A test of wills involving some of the state’s most powerful figures briefly threatened to derail this year’s General Assembly session last week. It was a brief storm, but it made a stark contrast with ...

This month, Republican activists in Georgia took a trip down memory lane. In county GOP conventions around the state, newcomers under the banner of the Georgia Republican Assembly and allied groups seeking to move the ...

Last week, while the Georgia House was passing legislation that would create disciplinary boards for local prosecutors, the State Senate in Florida approved a bill which bars local governments from enacting rent controls. Shortly after ...

A term which seems to have increased in usage this year is “zombie bill,” for legislation which keeps coming back, no matter how many times it’s killed. That’s descriptive enough, but considering our location, “kudzu ...

To understand where U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was coming from when she called for a national divorce between the red states and blue states, a couple of 19th Century novels are a better guide ...

By Tom Baxter A phrase that a lady from Cartersville used in a newspaper interview last month has rattled around in my head for weeks now. As a description of what ails us, it’s elegantly ...

Because it’s so much easier and proves my point better than I could, most of today’s column has been generated on ChatGPT. Here goes: Before Hunter Biden, what children or siblings of American presidents have ...

he thud of excitement which has accompanied the news that the Democratic National Committee has included Georgia in its window of early primary states bespeaks how exhausted Georgia voters are with being in the spotlight ...

Georgia’s state economist, Jeffrey Dorfman, capped off his annual presentation to the House-Senate Budget Committee last week with a brief discussion of a looming revenue challenge to the state. For longtime Metro Atlanta residents, it ...

The Georgia General Assembly has begun this year’s session on a positive and generally bipartisan note, with a lot of new and optimistic members and plenty of money to give away. We don’t have to ...

Last week we got to see the U.S. House of Representatives not as two warring factions of idealists — which is the way they pitch themselves to the suckers they raise money from online — ...

At the beginning of 2023, Georgia stands at the center of the football, political and cultural universes. If you want to argue with that, go find any Bulldogs fan, or Rachel Maddow.

You better watch out. That’s the holiday greeting a Louisiana utility lobbyist might be sending his colleagues in other states this year.

he long Senate race has descended into the season of postmortems, when the losers point fingers and the winners check what’s left in the campaign account. But, dear reader, we don’t have to do either.

ate Tuesday, as the mist and fog began to clear over much of Georgia, you could begin to make out the features of a new American political landscape. The mountain called Donald Trump is still ...

While we wait for the results to come in, let’s cheer the long-suffering poll workers who made this election possible and pat ourselves on the back one more time for standing in line to vote. ...

When inboxes start filling up with desperate messages from Democratic fundraisers, one thing’s for certain.

You wouldn’t exactly say this has been an issues-driven Senate race, but largely because Republican challenger Herschel Walker brings the subject up so frequently, energy and climate issues have been central to this campaign.

Rep. David Ralston’s announcement that he was stepping down as House speaker was overshadowed by Election Day four days later, which is probably what Ralston intended.