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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – In yet another blatant attempt to rewrite American history to favor corruption of the United States government, the Trump administration is now promoting a ridiculous conspiracy theory that a “deep state” brought down Republican President Richard Nixon. The fact is he resigned as president on August 8, 1974 facing inevitable impeachment in the House for his crimes leading up to and including…
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” — Though originally from Shakespeare (Troilus and Cressida), John Muir often used and adapted this phrase in his writings. “The battle for conservation must go on endlessly. It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong.” — John Muir, Son of the Wilderness Tales…
“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.” – President John F. Kennedy, 1963 “Artists are here to disturb the peace.” – James Baldwin The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – When people talk about defending democracy, they usually think about…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – When the patriotic winds blew me out of Washington all the way across the country to California a year ago last month, I thought I could escape the painful destruction of American democracy and the nation’s beautiful capital city and the global citadel of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – One of the most monumental midterm elections in the history of the United States will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and with one month to go, the outcome for American democracy is anything but assured. While Emperor wannabe Donald Trump seems to be panicking, traveling around…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Sitting quietly in a camp chair at dusk and dawn by a small fire in the North Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley, the monumental problems of the world seem to vanish for a few brief moments and time seems almost suspended. Finally…
Staff Report – The Trump administration is planning a significant reorganization of the National Park Service and other bureaus with the Department of Interior, the second major shake-up of the nation’s public lands infrastructure in less than two years, according to a breaking news scoop from NOTUS, a new D.C. news outfit started by Publisher…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The world is moving toward another demographic milestone as the accelerating, exponential rate of change in technology and society speeds up beyond what the average human mind can keep up with and grasp. So here are some facts about what is coming in the years ahead. Unlike…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The world has failed in its goal of limiting the average global temperature to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit and must take fast action to limit the “overshoot” or face even more cataclysmic consequences from climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy…
We Must Pace the Frontier – By Dario Amodei – Bio Note: Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI. Dario Amodei: Wikipedia…
What Will the Administration’s Policies Actually Mean for Patients? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The Affordable Care Act changed American health care by making insurance available to millions of people who previously couldn’t obtain or afford it. The second Trump administration is now making changes that appear to be a direct…
What Obamacare Did for Patients — and What It Didn’t Fix – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, the first law ever passed by Congress to REGULATE health care in the United States, the central promise was straightforward. More Americans…
Is American Health Care Losing the Doctor-Patient Relationship to Corporate Medicine? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – There was a time when going to the doctor meant going to your local doctor, a member of your community who you knew personally. You knew the physician. The physician knew you. Your medical history…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Editor’s Note: Healthcare is one of the top domestic and economic concerns for Americans. Public opinion research consistently shows this to be the case. Recent surveys from Gallup reveal that a striking 61 percent of adults in the U.S. worry “a great deal” about healthcare, ranking it…
We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. – Guest Column – By Bill Gates – The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history. Right now, we are not preparing adequately for that transition. If the world takes the right steps, AI…
Take the Pledge of Altruism to Find Happiness – By Glynn Wilson – Elon Musk is living proof that great wealth does not make for great happiness. He’s the richest man in the world, the first trillionaire. Yet a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, set to make its world premiere this week at…
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” — John Muir, Letter to his sister, Sarah Muir Galloway, September 3, 1873 Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – The mountains were calling this weekend, so our amazing journey continues as the artist Walter Simon joins us in…
