Last week Secretary of State Brian Kemp refused to step down to avoid any conflict of interest in the upcoming election, and a federal court mulled a suit demanding the state go back to paper ballots, now. It’s a far cry from 16 years ago, when we were talking about a future in which voting would be as easy as going to the mall.
Amid all the other big news swirling around President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, the revelation that a Chattanooga developer offered him $10 million to secure government loans for his late-life project didn’t attract much national attention. But it’s a story for our times.
The political class is already stocking up popcorn for the study in contrasts that is this year’s Georgia governor’s race. Unfortunately, the race is also likely to mark a milestone in the politics of dark money electioneering, which for the average voter means endless waves of scary black-and-white attack ads paid for by organizations with fuzzy names.
Goodness knows we have enough political entertainment here in Georgia, with one of our legislators biting a fake penis and yanking down his britches on TV, and dueling endorsements from the president and the governor. But something important has been happening in Birmingham.
It’s a open seat, the race is neck to neck and lots of money is being spent by both campaigns. By all rights, we should be expecting a healthy turnout next week in the runoff election to pick the Republican candidate for governor. A sharp drop in turnout could be a warning sign voters are tiring of the race to be “craziest.”
Maybe it’s something in all that granite. Scott Pruitt isn’t the first public servant to succumb to Potomac Fever by far, but he exercised his sense of entitlement with memorable gusto.
As the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, nearly a third of Americans say a second civil war is likely in the next five years. If they’re right, the next civil war won’t be anything like the last one.
From California to Georgia, there’s talk about states breaking apart from each other. The idea seems in keeping with these fractious times, but so far the idea of divorce doesn’t appeal to many voters.
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule between Georgia and Florida in the years-long water wars, a peek into a future when “pretty solutions” to water shortages no longer suffice. That future has been unfolding in Cape Town.
We don’t know yet how much that secret recording of Casey Cagle admitting that he’d put politics over policy will affect the runoff campaign. But it reveals some interesting things about what’s worried the Republican front-runner, and what hasn’t.
In Montgomery, a striking new memorial to a grim past sparks a boost in what is known in South Africa as dark tourism.
Pop quiz: Who got the most votes in the Republican primary the last time there was an open-seat race for governor eight years ago? The answer sheds some light on this year’s race.
This is the first election in Georgia history in which all the Democratic candidates for governor and lieutenant governor are women, and all the Republican candidates for those offices are men. There have been implications for both races.
here have been some theatrics involved — we’re about to talk about Louisiana, after all — but the nation should be paying more attention to what’s happening in Baton Rouge. It could be a warning for the rest of us.
We are in the process of losing an important chunk of our collective economic memory, as anyone with an investment account more than a decade old will be able to observe online over the coming months. As it slips from the 10-year charts, the lessons of the Great Recession are fading.
The changes wrought by DNA research haven’t been recognized as quickly or appreciated as much as some other big scientific and technological advances of our time. Maybe that’s because its impact has been both vertical and horizontal.
his is the time of year when sparring primary candidates tune up the messages their parties will carry in the fall. In Georgia’s 6th District, health care is front and center.
The history of poison gas is, you might say, a rather vaporous subject. So much so, that a substantial portion of that history has been made in the past few months.
When you think how much lip service has been paid to education issues over the years, it’s striking how many of the interested parties have been caught flat-footed this year, when our schools really became big news.
The legislative year hasn’t ended yet in a lot of states, and the evidence isn’t overwhelming. But based at least on the reduction in material they’ve provided late-night monologues, lawmakers around the country seem to be going about their business with significantly less posturing this election year.
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