“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 By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Thomas Jefferson said that, newspapers were the only means of communicating with citizens about…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we barely blink an eye when we learn that he tried to manipulate the 2020 election. Yet the most recent revelation should frighten every American to their core. Last Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some say the world will end in fire. Maybe they are right. Whether you cling to Biblical prophesy or believe the science of global warming and climate change, much of the world does seem to be on fire these days, and it seems to…
It didn’t have to be this way. – Oh Alabama, New Orleans and Little Rock too It didn’t have to be this way When a free shot would do. YouTube: Neil Young – Alabama The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s 72 degrees in the city Trump called a swamp.…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – Despair is worse after a brief period of hope. I don’t know about you, but I was elated earlier this spring when it seemed as if Trump and COVID were gone, and Biden seemed surprisingly able to get the nation rapidly back on track. Now much is sliding…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Proving the adage that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,” and show that posting false information on the inter-web appears to be far more profitable than telling the truth, consider the case of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If ever there was a use for Twitter, other than Donald Trump’s tweets, it is the COVID Games in Tokyo. I almost feel sorry for NBC, but not really, since it is so easy to ignore the NBC Olympics Twitter feed along with The…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – Within hours, Jeff Bezos will blast off into space, a week after Richard Branson went up. Another small step for billionaires. Once upon a time, long long ago, people with names like John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Buzz Aldrin, and Sally Ride blasted into space. None was selected on…
“I do not feel obligated to believe that the same god who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.” – Galileo Galilei Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In April of 1966, Time magazine set off a firestorm of public debate and made a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes epiphanies come in dreams. I had another one of those this morning as my brain was trying to coax my body into waking up. Not that I haven’t realized this before, and defied the knowledge. The scene was set in New Orleans, and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As people in the United States get ready to find some way to celebrate the Fourth of July again after a reopening of sorts from last year’s shut down in the hellscape year of 2020, I can’t help but find myself wondering: Has American…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Murder mysteries have never really been my thing. Back in the days prior to personal computers and the internet when reading popular books, my reading tended more to the international political thrillers of Robert Ludlum than the mysteries of Agatha Christie. Of course I…
Guest Column – Deb Haaland – As I read stories about an unmarked grave in Canada where the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found last month, I was sick to my stomach. But the deaths of Indigenous children at the hands of government were not limited to that side of the border. Many Americans…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The era of the great American newspaper columnist went out with the end of the 20th century and the era of the mass circulation daily newspaper, roughly in the 2004-2005 time period as George W. Bush campaigned for and won reelection as president, a period I often…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Those of us who somehow survived the hellscape year of 2020 and the first half of 2021 and came away with a victory in the presidential election, made it through the Capitol insurrection, and beat COVID, deserved a break. We got one after receiving…
The New American Journal Editorial Board – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS and other news outlets won’t take a strong stand on this, we will. The time is now for national action to pass a federal voting rights law. If that means eliminating the filibuster in the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — It’s Friday morning in the campground, the beginning of Memorial Day weekend, and I’ve taken my Nexium for acid reflux and I’m eating my daily banana with Jif creamy peanut butter for breakfast, trying not to get peanut butter on the keyboard. You…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — When Americans and people from all over the world think of visiting a national park, or camping in the great outdoors in the United States, they often think of the big, famous parks out West like Yosemite in California, the Grand Canyon in…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – An amazing thing happened at the time of our return to the nation’s capitol region in May. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a surprising announcement on Thursday, catching many people by surprise, including those who work in the White House. “If…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – America prefers to look forward rather than back. We’re a land of second acts. We move on. This can be a strength. We don’t get bogged down in outmoded traditions, old grudges, obsolete ways of thinking. We constantly reinvent. We love innovation and disruption. The downside is a…
