SCHRAM: It's time to replace insensitive mascots
As weary Washington takes its August vacation from doing nothing, we are vigorously breaking with our capitol’s tradition by doing something: proposing to drag America’s professional sports into the...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Kerry, not Obama, showing leadership on international level
The images will not leave our mind’s eyes. Children, lying silently side by side, their faces and bodies unmarked as if it must be nap time. But our minds tell our eyes these children are dead, killed...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Pakistan's nukes are dangerous wild card
Leaks from on-the-lam National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have now exposed America’s biggest nuclear nightmare.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Obama, ACA face fire from demagogues
Only a few politicians are genuine ideologues. Most are demagogues. They prey upon voters who are the most vulnerable.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Media failed public in reporting on ACA
Covering politicians as a journalist has one thing in common with playing golf. The central premise of both is that you must play it as it lies.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Obama had to know true costs of ACA
It took a while, but by the end of the first decade of the 21st century all political message makers had finally heard and were finally heeding, the voice of the people.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Obama following Carter's path into Iranian quagmire
The Carterization of Barack Obama’s presidency has overtaken America’s once popular and trusted young chief executive with stunning rapidity.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Can Mandela legacy of eschewing hate be a model for GOP?
For a week now, Washington — the capital city that has become Hate City — joined the world in paying heartfelt tribute to the man who would not hate.
View ArticleSCHRAM: A New Year's resolution to revitalize presidential news conferences
On one side of the podium stood the leader of the free world. On the other, the presumably elite representatives of the world’s freest press, with a world of facts at their fingertips.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Education should be national security priority
They have been burning the midnight kilowatts in the West Wing. And they’ll probably be cutting and pasting until President Obama climbs into his limo Tuesday night and rides to the gleaming-white,...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Conflicting voices makes leadership hard for Republicans
Today we are exploring the State of the Union’s Loyal Opposition.
View ArticleSCHRAM: ACA report has truth but no one listening
This is an autopsy of Capitol crimes against the truth of the flawed Affordable Care Act. It reveals political deceptions and distortions.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Hidden story could turn out to be key for Middle East peace
You can always find a good front-page story in America’s greatest newspapers.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Putin's true face is bathed in fiery glow
Nighttime skies glowed fiery orange at the edges of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, just days ago — and the whole world was watching. Last Sunday, the world watched the sky above Sochi, on Russia’s Black Sea...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Putin appears bent on dragging us into his own little world
In a week that swept us from the made-for-Hollywood uncertainty of Oscar night to real-world uncertainty of Russia’s brinksmanship in Ukraine, we are giving fiction’s T.S. Garp, the day off to screen...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Putin learning to use democracy against U.S., Western Europe
The official, prominent in Her Majesty’s Ggovernment, was dashing down Downing Street, heading to an important meeting in early March. Topic: what the hell to do about Vladimir Putin’s cold warrior...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Nation worse off for McCutcheon ruling
The latest Supreme Court ruling — defending the rights of billionaires to try to rent the votes of unlimited numbers of politicians — has just provided fresh evidence that helps us finally answer a...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Indecisiveness leaves president constantly painted into corner
Presidents sometimes manage to paint themselves into a corner. And President Obama may even hold the unenviable indoor record for corner-painting. Today we will look at a few of the lowlights of how...
View ArticleSCHRAM: Supreme Court's activism tramples rights of minorities
Sometimes being a U.S. Supreme Court justice is very hard work.
View ArticleSCHRAM: Our veterans deserve an advocate
In his last months as president, Harry Truman sat in his Oval Office and contemplated the fate that would befall Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, the World War II hero who would be his successor.
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