ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump’s insistence on fighting a trade war against the entire world all at once for political purposes is on the verge of casting a pall over the global economy that could depress global economic growth and result in the loss of American jobs…
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Squeezing information out of the federal government has long been a problem for journalists, researchers, lawyers and the American public. But it has become even harder under the Trump administration, where factual information and real journalism don’t seem to matter to those in charge of the executive branch…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration’s plan to use illegal immigration as the cornerstone political issue in the midterm elections to try to get more Republicans elected to Congress blew up in its face this week. While Democrats were planning to focus on health care and expanding Medicaid, crying babies being…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Attorney General and former Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama went on the road recently to try to sell the Trump administration’s cruel and unusual policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexican border to law enforcement officers and the country by quoting the Bible,…
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The word is coming out from Capitol Hill. While President Donald Trump and his coterie of converted Republicans push their agenda in this midterm election year, Democrats are pushing access to health care and Medicaid expansion in Washington and the states this summer as a centerpiece of their…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — You would have to go back to the 1920s and early ’30s to find a President of the United States willing to fight trade wars with other countries and express hostility to international trade agreements as Donald Trump seems intent on doing, it seems for domestic political points…
This story has been updated to reflect the final vote count since the morning after the election. By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In spite of all the big talk in the media and on Facebook about voters being ready for a change and a Democratic “Blue Wave” coming in the midterm elections in…
By Glynn Wilson – While the New York Times and other news outlets are reporting that Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to head the CIA, apparently may have the votes to secure Senate confirmation even though she was directly involved in the Bush administration’s overseas torture program during the Iraq war, one Alabama senator will…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration is threatening to cut $6 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget in 2018, eliminating block grants for water and sewer projects in poor, minority areas in states, including Alabama’s Black Belt, according to a preliminary budget proposal obtained by the Washington Post. Some Democratic…
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama’s new United States Senator Doug Jones chose the raging issue of gun violence Wednesday as the central topic for his first speech on the Senate floor since his election in December. And while he will be criticized from the right and the left for some of what he said, mainstream…
By Glynn Wilson – Students across the country walked out in a symbolic protest on Wednesday to focus the nation’s attention on gun violence one month after a gunman killed 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students in a number of schools across Alabama participated in the protest. When asked…
By Glynn Wilson – DAPHNE, Ala. — The “unwavering hero” of the massive tornado that struck Tuscaloosa in 2011, Walter Maddox, at 45, may be the early front runner in a crowded field of candidates for governor of Alabama. On a campaign swing through Baldwin County and Mobile Thursday night, the Tuscaloosa mayor said why…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It is unclear why the national press should care now, other than the fact that the story is a bit of traffic driving sensational tabloid clickbait, yet a story is making the rounds on Twitter this morning quoting former Ten Commandments judge and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — His history changing campaign for the United States Senate was a state and national “turning point” and a “watershed,” Senator Doug Jones said to a packed house of supporters on Southside Sunday who came out to celebrate his victory with hot dogs, barbecue and beer. “We were on…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nothing gets the people of Alabama fired up like football. It’s even been called the state religion. But in the best piece of journalism ever published on the subject, Rick Bragg debunked that notion a few years back in Sports Illustrated. “They say college football is religion in…
By Glynn Wilson – When Birmingham attorney Doug Jones tossed his hat into the ring as a Democrat to run for the United States Senate last year and ended up beating the radical, right-wing conservative Republican former judge and alleged teen sexual molester Roy Moore in December, Democrats all over the state and country saw…
ANALYSIS By Glynn Wilson – President Trump needs a new slogan. Instead of declaring that he wants to “make America great again,” if he was an honest man he would say instead: “Let’s make America more like Alabama.” That’s what’s going on as his administration guts the Environmental Protection Agency. If it was possible to…
#Trumpshutdown By Glynn Wilson – One year to the day after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president of the United States on a promise to “make America great again,” he proved to be a failure as a deal maker and only made the governing crisis in Washington, D.C. worse. Republicans and Democrats proposed…
