Draw a circle of three or four miles diameter with the WellStar Atlanta Medical Center at the center and you will have encompassed an enormous amount of territory, demographically, historically, culturally and politically. Not to ...
By Tom Baxter In hearings over the past couple of weeks, a legislative committee has begun to sort out the issues that are going to come with the ever-increasing electrification of Georgia. There are quite ...
By Tom Baxter When future generations try to figure out what in the world was going on in our era, they’re going to have a particularly hard time understanding Lindsey Graham. Over 28 years in ...
Looking back, the tipoff story of this summer was — go figure — the one about Jill Biden and breakfast tacos.
The shadow of Donald Trump will fall heavily on many races across the country this fall, as ardent defenders of the former president square off against Democrats and new controversies continue to unfurl. But not ...
By Tom Baxter The war in Ukraine has faded from the headlines as this year has worn on and domestic developments have crowded to the front. But one of the war’s byproducts, clips from Russian ...
By Tom Baxter With the conclusion for the summer of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings in Washington and a flurry of activity in Fulton County, national attention turned last week to Georgia as Donald Trump’s ...
Among the Republican Senate candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Herschel Walker has a dubious distinction. Walker had the best second-quarter fundraising total of any candidate in this group, raising $6.2 million.
here used to be a pretty reliable political rule of thumb that said the popularity of the party in the White House tracked contrarily with the up-and-down movement of the price of a gallon of ...
On July 7, 1977, White House science advisor Frank Press sent President Jimmy Carter a one-page memo titled “Release of Fossil CO2 and the Possibility of a Catastrophic Climate Change.”
You might think it irrelevant to begin by talking about how hot it has been in this late spring and early summer, after Roe v. Wade has been overturned. But then, you might be a ...
he big difference you see this year in political ads in Georgia and Illinois is the way they engage the issue of abortion.
Last week Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spent more than five hours testifying before a special Fulton County grand jury. We have a pretty good idea of what he said — he’s written a book ...
As we await the U.S. Supreme Court’s verdict on Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, it’s interesting to reflect on where things stood back in 1973, when the decision decriminalized abortion nationwide was handed ...
rian Kemp has now pulled off three of the most remarkable victories in the modern history of Georgia politics, so he should probably lead this post-primary column.
A few more questions to ponder before the voters supply the answers Tuesday. We'll be back for more later in the week.
Georgia’s primary election day is next week, but one result is already clear. Whatever reservations they may have about other voting innovations, voters have gotten hooked on early, in-person voting, and they aren’t going back.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey might seem an unlikely target in the conservative culture war. The 77-year-old Republican, referred to by some as Gov. MeeMaw, recently signed what has been described as the most stringent anti-abortion ...
The last of the three big Republican gubernatorial primary debates, the Atlanta Press Club debate Sunday night, was the first in which Gov. Brian Kemp and former U.S. Sen. David Perdue had to share the ...
Never has a politician made the next election so much about the last election. Straight off the bat in the first of three debates with Gov. Brian Kemp Sunday night, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue ...
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