Category: Tom Baxter

My dad was quite the joker. Sometimes, driving past a city or state work crew back in the 1950s, he’d roll down the car window and yell “Got it made!”

Last week, a merchant ship bound from the Suez Canal to Romania collided with the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean.

If any state has reasons to worry about bird flu, it’s Georgia.

The “golden age of America,” the “totally new era of national success,” had begun in a big way for President Donald Trump even before he took the oath of office.

Increasingly, we’re seeing events which in the past would have stirred public sympathy being transformed into vehicles for politicized spite. This can’t end well.

There’s Jimmy Carter,” the guy behind me in the barbecue line said, gesturing with a joint toward a man with a singularly toothy smile, standing a few feet away beside the host of this outdoor bash near Macon, Capricorn Records co-founder Phil Walden.

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.