Category: Tom Baxter

It was hardly surprising that a video about the vast potential for artificial intelligence technology was aired at film screenings at the SXSW festival in Austin. What organizers didn’t expect was the response.

In this day and age we don’t pay as much attention to regional differences as we do to race, gender and party. But it’s worth noting that on what may be the most important votes of their political careers, Georgia’s congressional delegation broke down on clear regional lines.

The news that Pete Skandalakis will take over the investigation of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’ involvement in the effort to upend the 2020 presidential election served as a reminder of the long shadow the last election continues to cast, even as the next one takes shape.

Suppose the General Assembly was due to vote on a measure that would increase your taxes by about $40 a month. Now suppose that because of a court case, you wouldn’t be able to vote for your legislator this year at the usual time. If you didn’t like the way the legislator voted, you’d have to wait until 2025 or later for the chance to vote her out.

As much as they have to do with each other, elections and legislative sessions seldom align in an intended way.

Healthcare has become the nexus through which most of the serious politics of the General Assembly moves. Which is much different from saying that healthcare is a subject the General Assembly has done much about.

It’s a sign of just how much novocaine we’ve injected into the jaw of American politics over the past few years that the gutting of the Grand Old Party was received last week with such numbed indifference.

Georgia has placed itself squarely in the cockpit of the new, electrified economy. So far in 2024, it’s been a bumpy ride.

It could have been a lot worse. When you can say that about Crossover Day, especially in an election year, you’ve said a mouthful.

Jimmy Carter has lived long enough to mark the 50th anniversary of an act which literally changed the American landscape. It began with a canoe ride down the Flint River.

Recently there was a study which predicted that by the end of the century, “about half” of American cities will lose a significant amount of their population. But not us.

Joe Biden walks and talks like an old man, but every now and then he thinks like a young one.

When I was a teenager, a fellow member of my high school writer’s club, an earnest young man, recommended I read “Justine,” by the Marquis de Sade. I did. “Justine,” is the story of an 18th-century French girl whose every effort to be decent and kind is rewarded with the sort of sexual cruelty to […]

o hear him tell it, with most of his second term still ahead, Gov. Brian Kemp remains laser-focused on the state’s business. He’s raised a lot of money, and it’s been widely speculated he might challenge U.S. Sen. John Ossoff in 2026, but after his run-in with former President Donald Trump he has no national ambitions. So, if all that is true, what are we to make of Kemp’s State of the State speech last week?

Surveying prospects for the stock market in the coming year, financial expert Ed Yardeni recently used a twist on the old FDR line about there being nothing to fear but fear itself.

It’s such a classic Florida tale that the first reaction to the story of Bridget and Christian Ziegler might be just to stuff it into an already thick folder full of Sunshine State craziness and pay it little mind. It deserves more attention than that.

Last week the Republican-majority General Assembly got up on its hind legs and passed a couple of maps that seemed to dare a federal judge to strike them down, and this week it seems set on doing the same thing with the congressional map.