By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of American voters, 54 percent, who tuned in to the final presidential debate in Tennessee Thursday night tell pollsters that Joe Biden was the clear winner over Donald Trump. Only 39 percent said Trump won, although many pundits gave him credit for not being as much…
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A Majority of 56 Percent of Registered Voters in the U.S. Say Trump Does Not Deserve Reelection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of registered voters in the United States, 56 percent, believe President Donald Trump does not deserve to be reelected, while just 43 percent say he does, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. The percentage of voters who say Trump deserves reelection to a second…
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?
The Great Gatsby: You Can’t Repeat the Past
Donald Trump, His Followers and These Times Through the Lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many of you have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and watched one or more versions of the movie adaptations of the story? This…
If Steve Bannon Wants a War, I Say We Give Him One
Majority of U.S. Voters Say the Next President Should Pick New Supreme Court Justice to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Glynn Wilson – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the political fight over her replacement could jolt the presidential race and the competitive battle for control of the United States Senate just six weeks before the election, prompting survey research company the Morning Consult Poll to question whether Democratic or…
Senators React to Supreme Court Power Play by Trump and McConnell
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and other Senators returned to Washington this week to face a power play by President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the Supreme Court seat left open by last week’s death of popular liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 87. “I’m saddened…
Can a World Awash in Cognitive Dissonance Survive?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Anxiety and stress in people trying to resolve inconsistent thoughts has been around since the dawn of time. In the throes of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty with confusing mixed signals coming from officials on high is sending the psychological problem soaring. Our world is now…
Feeling the Consequences of Trump’s Rotten Presidency First Hand in the Wildfires of California
The Flood of Outside Money Threatens to Taint Democracy in Alabama
Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination for President and Vows We Can ‘Overcome This Season of Darkness’
By Glynn Wilson – Joe Biden went before a troubled nation on video Thursday night from his home state of Delaware and accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, promising to rescue the country from an incompetent, racist president who has been guilty since day one of gross abuses of power. Biden appealed to all…
President Obama Speaks on Existential Threats to Democracy from Independence Hall
By Glynn Wilson – Former President Barack Obama chose Independence Hall in Philadelphia to frame his video address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, with the United States Constitution as the backdrop. This speaks volumes, which will largely be ignored by the talking heads on TeeVee, because they simply don’t get it, and brushed…
Democrats Feel Fine With Kamala Harris on the Ticket With Joe Biden: Republicans Are Worried
By Glynn Wilson – A whopping 88 percent of Democrats say the announcement of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s pick for Vice President made them hopeful, and roughly 4 out 5 say it makes them confident, proud, happy or “excited,” according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll just out Thursday night. That’s the share of…
When Life Becomes A Rerun With An Applause, Laugh Track
The Real Choice: Social Control or Social Investment
By Robert Reich – Some societies center on social control, others on social investment. Social-control societies put substantial resources into police, prisons, surveillance, immigration enforcement, and the military. Their purpose is to utilize fear, punishment, and violence to divide people and keep the status quo in place — perpetuating the systemic oppression of Black and…
While Trump Rushes to Reopen America, Covid-19 is Closing in on Him
By Robert Reich – Donald Trump said last Thursdayâs jobs report, which showed an uptick in June, proves the economy is âroaring backâ. Rubbish. The Labor Department gathered the data during the week of June 12, when America was reporting 25,000 new cases of Covid-19 per day. By the time the report was issued last…
Alabama Senator Doug Jones Holds the Key to Victory in 2020 for Democrats in the United States Senate
By Glynn Wilson – As the countdown begins in earnest to see what party runs the country for the next four years, setting the agenda for public policy in Washington and leading America beyond the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession, the hidebound red state of Alabama has a chance to play a surprising role in…
American Democrats Sit Idly By and Watch as the Amazon Rain Forests Burn
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the nation’s capital in reprieve this weekend from the summer heat waves, heat domes and thunderstorms pounding in from the southwest, what locals like to think of as a harbinger of fall, turning away from the news it might be easy to forget…
Good Looking White Female Scientist Charges Sexual Assault Against Climate Change Denier Donald Trump
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – Satire Meets Academic Research – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was cold and pouring down rain on that day in 1989 or 1990 in Mobile, Alabama, when I wrote my first news story about the greenhouse effect, a phenomenon where carbon dioxide, methane gas, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons combine with…