By Robert Reich – Imagine that an impeachment resolution against Trump passes the House. Trump claims it’s the work of the “deep state.†Fox News’s Sean Hannity demands every honest patriot take to the streets. Rightwing social media call for war. As insurrection spreads, Trump commands the armed forces to side with the “patriots.†Or…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — You would have to go back to the 1920s and early ’30s to find a President of the United States willing to fight trade wars with other countries and express hostility to international trade agreements as Donald Trump seems intent on doing, it seems for domestic political points…
This story has been updated to reflect the final vote count since the morning after the election. By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In spite of all the big talk in the media and on Facebook about voters being ready for a change and a Democratic “Blue Wave” coming in the midterm elections in…
By Glynn Wilson – APPOMATTOX, Virg. — We didn’t make it here in time for Memorial Day, but National Park Service rangers and volunteers say nearly 500 people showed up for the playing of “Taps” and holiday weekend programs. I don’t know for sure, but considering that Confederate sympathizers seem to generate more engagement these…
By Glynn Wilson – Where are the howls of protest in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington? Where are the denunciations from unions and the trial lawyer associations? Where are comments from Democrats on Facebook and Twitter denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Monday gutting the rights of workers to collectively bargain…
Staff report… Most people think university professors – especially those with tenure – are safe from political interference in their research fields. They would be wrong – especially in state universities, according to a recent story just out from Washington State. Washington’s leading expert on wolves, Professor Rob Wielgus, learned this lesson the hard way…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So as I was watching the Jonathan Tropper film Kodachrome last night on Netflix, putting me in an unusually nostalgic mood about an obsolete type of photography film, when my email notification bleep went off and I saw that the writer Tom Wolfe died at the age…
By Glynn Wilson – While the New York Times and other news outlets are reporting that Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to head the CIA, apparently may have the votes to secure Senate confirmation even though she was directly involved in the Bush administration’s overseas torture program during the Iraq war, one Alabama senator will…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The Alabama primary election is only three weeks away on June 5. If one were to compare the level of voter participation and enthusiasm to a sound, it might be the sound of crickets. “If a cricket was on the ballot he’d win without a runoff because that…
By Glynn Wilson – One day after President Donald J. Trump went on national television to announce that he would unilaterally withdraw the United States from a deal with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration to prevent that country from developing nuclear weapons, threats to homeland security are already being announced, oil and gas prices…
By Glynn Wilson – So there’s not one single judge in Etowah County, Alabama, who wants to have anything to do with former judge Roy Moore and his doomed defamation case in Gadsden against women who accused him of sexual impropriety last year. According to a document filed in court this week signed by all…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â When the neo-western crime drama Breaking Bad first hit Netflix, I watched the first episode and said “no,” I don’t want to watch this. But after Donald Trump was somehow elected president of the United States and the drug cartel-related money laundering plot of the show seemed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I don’t want to disparage any people with diagnosed mental illness here, especially those who actually take their meds and work hard to overcome. But I just cannot resist commenting on the latest zany episodes in the crazy Trump reality show presidency. Every news outlet in the…
By Robert Reich – Why did working class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful, megalomaniac for president? With the 2018 midterms around the corner, and prospective Democratic candidates already eyeing the 2020 race, the answer is important because it will influence how Democrats campaign. One explanation focuses on economic hardship. The working…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The disconnect from reality is palpable. It makes me dread waking up, turning on Matilda the Mac (the pet name for my computer) and scanning the headlines online. Not a day goes by in the era of Twitter and Trump without a story coming down the pike…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It only took 10 years after the human-caused environmental disaster, but a habitat restoration project for the endangered watercress darter along Village Creek in Roebuck Springs is finally underway and should be completed by the summer of 2018, according to an announcement just out from the non-profit Freshwater…
By Glynn Wilson – GROVE OAK, Ala. — Jamie Godwin began telling me her story at a party by a campfire on a bluff looking out over Shoal Creek in St. Florian, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals. She is inspired in part by the story of a native American medicine woman named Teh-la-nay, who once walked…
Editor’s Note: Monday, April 23 was celebrated in Alabama as Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday that some say should be removed from the official calendar much like the Confederate Battle Flag was removed from state capitol buildings. The controversy over removing Confederate monuments which sparked protests in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia has now…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — What would you rather read? A story of gloom and doom or a tale of human hope for the future? Or must we cover both sides? Reading the news online and watching what’s left of the Sunday morning news talk shows on broadcast television…
Editor’s Note: While the New American Journal has not endorsed any candidates for office yet this year, we find the arguments persuasive in this editorial from the University of Alabama’s student newspaper. We republish here for your consideration. On June 5th, Alabama voters will have the opportunity to participate in the state’s gubernatorial primary. Both…
