“We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.” – Walter Lippmann The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â What image pops into your head when you see or hear someone say, “That’s cool, man?”…
Connecting the Dots
House Speaker Mike Johnson Says He’s ‘A Steadfast Christian’ but ‘I Refuse to Put People Over Politics’
Blurring the Line Between Reality and the Fake: How to Regulate Damaging New Technology
Some Christians See Israel-Hamas War as Fulfillment of Prophecy?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was just a matter of time. Too bad we don’t have televangelist Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell around anymore to remind us so we can run stories making fun of them. Give Mike Johnson, the new Louisiana Christian conservative Speaker of the House,…
We Can Overcome Ignorance and Fascism — By Reading
Court Secrecy Undermines Trust in Google Antitrust Trial
Guest Column – By Caitlin Vogus – Freedom of the Press Foundation Before a single witness could utter a word of testimony in the Google antitrust case on Tuesday, the public and the press were temporarily barred from the courtroom. It’s just another step in a long list of anti-transparency measures styming access to the…
Everybody Knows the Dice Are Loaded, the Wars Will Never End
Putin Gets His Way: American Democracy is Chaos
Gonzo Journalism – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Man, I was all mentally prepared for a government shutdown. I was dreaming of sleeping late every morning and taking a long unpaid vacation from having to pay attention to the morons making a mockery of running the Congress of the United States. But nooo!…
Rupert Murdoch of Fox News Steps Down: Will the Rightward Tilt of America Continue or Peak in 2024?
Democracy Needs Moderated Forums, Not Hate-Filled Free-For-Alls
If Bork’s Thinking is Behind Google Strategy, Let’s All Boycott Google
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After spending some time this week thinking about the world of 1687, when Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Society of London published Principia Mathematica — with a little MAGA Republican distraction thrown in — I’ve stumbled on to another epiphany. Newton’s Laws Work:…
Newton’s Laws Work: Except in the House of Representatives
Presidential Centers Issue Joint Statement Urging Civility in Politics to Protect Democracy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bland joint statement from a group of presidential centers made national news on Thursday warning about a threat to the future of democracy even though it overwhelmingly avoids identifying the real problem or recommending any solutions. The New York Times produced a story…
Let Freedom Ring, but not the Fascist Version of the ‘Moms for Liberty’
The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance: How Authoritarian Leaders Mutilate Reality, History and Culture
“The first thing every totalitarian regime does along with confiscation and mutilation of reality is confiscation of history and confiscation of culture.” – Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Introduction WASHINGTON, D.C. — When I first walked into the administration building of an Alabama community…
Art Ruins Sink Into the Marshes of Glynn
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â In my dreams it sometimes seems possible to solve all the world’s problems with only the abstract expression of a correct thought derived from empirical observation. But in the waking life of living, breathing human beings, this would only work if all were rational,…
The State of the News Media and What That Means for Democracy
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson,…
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
How Can We Compete With China When All Anyone in Washington Talks About is Abortion?
Lincoln Project Calls Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville a ‘Traitor’ – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – This all must seem very confusing to people sampling a little news on cable TV and social media. With the death of American newspapers and a downward trend in reading by people in general,…
The Shared Goals and Mission of U.S. Intelligence Services and American News Organizations
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â It was interesting to see what CIA Director William J. Burns had to say about all the craziness going on in the world and the role of “intelligence” in a recent Washington Post guest column, especially considering he had previously turned down an interview…