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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has died at 96

BY: - November 19, 2023

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 […]

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Georgia’s gift to Trump is a lump of coal in his stocking | Jay Bookman

BY: - December 16, 2022

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: - December 7, 2022

By early Wednesday, Warnock had 51.3 percent of the vote, edging out Republican Herschel Walker by about 90K votes.

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Recent polls indicate incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp holds a healthy lead over Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams in a renewal of their 2018 rivalry. Bazemore-Pool/Getty Images (2018)

National politics, career arcs explain why Kemp polls ahead of Abrams | Opinion

BY: - October 3, 2022

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

BY: - January 12, 2022

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

BY: - March 28, 2021

Voting rights activists worried this year could bring a tsunami of new voting restrictions. It’s arrived.

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Why doesn’t the threat of global climate change get that Y2K apocalyptic urgency? | Opinion

BY: - January 5, 2020

Out of base selfishness and willful blindness, we are bequeathing a permanently compromised planet to all those generations who come after us.