The gunfight at a Columbia, S.C., mall over Easter weekend was typical of a lot of the mass shooting events which have been happening around the country lately.
What impact are all the election laws passed by state legislatures this year going to have? Alan Abramowitz, who has an stellar record as a political prognosticator, has been studying that question.
The frantic last day of every General Assembly session brings with it an overlay of nostalgia, as retiring members make their farewell speeches and the denizens of the Golden Dome enjoy the flimflamorous pageantry of ...
What should be Stacey Abrams’ biggest worry was on vivid display in Commerce Saturday night, and it wasn’t Donald Trump.
We can expect an enthusiastic crowd of supporters will be at the Banks County Dragway in Commerce Saturday to greet former President Donald Trump at a rally in support of his chosen Georgia candidates in ...
Last week, as 2,189 candidates were qualifying to run for office this year, there was an ominous reminder that going forward, election results in Georgia may never be as cut and dried as they used ...
One of the most mind-boggling things about economic development authorities in Georgia is just how many of them there are.
It might seem over the top to talk about what effect the war in Ukraine might have on the political fortunes of Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams, David Perdue, and dozens of candidates whose names will ...
Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul told a story last week which helps to explain why home prices are through the roof across Metro Atlanta and much of the rest of the state.
What with all the current efforts to tell teachers what they can’t teach and students what they can’t read, some may wonder what exactly the schools of tomorrow should be teaching. Here’s a suggestion.
At a time when one of the hottest controversies in American politics has to do with vaccinations, House Bill 1000 takes the subject into new territory.
Last week, after the McMinn County school board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” a Knoxville comic-book store announced that it would give a copy of the book to every student who ...
Given what we’ve been through in the pandemic, Georgia’s financial condition isn’t so bad. In fact by some measures, we’re better off than we were.
You can always tell it’s an election year by the bills that get introduced at the beginning of the General Assembly session. Both Republicans and Democrats have introduced “red meat” bills designed to stir up ...
Waxing a little too metaphorical, White House senior advisor Cedric Richmond said that by giving his big speech on voting rights in Georgia, President Joe Biden was “going right to the belly of the beast.” ...
At the end of one year and the beginning of another, two big stories, the prolonged pandemic and the protracted battle over ballots, dominate the news. But the story of the decade is the one ...
By Tom Baxter The death of former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, a little more than a month after the death of former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, brings this political year to a somber close. It’s ...
The last thing he wanted to do, former Sen. David Perdue told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week, was run a campaign. Yet here he is.
Considering how long the political world of Georgia has been waiting for Stacey Abrams to show her hand, she picked a curious day to announce that she’s in the 2022 governor’s race.
By Tom Baxter If there wasn’t so much riding on it, next year’s secretary of state race would be great fun to watch. Between the two parties, the race has all kinds of storylines, with ...
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