Public Affairs - National Politics

How To Face the End of the World as the Republicans Win the House Too

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By Glynn Wilson – If this is not the end of the world, as we know it, I can’t wait to see the real thing. Oh wait, this can’t be it. It’s nothing like the dream. America is fooled again, and he probably won’t even have me killed for saying this. Donald Trump is the biggest, greatest con man of them all, of all damn time, no contest. No doubt Mark Twain would agree, if…

Travel - Tales From the MoJo Road

A Curve Into Birmingham: I Will Not Back Down

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – This feels surreal, like much going on in the world these days, even without hallucinogens. Everything feels like a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy, like the world depicted by artist M.C. Escher. And apparently that’s the…

Many Rivers to Cross Before I Find My Way Home

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man,” Bob Dylan once sang in another anxious time. He found the answer, “blowin’ in the wind.” How many rivers must…

Legal Affairs - Capitol Attack - Trump Investigations - Supreme Court - Unfair Trade

The Proposal to Break Up Google Is Finally Here

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Guest Column – By Matt Stoller – Big Tech On Trial Three and a half months ago, D.C. district Judge Amit Mehta found that Google broke antitrust law in monopolizing search and search advertising. In a tightly reasoned 277-page opinion, Mehta’s conclusion was that Google, by controlling the means of…

Editorial Columns

Taps for American Democracy at Gettysburg

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It makes me a little sad that I could not be there at Gettysburg this year for the 161st anniversary of a legendary two minute speech that hinted at the end fighting during the Civil War and began to…

Science - The Environment

The Arts - Music

Nobody Really Knows Me: A Rock and Roll Journey

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By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Close to 300 friends and followers of Birmingham musician Wayne Perkins, many from the east side of town who came of age in the 1970s listening to the Alabama Power Band play at The Crossroads in Roebuck, nearly filled the Steiner Auditorium…