By Frank Newport – PRINCETON, N.J. — Most Americans believe that managing government effectively is an important requirement for a good president, and in recent years, sitting presidents’ ratings on this trait have closely matched their overall job approval ratings. For example, 44 percent of Americans say that President Barack Obama is an effective manager…
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How to Save American Democracy from Fascism and Authoritarian Dictatorship
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you take an in-depth look at any of the right-wing fascist dictators who rose to power in their countries or states over the past century — from the most widely known instances of Adolph Hitler in Germany to Benito Mussolini in Italy, Francisco…
On the Eve of Jan. 6, President Biden Condemns Trump as a Dire Threat to Democracy
Video and full text below… By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The sting of Trump’s violent insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 that nearly brought down a shroud and a pall over American democracy is still fresh like an open, bleeding, infected wound that refuses to heal after three years of Covid and political strife.…
Year in Review for 2023: Democracy on Trial, the Planet in Peril
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one sure sign that traditional press and media outlets have been influenced, for good or ill, by the rise of social media, look no further than the end of the year review stories. For a couple of centuries, newspapers filled space between the…
Public Attention to Political News Drops: Implications for the Future of News and Democracy
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As wars continue to rage in Israel-Gaza and Russia-Ukraine, and the Republicans still can’t seem to find a Speaker of the House they can get behind, what is the American public paying attention to and concerned about these days? Judging by what people seem to be interested in…
Putin Gets His Way: American Democracy is Chaos
Gonzo Journalism – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Man, I was all mentally prepared for a government shutdown. I was dreaming of sleeping late every morning and taking a long unpaid vacation from having to pay attention to the morons making a mockery of running the Congress of the United States. But nooo!…
Democracy Needs Moderated Forums, Not Hate-Filled Free-For-Alls
Big Problems Require Big Solutions: How to Save Democracy and the Planet
Newton’s Laws Work: Except in the House of Representatives
The State of the News Media and What That Means for Democracy
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson,…
What Will It Take to Get the Press Onboard to Influence Public Opinion to Save Democracy and the Planet?
The Secret But True Story of Network News and The Happy Pill
Satire – Fiction – Film Proposal -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. â Here’s a movie script idea for Netflix or one of the other streaming companies. FADE UP FROM BLACK – A secret cabal of corporate executives are huddled in a conference room in a New York skyscraper. They are watching video clips…
Big Tech’s Advertising Monopoly is Destroying the American Press and Damaging Democracy
By Ken Buck – Special to the New American Journal – The first brilliant idea Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had was to “crawl” — and trawl — the World Wide Web. Using spiders, it would copy what it found, create vast databases of web content, and then “index” that content, evaluating it…
A Resounding Takeaway For Democracy: Americans Reject Election Denial
Guest Column – The Brennan Center for Justice – Although we won’t know all of the results for a while, yesterday’s midterms had a resounding takeaway for our democracy: Americans reject election denial. Many election deniers in competitive races were defeated. And these races were happening in states with a diverse array of political leanings.…
Democracy is the Silver Frame Upon Which the Golden Apple of Democracy Rests
House Select Committee Investigating Trump’s Insurrection on Jan. 6 Provides Clear Evidence of Trump’s Culpability in Seventh Hearing – By Glynn Wilson – The obvious seditious conspiracy to halt the Electoral College vote certification on January 6, 2021, and to break the peaceful transfer of power for the first time, was planned and incited by…
Will Liz Cheney Be the Unlikely Hero Who Saves Democracy One More Time?
Project Protect Democracy – Georgia: Raphael Warnock vs. Herschel Walker
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Remember watching the election returns in November, 2020 as Georgia became the one state in the American South to go blue and help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump? The people of Atlanta, of all places, not only helped save democracy from corporate, capitalist fascism.…
Doom is Not Destined or Inevitable: Slap Yourself, Wake Up, Get to Work
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are lots of people who deserve to be slapped these days. Maybe not so much Chris Rock on television at the Academy Awards. As a recent Photoshopped meme going around on Facebook depicts, Vladimir Putin deserves to be slapped by Volodymyr Zelensky for…
Project Protect Democracy
Fund Key Candidates and the Press At no time in history has the future of democracy and the human race on planet Earth been at risk more than NOW! The outcomes of the midterm elections in November, 2022, are critical. Since tech giants Google and Facebook have sucked up all the revenue for political advertising…
Putin Constitutes the Gravest Threat to Democracy and the Planet Ever
In Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, the World Finds Hope – The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fight to save democracy and the planet is coming to a head. It may very well come down to whether Russia’s dictator-president Vladimir Putin lives or dies. If he lives, within days we…