The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It would be nice to wake up one winter morning in America and turn on the news to find out that the world is at peace, prosperity abounds. How about this for a lede story banner headline? THE WORLD IS AT PEACE, THE ECONOMY…
Editor’s Note: To Build a Fire is a short story by American author Jack London. John Griffith Chaney was his real name. He was born on Jan. 12, 1876 and died on Nov. 22, 1916 at the age of 40 on the sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch in Glen Ellen, California. London…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Where I come from, the American South, snow is rare. Or at least it used to be. When it comes, it’s a momentous event. New gleeful opportunities for entertainment and beautiful fun. It’s also dangerous, since state and local governments are rarely prepared. It…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earth’s average surface temperature for 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, according to an analysis by NASA, and the data shows no letting up in the trend toward a warming planet from climate change due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transportation. Global temperatures last year…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — FBI Director Chris Wray began the new year with a public appearance to assure the American public and the academic community that, in spite of a growing number of foreign actors and nation-states seeking to disrupt the democratic process in the U.S., the Bureau is well-positioned to defend against…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s a sad day in Alabama and across the land, except in Auburnland. The god of the football religion in these parts Nick Saban has apparently made the decision to retire, according to leaks from his inner circle to ESPN and other news sources. It will be the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The wife of a photographer from Tuscaloosa, Alabama has been arrested in China and disappeared on the night of Wednesday, Dec. 27 — two days after Christmas — from the airport in Nanjing, not far from Shanghai. Her husband Mark Lent, formerly a photographer with the Tuscaloosa News,…
Under the Microscope – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it really make a sound? This, of course, is an age old thought experiment that is tinged with the stink of Anthropocentrism, homocentricism, or if you like, human…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the same day when President Joe Biden addressed the nation from Valley Forge warning about the existential threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump, the United States Supreme Court chose to try to usurp the news in a Friday afternoon announcement that it would indeed take up…
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.…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A radical, right-wing Trump supporter in New Hampshire has pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to harass and intimidate two journalists employed by New Hampshire Public Radio. The harassment and intimidation of the victims included the vandalism – on five separate occasions – of the victims’ homes…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the world careening from one crisis to another over the past few years, it’s no wonder some people are prepping for the end times. The global coronavirus pandemic put everyone on notice that perhaps the world is not as safe as it once…
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…
Editor’s Note: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” is a line from an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church. Written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real, the editorial was first published in the New York newspaper The Sun on September 21, 1897. “Is There a Santa…
Meanwhile the “Orange Jesus” Continues to Parrot Hitler, and President Joe Biden Calls Trump an ‘Insurrectionist’ – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s hard to get excited about celebrating Christmas — or Hanukkah for that matter — when your country is torn asunder by war. So there won’t be…
By Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Priyanjana Bengani, Tow Center for Digital Journalism – ProPublica – “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky. “Oh, my sisters.” As Israel began airstrikes on Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, posts by verified accounts on X, the social…
By Ashley Murray – Maryland Matters – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s one man filibuster of President Joe Biden’s top military appointments effectively came to an ignominious end Tuesday night when the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the remainder of the senior generals and admirals on hold for the past year in a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the heels of a historic agreement in Dubai calling for the first time for countries to transition away from fossil fuel use for powering energy and transportation, the chief cause of climate change due to global warming, the Biden administration just announced a proposal to conserve old-growth…
By Danielle J. Brown – Maryland Matters – ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In the new landscape of abortion discourse following the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court, Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin and other Democrats are calling on top social media sites to combat potentially harmful misinformation related to abortion access and…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the final weeks of the hottest year in recorded history, the United Nations climate conference in Dubai known as COP28 ended Wednesday with an agreement for the first time to call on countries to transition away from fossil fuels, the chief cause of climate change due to global…
