Tag: politics

We’ve grown accustomed these days to demographic firsts. What happened in Georgia this week was on a different order of magnitude, however.

These are important elections, but not for any of the reasons we usually think of as important.

President Donald Trump has come to Georgia four times this year to speak at rallies ahead of next week’s elections, in Rome, Marietta, Dalton and last Saturday in Perry. He’s yet to say a good word about Atlanta.

At about this moment in the 2022 election cycle, the Washington Post published a list of that year’s top 50 political contributors, including individuals like George Soros and Larry Ellison, and organizations like the American Action Network and the National Association of Realtors. Notably missing on this list was the name of Elon Musk.

As early voting begins this week in Georgia, there has been no word from the U.S. Justice Department as to what it intends to do about a letter, received from a state official on official state stationary, requesting that it throw a monkey wrench into this year’s election process.

College football and the American presidency are joined at the hip. We can thank Theodore Roosevelt for that.

It will be another five weeks before we can say what it means, but there has been a significant shift in public opinion in the country this fall.

Last week a Georgian owned the internet — parts of it, anyway — and it wasn’t Jon Ossoff for a change.

For all we talk about the importance of healthcare as an issue, it’s a rare day in politics when the cost of staying alive matters more than the price of a gallon of gas. That’s why last week felt a little like an inflection point.

The plot sounds like an old sci-fi movie: a coalition of the world’s most advanced companies announces that a runaway technology is just months away from wreaking global disaster.

Many people think there’s too much money in politics, but for the few who actually spend that money, there are more pressing problems.

This summer, most of the conversation about the future of the Democratic Party has been about the struggle between the upstart Democratic Socialist Party and the Democratic establishment. But as the midterms near, it may be the party’s renewed southward tilt that is the big development this year.

Earlier this year, I sat in on a zoom presentation by a panel of Washington-based experts about the upcoming political season. It was an informative discussion, but I realized afterwards that there had been no mention of data centers.

In many respects, this has been a swell time to be a governor.

In retrospect, Rick Jackson didn’t have to base his political persona on Donald Trump quite as much as he has.

In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s speech to the nation last week, speculation about what bombshells it might contain veered predictably from Venezuela to — of course — Georgia.

They may not know it, but the kids growing up today in the outlying counties around Atlanta, or Nashville, or Charlotte, fit within an very narrow demographic.

To hear him tell it, Charlie Kirk was all for freedom of speech. There is no telling what he would have thought of the turmoil over free speech which has followed his death.

The World Cup has afforded us with a timely lesson which applies to much more than sports. On the world stage, winning and losing has everything to do with how you keep score.