Author Archives: Tom Baxter

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.

As it turns out, rallies aren’t a very good predictor of political success.

While we wait for the polls to close, take a minute to ponder a question which has received little attention: what kind of election are we going to have four years from now?

The way campaigns are conducted hasn’t quite caught up with the way votes are cast these days.

In some ways, the scrambled state of college football this year resembles the current condition of our politics. In one important way, they’re different.

Would Donald Trump’s supporters vote for Elon Musk? Musk’s name isn’t on the ballot, but as Election Day nears, this has emerged as one of the most intriguing questions of this year’s presidential campaign.

Hurricane Helene, the biggest U.S. disaster since the new developments in artificial intelligence, is becoming the first in which artificial disaster competes openly with natural disaster for the public’s attention.

Before it went underwater, Asheville was becoming a popular stop on this year’s presidential campaign trail, with recent visits there by former President Donald Trump and Gov. Tim Walz.

In every presidential election year, we speculate about the chances of an “October surprise.” Last week, with a good chunk of September left, there were two developments that in any other election year would have been considered not just surprising, but shocking.

The presidential race has gripped the country and led to a massive increase in voter registrations. What impact, if any, is that going to have on races far down the ballot?

keep thinking of the video of Colin Gray, rocking back and forth as the charges against him are being read, in a room filled with the bereaved loved ones of those his son has been charged with murdering.

There are flips, and there are flops. Then there are pizza-dough swirling acts of procrastination.

s is interesting territory for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be traversing, and a very interesting time to be doing it.

For the longest time, I was too damn young,” Biden, who became a senator when he was 30, said last week at his first joint appearance with Harris after dropping out of the race.”Now, I’m too damn old.”