The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is understandable why many Americans are having mixed feelings about celebrating Independence Day this year. So many things seem conflicted in our divergent feelings about what freedom, liberty and independence mean in these trying times when the vox populi seems so divided. Many…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thank Lady Justice that the Supreme Court has adjourned for the summer — before they do any further damage to American Democracy. No doubt Justice Sam Alito is off on an all expenses paid fishing trip somewhere, maybe Alaska,…
“You shoot an arrow into a far-distant future, when you appoint a justice” to the United States Supreme Court. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The first of the summer heat and humidity arrived in the nation’s capital this week, and unfortunately, I’m not heading…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After Donald Trump faced arraignment on charges Tuesday for mishandling classified documents critical to national defense, conspiracy to obstruct justice by concealing the possession of said documents and making false statements to the FBI, there was only a small contingent of Trump supporters gathered…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been an extraordinary week of news, with the death of conservative televangelist Pat Robertson and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the surprise ruling by this conservative Supreme Court that Alabama’s congressional map did indeed dilute the power of Black voters, and the biggest political-legal news…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s an advantage in gaining wisdom the longer you live, the older you get. There are advantages to staying active on social media. But there are also drawbacks, like getting blindsided by blasts from the past you do not necessary relish. Like a recent…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So I just sent an email message to The New York Times deputy editor of Culture and Lifestyle, Melissa Kirsch, author of the book “The Girl’s Guide” — not exactly a literary powerhouse. Charged with providing something interesting to read on the soft news…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if it were not embarrassing enough to hang around in the nation’s capital and admit to people that you are originally from Alabama, this bad football coach joke of a United States Senator Tommy Tuberville is running a one man filibuster against the…
“Our government … teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Justice Louis Brandeis “The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I don’t know about you, but deep math problems have never seemed so fun to me. They burn too much energy. Energy that could be utilized doing something much more fun, like playing baseball or the drums. Some of the smartest people I know…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So I’ve been flying a little under the radar of late. For some very good reasons, and some not so great. I’ve been burned out on the sensational clickbait traffic arms race, which as I predicted a long time ago was not the holy…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even in losing, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Fox News seem to be winning. Is there anything we can do to turn things around, reverse course and stop the destruction of democracy as we know it, the de-evolution of the human brain and the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There will be a reckoning. But it will not look like what you think. It will not look like Biblical Christian myths about the final judgement day, although in places it will feel like and resemble hell. And the impact will not just fall…
The Big Picture - By Glynn Wilson - WASHINGTON, D.C. — No one is above the law. That includes the President of the United States. Whether you can convict one is another question. But at least America is not a Catholic monarchy, although the Supreme Court looks like one with six out of nine justices…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Can a song change the world? A news story? What about a leak? Daniel Ellsberg, famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers to newspapers in 1971 — an act that rippled through American life for decades in the form of a distrust of government over…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Imagine, if you will, what it would feel like to be a rain soaked soldier (like the ones depicted in “All Quiet on the Western Front”) huddled a muddy trench fighting a stalemated civil war for 40 years. Some days just north of the…
The Day the Newspaper Died – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Please allow me to apologize in advance for some of what I’m about to say. They say the truth hurts, and even psychologists agree looking with hope toward the future is more healthy than dwelling with nostalgia on…
The universe is vast. Why can’t we be humbled by that and work together to save our tiny planet? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes I look out through the magic tube at what’s happening in the world and feel at once like a wise old owl, or…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Declarative statement: You cannot have a non-partisan Department of Justice and a “fair and blindfolded” system of justice if only one side plays by the rules. Sorry to have to be the one to break the news. It’s just a fact. I know it’s…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I told y’all he was coming to Washington in the new year with a political agenda to help feed fake dirt to the Republicans in the House. Sure enough — totally unlike Mr. Smith who came to Washington in another era for a far…
