Tag: politics

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.

he month before the special session began here in Georgia, South Carolina’s legislature convened with the same mission: to redraw the state’s congressional map in line with the U.S. Supreme Court barring the consideration of race. What happened there was an accurate indicator of what would happen here.

t goes without saying that President Donald Trump is tangled up every which way in this year’s elections in Georgia. The question is what difference that’s going to make.

efore there’s much else to say about the results of Tuesday’s election, we can say that, perhaps to a surprising degree, people have been paying attention. We can draw that conclusion from the record early voting numbers, which topped a million for the first time.

Whenever there’s a hard bump in the market or a bad economic report, you’ll hear commentators speak in worried tones about what this means for people’s 401(k)s. You would think, then, that any big changes in this retirement savings program would draw a lot of attention.

With all the confusion over how we’re going to vote, the only thing that could make this year’s Georgia elections a bigger mess would have been to start tinkering with the state’s congressional and legislative maps.