Author Archives: Tom Baxter

A flurry of pundits, several polls and the president himself have all agreed that the last election came down to the price of eggs and bread. Did it?

It was fitting that after the last arms had been twisted and the deciding votes locked down, the concluding words spoken in opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp’s tort reform bill came not from Democrats, but indirectly from Donald Trump.

Social Security is often called “the third rail of American politics,” a term that harkens back to the old streetcar days when most city folks understood that touching the third rail of a trolley line could kill you.

We should probably be more worried about wildfires and measles than we have been so far.

The wire services have a problem, and maybe also, a golden opportunity.

My dad was quite the joker. Sometimes, driving past a city or state work crew back in the 1950s, he’d roll down the car window and yell “Got it made!”

Last week, a merchant ship bound from the Suez Canal to Romania collided with the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean.

If any state has reasons to worry about bird flu, it’s Georgia.

The “golden age of America,” the “totally new era of national success,” had begun in a big way for President Donald Trump even before he took the oath of office.

Increasingly, we’re seeing events which in the past would have stirred public sympathy being transformed into vehicles for politicized spite. This can’t end well.

There’s Jimmy Carter,” the guy behind me in the barbecue line said, gesturing with a joint toward a man with a singularly toothy smile, standing a few feet away beside the host of this outdoor bash near Macon, Capricorn Records co-founder Phil Walden.

While there are still some unchecked names on your holiday gift list, let’s talk about merch.

The murder of Brian Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two, was a holiday-season reminder of a simmering anger in this deeply divided country which could grow much hotter.

It doesn’t have a catchy name yet, but the place where artificial intelligence, climate change, data centers, space travel and the cost of hurricanes cross paths is where the most vexing political/economic questions of the next few years are likely to come from.

What a week for U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. It began with what were, even for the congresswoman from the 14th district, provocative words.

“Yonder goes the Kennedy boy,” my mother said, peering out the kitchen window at a jeep tearing down the alley in back of the house where I grew up in Montgomery, Ala.

The legislature which got elected last week looks a lot lasts the last one, and that’s no accident.