This fall, football stadiums could become political hot spots, and not just because of Herschel Walker. You may not see many masks on Saturday night’s broadcast of the Georgia-Clemson game, but that’s because they will ...
his month’s publication of The Almanac of American Politics 2022 marks 50 years since the publication of the 1972 almanac. When the Saporta Report published the 2020 almanac’s Georgia chapter two years ago, I called ...
When we consider the essential bulwarks of our great republic, counties seldom come to mind. We say you can’t “fight city hall,” or that something would “take an act of Congress,” but there are no ...
I’ve never given one red penny to a politician, but I’m on a lot of lists. So every day my inbox fills with entreaties like these, from every corner of the political map.
It says a lot about the state of elections in Georgia that Republican legislators haven’t found anyone to chair the state Election Board yet — may not be close, in fact — but they’ve lost ...
The newest phase in the evolution of the nation’s response to COVID-19 was best articulated last week by an obviously exasperated Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.“I don’t know. You tell me,” Ivey said when asked what ...
Donald Trump just can’t get Georgia off his mind. Now he's jumped in the middle of the lieutenant governor's race.
With a flurry of checks and a rally for the governor, the 2022 campaign got off to the closest it will come to an official start last week. It seems early still, but we’re less ...
At a charity roast several years ago in Louisiana, a former aide to Gov. Edwin Edwards recounted the problems Edwards had satisfying the demands of a Lafayette pol whose appetite for grift surpassed even the ...
In most stories last week, the news that the U.S. Justice Department is forming a task force to investigate and prosecute violent threats and intimidation of election officials and poll workers was played several paragraphs ...
f the Southern Baptist Convention had decided to follow the “pirates” last week at its annual gathering in Nashville, it would have fit too easily into the standard narrative of deepening fissures pulling one part ...
According to the criminal complaint filed last week against Kevin Douglas Creek of Alpharetta, when he was asked in an FBI interview if he regretted what he did at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, ...
It wasn’t remarkable that Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr got booed at the state Republican convention last weekend. Johnny Isakson, Saxby Chambliss and Nathan Deal are among those who’ve been booed in ...
If you were channel surfing and missed the first few seconds of the new ad slamming Coca-Cola and its CEO, James Quincey, you might think it came from some lefty consumer organization — “poisoning America’s ...
In his eerily prescient 1865 novel, “From the Earth to the Moon,” Jules Verne wrote about an intense rivalry between Florida and Texas to determine which state would be the site of the first moon ...
The pandemic has played havoc with our national calendar. There was a time not long ago when April 15 was looked upon as a shared day of tribulation, that day every year when our taxes ...
“Someone said to me yesterday, whatever you do, don’t cry,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a press conference Friday after announcing she won’t seek a second term. “And for God’s sake, don’t have ...
In interviews over the past couple of weeks, Moderna CEO Stephan Bancel has described what would be his young company’s latest blockbuster: an annual booster, like today’s flu shots, which would protect people from both ...
So far, Joe Biden has been the most deliberative of the past several presidents, seldom making a move without carefully weighing its political implications. On the eve of his 100th day in office, the president ...
Who would have thought that when the states were graded on the sturdiness of their infrastructure, Georgia would be at the head of the class? Unfortunately, that’s more a commentary on the overall rickety condition ...
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