The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Never in all my years of covering public affairs and the courts did I ever imagine a day when the Supreme Court in this country would be taken over by fascists and support an American dictator in overturning an election and attempting to halt…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since encountering the story early in my college career about Sherwood Anderson advising William Faulkner in New Orleans to write about people, places and things he knew something about, I’ve tried to follow that advice in my journalism career. “Write what you know,” is…
Guest Column – By Curtis Seltzer – The butchery in Israel and Palestine creates an opportunity to find a viable peace through fairness. Imagination, leadership and boldness are required to recast the ways they exist with each other. Reverting to the antebellum “stability” of Israel’s West Bank occupation and Gaza ghettoization will produce more Palestinians…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing shocks anymore. What, you need podcast proof? Does it seem normal to you that a 70-year old man who admits part of his brain was eaten by a worm would think he is qualified to run for president of the United States? Where’s…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — You don’t have to travel to some high mountain pass to find insight in this mixed up world. But maybe it helps. It seemed to help Moses, George Mallory and Elisha Mitchell, as I’ve written in the past. Climbing Mountains For Inspiration: What’s…
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.” – Theodore Roosevelt The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For how long must we endure the end of decency in public and private life in America? Is it possible that the historically critical election of 2024 is as much…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the early days of a movement created in the 1960s to begin a process to save the planet from the ravages of industrial pollution, a bunch of hippies, activists, some politicians and even a few corporations made big news in April, 1970, when…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another American media outlet is rocked by a self-inflicted scandal. It’s not clear what National Public Radio’s business editor Uri Berliner was thinking when he decided to bash his employer as “liberal” on a Substack newsletter run by a known conservative flame thrower, Bari…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Please forgive me, sensational news readers, for taking a Spring Break from all the clickbait over the past few days to sit outside and drink in the clean air and sunshine after months of being cooped up inside hiding from the winter cold, the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For 25 years since I was first hired by newspapers to cover the environment as a news beat activists have begged, pleaded and prodded the federal government to pass and enforce laws and regulations to force polluting industries to do more to protect public health. Progress had been…
But Let’s All Focus on the Sensational Clickbait on Social Media and Ignore the Threat – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — You know, if I actually thought sensational tabloid news would make a difference in this crazy world, I might have gravitated in that direction myself many years ago.…
“No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.” – Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — We will see if Mark Twain’s satirical wisdom holds water still in these craziest…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If Donald Trump somehow avoids bankruptcy, a criminal conviction and prison time and wins the support of enough voters in key battleground states to assume the presidency in November and move into the White House again in January, 2025, no doubt commentators may blame…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A young Trump supporter from Bethesda, Maryland with Asperger’s syndrome, a neuro-developmental disorder, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges of assaulting law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Steven Patrick Cook, 24, of Bethesda, pleaded guilty in the District of…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The stakes could not be higher for the future of the United States and humanity. There is a consensus based on an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence that continuing to burn fossil fuels for energy and transportation will doom the next generation of humans to living through a…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration this week announced the allocation of $195 million in climate restoration and resilience projects over the next decade in America’s national parks. President Biden’s “Investing in America” agenda calls for national parks across the United States to use this funding to prepare for the impacts of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Social media. What is it? What good is it? Does it help the public become more informed and enhance democracy? Or does it just help spread fake news, misinformation and disinformation and help the spread of authoritarianism and fascism? Is it a good way…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Space exploration occupies some of my thoughts of late. Wonder what’s become of Voyager 1? The first of its kind space probe launched in 1977 when I was right out of high school? Is it out there somewhere past Pluto, still transmitting? This is the…
Federal agencies react positively to proposed federal budget even though it’s dead on arrival in the Republican House – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not wasting any time and showing what federal leadership looks like, President Joe Biden released a $7.3 trillion budget proposal on Monday for fiscal year 2025 that is packed with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Uh, I’m not sure this is what politicians usually have in mind when they talk about “kitchen table” issues. I asked former Senator Doug Jones of Alabama about this on Twitter(X). He talked a lot about kitchen table issues back in 2017. But there…
