The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Camp David was designed as a presidential retreat not just from the heat and humidity of Washington. FDR actually commissioned it and called it “Shangri-La.” It was and remains a no press zone. It’s understandable why any president would want to keep out…
But there will be a party on the Fourth of July anyway, with fresh, locally grown tomatoes and plenty of good beer and vodka – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK, Md. — As the sun rises in the forest down the street from Camp David, where President Joe Biden…
Is the sun setting on the web press in America? – By Glynn Wilson – The Big Picture – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It was never my intention to move to Washington a decade ago to take it by storm to try and fix the federal government or bridge the partisan divide, promises often proclaimed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It seems only fitting that my last dateline Washington column is about the White House and falls on Father’s Day. It feels like the end of another era. How many of those milestones may a person experience in a life? In a time when…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a time in American history when artists, writers and photographers were held in such high esteem that the best of the best were recruited by the federal government to showcase some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country to help convince…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A storm is coming. More than one storm in fact. This might be a good time to plan an escape from staying inside the Beltway in the nation’s capital region, with all the traffic and tension that goes with living in such a place.…
A Country With No King – Can We Keep It? The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Growing up in the suburbs of a Southern town in the early days of television, what we knew of the nation’s capital city we learned from what politicians said and what TV news personalities…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Never in all my years of covering public affairs and the courts did I ever imagine a day when the Supreme Court in this country would be taken over by fascists and support an American dictator in overturning an election and attempting to halt…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since encountering the story early in my college career about Sherwood Anderson advising William Faulkner in New Orleans to write about people, places and things he knew something about, I’ve tried to follow that advice in my journalism career. “Write what you know,” is…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing shocks anymore. What, you need podcast proof? Does it seem normal to you that a 70-year old man who admits part of his brain was eaten by a worm would think he is qualified to run for president of the United States? Where’s…
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.” – Theodore Roosevelt The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For how long must we endure the end of decency in public and private life in America? Is it possible that the historically critical election of 2024 is as much…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the early days of a movement created in the 1960s to begin a process to save the planet from the ravages of industrial pollution, a bunch of hippies, activists, some politicians and even a few corporations made big news in April, 1970, when…
But Let’s All Focus on the Sensational Clickbait on Social Media and Ignore the Threat – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — You know, if I actually thought sensational tabloid news would make a difference in this crazy world, I might have gravitated in that direction myself many years ago.…
“No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.” – Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — We will see if Mark Twain’s satirical wisdom holds water still in these craziest…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If Donald Trump somehow avoids bankruptcy, a criminal conviction and prison time and wins the support of enough voters in key battleground states to assume the presidency in November and move into the White House again in January, 2025, no doubt commentators may blame…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Social media. What is it? What good is it? Does it help the public become more informed and enhance democracy? Or does it just help spread fake news, misinformation and disinformation and help the spread of authoritarianism and fascism? Is it a good way…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Uh, I’m not sure this is what politicians usually have in mind when they talk about “kitchen table” issues. I asked former Senator Doug Jones of Alabama about this on Twitter(X). He talked a lot about kitchen table issues back in 2017. But there…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In preparation for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday, I went back and rewatched Star Trek: The Motion Picture, released in 1979, recalling that it was one of the first science fiction movies to depict a computer machine nearly destroying…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a desperation coming through over the airwaves that is making people sick. It’s no wonder so many people in the United States have stopped paying attention to news, and that includes me. It’s all just too much. Too much sensationalism. Too much…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Finally, the fascists are coming out of the closet with less than nine months to go before November. Not that massive coverage of it will do the movement and its promoters any harm, or even slow them down. They literally believe that history is…
