By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski – ProPublica – In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago…
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Common Sense: By Thomas Paine – 1776
Lame Duck Congress Plays Government Shutdown Funding Games Again
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Funding the government of the United States used to be a fairly routine affair, and for most of its history, Congress went home in recess before Thanksgiving and members didn’t come back to Washington until the new year. Not anymore. For the past 40 years or…
F.B.I. Headquarters Move Could be a Legacy Project for Greenbelt’s Congressman, Steny Hoyer
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some people say you shouldn’t talk about politics at family gatherings on holidays like Thanksgiving, as incendiary as that can be these days. But as power is shifting in the nation’s capital city and the Capitol building, and with juicy political plums to be plucked after Christmas, you…
Maryland Elects Its First Black Governor, as Voting Problems Plague Some Key States
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people who waited until Election Day to vote cast their ballots on Tuesday in an American democratic tradition that is historically strained, to say the least, while millions more voted early by mail and in person, hoping to avoid any last minute problems or even violence…
Goodbye Summer 2022: Hello Midterm Election Fall
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — It’s drizzling rain in the mountain woods, hovering around 72 degrees on this last day of summer. We will transit the autumn equinox about 8 p.m. tonight, and fall will officially begin — with only six weeks to go until the critical midterm…
A Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Supreme Court
By Andrew Perez, The Lever – Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott, ProPublica.org – An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system,…
Trump’s Attempted Coup in Search of a Legal Theory Involved a Pressure Campaign with Threats of Violence and Death
Staff Report – Donald Trump’s attempt to hold onto power even though he knew he lost the 2020 election was described as “a coup in search of a legal theory,” according a conclusion drawn by Adam Schiff of California, who led the questioning of witnesses Tuesday in the fourth gripping hearing of the Select House…
Justice Jackson’s Confirmation to the Supreme Court is a Major Turn in the Arc of History
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If the long arc of history bends towards justice, it just took a major turn this week. If Barack Obama was America’s political Jackie Robinson, the first African American president just as Robinson was the first Black player to make the major leagues in…
Voter Enthusiasm for Democrats Surges After Biden Appoints First Black Woman to Supreme Court
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, dwindling Covid cases and the lifting of mask requirements, the trial of the first Trump supporter convicted for the Capitol insurrection, President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union speech and the appointment…
Former Alabama Senator Doug Jones Picked to Sherpa President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Through Confirmation
E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology and Scientific Studies of Ants and Human Behavior, Dies at 92
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If ever there lived a scientist who came closest to figuring out the essence of human nature and what we need to do to survive on planet Earth, it was Edward Osborne Wilson from Birmingham, Alabama, who reached the zenith of the biological sciences at Harvard and provided…
The Future of Democracy and the Planet Are On the Line, and It’s a Scary Future
High Ranking Capitol Police Official Accuses Leaders and Congress of Not Telling the American People the Truth
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s looking more and more like the American people will never be told the whole truth about Trump’s insurrection and attempted coup d’état on January 6, 2021. The political news site Politico broke a story Friday afternoon based on an anonymous, “scathing” whistleblower letter to high ranking members…
U.S. Justice Department Declines to Defend Mo Brooks in Capitol Insurrection Lawsuit
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — North Alabama’s most vocal pro-Trump Republican Congressman, Mo Brooks — who will most likely win a seat in the United States Senate in November, 2022 since he has no effective opposition — will have to defend himself in a lawsuit claiming he was directly involved in inciting the…
New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic
The Effort to Overturn the Election – By Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien – ProPublica – On Dec. 19, 2020, President Donald Trump blasted out a tweet to his 88 million followers, inviting supporters to Washington for a “wild” protest. Earlier that week, one of his senior advisers had released a 36-page report alleging significant…
As Congress Takes on Big Tech with Antitrust Legislation, Are Members Asking the Right Questions?
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Democrats launched a series of legislative efforts this week to try tackling the monopoly power of Big Tech. But are they asking the right questions? And will the efforts simply fail because Republicans won’t go along? Led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from…
White Supremacy Rises as a Political Factor in West North Carolina Congressional Race: A Microcosm of a Nation Divided
Trump Tests Positive: Fake News or Karma?
By Glynn Wilson – Editor-in-Chief – For the past seven months, responsible Americans have endured the psychologically trying times created by the rampaging coronavirus pandemic, by staying at home as much as possible, abiding by the social distancing guidelines recommended by medical experts, staying at least six feet apart from other people, wearing masks when…
Senators Press Trump Administration to Implement ‘Operation Safe Return’ on Southern Border
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of Senators are indicating they will attempt to step into the policy vacuum on the southern border, where current policy has fueled a humanitarian crisis, with a program called “Operation Safe Return.” U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, announced the decision publicly by…