White supremacy christofascist racist anti-semitic violence that is making America a very dangerous nation and one that is getting worse. And what is being done? Read the report and learn how dysfunctional our government has become._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/21/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-all-extremist-murders-in-2023-adl/)
2024-02-21T10:30:00Z	**Opinion: I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation**
IRFAN GALARIA,  Physician and Reconstructive Surgeon  -  Los Angeles Times

_Stephan: A little history. Israel exists because at the end of WWII with millions of Jews displaced and migrants and the European nations themselves deeply damaged the Christian Europeans did not want a large influx of Jews into their countries. At the same time, the Zio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/21/opinion-im-an-american-doctor-who-went-to-gaza-what-i-saw-wasnt-war-it-was-annihilation/)
2024-02-21T10:35:00Z	**The East Coast Is Sinking**
Mira Rojanasakul and Marco Hernandez,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Two things are going on in the coastal states of the U.S. as this report describes. The seas are rising and, because of overpumping of ground water the land is siinking. The result is an ongoing disaster that will disrupt the wellbeing of milllions. It is another example of the failure of our corrupt government, particularly the MAGAt Republicans, but also the Democrats to develop the national policie ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/21/the-east-coast-is-sinking/)
2024-02-22T10:20:00Z	**I’m the Mayor of Dearborn, Mich., and My City Feels Betrayed**
Abdullah H. Hammoud,  Mayor of Dearborn, Mich., and a Democrat.  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This is bad news for the Democrats and I am not surprised. I think President Biden is making major mistakes in his policies about Israel. It was a mistake to keep sending to Netanyahu the bombs that were used to kill thousands of Palestinians, also a mistake to veto the U.N. attempt to end the violence. And his f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/22/im-the-mayor-of-dearborn-mich-and-my-city-feels-betrayed/)
2024-02-22T10:30:00Z	**Magnificent 7 profits now exceed almost every country in the world. Should we be worried?**
Elliot Smith,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: Yet another report describes how a tiny group of oligarchs increased their control over the American economy. Seven tech companies alone, as this report describes,  would by themselves be the second largest stock market in the world. The wealth of the individuals who control these companies is only possible because ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/22/magnificent-7-profits-now-exceed-almost-every-country-in-the-world-should-we-be-worried/)
2024-02-22T10:25:00Z	**‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana**
Oliver Laughland,  Southern Bureau Chief9  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Republican voters put Jeff Landry into office as governor. Now he is moving Louisiana, which is basically except for New Orleans a third-world country, further into christofascism. The state already has horrible social wellbeing stats, and they will now get worse. It amazes me to wa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/22/unconscionable-criminal-justice-bills-could-fuel-soaring-incarceration-in-louisiana/)
2024-02-22T10:35:00Z	**Billionaires Are Taking Over the News**
JUSTINE BARRON,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: Because of the tax laws in the United States an oligarch class has emerged so wealthy they literally live in another society, effectively governed by different uses of the laws. This group is also increasingly taking control of the media to make sure only their views are espoused by the newspapers, magazines,  television channels, and credit card and banks they own. We are becoming a fascist-controlled nation ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/22/billionaires-are-taking-over-the-news/)
2024-02-22T10:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note – No Friday edition**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I have to go in for another surgery Thursday, so there will be no Friday edition of SR. I should be back to work for a Saturday edition. I ask that you hold me in healing intention so that this can all go without problems._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/22/editors-note-no-friday-edition/)
2024-02-24T10:25:00Z	**How to Privatize a Mountain**
Joseph Bullington,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: One hundred and fifty-one years ago Yellowstone was established as the world's first national park by an act of Congress and signed into law on March 1, 1872, by President Ulysses S. Grant. Since that time national parks have grown to a system of 400 properties, and this network has become one of the assets that have made the United States a nation admired around the world. If you have ever been to one of the par ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/24/how-to-privatize-a-mountain/)
2024-02-24T10:20:00Z	**How the housing industry is working to stop energy efficient homes**
Anna Phillips,  National Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Another report of greed, lack of ethics, and stupidity. America's builders don't seem to understand what climate change is going to do to this country. They prefer short-time profit to the long-term wellbeing of the country in which they live. Short-term profit is even more important to them than the wellbeing of their own ch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/24/how-the-housing-industry-is-working-to-stop-energy-efficient-homes/)
2024-02-24T10:30:00Z	**Kentucky House passes bill that allows teens to work all night long**
Chris Otts,  Reporter  -  WDRB Television

_Stephan: The Republican cultists who rage on about immigration in Red states all over America are doing everything they can to take the United States back 100 years to when child labor was permitted. This story from Kentucky is one of a dozen such stories I could have picked about child labor, each from a different state. What the Republicans are d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/24/kentucky-house-passes-bill-that-allows-teens-to-work-all-night-long/)
2024-02-24T10:35:00Z	**Immigrants are not hurting U.S.-born workers**
Daniel Costa and Heidi Shierholz,  Researchers  -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: The Republican cult spews out the most egregious crap about immigrants. The facts are that immigrants are not displacing American citizens from jobs. Here are the facts, the information you never hear a Republican say. The truth is without immigrants the cost of your food, for instance, would be much higher._

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2024-02-25T10:20:00Z	**Red America has a new religion**
Robert Reich,  Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California,  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: About a third of White Americans, about half the Republican voters, have destroyed Christianity in the United States, and are driving people away from evangelical churches all over the country. These people are low IQ, low education, frightened White racist men and women and they see Trump as their new Jesus an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/25/red-america-has-a-new-religion/)
2024-02-25T10:30:00Z	**Justice Alito Renews Criticism of Landmark Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: I am following what is happening in the Supreme Court closely because the corrupt christofascist cabal that controls the court is having a serious impact on the quality of healthcare for women and LGBTQ folk. As this article describes Alito is making it clear where he stands, and it is not good news._

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2024-02-25T10:25:00Z	**Mexico Is Suing US Gun-Makers for Arming Its Gangs**
TIMOTHY D. LYTTON,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: Here is a very interesting development that could significantly affect America's gun psychosis. The Mexican government is doing what the corrupt U.S. Congress has never had the integrity to do, hold gun companies responsible for the death and injuries they cause. I'm not sure most Americans know that the gun makers were uniquely protected from being sued or held ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/25/mexico-is-suing-us-gun-makers-for-arming-its-gangs/)
2024-02-25T10:35:00Z	**Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked a defense boom. It’s likely to outlast the war**
Anna Cooban,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Here is something Americans don't seem to know, and that the Republican cult that does know. They demonstrate their indifference to the wellbeing of American workers by blocking support for Ukraine. What's the secret? The money given to support Ukraine actually goes to American and European defense companies which, in tur ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/25/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-sparked-a-defense-boom-its-likely-to-outlast-the-war/)
2024-02-26T10:20:00Z	**Ticker shows climate inaction cost U.S. nearly $3,000 per second in 2023**
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Common Dreams

_Stephan: I keep looking for positive good news trends in the United States, but I don't see very many. Here, for instance, is the latest on climate change. Although President Biden is creating positive policies to deal with climate change, the truth is neither the Democrats nor the Republican cultists are doing anything li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/26/ticker-shows-climate-inaction-cost-u-s-nearly-3000-per-second-in-2023/)
2024-02-26T10:25:00Z	**Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration**
ALEXANDER WARD and HEIDI PRZYBYLA,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is where the United States is headed if Trump is elected. If you listen to almost anyone in the Republican cult they make their intentions about this clear. And although I would like to say it won't happen as the christofascists wish, to be honest, I am not sure.  Americans don't seem to be c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/26/trump-allies-prepare-to-infuse-christian-nationalism-in-second-administration/)
2024-02-26T10:35:00Z	**The Americans Who Need Chaos**
Derek Thompson ,  Contributing Writer  -  The Atlantic Magazine

_Stephan: The Americans who need chaos is the title of this article, and I chose it because finally I am beginning to see open discussion in the media about what is happening to our culture, as about a third of the Whites, particularly men, but women as well, have given themselves over to hate, resentment, anger, and fear fueled by misinformation. This is all correlated with the rise of social media and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/26/the-americans-who-need-chaos/)
2024-02-26T10:30:00Z	**Outrage culture is a big, toxic problem. Why do we take part? And how can we stop?**
,    \-  Study Finds

_Stephan: I spent part of the afternoon watching the CPAC meeting. I don't think I have ever heard a public political meeting like this that was essentially nothing but lies designed to provoke the audience into resentment, anger, and fear. Rapist criminal Trump has changed American culture into something I barely recognize, and you may feel th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/26/outrage-culture-is-a-big-toxic-problem-why-do-we-take-part-and-how-can-we-stop/)
2024-02-27T10:25:00Z	**Plantwatch: redwoods make amazing recovery after California wildfire**
Paul Simons,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: You remember, I assume, the horrible fires in 2020 that did such damage to the redwood forest in California, trees as much as 1,500 years old were thought to be lost. If you have ever been in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park you know what I have experienced several times; you are in a sacred place of nature unlike anywhere else  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/27/plantwatch-redwoods-make-amazing-recovery-after-california-wildfire/)
2024-02-27T10:20:00Z	**8 states move to ban utilities from using customer money for lobbying**
Akielly Hu,  News and Politics Fellow  -  Grist

_Stephan: Here is some good news about blocking the ability of utility companies to use your money to lobby state and federal legislators to protect their corporate profits. The states are Arizona, California, Illinois, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Virginia. What I consider particularly good news in this report is that both Red  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/27/8-states-move-to-ban-utilities-from-using-customer-money-for-lobbying/)
2024-02-27T10:30:00Z	**Solar Energy and Battery Storage to Comprise 81% of New Electricity Generation in U.S. for 2024: EIA**
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the U.S. In spite of what the Republican cult is doing to protect the carbon industries, private citizens see the business opportunities are pushing a conversion. We are making progress despite our politics._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/27/solar-energy-and-battery-storage-to-comprise-81-of-new-electricity-generation-in-u-s-for-2024-eia/)
2024-02-27T10:35:00Z	**Europe Sees Natural Gas Demand Hit 10-Year Low**
,    \-  Yale 360

_Stephan: Here is some good news about Europe. While the Republican cult in the American Congress blocks laws and regulations that might reduce the profits of the carbon industries that rent them. Europe is leaving the carbon era behind, while Republicans are protecting its continuance and trying to dismantle our democracy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-65.png?resi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/27/europe-sees-natural-gas-demand-hit-10-year-low/)
2024-02-28T10:20:00Z	**The Mystery of White Rural Rage**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As usual, Paul Krugman has done an essay on a trend that is getting almost no attention from corporate media, electronic or print. If you watch or listen to interviews with White rural men and women, particularly middle-aged or older, but young as well, you hear the points Krugman is making. Rural America is c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/28/the-mystery-of-white-rural-rage/)
2024-02-28T10:30:00Z	**Beverly Hills middle schoolers circulate AI-generated nudes of classmates**
The Midwesterner Staff,    -  The Midwesterner

_Stephan: Several times in the recent past I have told you about emails I have received from mothers who are SR readers, and who wrote to tell me their daughters, one 15, the other 16 had been the victims of AI-generated porn using their faces widely circulated by boys who hit on them and that they had rejected. I have a daughter an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/28/beverly-hills-middle-schoolers-circulate-ai-generated-nudes-of-classmates/)
2024-02-28T10:25:00Z	**Childcare Crisis Grips US as IRS Chief Says Wealthy Tax Dodgers Cost $150 Billion a Year**
Jon Queally,  Managing editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: America as a national society does not value or care about its children. Oh sure, individual families love their kids, but as a society we are a humiliating disaster. Am I exaggerating? What are the facts? Try this. The main cause of death for children is a bullet in their bodies, and the Repu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/28/childcare-crisis-grips-us-as-irs-chief-says-wealthy-tax-dodgers-cost-150-billion-a-year/)
2024-02-28T10:35:00Z	**Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI**
ERIK HOEL,    -  The Intrinsic Perspective

_Stephan: I don't care for some of the language in this article, but the point it is making is correct and very alarming. Today I listened to interviews at a Trump rally and was appalled at the ignorance, hate, and resentment of the White men and women, mostly middle-aged or older. When asked what shaped their opinion they cited the Fox propaganda network, similar sources, and what I  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/28/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by-generative-ai/)
2024-02-29T10:20:00Z	**Rivian Opening Its Own Charging Network to All EVs**
,    \-  CleanTechnica

_Stephan: Here is some good news for EV owners. Not a big deal, but it makes the EV charging network a little larger._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-73-1.jpg?resize=343%2C400&ssl=1)_Rivian charging station_

Rivian is following in Tesla’s footsteps with its decision to open its public charging network to all electric vehicles (EVs) later this year. The  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/29/rivian-opening-its-own-charging-network-to-all-evs/)
2024-02-29T10:25:00Z	**Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son Tyler arrested on 22 criminal charges, Colorado police say**
Kinsey Crowley,  Reporter  -  USA Today

_Stephan: I picked this from half a dozen other stories of MAGAt family criminality. How in the world did the voters of Colorado elect someone like Lauren Boebert to represent them?  Didn't someone do some research on her and her family Will they vote her into office again, I wonder? Is anyone noticing how many MAGAt pol ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/29/rep-lauren-boeberts-son-tyler-arrested-on-22-criminal-charges-colorado-police-say/)
2024-02-29T10:30:00Z	**Conservatives aren’t even hiding it anymore in call for an ‘end to democracy’**
Thom Hartmann,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann gets it. He lays out what the Republicans are doing at the state level in the states they control and it is appalling. This is a. measure of how far The Great Schism has progressed. We are becoming two very different countries with an increasingly dysfunctional federal government. I confess what surpr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/29/conservatives-arent-even-hiding-it-anymore-in-call-for-an-end-to-democracy/)
2024-02-29T10:35:00Z	**Four state laws prevent divorce if a woman is pregnant with no domestic violence exception**
FALYN STEMPLER,    -  Daily Express US

_Stephan: Did you know that if you are a pregnant woman in the Red states of  Missouri, Texas, Arizona, or Arkansas and you are seeking a divorce the government will not allow you to get it until after the baby is born, and then there are a host of other problems. I see this as yet another aspect of the Rep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/02/29/four-state-laws-prevent-divorce-if-a-woman-is-pregnant-with-no-domestic-violence-exception/)
2024-03-01T10:20:00Z	**Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can’t Give Women Potential Lifesaving Care.**
Kavitha Surana,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If you are a woman living in a Red state you are a second-class citizen, and you better get used to that.  If you are a woman or girl and need gynecological care for any one of a host of reasons you may find you can't get it. If you are pregnant and something goes awry, your life is at risk ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/01/their-states-banned-abortion-doctors-now-say-they-cant-give-women-potential-lifesaving-care/)
2024-03-01T10:25:00Z	**$400,000 Per Missile? Sanders Rips War Profiteers ‘Fleecing’ US Taxpayers**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Senator Bernie Sanders is one the few people in Congress with any integrity, and he has been dedicated all his adult life to fostering wellbeing for all. What he is saying here is the truth, ""The United States remains the world's dominant military power," the senator continued. "Alone, we account for roughly 40% of global mili ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/01/400000-per-missile-sanders-rips-war-profiteers-fleecing-us-taxpayers/)
2024-03-01T10:30:00Z	**Ultra-processed foods linked to 32 health problems in review: What to know**
Rachel Pannett,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Americans have a significantly shorter life span than people in other developed democracies and notably worse health, much greater obesity, heart disease, cancer and on and on. Why? Well, a large part of the answer is the crappy American diet. What can you do to live longer and be healthier? Stop eating processed foods ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/01/ultra-processed-foods-linked-to-32-health-problems-in-review-what-to-know/)
2024-03-01T10:35:00Z	**Kremlin Nuclear Scare Tactics**
Alexandra Sharp,  Contributing Writer  -  Foreign Policy World Brief

_Stephan: As thuggish as Putin is -- I met him once in Moscow there is a reptilian quality about him -- I don't think he is crazy enough to use a nuclear weapon. I read this as an attempt to threaten Sweden and Finland who have just joined NATO, because those new members have made the  Baltic Sea a NATO lake, and that has totally freaked out Putin and his political servants that make up the Russia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/01/kremlin-nuclear-scare-tactics/)
2024-03-02T10:20:00Z	**Bartiromo blasts Biden administration for encouraging Americans to register to vote**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: If you have ever spent half an hour watching and listening to Fox propaganda spokesperson, Maria Bartiromo,  you learn quickly that she has no ethics, is a compulsive liar, and MAGAt ideologue. What makes her interesting to me is that she says out loud what Trump's MAGAt base believes and says amongst themsel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/02/bartiromo-blasts-biden-administration-for-encouraging-americans-to-register-to-vote/)
2024-03-02T10:25:00Z	**The Myth of the Migrant Crime Wave**
FIONA HARRIGAN ,    -  reason

_Stephan: The Republicans, and the MAGAt media, spend hours promoting the idea that immigrants are creating a terrible crime wave. It is a blatant lie, as anyone can ascertain in five minutes searching the internet. Here is what you find:_

_1. The Southern states demonstrate significantly higher murder rates than the rest of the country, with Mississippi leading at a rate of 23.7 homicides per 100,000 people, followed by Lou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/02/the-myth-of-the-migrant-crime-wave/)
2024-03-02T10:35:00Z	**US to begin aid airdrops into Gaza but critics dismiss effort as inadequate**
Julian Borger,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I am glad President Biden is finally doing something for the people of Gaza, but I think this is pretty pathetic. I think Biden is making a significant mistake, both nationally and internationally, harming both himself and the country as a whole. In my view what needs to be done is Biden should tell fascist Benjamin  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/02/us-to-begin-aid-airdrops-into-gaza-but-critics-dismiss-effort-as-inadequate/)
2024-03-03T10:20:00Z	**Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it**
Anita Hofschneider,  Senior Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: This story describes why I have always been against nuclear-generated civilian electricity. It is the unexpected accidents and the waste. Nuclear waste lasts thousands of years and any number of causes can produce disastrous accidents. Remember Chernobyl, Fukushima, and as this report describes, now poss ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/03/decades-after-the-us-buried-nuclear-waste-abroad-climate-change-could-unearth-it/)
2024-03-03T10:25:00Z	**Florida removes sociology from core courses, bans DEI funding at colleges and universities**
Todd Wilson,  Reporter  -  WPTV (West Palm Beach, Florida)

_Stephan: Here is yet another MAGAt culture war move in Florida. I track Florida because along with Texas it tends to lead the former Confederate states in trying to turn the United States into a White supremacy christofascist obsessively heterosexual nation.  One part of their culture wa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/03/florida-removes-sociology-from-core-courses-bans-dei-funding-at-colleges-and-universities/)
2024-03-03T10:30:00Z	**Florida House Republicans advance bill to ‘deny the legal existence’ of trans people**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I listened to the reports come in about how Trump overwhelmingly won every primary held, I read a long list of stories about how the MAGAt christofascists are waging their culture wars. In Florida, as this article describes, "the Republican-controlled lower chamber of the state Legislatur ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/03/florida-house-republicans-advance-bill-to-deny-the-legal-existence-of-trans-people/)
2024-03-03T10:35:00Z	**Elon Musk says US should stop helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion**
Namita Singh,  Reporter  -  Independent (U.K.)

_Stephan: In Elon Musk we have an American billionaire oligarch who is openly trying to support Russia in its invasion of Ukraine and to use his assets to shape American geopolitical policies to that end and in favor of Putin and his aims. I have always considered Elon Musk to be a particularly scummy person, b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/03/elon-musk-says-us-should-stop-helping-ukraine-defend-itself-against-russian-invasion/)
2024-03-04T10:20:00Z	**Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?**
Sheila Pell,    -  modern farmer

_Stephan: Here, at last, is some good news about sustainable replacements for polyester, rayon, and acrylic. I think this is a huge deal as all the stories I have posted over the years showing the growing negative effects of microplastics should make clear._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-11.png?resize=800%2C534&ssl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/04/are-next-gen-synthetic-fibers-the-future-of-sustainable-textiles/)
2024-03-04T10:25:00Z	**How the family fortune behind a major American pharma company has quietly funded conservative causes**
Casey Tolan,  Senior Writer  -  CNN Politics

_Stephan: The United States has become a nation where a small handful of families buy the laws they want by renting the overwhelmingly corrupt U.S. Congress and, equally, but largely unrecognized, funding scientists and physicians to do research that supports the fascist right. We  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/04/how-the-family-fortune-behind-a-major-american-pharma-company-has-quietly-funded-conservative-causes/)
2024-03-04T10:30:00Z	**‘Five-alarm fire’: Trump’s latest public schools threat causes experts to panic**
David McAfee,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If criminal Trump were elected and did what he is quoted as describing in this article it would condemn millions of American children to death.  Literally, I mean death. The stupidity of Trump's statements is breathtaking and very dangerous. What is equally alarming is that I see almost no commentary in the media about ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/04/five-alarm-fire-trumps-latest-public-schools-threat-causes-experts-to-panic/)
2024-03-04T10:35:00Z	**The Gun Industry Has a Suicide Problem**
Mike Spies ,  Senior Staff Writer  -  The Trace

_Stephan: A woman who had recently become an SR reader wrote me today to thank me for my ongoing comments about America's gun psychosis because recently her husband who had lost his job had shot and killed himself. She said she had never thought much about guns or had any interest in them, but now she understood why I felt so strongly about what guns have become in America. Her email prompted me to l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/04/the-gun-industry-has-a-suicide-problem/)
2024-03-05T10:20:00Z	**First on CNN: First over-the-counter birth control pill in US ships to retailers, costing about $20 for one-month pack**
Jacqueline Howard,  Health Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: This is going to drive the Republican Christian Taliban crazy. It completely changes the contraception reality in the U.S., and it will be interesting to see how they respond. I will keep you briefed._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzrep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/05/first-on-cnn-first-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill-in-us-ships-to-retailers-costing-about-20-for-one-month-pack/)
2024-03-05T10:30:00Z	**New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions**
Carmen Forman,  Reporter  -  The Oklahoman

_Stephan: Throughout the United States, in both Red and Blue states,  Republican MAGAt state legislators are authoring legislation to further control women's bodies. They seek to outlaw contraception and, as this article describes, they want to compile databases of women who have had abortions. The Republican Party has b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/05/new-oklahoma-bill-could-allow-state-to-create-database-of-women-who-had-abortions/)
2024-03-05T10:25:00Z	**Republicans are taking aim on contraception — and they’d rather you didn’t know**
Kelly Rissman,  Reporter  -  Independent (U.K.)

_Stephan: It is clear, as the article makes clear, that journalists and publications outside of the United States understand that the White supremacy Republican christofascist Taliban want to outlaw contraception. Sadly, however, except for a few media commentators like Rachel Maddow American corporate media apparently does ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/05/republicans-are-taking-aim-on-contraception-and-theyd-rather-you-didnt-know/)
2024-03-05T10:35:00Z	**Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain**
,    \-  Wired

_Stephan: Do you remember the article I ran in yesterday's edition, about new technologies that replace acrylics, nylon, rayon, and plastic water bottles? Well, here is one of the reasons I think the replacement of petroleum-based plastics is such a big deal. This is where we are today, its horrifying and it must end. We must developed new technologies that foster wellbeing at every level, and the time to do that is running out._

![](https:/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/05/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain/)
2024-03-06T10:25:00Z	**Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022**
Kevin Morris and Coryn Grange,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: As I work and listen to a range of television channels report the elections, what increasingly worries me is what the Brennan Center for Justice reports, "If the United States wants to make good on its foundational claims of a democratic system of governance open to all citizens, it must find ways to close the racial turnout gap. Wider now than ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/06/growing-racial-disparities-in-voter-turnout-2008-2022/)
2024-03-06T10:20:00Z	**Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures**
Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: In this article, you see what the petroleum industry really thinks about climate change, as quoted from Darren Woods the CEO of Exxon Mobil. I will let him speak for himself, and you see what you think about it._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-17.png?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/06/fury-after-exxon-chief-says-public-to-blame-for-climate-failures/)
2024-03-06T10:30:00Z	**The Right-Wing Crusade to End Public Education**
JEFF BRYANT,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: The Republican cult is trying to gut public education. This cult does now want children to be educated, they just want them to be indoctrinated. To give some context to what the MAGAts want realize this: 51% of Americans can't read above 6th-grade level, and 43% can't read above 5th-grade level. Examples: We played football. They walked to the park. Or put another way, readers at th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/06/the-right-wing-crusade-to-end-public-education/)
2024-03-06T10:35:00Z	**A fifth of people who plan to vote for Trump think he committed serious federal crimes: Poll**
LAUREN SFORZA,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: How is it possible that millions of Americans are prepared to vote for a convicted rapist, and convicted fraudster, with dozens of indictments still to be adjudicated? I was thinking of that as I heard MSNBC say how well North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson was doing in today's e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/06/a-fifth-of-people-who-plan-to-vote-for-trump-think-he-committed-serious-federal-crimes-poll/)
2024-03-07T10:20:00Z	**Support for Christian Nationalism in All 50 States: Findings from PRRI’s 2023 American Values Atlas**
,    \-  PRRI

_Stephan: Here are the facts about Christian nationalism. (I dislike having to capitalize Christian in this context inasmuch as this movement has nothing to do with Jesus' teachings.) This is what we are up against. The only we democracy survives is if you, me, and everyone we know votes and we all vote only for Dem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/07/support-for-christian-nationalism-in-all-50-states-findings-from-prris-2023-american-values-atlas/)
2024-03-07T10:30:00Z	**Poll: Just 3 in 10 Potential Biden Voters Aware of Trump’s Authoritarian Speak**
Chris Walker,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned as this report describes that a large percentage of Americans simply don't understand the threat America is under from criminal Trump and his fascist Republican cohorts. They want to end democracy and make the United States a christofascist authoritarian state ruled by Trump. The House is in le ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/07/poll-just-3-in-10-potential-biden-voters-aware-of-trumps-authoritarian-speak/)
2024-03-07T10:35:00Z	**Nanoplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and early death, study finds**
Sandee LaMotte,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Please read and study this article, I want my readers to stay alive. The evidence about nano plastics polluting our lives just keeps growing. Here is the latest report. As this article makes clear, NEVER, EVER drink water again out of a plastic bottle. You are literally killing yourself by doing so. Buy some kind of drinking vessel with a  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/07/nanoplastics-linked-to-heart-attack-stroke-and-early-death-study-finds/)
2024-03-08T10:20:00Z	**Millions of Americans Will Soon Lose Internet Access. That’s a Disaster for Rural Health.**
JULIA MÉTRAUX,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Affordable Connectivity Program, an initiative that the Biden-Harris Administration began and which provided subsidies that made the internet more accessible to 23 million Americans, is about to expire as Republicans in Congress block further funding.  As this article describes this is an issue that goe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/08/millions-of-americans-will-soon-lose-internet-access-thats-a-disaster-for-rural-health/)
2024-03-08T10:25:00Z	**Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: Putin wants Trump to be elected President, and the Senate and House to be controlled by MAGAts. To achieve this goal, exactly as I and others have predicted, he is having his minions create disinformation websites, claiming to be  American, and especially local journalism sites, in order to influence American voters, as this article describes. The bad news is that I suspect this is goin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/08/spate-of-mock-news-sites-with-russian-ties-pop-up-in-u-s/)
2024-03-08T10:35:00Z	**Three Philanthropy Scholars Discuss Several Trends In Giving By The Wealthiest Americans**
David Campbell, Angela R. Logan, and Michael Moody,   Binghamton University \| State University of New York \| University of Notre Dame \| Indiana University  -  digg

_Stephan: My fundamental problem with money coming from the wealthy is the political donations. It is my view we should have publicly funded elections; it should be illegal, and seriou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/08/three-philanthropy-scholars-discuss-several-trends-in-giving-by-the-wealthiest-americans/)
2024-03-08T10:30:00Z	**Emergency Surgery Rates Higher in Primary Care Shortage Areas, Study Suggests**
Shannon Firth,  Health Policy Reporter  -  Medpage Today

_Stephan: Our healthcare system based on profit not wellbeing, and further complicated by the Republican attempt to control women, has left us with medical deserts, and limited medical care, particularly in Red states, and this has all kinds of implications as this medical report details. If you vote Republican you  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/08/emergency-surgery-rates-higher-in-primary-care-shortage-areas-study-suggests/)
2024-03-09T10:25:00Z	**Missouri Advances Bill Targeting Abortion-Specific Training in Medical Schools**
Zane McNeill,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Wake up Americans. This is where the Republican Party is headed. This is what they are trying to do. How much clearer do they have to make it before the country realizes what the Republicans intend?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-22.png?resize=800%2C532&ssl=1)_The Missou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/09/missouri-advances-bill-targeting-abortion-specific-training-in-medical-schools/)
2024-03-09T10:20:00Z	**Orbán meeting offers preview of Trump’s 2nd-term strongman idealizations**
Stephen Collinson,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: The Republicans and criminal Trump aren't even trying to hide what they want to do in America. If you vote for any Republican you have no one to blame for what happens to the ending of American democracy but yourself._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-23.png?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)_Criminal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/09/orban-meeting-offers-preview-of-trumps-2nd-term-strongman-idealizations/)
2024-03-09T10:30:00Z	**Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power**
Evan Halper,  Business Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: What most Americans don't seem to realize and politicians rarely talk about is that what most of us think of as America was created in the forty years from 1920 to 1960. That's when the roads, bridges, dams, electrical systems, and middle-class families came into being. But, beginning with the Reagan administration, we shifted from being a nation that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/09/amid-explosive-demand-america-is-running-out-of-power/)
2024-03-09T10:35:00Z	**Coastal US cities are sinking as sea levels continue to rise, new research shows**
Julia Jacobo,    -  ABC News

_Stephan: The submergence of coastal cities, as this article describes, is occurring not just because of sea rise. The subsidence of the land is also a major issue.  The United States is not doing enough fast enough to protect these cities and towns, so we are going to see a massive real estate crisis. It has already started in Florida w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/09/coastal-us-cities-are-sinking-as-sea-levels-continue-to-rise-new-research-shows/)
2024-03-10T10:25:00Z	**‘Trump is beholden to someone’: Here’s who’s behind company footing E. Jean Carroll bond**
Sarah K. Burris,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is what has concerned me from the start of all the criminal Trump trials. Trump is not a billionaire or anything close. When you get to the fundamentals he may no longer even be a millionaire because he is so heavily mortgaged and in debt. This article raises these issues about the E. Jean ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/10/trump-is-beholden-to-someone-heres-whos-behind-company-footing-e-jean-carroll-bond/)
2024-03-10T10:20:00Z	**‘Put It Between Your Knees’: Republican Suggests Aspirin Is All the Contraception Women Need**
David Badash,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Yet another report about the TCP's obsession with controlling and subordinating women. These men are like characters out of The Handmaid's Tale, and so are the women who vote for them. There seem to be millions of American women who want to be controlled and subordinate to me because that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/10/put-it-between-your-knees-republican-suggests-aspirin-is-all-the-contraception-women-need/)
2024-03-10T10:30:00Z	**We Need to Talk About This Republican Candidate’s Antisemitism**
Michelle Goldberg,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I spent an hour or so today examining the candidates being put forward by the TCP, and they have nothing to do with fostering wellbeing and advancing democracy. No one makes this clearer than Mark Robinson, the TCP nominee for governor of North Carolina. That such a person would even be considered by a political party as their candidate te ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/10/we-need-to-talk-about-this-republican-candidates-antisemitism/)
2024-03-10T10:35:00Z	**RNC votes to install Trump’s handpicked leaders, tightening his control of party**
,    \-  CBS News

_Stephan: I am going to stop using the Republican Party as the name of what used to be the party of that name. This party, which was once Republican, no longer has anything in common with the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower or even George H.W. Bush (the elder Bush). I am going to call it the Trump christofascist Party (TCP), since it has liter ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/10/rnc-votes-to-install-trumps-handpicked-leaders-tightening-his-control-of-party/)
2024-03-11T10:20:00Z	**Trump Lavishes Praise on Orban During Fete at Mar-a-Lago**
Zoltan Simon and Jennifer Jacobs,  Staff Writers  -  Bloomberg

_Stephan: Criminal Trump openly proclaims his fascism, and members of the TCP applaud. The corporate media is not covering the rise of fascism in the United States properly. It ought to be a major story all media are focusing on, but it is not, and it is putting the entire nation in danger._

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2024-03-11T10:25:00Z	**Actually, Crime is Way Down–2023 Recorded Likely the Largest Single-Year Drop in Homicides Across US**
Andy Corbley,  Staff Writer  -  Good News Network

_Stephan: Like you, I hear the TCPs saying over and over again about how crime is so bad and on the rise in the United States. It's a lie, like almost everything else the TCPs say. Here are some facts. They all mimic criminal Trump their leader who seems incapable of telling th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/11/actually-crime-is-way-down-2023-recorded-likely-the-largest-single-year-drop-in-homicides-across-us/)
2024-03-11T10:35:00Z	**Building Biden’s Gaza pier could take 60 days, Pentagon says**
GIAN VOLPICELLI,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I think Biden keeps funding fascist Netanayou and his cabal of fascists who are obviously attempting a genocide of Palestinians or, at least, reducing Gaza to rubble and claiming control of the territory, because they fear if they stop backing Israel the Iranians and other Middle Eastern terrorists will attack Israel and disrupt the entire region and ta ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/11/building-bidens-gaza-pier-could-take-60-days-pentagon-says/)
2024-03-11T10:30:00Z	**The Fundie Baby Voice**
Jess Piper ,    -  The View from Rural Missouri

_Stephan: Speaking of miscalculations, I think the TCP has also made a miscalculation. They put a Hand Maid up as their spokesperson, and the reviews have been, well you have probably read or seen some of them. It was not a success, which I see as good news. This is the best assessment of TCP Senator Katie Britt and her little Hand Maid act that I have read. Jess Piper has all the nuances. The TCP seems to think that the women voters ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/11/the-fundie-baby-voice/)
2024-03-12T09:20:00Z	**Authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister Meets With US Christian Right Leaders**
Stephanie Mencimer ,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I realized tonight as I was doing the research and writing for SR something that I had not fully comprehended: The Great Schism Trend is reaching its crescendo, and we are in the midst of a civil war. One-third of Americans mostly low-income, low education resentful angry Whites, with some Blacks and Latinos financed by Whi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/12/authoritarian-hungarian-prime-minister-meets-with-us-christian-right-leaders/)
2024-03-12T09:25:00Z	**Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.**
Steven Lee Myers,  Misinformation Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It is becoming harder and harder for me to do SR because of the proliferation of misinformation sites put up by TCPs and Russians. I have actually visited some of the sites listed in this article, and I have to double and triple-check everything to make sure what I am publishing in SR is fact-based. Because most people don't make such ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/12/spate-of-mock-news-sites-with-russian-ties-pop-up-in-u-s-2/)
2024-03-12T09:30:00Z	**Largest Independent Primary Care Network in the U.S. Accused of Medicare Fraud**
Fred Schulte,    -  MedPage Today / Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: It isn't just that we are on the verge of ceasing to be a democracy. The fundamental problem in the American culture is that integrity and honesty are no longer considered priorities, and our politics and the illness profit system are perhaps the greatest examples of what we have become._

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2024-03-12T09:35:00Z	**Losses Go Deep in the Fight for Better Health Care**
LIZ THEOHARIS,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: I have been writing about the failure of America's illness profit system for over 30 years, and it has been getting worse and worse as the years have gone by. The United States has the worst healthcare amongst developed democracies as factually demonstrated by the worse factual outcome data. Highest maternal mortality, highest infant mortality, lowest rank in healthcare sy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/12/losses-go-deep-in-the-fight-for-better-health-care/)
2024-03-13T09:20:00Z	**Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting adult children, study finds**
Erum Salaam,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (UK.)

_Stephan: Adult children are still being supported in some way by their parents. And so many, 50 per cent as reported in this article. It is a major change in our culture._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-34-1.jpg?resize=740%2C423&ssl=1)_Adult_ _Children supported by their parents. Cre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/13/nearly-50-of-us-parents-financially-supporting-adult-children-study-finds/)
2024-03-13T09:35:00Z	**In states with laws targeting LGBTQ issues, school hate crimes quadrupled**
Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson, John D. Harden,  Reporters  -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: When you breed hate you get hate crimes, and that is exactly what is happening to LGBTQ kids where the Trump christofascist Party (TCP) controls the state government. This is the exact opposite of government designed to foster wellbeing. This is part of the Great Schism Trend, and I believe w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/13/in-states-with-laws-targeting-lgbtq-issues-school-hate-crimes-quadrupled/)
2024-03-13T09:30:00Z	**‘Like the Nazis Did’: Critic Slams Trump Plans to Remake US Education System**
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Trump and his Trump christofascist Party (TCP) do not like public education, and are openly making it clear if Americans elect them they are going to gut the system that probably educated you. They don't want education. Like Hitler and the Nazis they want indoctrination not fact-based education. Don't say yo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/13/like-the-nazis-did-critic-slams-trump-plans-to-remake-us-education-system/)
2024-03-14T09:30:00Z	**No SR Today**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Stephan’s computer has been attacked once again. He is unable to post today’s edition. Technicians are working on his system, but cleaning up the malware will cost another $500. He wants to thank everyone for your continued support. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/14/no-sr-today-3/)
2024-03-15T09:30:00Z	**State Reproductive Policies Important to Enrollment Decisions**
STEPHANIE MARKEN and ZACH HRYNOWSKI,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend is having a very serious effect on colleges and universities in Red States, which will further degrade the social outcome data of states controlled by the TCP, both their educational status and the quality of their healthcare, particularly for women. It is further evidence that we are becoming two quite  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/15/state-reproductive-policies-important-to-enrollment-decisions/)
2024-03-15T09:25:00Z	**Another lens into the rightward shift of Black and Hispanic Americans**
Philip Bump and Lenny Bronner,    -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: How is it possible for a Black or Hispanic person to vote for the TCP which is so blatantly White supremacist in both their words and deeds?  I think it is a calculation to gain power, in hopes that if they vote for Trump they will be able to bargain for some benefit. Sadly, if Trump wins they are going ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/15/another-lens-into-the-rightward-shift-of-black-and-hispanic-americans/)
2024-03-15T09:25:00Z	**100 Most Obese U.S. Cities: America’s Weight Problem Centers In The South**
Matt Higgins,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: This is another aspect of The Great Schism Trend. States where voters have voted into power advocates of TCP, are not just the least educated, most illiterate, shortest lifespan men and women, they are also the most obese. If you click through you can get a list of all the fatty communities. It was too long for me to put it in SR._

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2024-03-15T09:35:00Z	**Nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds**
Brooke Sopelsa,  Editorial Director of NBC Out, NBC News  -  NBC News

_Stephan: Something is happening with younger women in the U.S., as this report describes. It is my opinion that this is happening because of what is happening with men, who are angry and resentful that women want and expect equality, and who are tired of men telling them the state (men) has control of their bodies. This has beco ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/15/nearly-30-of-gen-z-women-identify-as-lgbtq-gallup-survey-finds/)
2024-03-16T09:20:00Z	**Church pews are sitting empty. Can they become affordable housing?**
Danny Nguyen,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: While the congregations of christofascist churches are growing, traditional real Christian churches are shrinking. To a point where, as this article describes, their congregations are considering other uses for their church buildings that reflect true Christianity. Meanwhile, the christofascist churches are buying their ministers bigger fancier  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/16/church-pews-are-sitting-empty-can-they-become-affordable-housing/)
2024-03-16T09:25:00Z	**8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Is Losing Influence in Public Life**
MICHAEL ROTOLO, GREGORY A. SMITH and JONATHAN EVANS,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Christianity has profoundly altered in the United States. As this Pew Research survey shows people find religion a greatly diminished influence in American society. In my view, that is because Christianity for the evangelical/fundamentalist believers is less a religion and more a White supremacist, male dom ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/16/8-in-10-americans-say-religion-is-losing-influence-in-public-life/)
2024-03-16T09:30:00Z	**Florida House Prices Fall as Homeowners Desperately Try to Sell**
Giulia Carbonaro,  Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: I have been telling readers for 15 years (see SR archive) that this was coming, and now it has begun. I have a friend in Key West who is selling his property because of rising sea levels, and another with a summer cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina also selling, both because insurance is becoming impossible, they see what is coming, and w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/16/florida-house-prices-fall-as-homeowners-desperately-try-to-sell/)
2024-03-16T09:35:00Z	**Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide**
ALI SWENSON and KELVIN CHAN,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: This is what really concerns me, not just for the United States but all the democracies of the world. If your source of information is social media, most of what you are reading is partial or complete misinformation. I fear it is going to warp the outcome of the U.S. election, where 54% of the a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/16/election-disinformation-takes-a-big-leap-with-ai-being-used-to-deceive-worldwide/)
2024-03-17T09:20:00Z	**Most Students Prefer Colleges That Restrict Guns on Campus**
ZACH HRYNOWSKI,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Students prefer colleges with more restrictive gun regulations, as this Gallup Survey documents. I'm not surprised, given the U.S. murder rate in schools and colleges. It would certainly be a consideration if I were choosing a college. What this survey doesn't address is the disproportionate effect this is going to have on colleges and universities in R ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/17/most-students-prefer-colleges-that-restrict-guns-on-campus/)
2024-03-17T09:25:00Z	**Trump is out of his mind and desperate**
Robert Reich,  Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies  -  Robert Reich Substack

_Stephan: Robert Reich obviously feels the same way I do. Each of us must not only vote only for Democrats, we must do everything we can to get everyone we know to do likewise. This is not a typical election, Democrat v ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/17/trump-is-out-of-his-mind-and-desperate/)
2024-03-17T09:35:00Z	**Adult illiteracy and the distortion of American culture**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore Journal

_Stephan: The lack of literacy and numeracy in American adults is becoming an increasing problem undermining maintaining  U.S. democracy. If you can't read and comprehend a standard newspaper report, or if you can't understand basic statements about the economy, you can't really understand why democracy is so important to our society. Authoritarianism, where some ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/17/adult-illiteracy-and-the-distortion-of-american-culture/)
2024-03-17T09:30:00Z	**The WSJ Wants to Delegitimize Democratic Opposition to Violence**
ARI PAUL,    -

_Stephan: I think Biden has made a serious miscalculation by continuing to support Israel's attempted genocide of Palestinians and takeover of Gaza. Over 30,000 have died a large percentage innocent women and children, and hundreds of thousands more are facing starvation. That doesn't justify what Hamas did but if Netanayou had been properly governing the Hamas raid would not have en ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/17/the-wsj-wants-to-delegitimize-democratic-opposition-to-violence/)
2024-03-18T09:20:00Z	**The Great Resignation hits Congress: Lawmakers are quitting, too**
Paul Kane ,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Most people don't seem to have noticed what I see as an alarming trend in Congress, an unprecedented number of Congressional members are either not running in November, or like Republican Representative Ken Buck of Colorado are just quitting and walking away. Why is this happening? In my view it is a byproduct of the conversi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/18/the-great-resignation-hits-congress-lawmakers-are-quitting-too/)
2024-03-18T09:30:00Z	**The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement**
David Goldman and Anna Bahney,,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: A major change in real estate transactions has just occurred, as this report describes. It is probably going to lower house prices and change the whole cost of buying or selling a house. If any of you are in the midst or such a sale or purchase check ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/18/the-6-commission-on-buying-or-selling-a-home-is-gone-after-realtors-association-agrees-to-seismic-settlement/)
2024-03-18T09:25:00Z	**“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them**
Abe Streep ,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Yet another story of the failure of the U.S. government at both the federal and state levels to plan ahead and foster wellbeing. Anyone who does a half hour researching what climate change is going to do learns quickly there are g ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/18/it-feels-impossible-to-stay-the-u-s-needs-wildland-firefighters-more-than-ever-but-the-federal-government-is-losing-them/)
2024-03-18T09:35:00Z	**America’s Grid Isn’t Ready for the Green Transition**
JUSTIN WORLAND,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Here we have yet another warning that the United States is woefully unprepared for what climate change is going to do to our society. While the TCPs in the House spend most of their time and millions of our dollars trying to find some way to embarrass President Biden and his family, and the Senate TCPs block help for Ukraine, the infrastructure, of bridges, roads, el ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/18/americas-grid-isnt-ready-for-the-green-transition/)
2024-03-19T09:20:00Z	**The Earthquake That Could Shatter Netanyahu’s Coalition**
Yair Rosenberg,  Contributing Writer  -  Reader Supported News / The Atlantic

_Stephan: In my view, Benjamin Netanyahu and his fascist cabinet should be indicted and tried for war crimes against humanity. They are carrying out an attempt at genocide, and as an American, I am ashamed that Biden is still supplying the weapons to carry out much of this devastation. The U.N. children's agency said on Sunday "Over 13,00 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/19/the-earthquake-that-could-shatter-netanyahus-coalition/)
2024-03-19T09:30:00Z	**Ralph Reed’s army plans $62 million spending spree to boost evangelical turnout**
Alex Isenstadt,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: By most research estimates one in three Americans consider themselves evangelicals, and they are the Trump hard-core base. That's why the TCPs are pouring so much money into getting these low-education low-IQ people ginned up to vote for Trump.  This is how Trump plans to win back the Presidency. That's part of Trump ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/19/ralph-reeds-army-plans-62-million-spending-spree-to-boost-evangelical-turnout/)
2024-03-19T09:25:00Z	**Viktor Orban and the TCP**
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON,    -  Letters From an American

_Stephan: How blatant the TCP has become that dictator Viktor Orban was so welcomed by evangelicals, The Conservative Action Project, and the Heritage Foundation. The TCP is actively trying to turn America into a pseudo-democracy like Hungary and Russia. Hold elections but rig them so the outcome is a foregone conclusion._

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2024-03-19T09:35:00Z	**Evangelicals With Deep Pockets Are Funding Climate Change Denial**
Dan Foster,  Contributing Writer  -  The Good Men Project

_Stephan: White Evangelicals, as a group, are poorly educated -- according to statista only 15% are college graduates -- and lower IQ -- 34% of Americans have an I.Q. between 98 and 85, 78 is considered retarded. They tend to be fearful and resentful, male dominance-oriented, and racist.  Also remember 54% of Americans can't read beyond a  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/19/evangelicals-with-deep-pockets-are-funding-climate-change-denial/)
2024-03-20T09:20:00Z	**Gaetz Subpoenaed by Woman He Allegedly Had Sex With When She Was a Minor: Report**
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Have you noticed how many Trump Christofascist Party (TCP) supporters are openly criminal? Trump and those who support him come straight out of the Hitler playbook and even though the TCPs have done everything they can to rig the U.S. judicial system, from the top down, there are still enough honor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/20/gaetz-subpoenaed-by-woman-he-allegedly-had-sex-with-when-she-was-a-minor-report/)
2024-03-20T09:30:00Z	**Jimmy Kimmel Stumps MAGA Fanatics With U.S. Citizenship Test**
Jennifer M. Wood,    -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: Yesterday I told you that one of the defining characteristics of the MAGAt/TCP supporters is how ignorant they are. Here's some proof of that. When asked questions immigrants are asked in order to get citizenship, they couldn't. So most of the people who support Trump could not, in fact, obtain citizenship._

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2024-03-20T09:25:00Z	**Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals**
Rosemary Westwood,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: This is yet another story demonstrating what is happening in healthcare for women in the Red states. It is amazing to me that women in Red states still vote by the millions for Trump Christofascist candidates. Do they not realize that by their votes they put the wellbeing of the women in their state in serious dan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/20/standard-pregnancy-care-is-now-dangerously-disrupted-in-louisiana-report-reveals/)
2024-03-20T09:35:00Z	**For Centuries We Have Plundered Our Planet. Now We Are Paying the Price**
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,  Contributing Writer  -  Reader Supported News / The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is a writer in the U.K. saying what I have been telling you for 20 years. I take this as a sign of the general awakening by journalists that all life is interconnected and interdependent. I did a media interview today, with Jeff Lippman, and most of the questions he asked  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/20/for-centuries-we-have-plundered-our-planet-now-we-are-paying-the-price/)
2024-03-21T09:20:00Z	**The big idea: should we worry about trillionaires?**
Duncan Weldon,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The reality that there are already people who are richer than some countries, and  they are getting still richer is a sign of how dysfunctional our national economy has become. This all happened because over and over the Trump Chritofascist Party (the former Republican Party) has cut taxes for the rich and rigged the tax system to favor them. On top of that the Supreme Court  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/21/the-big-idea-should-we-worry-about-trillionaires/)
2024-03-21T09:30:00Z	**Scientific Proof Republicans Are Killing Young Women**
THOM HARTMANN,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: I was about to use the JAMA paper but was concerned it was too technical when I found this Hartmann article, which makes the same point on basically the same data, citing the JAMA paper. The sad truth is there are a lot of Handmaidens in the U.S. who vote year after year for the Trump Christofascist Party candidates, even though it oftentimes puts their own l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/21/scientific-proof-republicans-are-killing-young-women/)
2024-03-21T09:25:00Z	**Supreme Court Puppetmaster Explains How Billionaires Can Push America Right**
Andrew Perez,    -  Rollingstone

_Stephan: Leonard Leo is the Joseph Goebbels of the Trump Christofasct Party (TCP), and it is amazing to me that the media pays so little attention to him considering what he has accomplished for the christofascists and Trump. Just as Hitler and the Nazis were very clear about what they are trying to do, so the TCP and Trump are quite explici ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/21/supreme-court-puppetmaster-explains-how-billionaires-can-push-america-right/)
2024-03-21T09:35:00Z	**Medicare $$ Needed to Help State-Licensed Emergency Centers Survive, Lawmakers Told**
Joyce Frieden,  Washington Editor  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: I read stories like this one and ask myself, how is it possible we are having a presidential election in 8 months, we have the worst healthcare amongst all developed democracies, and yet we hear not a single word about creating universal birthright single-payer healthcare. We go on year after year with ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/21/medicare-needed-to-help-state-licensed-emergency-centers-survive-lawmakers-told/)
2024-03-22T09:20:00Z	**Are men and women growing apart politically? Not so fast.**
Zack Beauchamp,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: One sees a lot of commentary on the difference between the way men and women see politics. but I think it's more complicated than most commentators make it seem. Here is a data-based assessment that, in my opinion, makes the right point. "It’s frustrating to say “we don’t know” about something as important as the future of gender politics. But sometimes, “w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/22/are-men-and-women-growing-apart-politically-not-so-fast/)
2024-03-22T09:25:00Z	**‘Very few have balls’: How American news lost its nerve**
Max Tani,  Media Reporter  -  Semafor

_Stephan: I think Max Tani makes some very good points about what is happening in journalism in the U.S. and I thought it notable that he also cites people who don't agree with him. Personally, I think his assessments are quite accurate._

There’s too much to read and watch, too many places to read and watch it. It’s enough to distract you from the biggest news in journalism righ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/22/very-few-have-balls-how-american-news-lost-its-nerve/)
2024-03-22T09:30:00Z	**Livestock Industry Spent Billions Courting Academics to Discredit Research**
GEORGINA GUSTIN,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig / Inside Climate News

_Stephan: This report, in my view, is important for three reasons: First, the livestock industry has been proven to be a major reason climate change is occurring, and nothing is being done. Second, this report shows how vulnerable to corruption the science community has become, and how weak its ethical standards ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/22/livestock-industry-spent-billions-courting-academics-to-discredit-research/)
2024-03-22T09:35:00Z	**Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries**
Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, and Joseph B. Bak-Coleman et al.,  Research Scientists  -  Science Advances

_Stephan: One would think that the leadership of all the nations of the world understood by now that the only way to successfully address the challenge of climate change would be for all governments to agree to a pl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/22/addressing-climate-change-with-behavioral-science-a-global-intervention-tournament-in-63-countries/)
2024-03-23T09:20:00Z	**Sanders, Democrats Introduce Bill to Guarantee Workers Paid Time Off**
Sharon Zhang ,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Here we have another good news story arising from work being done by Democrats. It amazes me that working-class TCPers seem so willfully ignorant that they don't even recognize work being done to foster their wellbeing. But they don't. They still support criminal Trump and the Trump Christofascist Party (TCP)._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/23/sanders-democrats-introduce-bill-to-guarantee-workers-paid-time-off/)
2024-03-23T09:25:00Z	**California Wants to Pay Doctors More Money to See Medicaid Patients**
,    \-  MedPage Today

_Stephan: The good news part of this story is that Governor Newsom and the Democrats in California are trying to make decent eyecare available to more low-income people. They are trying to foster wellbeing within America's appallingly bad illness profit system. The bad news, of course, is this is another example of how awful our healthcare system is._

![](https://i0. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/23/california-wants-to-pay-doctors-more-money-to-see-medicaid-patients/)
2024-03-23T09:30:00Z	**Trump eyes convicts and conspiracists for 2024 reunion**
Sophia Cai and Alex Thompson,    -

_Stephan: Criminal Trump makes no attempt to hide what he is planning, or who he brings into his administration if he is re-elected. If American actually do vote this monster back into the presidency then it will be the end of America as a country with any honorable ethical standards or a democracy, and maybe that is what is going to happen. The Roman empire came to an end, the Rus ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/23/trump-eyes-convicts-and-conspiracists-for-2024-reunion/)
2024-03-23T09:35:00Z	**Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion**
Lauren Weber and Sabrina Malhi,  Accountability Reporter \| Infant and Maternal Health Issues Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation, and the drive to control women and girls has entered a new phase, attacking birth control. The result is going to be an increase in unplanned pregnancies which, in blue states is going to mean an increase in abortions and,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/23/women-are-getting-off-birth-control-amid-misinformation-explosion/)
2024-03-24T09:25:00Z	**World Happiness Report 2024**
WHR Editorial Board, formed of John F. Helliwell, Lord Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang.,    -  World Happiness Report

_Stephan: The 2024 World Happiness Report has just come out. The report is researched and written by a partnership among Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the World Happiness Report’s Editorial Board. The news for America is very sad. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/24/world-happiness-report-2024/)
2024-03-24T09:20:00Z	**What happens when an AG dares to investigate Leonard Leo’s network**
HEIDI PRZYBYLA,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Another story about the depth of corruption in the United States. America is perhaps the most corrupt democracy if one can still call us a democracy, in the world. Were is not for our military power we would be considered a failing state, and if the election goes to the Trump christofascist Party (TCP) (former Republican Party) it will be ga ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/24/what-happens-when-an-ag-dares-to-investigate-leonard-leos-network/)
2024-03-24T09:35:00Z	**EPA Announces ‘Strongest-Ever Pollution Standards’ for Cars and Light-Duty Trucks**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Staff Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news about pollution, improving wellbeing, and dealing with climate change. Only a fraction of what could have been done, of course, because of the corruption that plagues the United States. “This rule could’ve been the biggest single step of any nation on climate, but the EPA caved to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/24/epa-announces-strongest-ever-pollution-standards-for-cars-and-light-duty-trucks/)
2024-03-24T09:30:00Z	**Harris to announce gun control measures on visit to Parkland, Fla.**
ALEX GANGITANO,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Here is some more good news. The Biden administration is finally making a move to deal with America's gun psychosis. A small step, but an important one._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-53.jpg?resize=225%2C225&ssl=1)_Vice President Kamala Harris_

Vice President Harris will make two announcements ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/24/harris-to-announce-gun-control-measures-on-visit-to-parkland-fla/)
2024-03-25T09:25:00Z	**Putting chaplains in public school is the latest battle in culture wars**
Michelle Boorstein,  Religion Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: If the christofascists can't get rid of public education they at least want to turn it into a "Christian" (nothing to do withe Jesus' actual teachings) indoctrination system. It is their next battle in the war to make the U.S. a christofascist autocracy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/25/putting-chaplains-in-public-school-is-the-latest-battle-in-culture-wars/)
2024-03-25T09:20:00Z	**Fossil Fuel Cash Is Weakening Democrats’ Climate Support**
Josh Keefe,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: This is another story about the corruption of the American Congress, but the difference from most of the stories is that this one shows the Democrats are just as corrupt as the TCPs when it comes to renting themselves to the Fossil Fuel corporations who pour tens of millions of dollars into Democratic coffers. This is all the result of Citizens United and no one w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/25/fossil-fuel-cash-is-weakening-democrats-climate-support/)
2024-03-25T09:30:00Z	**Surrender: Millions of former US Military members support defeat.**
John B Alexander, PhD,  Colonel, USA (Ret.)  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander is a career combat leader and retired Army colonel and PhD. He is the first person I have seen tell the truth about how the Afghanistan War ended, and criminal Trump became the first American president in history to surrender. This is a story you should forward on to friends and family members. It is a major part o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/25/surrender-millions-of-former-us-military-members-support-defeat/)
2024-03-25T09:35:00Z	**Study reports enormous ice loss from Greenland glacier**
,    \-  Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres / Phys.org

_Stephan: The climate change reports are getting more and more alarming. Meanwhile, the Trump Christofascist Party (TCP) members of Congress continue to waste time trying to impeach Biden and blather on about Hunter Biden. The TCPs are literally trying to condemn your children to death as climate changes destroy the earth's ecosystem._

![](https:/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/25/study-reports-enormous-ice-loss-from-greenland-glacier/)
2024-03-26T09:20:00Z	**Congress’s new low**
Robert Reich,  Robert B. Reich is currently the Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies  -  Robert Reich Substack

_Stephan: It is becoming increasingly clear to all Americans that the U.S. Congress is barely functional.  America is a failing state by almost any social outcome measure you choose to pick. Our future is going to turn on the N ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/26/congresss-new-low/)
2024-03-26T09:25:00Z	**Breyer signals support for Supreme Court age, term limits**
Shauneen Miranda,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: I have never before seen or heard a former Supreme Court Justice speak out in this way, and I agree with retired Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. I think it should be taken as a response driven by the almost complete collapse of respect for the Court. Forty six percent of Americans disapprove of the way the Court is handling its job. If we ever get a working  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/26/breyer-signals-support-for-supreme-court-age-term-limits/)
2024-03-26T09:30:00Z	**Nearly 4,000 celebrities found to be victims of deepfake pornography**
Nadeem Badshah,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I am seeing more and more stories, and have published several in SR over the past few months, about AI-created fake child porn, and public figure porn. And yet it is rarely discussed on corporate media channels, and almost never discussed by politicians who use it to their benefit. The reality is the developed world is faced with a rights ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/26/nearly-4000-celebrities-found-to-be-victims-of-deepfake-pornography/)
2024-03-26T09:35:00Z	**How the U.S. Is Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis**
Emily Hutto,  Associate Video Producer and Editor  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: One of the reasons the United States ranks so poorly in the World Happiness Report for 2024 -- we are 23rd in the world -- is the youth mental health crisis. Our youth rank 62nd. Basically what is going on is that rich Boomers who control the Trump Christofascist Party have trashed the country socially, and young people who are going  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/26/how-the-u-s-is-addressing-the-youth-mental-health-crisis/)
2024-03-27T09:25:00Z	**How Billionaire’s Privilege is Taking Down Our Republic**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Have you noticed that criminal Trump is treated by the courts differently than anyone you know or have ever heard of? Thom Hartmann makes it clear with the facts that oligarchs live in different world than middle-class Americans. This has happened because poor and middle-class Americans have voted Trump Christofacist Party (TCPs) into office. Do you thin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/27/how-billionaires-privilege-is-taking-down-our-republic/)
2024-03-27T09:20:00Z	**Shifts in Child Health Behaviors and Obesity After COVID-19**
Monica L. Wang, ScD, MS, and Cristina M. Gago, PhD, MPH,    -  JAMA Pedoatrics

_Stephan: The average American diet is so bad that childhood obesity has become a crisis with all manner of negative side effects as described in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-61.jpg?resize=272%2C186&ssl=1)_Credit: First Cry Parenting_

As COV ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/27/shifts-in-child-health-behaviors-and-obesity-after-covid-19/)
2024-03-27T09:30:00Z	**Scientists Discover Potential HIV Cure that Eliminates Disease from Cells Using CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing**
,    \-  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is what is potentially major good news. According to the World Health Organization, "Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, 85.6 million [65.0–113.0 million] people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 40.4 million [32.9–51.3 million] people have died of HIV. Global ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/27/scientists-discover-potential-hiv-cure-that-eliminates-disease-from-cells-using-crispr-cas-gene-editing/)
2024-03-27T09:35:00Z	**The Danger of Deepfakes to Democracy**
MIchael Waldman,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: In a way, I see this as good news, because institutions like the Brennan Center are beginning to realize and talk about how AI-generated fake videos and audio tapes can and are being used to influence voters. I just don't think voters, particularly the bulk of voters who don't really have any understanding of the actual issues involved or what politicians actually are trying to do. You have t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/27/the-danger-of-deepfakes-to-democracy/)
2024-03-28T09:20:00Z	**Child care benefits for workers effectively pay for themselves, new study finds**
Emily Peck,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is yet another report on research that shows fostering wellbeing is always the best option to choose -- in this case providing workers with child care benefits. You would think this had become obvious, given all the studies that prove this, but it has not. Greed always seems to blind those who make the decisions, particularly in  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/28/child-care-benefits-for-workers-effectively-pay-for-themselves-new-study-finds/)
2024-03-28T09:30:00Z	**Millions of Americans caught up in Chinese hacking plot – US**
Mattea Bubal,  Reporter  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you are on TikTok you may have already been hacked, and your information compromised.  But even if you aren't, and are using some other social media app, it may still be happening to you. What is particularly horrifying about what is going on with the internet is how few people are required to compromise the privacy and information of millions of users, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/28/millions-of-americans-caught-up-in-chinese-hacking-plot-us/)
2024-03-28T09:25:00Z	**US court: Mexico’s suit against Arizona gun stores can proceed**
Editorial Staff,    -  Mexico News Daily (Mexico)

_Stephan: Mexico is being devastated by the gun violence of its gangs and cartels, and they have recognized that the guns used in this violence are coming from the United States and they have had enough. The article describes what Mexico as a country is doing in response. I have never seen a lawsuit like the one described in this report, but I see it as ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/28/us-court-mexicos-suit-against-arizona-gun-stores-can-proceed/)
2024-03-28T09:35:00Z	**Biden Is Building a ‘Superstructure’ to Stop Trump From Stealing the Election**
Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley,  Staff Writers  -  RollingStone

_Stephan: The Trump Christofascist Party (TCP) is now openly and actively trying to rig the election in November because they fear that Trump will not win the necessary votes if we have a free and fair election, so they are trying to build a pseudo-election procedure like Russia or Hungary. It seems the De ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/28/biden-is-building-a-superstructure-to-stop-trump-from-stealing-the-election/)
2024-03-29T09:25:00Z	**Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws**
Kate Yoder,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: I feel sorry for people living in Florida. They voted into office a fascist governor and legislature and now they are living with the consequences of that decision. If you compare the social outcome data of Red and Blue states it is screamingly obvious that Republicans -- now TCPs -- always do an inferior job of creating social wellbeing for the people of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/29/florida-is-about-to-erase-climate-change-from-most-of-its-laws/)
2024-03-29T09:20:00Z	**Fuel-cell train travels more than 1,700 miles on one tank of hydrogen**
Paul Ridden,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Here is some good news from Switzerland that has the potential to make a very good impact on rail power in the U.S._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-65.png?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_As testing in the US nears completion, Stadler’s Flirt H2 passenger train has taken to the track to set a distance record of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/29/fuel-cell-train-travels-more-than-1700-miles-on-one-tank-of-hydrogen/)
2024-03-29T09:35:00Z	**Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn’t meant to kill?**
REESE DUNKLIN, RYAN J. FOLEY, JEFF MARTIN, JENNIFER MCDERMOTT, HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN SEEWER,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The police and sheriffs in the United States are the most poorly trained law enforcement officers in the democracies of the developed world. In those other countries you have to be a college graduate, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/29/why-did-more-than-1000-people-die-after-police-subdued-them-with-force-that-isnt-meant-to-kill/)
2024-03-29T09:30:00Z	**‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN rights expert says**
Louis Mian and Benjamin Brown,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: I agree with this article and it enrages me that the genocide being conducted by fascist Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli's Trump, is being made possible with American weapons that are fast-tracked to the Israeli armed forces._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upload ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/29/reasonable-grounds-to-believe-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-un-rights-expert-says/)
2024-03-30T09:20:00Z	**Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation — and could affect how we keep time**
Elizabeth Gibney,  Scientist  -  nature

_Stephan: Who knew that climate change would literally alter how we keep time? No one, but it is, and here is the story.

To get the scientific report: doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00932-_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-34-5.jpg?resize=800%2C513&ssl=1)_As polar ice has melte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/30/climate-change-has-slowed-earths-rotation-and-could-affect-how-we-keep-time/)
2024-03-30T09:30:00Z	**U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel**
John Hudson,  National Security Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is a mistake on Biden's part, and history is going to condemn him for this. However, I will still vote for him because I believe this U.S. election is not Democrats vs Republicans, instead, it is democracy against racist christofascism authoritarianism. I understand the geopolitical thinking that has led Biden to doing this: The U.S. has to suppor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/30/u-s-signs-off-on-more-bombs-warplanes-for-israel/)
2024-03-30T09:25:00Z	**How MAGA broke the media**
Zack Beauchamp,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: In my view American corporate media, with a few exceptions, either does not understand what is going on in this election or has chosen their usual approach. That is, treating the election like a sports event between two teams playing an ethical game instead of competently recognizing that this is an election between continuing as a democracy or becoming a pseudo-democracy like Hungary ruled by a fascist authoritarian an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/30/how-maga-broke-the-media/)
2024-03-30T09:35:00Z	**“Man-made Hell on Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza**
Jeremy Scahill,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: This is what genocide looks like and the United States is providing the weapons to make this happen. The problem we face as a country is that in the midst of this Israeli created genocide, our American democracy hangs by a thread and we are faced with an election that is not about Democrats vs. Republicans. It is about continuing demo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/30/man-made-hell-on-earth-a-canadian-doctor-on-his-medical-mission-to-gaza/)
2024-03-31T09:25:00Z	**Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere**
Sarah Mervosh and Francesca Paris,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: America needs to sit down with itself and have a serious conversation about what is happening with our culture. We are a deteriorating culture in every aspect from healthcare to childcare, elder care, and even just learning to read, write, and do simple math.  To quote this report, "The trends suggest that something fundamental has shifted in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/31/why-school-absences-have-exploded-almost-everywhere/)
2024-03-31T09:20:00Z	**‘Trump in 2028’: GOP-aligned organization calls for abolition of presidential term limits**
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Because few Americans seem to have any real grasp of history, I don't think many realize that we are mimicking step-by-step Hitler's rise to power, with Trump in the role of Hitler. On 30 January 1933 after a series of negotiations amongst the parties Hitler was formally appointed as Germany's new cha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/31/trump-in-2028-gop-aligned-organization-calls-for-abolition-of-presidential-term-limits/)
2024-03-31T09:35:00Z	**Gulf South States Advance Bills to End Legal Recognition for Trans People**
Erin Reed ,  Commentator  -   Erin In The Morning. / truthout

_Stephan: Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are so poorly governed that if you look at their social outcome data, from healthcare to education it is clear they are basically third-world countries. What is even sadder is how filled with hate and White racism they are, as this article describes. They remind me of South ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/31/gulf-south-states-advance-bills-to-end-legal-recognition-for-trans-people/)
2024-03-31T09:30:00Z	**AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.**
Nitasha Tiku and Pranshu Verma ,    -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: This AI fake video trend is getting worse and worse, and unsuspecting women are discovering that their faces are being "stolen" to be used in fake videos. As you can see in this story local police departments are not equipped to deal with this, and our dysfunctional Congress has neither the will nor the capability to deal  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/03/31/ai-hustlers-stole-womens-faces-to-put-in-ads-the-law-cant-help-them/)
2024-04-01T09:20:00Z	**‘We are in danger as a nation’: House and Senate aides consider leaving ‘broken’ Congress**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-34-9.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1)_House Speaker Mike Johnson on February 1, 2024 Credit: Creative Commons_

The wave of retirement announcements and sudden resignations by members of the 118th Congress may soon be spreading to lawmakers’ staff as well.

Senior-level  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/01/we-are-in-danger-as-a-nation-house-and-senate-aides-consider-leaving-broken-congress/)
2024-04-01T09:25:00Z	**Colleges Are Facing an Enrollment Nightmare**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-34-8.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1)_Colleges Are Facing an Enrollment Nightmare

Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: Harold M. Lambert / Getty._

For years, Senator Lamar Alexander was known for theatrically unfurling a paper document so long that he could hold it above his head and still see it drag along the chamber floor. It was the Fre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/01/colleges-are-facing-an-enrollment-nightmare/)
2024-04-01T09:30:00Z	**Confronting the Crisis of Climate Displacement**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-34-7.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1)_Credit: Adobe_

Just months after the Carr and Mendocino Complex fires ripped through nearly 700,000 acres of northern California in 2018, the wind-driven Camp Fire erupted near Chico. The fire scorched through the abnormally dry vegetation, blazing and spreading rapidly, and at one time burned some 10,000 acres  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/01/confronting-the-crisis-of-climate-displacement/)
2024-04-01T09:35:00Z	**RFK Jr.’s vice presidential pick calls IVF ‘one of the biggest lies being told about women’s health’**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate has been a harsh critic of in vitro fertilization, while funding alternative research on extending women’s reproductive years.

Nicole Shanahan has for years denounced IVF — calling it “one of the biggest lies that’s being told about women’s health today.”

At the same time ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/01/rfk-jr-s-vice-presidential-pick-calls-ivf-one-of-the-biggest-lies-being-told-about-womens-health/)
2024-04-02T09:20:00Z	**The Church of Trump: How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that I have been calling the merging of White evangelical christianity and what used to be the Republican Party, christofascism. I don't capitalize the C because this cult may use the language of the Bible but they have nothing to do with Jesus' teaching or the values of Christianity. This is a cohort defined by their anger, White ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/02/the-church-of-trump-how-hes-infusing-christianity-into-his-movement/)
2024-04-02T09:30:00Z	**America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws**
Lauren Kaori Gurley,  Labor Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: As this article reports, "At least 16 states have one or more bills to weaken their child labor laws and at least 13 are seeking to strengthen them, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute."  By any social outcome measure I can find and research overall as a country we are a society whose wellbeing is in dec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/02/america-is-divided-over-major-efforts-to-rewrite-child-labor-laws/)
2024-04-02T09:25:00Z	**AI Companies Want to Colonize Our Data. Here’s How We Stop Them.**
Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry,    -  truthout

_Stephan: Here is an excellent assessment of how AI is changing our culture and our economy. I agree with the analysis, but the thing that is missing in the description of the solution, in my opinion is that the key to dealing with AI is that the highest social priority must be the compassionate life-affirming fostering of wellbeing of the entirety of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/02/ai-companies-want-to-colonize-our-data-heres-how-we-stop-them/)
2024-04-02T09:35:00Z	**ACA health insurance plans are being switched without enrollees’ OK**
Julie Appleby,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: America's horrible illness profit system has gotten worse, and you may have been affected.  Read this, and if you are part of the ACA (Obamacare) system check to make sure you haven't been made an unwitting victim. You would think there would be a huge outcry to establish universal birthright single-payer wellbeing healthcare, but Americans, par ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/02/aca-health-insurance-plans-are-being-switched-without-enrollees-ok/)
2024-04-03T09:20:00Z	**Birthrates are tumbling worldwide, forcing hard choices on societies**
Simon Montlake ,  Staff Writer  -  Christian Science Monitor

_Stephan: I have been telling you for over 15 years that all the overpopulation commentary is nonsense. There isn't going to be an overpopulation problem, but rather the opposite. As this article describes we are going to face a population decrease so great that it is going to cause a societal restructuring. That's why the christ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/03/birthrates-are-tumbling-worldwide-forcing-hard-choices-on-societies/)
2024-04-03T09:30:00Z	**We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them.**
Benji Jones,  Senior Environmental Reporter   -  Vox

_Stephan: Even when we try to help preserve the ecosystem we don't think it through fully and properly, as this report about Right Whales describes. We need to reorder our societies so that fostering wellbeing of all the creatures in the matrix of life are included. If our civilization is to survive th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/03/we-know-how-to-save-these-beloved-endangered-whales-yet-were-mindlessly-killing-them/)
2024-04-03T09:25:00Z	**The kids aren’t all right. Are phones really to blame?**
Judith Warner,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Another culture stressor we are not properly addressing. We are at a point in our society where we must rethink our values and the only way that is going to happen is if we each make all our daily decisions the most compassionate life-affirming and fostering of wellbeing we can. Culture is the creation of collective consciousness._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/03/the-kids-arent-all-right-are-phones-really-to-blame/)
2024-04-03T09:35:00Z	**More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.**
Lauren Sausser,    -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: I am seeing more and more signs like this report about women and alcohol of growing social stress. I think this is arising not just from immediate crises but also from a precognitive awareness of the devastation that is coming caused by climate change. There are already over 117 million climate refugees, as I noted the othe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/03/more-women-are-drinking-themselves-sick-the-biden-administration-is-concerned/)
2024-04-04T09:25:00Z	**Religious Change in America**
,    \-  PRRI

_Stephan:_

_He is the latest fact-based assessment as to what is happening about religion in the United States present time.  The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization that conducts public opinion polls on a variety of topics, specializing in the quantitative and qualitative study of political issues as they relate to religious values, and their surveys have proven over time to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/04/religious-change-in-america/)
2024-04-04T09:20:00Z	**Here’s why Americans under 40 are so disillusioned with capitalism**
Heather Long,  Editorial Writer and Ccolumnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is a good assessment explaining why the young no longer have much faith in the social structure the Boomers took for granted.  It has not seemed to dawn on most politicians that there has been a major transformation in the relationship between workers and employers, nor do they seem to recognize the growing d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/04/heres-why-americans-under-40-are-so-disillusioned-with-capitalism/)
2024-04-04T09:30:00Z	**Insurance trends are deciding where Americans will live as planet heats**
SAUL ELBEIN,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: I have been telling you for years to watch what the insurance companies are doing in your region because they, more than any other industry, are following what is happening with climate change. They are the canary in the mine whose choices will tell you when it is time to sell. And here is a report on what they are doing. I urge you  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/04/insurance-trends-are-deciding-where-americans-will-live-as-planet-heats/)
2024-04-04T09:35:00Z	**Map shows the US cities most at risk of ending up underwater**
Jessica Kwong,    -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: Here is the best recent update of coastal subsidence and submergence I have found. This is what is going to happen in the next 26 years. Get it? Twenty-six years. So these changes are already underway. Plan accordingly._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-7.jpg?resize=768%2C506&ssl=1)_A new map projects future inun ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/04/map-shows-the-us-cities-most-at-risk-of-ending-up-underwater/)
2024-04-05T09:20:00Z	**Trump’s 5-Step Fascist Plan**
Robert Reich,  Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies  -  Robert Reich Substack

_Stephan: Robert Reich, I think, lays out what criminal Trump is up to very well. What continues to surprise me is that with the news filled with one story after another of Trump's criminality, and utter lack of integrity, millions still foll ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/05/trumps-5-step-fascist-plan/)
2024-04-05T09:30:00Z	**As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice**
Sasha Chavkin, Caitlin Gilbert, Anjali Tsui and Anahad O’Connor,  Reporters  -  The Washingtdon Post

_Stephan: I went to the pharmacy today and had to stand in a line for over 30 minutes. While there I noticed something that has become ever more prevalent: the number of obese people, particularly women. I counted 27 people, a lot for the rural area in which I live, and 19 of them were obese. Most  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/05/as-obesity-rises-big-food-and-dietitians-push-anti-diet-advice/)
2024-04-05T09:25:00Z	**US Experienced Staggering Growth in Renewables Over the Last Decade**
SYRIS VALENTINE,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: Here is some good news. We are making real progress in converting to renewable energy sources. The problem I see is that the national energy grid is aging and increasingly vulnerable to failure. My hope is that in the U.S. we develop regional and local grids._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/05/us-experienced-staggering-growth-in-renewables-over-the-last-decade/)
2024-04-05T09:35:00Z	**Spent nuclear fuel mismanagement poses a major threat to the United States. Here’s how.**
Mark Leyse,    -  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

_Stephan: I have been telling readers since I started SR 33 years ago that we should stop any development of civilian nuclear energy.  After serious research at both a classified and unclassified level I became convinced that the network of nuclear waste sites was going to become a major crisis at some  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/05/spent-nuclear-fuel-mismanagement-poses-a-major-threat-to-the-united-states-heres-how/)
2024-04-06T09:20:00Z	**Promise-Breaking IRS**
LIZ WOLFE ,  Staff Writer  -  reason

_Stephan: Everything about the American tax system is rigged to favor the rich in everyway. Here are the actual facts, and the true story._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-17.jpg?resize=1080%2C608&ssl=1)_IRS commissioner Charles Rettig_. _Credit: Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Newscom_

**Liar, liar:** Back in August 2022, when some of us were fresh-faced and naive, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/06/promise-breaking-irs/)
2024-04-06T09:30:00Z	**Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities**
William I. Robinson ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Israel under Netanyahu is turning itself into an international pariah for the genocide it is perpetrating. Its response is social media misinformation and sending undercover agents to American universities. Read this account and be appalled. The stupidity of these policies, I think, is going to create an anti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/06/israel-has-formed-a-task-force-to-carry-out-covert-campaigns-at-us-universities/)
2024-04-06T09:35:00Z	**Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?**
Ron Lieber,  Contributing Writer  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: If you lived in Norway as one of a number of possible examples your healthcare would cost you nothing, being covered by federal taxes, and your college would also be without out of pocket costs. Why because in Norway the policies of the government are designed to foster wellbeing for every Norweigan, whereas in the U.S. both he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/06/some-colleges-will-soon-charge-100000-a-year-how-did-this-happen/)
2024-04-07T04:17:18Z	**China Is Using AI to Sow Disinformation and Stoke Discord Across Asia and the U.S., Microsoft Reports**
KOH EWE,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: As I have warned you the weaponization of misinformation aided by AI is threatening democracies all over the world. It is getting harder and harder to get accurate information about anything. I am spending more hours each day than I used to because I have to be sure that what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/06/china-is-using-ai-to-sow-disinformation-and-stoke-discord-across-asia-and-the-u-s-microsoft-reports/)
2024-04-07T09:35:00Z	**China Is Using AI to Sow Disinformation and Stoke Discord Across Asia and the U.S., Microsoft Reports**
KOH EWE,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: As I have warned you the weaponization of misinformation aided by AI is threatening democracies all over the world. It is getting harder and harder to get accurate information about anything. It isn't just China, although this report focuses on that. It is also and particular ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/07/china-is-using-ai-to-sow-disinformation-and-stoke-discord-across-asia-and-the-u-s-microsoft-reports/)
2024-04-08T09:20:00Z	**Earth’s water future veers into sci-fi territory, researchers say**
Rizwan Choudhury,    -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: I have been telling you for over 20 years that water is destiny. I did one of my recent podcasts on this. Now, as this article describes a group of water studying scientists have put together a book on the future scenarios they see. It is even bleaker than my own research had suggested. Governments, throughout the world, including the United State ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/08/earths-water-future-veers-into-sci-fi-territory-researchers-say/)
2024-04-08T09:30:00Z	**Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years**
Shannon Osaka,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: As this report lays out, the U.S. is doing pathetically badly at creating a EV charging network. The plan was 500,000 charging stations by 2026; it is not going to happen, or even anything close. At both the federal and state level there is no real understanding as to how urgent this is. Perso ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/08/bidens-7-5-billion-investment-in-ev-charging-has-only-produced-7-stations-in-two-years/)
2024-04-08T09:35:00Z	**Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake**
C.J. Polychroniou ,  Contributing Writer  -  trruthout

_Stephan: Here is an important assessment showing that wellbeing is fostered by ordinary people even when the profit greed corporations and those who work within them, pour countless money into maintaining things that cause damage to the earth's wellbeing. What it is saying is that you can make a difference. Are  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/08/big-oil-ignores-millions-of-climate-deaths-when-billions-in-profit-are-at-stake/)
2024-04-10T09:20:00Z	**Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books**
HILLEL ITALIE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI,  Report  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: If it isn't clear to you by now it should be. The United States is under a christofascist attack led by criminal Trump. Although there are some Blacks and Hispanics this is an overwhelmingly White minority cohort, and they are trying to take control of the country and think they can achieve this in November.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/10/librarians-fear-new-penalties-even-prison-as-activists-challenge-books/)
2024-04-10T09:25:00Z	**‘Arming up for anticipated civil conflict’: Study says gun buyers prone to ‘political violence’**
Caarl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The MAGAts are arming themselves. They want civil violence, and I think as a society government at both the state and federal level should be recognizing that and planning how we are going to deal with it. No living American has ever seen major civil violence on our soil. However, there is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/10/arming-up-for-anticipated-civil-conflict-study-says-gun-buyers-prone-to-political-violence/)
2024-04-10T09:35:00Z	**White rural rage: The secret political force shaping America’s future**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann has it spot on, describing the White christofascist rural supporters of criminal Trump. Low education, low IQ, filled with fear and resentment. As Hartmann notes, and I agree, even though Trump and the Republicans have been screwing these people for decades they aren't smart enough apparently to comprehend what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/10/white-rural-rage-the-secret-political-force-shaping-americas-future/)
2024-04-10T09:40:00Z	**Editor’s Note – SR Under Attack**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: You probably noticed there was no Tuesday edition of SR. Actually, I did produce one but those who are attacking SR deleted it. For two weeks now Beth Alexander my wonderfully skillful webmaster and I have been struggling to keep SR operational. It has been incredibly time-consuming and it has become expensive. I don't really understand how the attacks are carried out, but they have been constant. I do unde ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/10/editors-note-sr-under-attack/)
2024-04-11T09:20:00Z	**UN Climate Chief: We Have ‘Two Years to Save the World’ From Climate Crisis**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The people who actually study climate change, who know the facts, are getting more and more alarmed. Here is an example of what I mean. We are about to have a national election that will define our state and federal governments. Do you see climate change as a major discussion amongst the candidates? You do no ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/11/un-climate-chief-we-have-two-years-to-save-the-world-from-climate-crisis/)
2024-04-11T09:35:00Z	**Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections**
Shannon Pettypiece,  Staff Writer  -  NBC News

_Stephan: One of the major mistakes the Biden administration has made during Biden's tenure, one that has surprised me since it is so obviously a problem, is what Louis Dejoy, a Trumper, has done to the U.S. Post Office. What has happened to America's oldest national institution is a scandal you rarely hear or read about. But, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/11/major-mail-delivery-delays-raise-concerns-about-voting-in-the-2024-elections/)
2024-04-11T09:30:00Z	**The rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability**
Robert Frank,  Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: The rich are laying plans to abandon the country their wealth and their funding of christofascist politicians and policies has driven into a crisis that may end what the United States has been for over two centuries. I think that should be taken as a very significant alarm bell._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/11/the-rich-are-getting-second-passports-citing-risk-of-instability/)
2024-04-11T09:25:00Z	**Team Human vs. Team Posthuman—Which Side Are You On?**
ÉMILE P. TORRES ,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: I am very concerned about AI, and I think you should be as well. I don't think we are headed down the road of The Matrix movies, but I do think AI is a major threat working to end our democracy. AI has become the key to the weaponization of misinformation in a nation where a majority of the population is only marginally literate and gets what news they do get f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/11/team-human-vs-team-posthuman-which-side-are-you-on/)
2024-04-12T09:20:00Z	**Stamp prices poised to rise again, for the 2nd time this year**
Kate Gibson,  Reporter  -  CBS News

_Stephan: The price of stamps is going to go up for a second time in a year even as mailings are going down. This is all part of the Dejoy plan to make the USPS a profit-making organization instead of a public service._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-8.png)_Forever stamp Credit: USPS_

When it comes to stamps, the word “forever” o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/12/stamp-prices-poised-to-rise-again-for-the-2nd-time-this-year/)
2024-04-12T09:25:00Z	**‘Open season to kill’: GOP leader wants to ‘deputize’ civilians with guns in case of emergencies**
Maya Boddie,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: In yesterday's SR I tried to give you a sense of the growing zeitgeist of civil violence I am seeing in a wide spectrum of media. This is particularly a White male Republican (what I now call TCP) phenomenon, and it is getting worse each day as we move closer to the November election. Here ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/12/open-season-to-kill-gop-leader-wants-to-deputize-civilians-with-guns-in-case-of-emergencies/)
2024-04-12T09:30:00Z	**The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off**
James Temple,  Staff Writer  -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: This is yet another example of the subtle complexities humanity faces as we attempt to deal with the processes of climate change we have set in motion that threaten our existence. It is becoming ever more clear as well that you don't want to live in a state controlled by the TCP (former Republican Party). The  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/12/the-inadvertent-geoengineering-experiment-that-the-world-is-now-shutting-off/)
2024-04-12T09:35:00Z	**Indoor farms are remaking the produce market — at a cost to the planet**
Anna Phillips,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This article caught my attention, and I bring it to yours because it makes very clear that new technologies designed to cope with climate change are not always the initial successes they are originally thought to be, and it requires further changes in subsequent generations of the technology to get the benefit being sought.  All ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/12/indoor-farms-are-remaking-the-produce-market-at-a-cost-to-the-planet/)
2024-04-14T09:25:00Z	**Scientists Are Studying the Funky Environmental Impacts of Eclipses—From Grid Disruptions to Unusual Animal Behavior**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-10.png)_The April 8 eclipse as seen from Pinnacle Mountain State Park outside Little Rock, Ark. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth / Inside Climate News_

Yesterday, all eyes pointed toward the sky as millions of people  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/14/scientists-are-studying-the-funky-environmental-impacts-of-eclipses-from-grid-disruptions-to-unusual-animal-behavior/)
2024-04-14T09:35:00Z	**About 1 in 4 U.S. teachers say their school went into a gun-related lockdown in the last school year**
KILEY HURST,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: This is a horrifying study of the state of elementary and high school education in the United States. There is no other developed democracy in the world that is experiencing anything remotely like the gun violence happening in America. It should be a matter of national shame but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/14/about-1-in-4-u-s-teachers-say-their-school-went-into-a-gun-related-lockdown-in-the-last-school-year/)
2024-04-14T09:30:00Z	**The real reason Republicans oppose efforts to cancel student debt**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have been watching the TCPs/Republicans trying to block the forgiving of student college debt and trying to figure out why they would be doing that, other than that they have no apparent interest in fostering the wellbeing of society. This is so clear that I continue to be stunned that the people who vote for these churls don't seem to get t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/14/the-real-reason-republicans-oppose-efforts-to-cancel-student-debt/)
2024-04-14T09:40:00Z	**How to Protect Americans From the Many Growing Threats of AI**
GARY MARCUS,    -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: I have become evermore concerned that AI is going to destroy humanity because we are not taking the steps we should to control it. Greed and a lust for power are devouring us. But there is still a chance if we can awaken to making fostering wellbeing our first priority. This is the best article I have read about what is going on, and what needs to be done to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/14/how-to-protect-americans-from-the-many-growing-threats-of-ai/)
2024-04-15T09:25:00Z	**Great Barrier Reef Suffering Record Coral Bleaching With Damage 59 Feet Below the Surface**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: This kind of story gets no coverage except in a few environmental/ecological websites like EcoWatch, but it is a very big deal. It is telling us that our technologies and cultural patterns are destroying earth's matrix of life. It is long past time we awakened to the realization ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/15/great-barrier-reef-suffering-record-coral-bleaching-with-damage-59-feet-below-the-surface/)
2024-04-15T09:20:00Z	**How Donald Trump Gets Special Treatment in the Legal System**
JAMES ROMOSER,  Legal Editor  -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: Well, today one of criminal Trump's trials has started. His worshipper's and Trump himself constantly wail that he is being mistreated and victimized. In fact, as this report spells out in detail no person in American history has had so many special and exceptional treatments. Any other defendant would long ago have been sent to prison. What star ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/15/how-donald-trump-gets-special-treatment-in-the-legal-system/)
2024-04-15T09:35:00Z	**What the evidence really says about social media’s impact on teens’ mental health**
Eric Levitz ,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: I have published and commented on several studies on the effect of spending hours each day focused on social media on the mental health of users, particularly young people. Personally, I don't use social media, so I am not really knowledgeable about what it is like to do that. What I do see happening is that kid ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/15/what-the-evidence-really-says-about-social-medias-impact-on-teens-mental-health/)
2024-04-15T09:30:00Z	**America has legislated itself into competing red, blue versions of education**
Hannah Natanson and Lauren Tierney,  Education Reporter \| Senior Graphics Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is a tragic report on the effect the Great Schism Trend is having on the education of the young. To me, the main takeaway is that like everything else in this trend, the result is going to be that children in Red states are going be less educated, and l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/15/america-has-legislated-itself-into-competing-red-blue-versions-of-education/)
2024-04-16T09:20:00Z	**Sinking Cities Spell Slow-Motion Disaster for Critical Infrastructure**
,  Mother Jones  -

_Stephan: With increasing frequency, I am seeing reports of what climate change is going to cause, and am struck by how many things no one considered are going to be impacted. Here is an example of what I am finding when I research climate change, and what I mean by the surprising effects it is having._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/im ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/16/sinking-cities-spell-slow-motion-disaster-for-critical-infrastructure/)
2024-04-16T09:25:00Z	**Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure**
Monica Hesse,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: American culture is in turmoil. This is an article on "tradwives" as they are called, women who seek and prefer a 1950s lifestyle where their husbands work and they stay at home, and they are happily submissive to their husband's will. This article describes the movement but does not really focus on what I think is the real reason this tr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/16/tradwives-stay-at-home-girlfriends-and-the-dream-of-feminine-leisure/)
2024-04-16T09:30:00Z	**What’s the Happiest Country on Earth?**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-15-at-6.40.24 PM.png)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest [World Happiness Report](https://www.gallup.com/analytics/349487/gallup-global-happiness-center.aspx) has some unhappy news for Americans.

For the first time in the report’s 12-year history, the U.S. didn’t earn a spot among the top 20 happiest countries in the world. It’s No. 23 — down from a 15th- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/16/whats-the-happiest-country-on-earth/)
2024-04-16T09:35:00Z	**Rural America’s working-age adults die at wildly higher rates than their counterparts in cities. Why?**
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez and McKenzie Beard,    -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Working-age rural Americans (25-54) are dying at a much higher rate, particularly in Red states, than men and women their age in Blue states, and this is happening in part because Red states have not expanded Medicaid. And yet, th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/16/rural-americas-working-age-adults-die-at-wildly-higher-rates-than-their-counterparts-in-cities-why/)
2024-04-17T07:43:03Z	**Zelensky Issues Dire Warning as Putin Pushes Forward**
Brendan Cole,  Staff Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Because of the TCP/Republican Putin supporters in the House the United States is destroying its international reputation and putting itself at grave risk by blocking the support Ukraine needs. I am ashamed of what these cretins are doing to our country, and you should be too._

![Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky ](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2378716/ukraines-pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/17/zelensky-issues-dire-warning-as-putin-pushes-forward/)
2024-04-17T09:25:03Z	**Zelensky Issues Dire Warning as Putin Pushes Forward**
Brendan Cole,  Staff Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Because of the TCP/Republican Putin supporters in the House the United States is destroying its international reputation and putting itself at grave risk by blocking the support Ukraine needs. I am ashamed of what these cretins are doing to our country, and you should be too._

![Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky ](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2378716/ukraines-pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/17/zelensky-issues-dire-warning-as-putin-pushes-forward/)
2024-04-17T09:20:00Z	**Indiana Will Test a Highway That Can Charge Moving Vehicles**
KRISTOFFER TIGUE,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: As you have heard me say on SR many times in the past, highways that charge the vehicles that drive over them are the way to evolve out of the carbon era, not a new network of charging stations to replace gas stations. This and the project in Detroit are very good news._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-3-4.jpg)_ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/17/indiana-will-test-a-highway-that-can-charge-moving-vehicles/)
2024-04-17T09:30:00Z	**Most Student Loan Borrowers Have Delayed Major Life Events**
STEPHANIE MARKEN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Because America has become a society that has only one social priority, profit, we have distorted all of our values. Here is but one of many examples. Because of this distortion college has become a profit source instead of something society wants everyone to have a chance at.  For those who are able to go debt is an issue shaping their lives. Seventy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/17/most-student-loan-borrowers-have-delayed-major-life-events/)
2024-04-17T09:35:00Z	**World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts**
Phoebe Weston,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Today I did my podcast for Friday focused on how materialism is destroying the earth's matrix of life. I covered a lot of material that few people, except those doing the actual research, know about or talk about. Here is yet another example of what I mean. We are creating a tragedy over which future generations will condemn  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/17/world-faces-deathly-silence-of-nature-as-wildlife-disappears-warn-experts/)
2024-04-18T09:20:00Z	**U.S.: Leader or Loser in the G7?**
BENEDICT VIGERS,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The United States is a declining society, and is seen as such by the other developed democracies, as vouchsafed by hard data. Here is the latest from Gallup._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-6.46.28 PM.png)

LONDON, U.K. — For the first time in almost two decades of polling, the United States now lags behind most of the other leading industrialized na ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/18/u-s-leader-or-loser-in-the-g7/)
2024-04-18T09:25:00Z	**Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House**
Josh Bivens,    -

_Stephan: I have been telling you for 30 years that Republican governance at any level is always inferior in terms of average individual and social wellbeing when compared with Democrat governance. The data on this is irrefutable. It is one of the tragedies of U.S. history that about a third of Americans either don't understand this or are not intelligent enough to compr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/18/economic-performance-is-stronger-when-democrats-hold-the-white-house/)
2024-04-18T09:35:00Z	**There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764**
ALI WINSTON,  Contributing Writer  -  Wired

_Stephan: On balance, I am not sure the internet is a positive influence in society. I see more and more stories about White supremacists organizing violence, the fake porn of barely pubescent girls circulated through their schools, the scamming of the elderly, and the weaponization of lies to manipulate voters. Then, today, I came across this one. And while all this dam ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/18/there-are-dark-corners-of-the-internet-then-theres-764/)
2024-04-18T09:30:00Z	**Bioengineered Corneas Stand to Cure Blindness For Millions of People Around the World**
Andy Corbley,  Staff Writer  -  Good New Network

_Stephan: Here is what looks like wonderful good news. As a person who has worn glasses or contacts since I was 8 years old, I immediately reacted with positive thoughts when I read this report. I will stay in touch with this emerging technology and keep SR readers up to date._

![](https://www.schwartzrepo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/18/bioengineered-corneas-stand-to-cure-blindness-for-millions-of-people-around-the-world/)
2024-04-19T09:25:00Z	**The Car Fueled Entirely by the Sun Takes Huge Step Towards Production**
Andy Corbley,  Founder and Editor of World At Large  -  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is the next generation of EVs. This is very good news. Add roads that charge vehicles, and humans seriously move out of the carbon vehicle era._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-3-8.jpg)_Credit: Aptera / X_

One of the most hotly anticipated concept cars in recent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/19/the-car-fueled-entirely-by-the-sun-takes-huge-step-towards-production/)
2024-04-19T09:20:00Z	**Another House Republican to quit citing Capitol Hill ‘dysfunction’**
Kathleen Culliton,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Never in the last century have so many people of one party walked away from a career in Congressional public office. I don't think anything could make it clearer that the TCP have taken over the Republican Party and those in the House have no interest in actually governing to foster wellbeing. They have other agendas, other priorities, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/19/another-house-republican-to-quit-citing-capitol-hill-dysfunction/)
2024-04-19T09:35:00Z	**The economic commitment of climate change**
Maximilian Kotz, Anders Levermann and Leonie Wenz,  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany \|   -  nature

_Stephan: I am beginning to see in the science literature a really serious analysis of the economic damage that is going to be wrought by climate change, and it is alarming. This paper in nature is quite technical but I decided to bring it to your attention to make this point. While the Republican/TCP cretins in  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/19/the-economic-commitment-of-climate-change/)
2024-04-19T09:30:00Z	**Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.**
C.J. Polychroniou ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: As this interview report says, "The planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66 percent. Indeed, the interconnection between climate change and economic inequality has emerged as a central theme in serious economic analyses and a focal point of climate activism." Much of this is a result o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/19/nobody-earns-a-billion-dollars-we-need-a-wealth-tax/)
2024-04-20T09:20:00Z	**There’s a thriving Russian black market for Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals, with the tech being sent far beyond Ukraine**
Mia Jankowicz,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: This is an appalling story showing Elon Musk to be a modern-day Benedict Arnold. I think he should lose his citizenship and be denied the right to do business in the United States. Americans made him a multi-billionaire, and he is now working t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/20/theres-a-thriving-russian-black-market-for-elon-musks-starlink-terminals-with-the-tech-being-sent-far-beyond-ukraine/)
2024-04-20T09:30:00Z	**Biden administration restricts oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska’s petroleum reserve**
Becky Bohrer and Matthew Daly,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Here is some good news from the Biden administration. I see it as another sign that the Democrats are serious about dealing with climate change, and are taking steps to end the carbon energy era. This will also preserve the ecology of Alaska and, thus, co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/20/biden-administration-restricts-oil-and-gas-leasing-in-13-million-acres-of-alaskas-petroleum-reserve/)
2024-04-20T09:25:00Z	**Criminalizing the Unhoused Costs More Than Housing Them**
FARRAH HASSEN ,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: As I have been telling you for the 33 years I have been doing SR, of the options available in any situation fostering wellbeing is always the most efficient, most productive, most decent and, as this report confirms once again, the cheapest alternative. The fact that over and over American governance does not pick the option that fosters wellbeing is a measure of our societ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/20/criminalizing-the-unhoused-costs-more-than-housing-them/)
2024-04-20T09:35:00Z	**EDs Refused to Treat Pregnant Women, Leaving One to Miscarry in a Lobby Restroom**
,    \-  MedPage Today / Associated Press

_Stephan: This is what healthcare for pregnant women in Republican-controlled states has come to. I find it horrifying that the politicians, overwhelmingly White men with no medical training, would choose to treat the women in their states with this vicious absence of care. If I were a pregnant woman I would move to a Democr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/20/eds-refused-to-treat-pregnant-women-leaving-one-to-miscarry-in-a-lobby-restroom/)