Staff Report – The bipartisan Military Widow’s Tax Elimination Act has earned its 61 cosponsors, making it filibuster proof in the Senate, if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring it to the floor for a vote. U.S. Senator Doug Jones sponsored the legislation and announced Tuesday that his bill had surpassed the key threshold…
America Leads the World in An Ongoing Anxiety Epidemic – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s a perfectly lovely, sunny day along the Gulf Coast, hovering around 70 degrees as I write this, and the thing to do is to sit outside on the back deck and enjoy a Sunday breakfast, and…
By Glynn Wilson – Former Vice President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat who plans to appeal to working-class voters who deserted the Democratic Party to vote for President Donald J. Trump in 2016, tossed his hat into the ring to run for president on Thursday in a YouTube video on his own campaign channel that…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – Here we are on Easter weekend, a time of year when the power of myth at its height in our society. Many good Christian capitalists will attend church services this Sunday even though they rarely darken the door of a so-called house of god at any other…
By Glynn Wilson – In stark contrast to the fearless federal prosecutor President Donald J. Trump has worried about for the past two years and a majority of the American people have expected to hear from when Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued his investigative report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, the nearly full…
William Barr, President Donald Trump’s most recent appointee as U.S. Attorney General, held a press conference Thursday morning on the eve of Easter Weekend. In advance of his release of a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the president or his…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A question for readers. When you were a little kid, do you recall looking at a globe of the world or a map and placing yourself in physical context? I have a clear recollection of thinking of myself as from the city of Birmingham, in Jefferson County,…
Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease. In his new book Falter, Bill McKibben asks, “Is it Too Late?” – Excerpted from FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. By Bill McKibben –…
By Robert Reich – “We renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country,” Donald Trump said recently. Someone should alert him that America is now a hotbed of socialism. But it’s socialism for the rich. Everyone else is treated to harsh capitalism. In the conservative mind, socialism means getting something for doing…
By Robert Reich – Most Americans still cling to the meritocratic notion that people are rewarded according to their efforts and abilities. But meritocracy is becoming a cruel joke. The Justice Department recently announced indictments of dozens of wealthy parents for using bribery and fraud to get their children into prestigious colleges. But the real…
By Glynn Wilson – As farmers and victims of floods, tornadoes and hurricanes desperately await financial aid from the federal government, members of Congress took off for a two week Spring Break this week without passing a disaster relief package, stymied in a compromise by a threatened presidential veto over more funding to help the…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration’s partisan war on the environment is taking its toll not only on public lands and the planet. A new Gallup poll shows that and the booming economy due to the Obama administration’s policies are driving public opinion away from unregulated economic growth and toward more environmental protection. By…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Everybody who is anybody knows by now that Donald Trump is a liar, a cheat and a bad president. Even the Republicans who are afraid of Trump and his friends in the Russian Mob know this, even if they won’t admit it in public. The 200 million…
By Glynn Wilson – As the Trump administration prepares to fight in court to gut existing health care for millions of Americans by invalidating the Affordable Care Act, and Democrats prepare to campaign in 2020 on health care as a key priority, Gallup’s annual survey of the chief problems of concern to Americans shows once…
