What to do about the electric power demands of artificial intelligence data centers? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It’s a lovely summer day in the mountains, and the last thing I want to be doing is thinking about this Biden-Trump rematch presidential debate everyone on news talk and…
By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. – How hot must it get before most doubters are convinced that the planet is warming? How many heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires, massive hurricanes and tornadoes will it take to convince most people that global warming is changing the climate and that humans are responsible? An end to…
Is the sun setting on the web press in America? – By Glynn Wilson – The Big Picture – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It was never my intention to move to Washington a decade ago to take it by storm to try and fix the federal government or bridge the partisan divide, promises often proclaimed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It seems only fitting that my last dateline Washington column is about the White House and falls on Father’s Day. It feels like the end of another era. How many of those milestones may a person experience in a life? In a time when…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a time in American history when artists, writers and photographers were held in such high esteem that the best of the best were recruited by the federal government to showcase some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country to help convince…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A storm is coming. More than one storm in fact. This might be a good time to plan an escape from staying inside the Beltway in the nation’s capital region, with all the traffic and tension that goes with living in such a place.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge ordered Donald Trump brain trust and mouthpiece Steve Bannon to surrender by July 1 to start serving a four-month prison sentence imposed for contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena to provide documents and testimony to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The worm is beginning to turn, and not in Trump’s favor. For the past six months, news outfits have pushed out story after story claiming former President Donald Trump was ahead of President Joe Biden in the polls in the presidential election of 2024, keeping Trump supporters feeling…
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…
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.” – Theodore Roosevelt The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For how long must we endure the end of decency in public and private life in America? Is it possible that the historically critical election of 2024 is as much…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the early days of a movement created in the 1960s to begin a process to save the planet from the ravages of industrial pollution, a bunch of hippies, activists, some politicians and even a few corporations made big news in April, 1970, when…
