By Robert Reich – Why did working class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful, megalomaniac for president? With the 2018 midterms around the corner, and prospective Democratic candidates already eyeing the 2020 race, the answer is important because it will influence how Democrats campaign. One explanation focuses on economic hardship. The working…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The disconnect from reality is palpable. It makes me dread waking up, turning on Matilda the Mac (the pet name for my computer) and scanning the headlines online. Not a day goes by in the era of Twitter and Trump without a story coming down the pike…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It only took 10 years after the human-caused environmental disaster, but a habitat restoration project for the endangered watercress darter along Village Creek in Roebuck Springs is finally underway and should be completed by the summer of 2018, according to an announcement just out from the non-profit Freshwater…
By Glynn Wilson – GROVE OAK, Ala. — Jamie Godwin began telling me her story at a party by a campfire on a bluff looking out over Shoal Creek in St. Florian, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals. She is inspired in part by the story of a native American medicine woman named Teh-la-nay, who once walked…
Editor’s Note: Monday, April 23 was celebrated in Alabama as Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday that some say should be removed from the official calendar much like the Confederate Battle Flag was removed from state capitol buildings. The controversy over removing Confederate monuments which sparked protests in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia has now…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — What would you rather read? A story of gloom and doom or a tale of human hope for the future? Or must we cover both sides? Reading the news online and watching what’s left of the Sunday morning news talk shows on broadcast television…
Editor’s Note: While the New American Journal has not endorsed any candidates for office yet this year, we find the arguments persuasive in this editorial from the University of Alabama’s student newspaper. We republish here for your consideration. On June 5th, Alabama voters will have the opportunity to participate in the state’s gubernatorial primary. Both…
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — The spring bird migration is in full swing along the Gulf Coast, an annual event when thousands of species of birds make their annual trans-Gulf flight from South and Central America back to North America for the summer and hundreds of birders make it here for one…
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Thousands of bird watchers are flocking to the Alabama Gulf Coast this spring for the annual bird migration, but it’s also mating season for other species, including this fairly large American alligator [Alligator mississippiensis] that has become a tourist attraction in its own right as people come…
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – The annual spring bird migration is in full swing along the Alabama Gulf Coast, as well as the spring mating season for North American raptors like this osprey [Pandion haliaetus], unique for its diet of live fish and ability to dive into water to catch them. These…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As an educated lawyer, former FBI director James Comey should know the Latin legal phrase, “Fiat justitia ruat caelum,” which means: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” He apparently forget that under the pressure of the election in 2016 and in trying to serve President…
By Robert Reich – The petulant adolescent in the White House – who has replaced most of the adults around him with raging sycophants and has demoted his chief of staff, John Kelly, to lapdog – lacks adequate supervision. Before, he was merely petty and vindictive. He’d tweet nasty things about people he wanted to…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — As we wait for a massive storm that could dump seven inches of rain here to make it over from New Orleans, this is a good time to talk about the upcoming hurricane season of 2018 and the latest science news about global warming and climate change. Climate…
By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former judge Roy Moore is like a vampire of a perennial politician who won’t stay politically dead. In spite of being rejected by a majority of voters in a U.S. Senate special election in December for a seat held by Republicans for a quarter century, a race he…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â FLORENCE, Ala. — For all practical purposes, the presidency of Donald J. Trump is over. It’s time for someone to inform him that he should resign now before the FBI has to arrest him and escort him from the White House on live national television. This Trump…
Add my name to the top of the list. I say Trump should be arrested and removed from the White House, now. – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – If Donald Trump’s crazy tweets, undignified behavior, unqualified cabinet appointments, disastrous policies and authoritarian bashing of the press has not been…
By Glynn Wilson – Let’s review. There is much hand-wringing in the news of late about how Facebook lost control of all the data it collects on users, how that data was used by Cambridge Analytica to potentially swing the 2016 presidential election away from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, and how Facebook and Google…
By Glynn Wilson – One of the most disheartening facts about the Trump administration’s policies to the millions of Americans who care deeply about the Earth’s natural environment is the outright war on the planet being waged by President Donald Trump and his cabinet. A couple of new stories just out demonstrate the problem, and…
By Glynn Wilson – This may be the most important news you read this week, maybe this month. So you think the exposure of “fake news” in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and all the stories about how Facebook data was compromised and used to manipulate voters was the end of the controversy?…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So we need your help, dear readers, to settle an argument. Would you rather read a factual story? Or a legend that may or may not be all true? Is it OK to tell a white lie now and then to save someone from grief or pain?…
