Guest Column – By Joe Conason – Among right-wing Republicans, the incarceration of Stephen K. Bannon has provoked a torrent of sputtering rage. “I stand with Steve Bannon!” was the defiant slogan barked by scores of prominent figures on the right, after a federal judge ordered the fascist media personality and adviser to former President…
Our Journey Continues… The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – After suffering through a brutally hot global warming day on Tuesday, making our way back to the top of the mountain in the morning before noon to escape it somewhat, there’s a cool breeze up here on Wednesday morning at…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Not since the King and the Duke fooled the townspeople along the Mississippi River in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have so many people been fooled into believing in a scam by a bunch of grifters. I just had to laugh out…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – What a world. It may be the perspective of getting out of Washington and hanging out in the mountain woods, but I’m having a hard time remembering a time quite like this. It’s not hard to appreciate that people are mad at CNN…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – There has to be a better way. A better way to live. To eat. To communicate. To govern. To lead. To love. As many of you already know, from picking up on my hints, I am in search of these things for myself…
Should Joe Stay or Go? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Lord a-mighty this is exactly why I did not want to remain in Washington and wade into the middle of this Biden-Trump rematch. Well, that and the heat and humidity, the bureaucracy and the sheer burnout on being in one place…
To the editor, Joe Biden’s decision to stay in the presidential race at this point is incredibly selfish. He’s risking American democracy for the sake of his ego. I don’t know if Kamala Harris or whoever else would defeat Donald Trump, but I’m confident they have a better chance than an elderly man who can’t…
“A story told is a life lived.” – Unknown The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – If the story of the 21st century is just going to end up being one hellscape disaster after another, until most of the countries of the world live under tyrannical dictators who ignore all…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Camp David was designed as a presidential retreat not just from the heat and humidity of Washington. FDR actually commissioned it and called it “Shangri-La.” It was and remains a no press zone. It’s understandable why any president would want to keep out…
But there will be a party on the Fourth of July anyway, with fresh, locally grown tomatoes and plenty of good beer and vodka – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK, Md. — As the sun rises in the forest down the street from Camp David, where President Joe Biden…
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.…
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…
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…
“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…
