The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The race is on. Only 90 days to go. And Tim Walz for Veep? Wow! “We can sleep when we’re dead” indeed. More like a country singer than a rock star, a cross between Harry Truman, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter, while the vice…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The Olympic Games have been used as a platform for international politics and to influence public opinion since the first modern Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. Of course the purpose of the games was to promote international peace and understanding. But there are plenty…
The Anti-Democratic Group Wants to Bring Back Theocracy – By Glynn Wilson – The Full Big Picture – Americans of all stripes who favor keeping our democratic Republic have many good reasons to be concerned about Project 2025. But the underlying reason we should all be concerned is not just all the horrendous policy proposals…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What a difference a day can make? That’s why you don’t want to go anywhere just yet. Things can turn around overnight. That’s in part what keeps me going, anyway. Like Joe Biden stepping down from his reelection campaign and passing the torch to Kamala Harris. Trump…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Donald Trump’s campaign to return to the White House is now in big, big trouble. No one else I’ve seen is reporting it this way yet. But I’m here to tell you, it’s true. Why? Because all of a sudden, overnight, the game has changed. Kamala Harris…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Who does not want peace and quiet? Apparently kids, bots and Trump supporters. Maybe New Yorkers. Sitting outside for hours on a mountaintop this week, the quiet only broken by birds and frogs singing in the trees and an occasional whoop across the…
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…
“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…
