Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – This feels surreal, like much going on in the world these days, even without hallucinogens. Everything feels like a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy, like the world depicted by artist M.C. Escher. And apparently that’s the way it’s going to be…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man,” Bob Dylan once sang in another anxious time. He found the answer, “blowin’ in the wind.” How many rivers must the same man cross, before…
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and hard it is to undo that work again!” – Mark Twain Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN THE MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – While Democrats and sane people all over the country are freaking out on social…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – DEVIL’S DEN, Ark. – When the news came through loud and clear and all over the New York Times front page Wednesday morning that a majority of the American people are willing to roll the dice on another crazy term for a criminal and proven…
By Glynn Wilson – LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Welcome to four more years of chaos, confusion and the fall of the American empire. Donald Trump defied the odds again and managed to convince an astounding number of people that in spite of his criminal conviction, his business and first term failures and smash-mouth rhetoric against…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – Covering politics for the past 44 years, for the past decade mostly in Washington, D.C., I’ve seen some crazy, outrageous things in my time. But Republican Congressman Rick Crawford’s federal lawsuit for a pay raise and back pay may just take the cake. After…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – Election Night 2024 is two days away and even 966 miles west of Washington, D.C. the tension in the air is so heavy it makes me seriously regret giving up my predilection for Xanax 20 years ago, about the time Hunter S. Thompson killed himself…
Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – HARRISBURG, Ark. – Not much is at stake in this election. Only the future of democracy itself. The stakes were so high in 2020 that nearly 63 percent of eligible voters in the United States cast ballots in the election, enough to block Donald Trump from remaining in…
News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats have tried to frame Donald Trump as an aberration of the country’s democratic norms and political traditions for years. It worked for Joe Biden in 2020, when he argued that as president, Trump “eroded the soul of the nation.” It did not work for Hillary Clinton in…
Staff Report – The Biden-Harris administration continues to announce the spending of billions of dollars to rebuild America’s infrastructure even as the nation focuses on the election next week. But news about these investments seems to generate very little in the way of press coverage, media conversation or attention from the public on social media.…
The Democrats will retake control of the House in January – Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There’s almost no way the Democrats can lose the House in 2024. At a race baiting rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump hinted at “a little secret” he had with House Speaker Mike Johnson, who…
Guest Column – By George Zadigian – Deception. It’s been a plague on humanity ever since Eve was beguiled to take a bite from the apple. Seeded and cultivated by those determined to profit from it, deception has driven many wars and resulted in incalculable destruction, heartache and loss of human potential. President Johnson told…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – “These are the times that try men’s souls,” Tom Paine once wrote in a famous essay drumming up support for the American Revolution. The American Crisis: By Thomas Paine – 1776 Now a woman writer named Margaret Sullivan, formerly the media columnist for The…
By Glynn Wilson – POCAHONTAS, Ark. – With less than two weeks to go before the Nov. 5 election, Democratic operative James Carville of Louisiana acknowledged the “palpable anxiety” out here in the wind of American life on Wednesday in a column in the New York Times. While claiming he is not one to take…
By Glynn Wilson – No matter how this election turns out, my retirement from political news and journalism is imminent. Social media has made news, journalism and facts irrelevant, even as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are making the first big social media program Facebook irrelevant, by ignoring and downplaying news and politics. No matter that…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – Some writers claim to compose in their head while in the shower. That’s not my style. I mostly like short showers anyway, on the road, unless I can find a bathtub somewhere. Writing has long come easy to me. Except in…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – You never know what you’re going to find until you find it. Mark Twain once said “travel is fatal to prejudice.” But prejudice is not my problem. The Bible says the love of money is the root of evil, but that’s not my problem…
By Glynn Wilson – HARRISON, Ark. – It seems fitting to visit Boone County on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, since Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the area, beginning with cliff dwellers who lived in caves in the bluffs along the Buffalo and White Rivers. The Osage Sioux were the dominant tribe, along with the…
Staff Report – Lilly Ledbetter, whose lawsuit against her employer paved the way for the Fair Pay Act of 2009 and who dedicated decades of her life to fighting for equal pay, died in Alabama on Saturday, her family said in a statement. She was 86. The cause was respiratory failure, the statement said, and…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Y’all are not going to believe this. As fate would have it, and irony of ironies considering my Alabama history, we will be visiting a town this week that gained national tabloid fame in November, 2016, as “the most racist town in America.” I kid you not. I…
