The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE, Calif. – Moses. Jesus. Martin Luther King. The Beatles. Ten Years After. How many warnings does it take? How many have to die? Consider this a radio script with music. It was the Hippie Era when the concept first came to my attention that the world…
We Must Pace the Frontier – By Dario Amodei – Bio Note: Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI. Dario Amodei: Wikipedia…
Take the Pledge of Altruism to Find Happiness – By Glynn Wilson – Elon Musk is living proof that great wealth does not make for great happiness. He’s the richest man in the world, the first trillionaire. Yet a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, set to make its world premiere this week at…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Editor’s Note: Healthcare is one of the top domestic and economic concerns for Americans. Public opinion research consistently shows this to be the case. Recent surveys from Gallup reveal that a striking 61 percent of adults in the U.S. worry “a great deal” about healthcare, ranking it…
Staff Report – The Trump administration has proposed trading away a parcel of land in Yosemite National Park in California so a private developer who supported Trump’s campaign for president can gain access to the park, according to federal officials and documents reviewed and reported by The New York Times. The potential deal has alarmed…
The A.I. Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – When riptides are churning up the ocean, lifeguards raise red flags, warning swimmers and beachgoers of the danger. When there is danger ahead in society, scientists, experts and journalists raise red flags. That is how democracy works, or doesn’t work, if people and politicians ignore the…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – “If handled well,” they say, “this transformation could bring about abundance and prosperity for everyone. If handled poorly, it could result in an extreme concentration of power in the hands of a tiny elite.” – Effective Altruism We have traveled to…
You don’t have to read this. You can listen and watch on YouTube. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – From the forests of northern Canada to the mountains of California and the hills of southern Europe, smoke has become one of the defining images of summer. Wildfires that were once considered seasonal disasters…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – When I tell you that funding a new kind of media is critical if there is to be a future for American democracy, I am not making this up. We are at a critical point in the development of this new brand of non-profit…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, only 33 percent of adults in the United States say they are “extremely proud” to be an American, the lowest reading in Gallup’s polling history. Only 20 percent say they are “very proud,” according to the latest poll on…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – California has the highest average gas prices in the nation, at $6.15 a gallon, where prices tend to be higher due to a combination of state taxes and fees, environmental regulations and special fuel blends. Of all the U.S. states, it was…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seventy percent of Americans oppose the construction of data centers for Artificial Intelligence in their local area, according to recent Gallup polls, and 48 percent say they are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter of those surveyed said they favor these projects, with only 7 percent who say they are…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Man, have we seen changes come in our time or what? As I was reading The New York Times on Thursday morning the last day of April, 2026, and sharing some headlines on Facebook, I was reading another long screed about the…
By Art Inverness – Staff Writer – COULTERVILLE, Calif. — In the American West, water has long been scarce. What’s new is the price. Across California, Arizona, Nevada and beyond, a collision of drought, climate change and aging infrastructure is driving water bills sharply upward — pushing some of the region’s most vulnerable residents, particularly…
Staff Report – EUGENE, Ore.— About 120 current and former wildland firefighters issued an open letter Tuesday calling on members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in National Forests. The rollback of the “Roadless Rule” would remove protections across 45 million acres of national forestlands, opening…
A New Gold Rush Could Be Coming to California – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – In creating my own version of literary journalism on the web over the past 20 years, as regular readers know I’ve often turned to Mark Twain and other American writers for inspiration.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot are turning over in their graves as Donald Trump launches a devastating war against the conservation movement at the same time he sent the U.S. military to attack Iran. “With the subtlety of a wrecking ball and…
A Review of Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ Editor’s Note: This column first ran in The Locust Fork News-Journal on October 17, 2009. It also ran on the Alternet website in San Francisco at the time, as well as other news sites and blogs in those days. The subject recently came up in conversation…
Multiple Intersections Blocked for Hours – Another Black Eye for Google – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Nothing says Silicon Valley like Google’s Waymo robotaxis, the newest, greatest form of transportation invented since the electric streetcar in 1892, the year my grandmother was born. It served…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San…
