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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has died at 96
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has died, according to the Carter Center, leaving a rich legacy of championing mental health and women’s rights. She will be buried at the ranch house in Plains she and former President Jimmy Carter built in 1961. She died Sunday just days after the family announced she had entered hospice […]
Georgia’s gift to Trump is a lump of coal in his stocking | Jay Bookman
Georgia’s role in protecting American democracy may have yet another important chapter.
Raphael Warnock wins U.S. Senate runoff, giving Democrats a 51-seat majority
By early Wednesday, Warnock had 51.3 percent of the vote, edging out Republican Herschel Walker by about 90K votes.
National politics, career arcs explain why Kemp polls ahead of Abrams | Opinion
Why does a Democrat have the advantage in one statewide race while a Republican leads in the other?
At MLK alma mater, Biden pitches Senate rule change to safeguard voting rights
The visit by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to Atlanta was the latest sign of Georgia’ central role as a battleground state for voting rights that ratcheted up following the 2020 elections after Democratic wins for president and Senate that helped flip control of Congress and the White House.
Across the nation, and in Pa., Republican wave of voting restrictions swells | Analysis
Voting rights activists worried this year could bring a tsunami of new voting restrictions. It’s arrived.
Why doesn’t the threat of global climate change get that Y2K apocalyptic urgency? | Opinion
Out of base selfishness and willful blindness, we are bequeathing a permanently compromised planet to all those generations who come after us.