The presidential race has gripped the country and led to a massive increase in voter registrations. What impact, if any, is that going to have on races far down the ballot?
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Parents, politicians and the religion of the gun
keep thinking of the video of Colin Gray, rocking back and forth as the charges against him are being read, in a room filled with the bereaved loved ones of those his son has been charged with murdering.
Flip-flopping through the post-Roe minefield
There are flips, and there are flops. Then there are pizza-dough swirling acts of procrastination.
With time short, South Georgia gets lots of love
s is interesting territory for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be traversing, and a very interesting time to be doing it.
Ever underestimated, Biden rides a wave of good economic news into Chicago
For the longest time, I was too damn young,” Biden, who became a senator when he was 30, said last week at his first joint appearance with Harris after dropping out of the race.”Now, I’m too damn old.”
Bank on it: Cryptocurrency is on the ballot this year
You didn’t hear either candidate breath a word about cryptocurrency at their big Atlanta rallies, and from that you might assume that it’s only a side issue in this presidential campaign. For some of the biggest players in this election year, nothing could be farther from the truth.
A red flashing light at the dumpster fire
It can be hard to sort out what’s news in the middle of a dumpster fire.
A closer race, and troubling questions about those supervising it
When the newly-reconstituted Georgia State Election Board held a surprise meeting July 12 to push along new election rules, it was enough to prompt a warning from Attorney General Chris Carr and a lawsuit brought by a watchdog group.
A generational change, and the battle for the working class
n the middle of the night, after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal announcement, former President Donald Trump posted this mocking remark on Truth Social: “It’s not over! Tomorrow Crooked Joe Biden’s going to wake up and forget that he dropped out of the race today!” It was a joke. Was it also wishful thinking?
Talk about unity, but not to Marjorie Taylor Greene
All of a sudden, unity. For a minute, anyway.
To summer’s shocking developments, the polls say ho hum
The polls have been doing something interesting this summer, which is: not much.
For an embattled press, debate generates more conclusions than curiosity
For those who consider themselves the first recorders of history, this is an uncomfortable moment in American political history.
A new kind of heat, at least in how we’re responding to it
We would be getting ahead of ourselves to say this summer has brought a new kind of heat. But in large ways and small, we are seeing what happens when humans are forced to adjust to conditions they’ve not experienced before.
Politics and religion clash over IVF issue
Last week was a religious/political split screen, as the controversy over in vitro fertilzation boiled over.
Our pipes are bursting, but it could be much worse. Maybe it will be
We can take some consolation in Atlanta that while they are serious, our problems with water aren’t yet world class. That’s one distinction we don’t want to shoot for.
Oliver’s nomination deepens Libertarians’ Georgia connection
When the book is finally written someday about the Libertarian Party’s long sojourn in the political wilderness, there will need to be a big chapter about Georgia.
As parties swing right and left, the middle gets less comfortable
Georgia’s political parties continue to drift in opposite directions, making the middle an increasingly uncomfortable place for both Republicans and Democrats.
Time to debate about something besides short stretches of silence
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump gave major speeches over the weekend, and the way they were covered showed why that CNN debate in Atlanta can’t come soon enough.
You can carry a gun, but do you have to lock your car door?
One of the nation’s most interesting battles over guns rights is taking shape in Savannah.
From Austin to Omaha, AI faces a new skepticism
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.
