Category: Tom Baxter

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.

Before it went underwater, Asheville was becoming a popular stop on this year’s presidential campaign trail, with recent visits there by former President Donald Trump and Gov. Tim Walz.

In every presidential election year, we speculate about the chances of an “October surprise.” Last week, with a good chunk of September left, there were two developments that in any other election year would have been considered not just surprising, but shocking.

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?

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.

There are flips, and there are flops. Then there are pizza-dough swirling acts of procrastination.

s is interesting territory for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be traversing, and a very interesting time to be doing it.

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.”

It can be hard to sort out what’s news in the middle of a dumpster fire.

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.

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?

All of a sudden, unity. For a minute, anyway.

The polls have been doing something interesting this summer, which is: not much.

Last week was a religious/political split screen, as the controversy over in vitro fertilzation boiled over.

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.

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.

Georgia’s political parties continue to drift in opposite directions, making the middle an increasingly uncomfortable place for both Republicans and Democrats.