The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – TRUMANN, Ark. – When the Mississippi River bridge came into view with cotton fields as far as the eye could see, and then the Welcome to Missouri sign came into view, I began to relax a little after a trying ordeal that already had me thinking about…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The last thing I would ever want to do is compare myself to a Biblical character like Job. Job was a rich man in his time, if he really existed, which is a scholarly dispute to this day among Christians, Jews, Mormons and even within Islam, since…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Rarely in American political history has a moment been as charged with salience and import as the so-called “debate” that is to take place in Philadelphia Tuesday night on ABC between Democrat Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. On the face of it, Harris should have the clear…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Just two months from now, Americans will go to the polls to vote on Nov. 5 to decide the fate of this experiment in democracy of the people one more time. If that sounds dramatic, it’s because it is dramatic, or traumatic, depending on your point of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It’s Labor Day weekend, not Memorial Day or Veterans Day, I know. It would be great if the unions could help us save democracy in November. But I’ve spent enough time working with unions to know the rank and file are largely with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. —- I heard the Marine One helicopter landing at Camp David on Friday, Aug. 16, after flying overhead right above the Owens Creek campground in Catoctin Mountain (National) Park. President Joe Biden arrived for another weekend preparing his speech for Monday night, Aug. 19,…
Maybe Giant Egos and the Same Spray On Tan Brand? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Bobby Kennedy’s son has fallen off his rocker. I’m renaming him RKJ, instead of RFKJr. How did this happen? Did the worm really eat part of his brain? I considered doing a big…
Editors Note: Back in time I dreamed of becoming a syndicated columnist. But the internet changed the news writing business. Well now I’ve taken Snoop’s advice and made it happen anyway. This column was written on deadline for The Progressive Populist newspaper in time to come out before the Democratic Party’s convention in Chicago starting…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – There was a time in this country, in this world, when most people were probably good people willing to go out of their way to help their neighbors. There are still good people out there for sure, helping others every day. But some…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The race is on. Only 90 days to go. And Tim Walz for Veep? Wow! “We can sleep when we’re dead” indeed. More like a country singer than a rock star, a cross between Harry Truman, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter, while the vice…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The Olympic Games have been used as a platform for international politics and to influence public opinion since the first modern Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. Of course the purpose of the games was to promote international peace and understanding. But there are plenty…
The Anti-Democratic Group Wants to Bring Back Theocracy – By Glynn Wilson – The Full Big Picture – Americans of all stripes who favor keeping our democratic Republic have many good reasons to be concerned about Project 2025. But the underlying reason we should all be concerned is not just all the horrendous policy proposals…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What a difference a day can make? That’s why you don’t want to go anywhere just yet. Things can turn around overnight. That’s in part what keeps me going, anyway. Like Joe Biden stepping down from his reelection campaign and passing the torch to Kamala Harris. Trump…
Guest Column – By Doug Jones – It was the spring of 1978, and I was a second year law student when we had as a guest speaker a young, first-term Senator from Delaware. To say that he made a lasting impression is an understatement. I had a feeling then what I know to be…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Donald Trump’s campaign to return to the White House is now in big, big trouble. No one else I’ve seen is reporting it this way yet. But I’m here to tell you, it’s true. Why? Because all of a sudden, overnight, the game has changed. Kamala Harris…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Who does not want peace and quiet? Apparently kids, bots and Trump supporters. Maybe New Yorkers. Sitting outside for hours on a mountaintop this week, the quiet only broken by birds and frogs singing in the trees and an occasional whoop across the…
American workers are not stupid. They’re getting fleeced and they know it. But until we rebuild large scale working-class power, it’s going to be a very rough ride – They’ll stone you when you’re at the breakfast table. They’ll stone you when you are young and able. They’ll stone you when you’re tryin’ to make…
Guest Column – By Joe Conason – Among right-wing Republicans, the incarceration of Stephen K. Bannon has provoked a torrent of sputtering rage. “I stand with Steve Bannon!” was the defiant slogan barked by scores of prominent figures on the right, after a federal judge ordered the fascist media personality and adviser to former President…
Our Journey Continues… The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – After suffering through a brutally hot global warming day on Tuesday, making our way back to the top of the mountain in the morning before noon to escape it somewhat, there’s a cool breeze up here on Wednesday morning at…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Not since the King and the Duke fooled the townspeople along the Mississippi River in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have so many people been fooled into believing in a scam by a bunch of grifters. I just had to laugh out…
