By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald J. Trump was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal on Thursday by a New York jury, becoming the first former president to be tried and convicted of a felony. The conviction will no doubt reverberate around the country and impact the presidential election…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Predictably and with righteous arrogance, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. declined to recuse himself on Wednesday from two cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after reports that flags displayed outside his houses appeared to support Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement to…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are you tired of seeing these headlines saying challenger Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in the polls with less than six months to go before the presidential election of 2024? Are you sick of these stories bashing Biden for his age, and…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding that religious conservative Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito recuse himself on all cases related to Donald Trump’s incited insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, including the immunity motion before the court, after it was reported that an upside down American flag was photographed…
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…
Guest Column – By Curtis Seltzer – The butchery in Israel and Palestine creates an opportunity to find a viable peace through fairness. Imagination, leadership and boldness are required to recast the ways they exist with each other. Reverting to the antebellum “stability” of Israel’s West Bank occupation and Gaza ghettoization will produce more Palestinians…
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…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — You don’t have to travel to some high mountain pass to find insight in this mixed up world. But maybe it helps. It seemed to help Moses, George Mallory and Elisha Mitchell, as I’ve written in the past. Climbing Mountains For Inspiration: What’s…
