Public Opinion

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump’s Immunity Appeal

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The god damn United States Supreme Court announced its agreement on Wednesday to take up the case of whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution on charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection in a corrupt plot to overturn the results…

Will 2023 Be the Year Republicans Finally Abandon Trump?

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An Independent Run by Liz Cheney Could Hand President Joe Biden Another Term – By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After tiptoeing around the issue for two years, Republicans will be forced to reckon with a major question as they begin their 2024 presidential nominating process in 2023: What to…

Democrats Hold Power in the Senate With Win in Nevada

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Late Vote Counting in Western States Favors Democrats, So Don’t Count Control of the House Out Yet – By Glynn Wilson – Political Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defying the historical odds and the predictions of every famous, mainstream pollster and media pundit in the United States who said the Republicans were surging in the…

Critical Pennsylvania Senate Race Tightens as Election Day Nears

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By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The fate of American democracy could once again rest on the shoulders of the good people of Pennsylvania, where it all began in Philadelphia and may well have been saved on a battlefield in Gettysburg. In some very real ways we are fighting another civil war for the…

President Biden Goes on the Offensive Against Violent Extremism

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Staff Report – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Speaking in prime time outside Independence Hall where American democracy was forged, President Joe Biden went on the offensive Thursday night by issuing an unprecedented warning of a “clear and present danger to democracy,” declaring that our democratic values are under assault by forces of extremism loyal to “pseudo-fascist”…

Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Faces Little Opposition From Voters

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Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick, has more initial support for her confirmation than any of the three jurists nominated by President Donald Trump, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll. Only 17 percent of voters oppose the nomination. A plurality of voters, 46 percent,…

New American Journal 2021 Year in Review in Stories and Pictures

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By Editor Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – This time last year, we were experiencing the snow on the ground after the white Christmas in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I wrote: “As the sun comes up over the smokies, reflecting the first morning light off a thick layer of Christmas white snow covering the ground and…

Research Shows Many American Conservative Republicans Suffer From Right-Wing Authoritarian Tendencies

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It will come as no surprise to college educated Democrats, liberal college professors and experienced journalists that American conservative Republicans who supported Donald Trump are subject to right-wing propaganda, political manipulation and suffer from authoritarian tendencies in the name of a mixed up anti-government philosophy based on a…