When Donald Trump fires a sloppy attack tweet at a state politician, it’s usually a sign that Republicans are running another shit candidate in a solidly red state which is now at risk of a Democratic win. He did, and they are, and it is. On Saturday, Trump tweeted his “Strong Endorsement” [caps his] for gubernatorial…
On Thursday night, less than a month ahead of the midterm election, civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a Georgia law that suppresses minority votes.
In less than one month, Georgia voters will head to the polls and cast their ballot in what will be one of the country’s most consequential race for governor. Democrat Stacey Abrams, a former state representative, could become the first black woman governor in American history, bringing with her a progressive agenda…
Georgia’s Senate has passed a bill that would allow adoption agencies receiving taxpayer funding the right to opt out of working with LGBTQ couples.
Researchers say they’ve found evidence of grape winemaking from 8,000 years ago in Georgia, which is a thousand years (give or take) older than anything previously discovered. Inventing fermented beverages was practically civilization’s first order of business. And indeed, who can blame our Neolithic ancestors?
Georgia State Rep. Betty Price, the wife of recently-resigned Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, has followed in her husband’s footsteps (jet stream?) by demonstrating ideas about health care that are callous and discriminatory.
John Eaves, the chairman of Fulton County, Georgia, called today for a criminal investigation into R. Kelly, who was recently accused of running a “cult” and holding women against their will. Kelly has denied the allegations.
Republican Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter, a hardline Obamacare critic who recently recommended that someone “snatch a knot” in Lisa Murkowski’s “ass,” has been taking heat in a round of town hall events in Georgia, although he—like many of his colleagues—remains as impervious as ever to the very good points made by some of…
Stacey Abrams, who currently serves as the Democratic leader of the Georgia State House, announced today that she’s running for governor—a bid that, if successful, would make her the first African American woman to hold that title in U.S. history.
Back in December, a runoff campaign for the Louisiana Senate caught the attention of desperate progressives, who hurled money at Democratic candidate Foster Campbell despite the long odds against him in a deep-red state. In Georgia’s sixth congressional district, a wealthy suburban district that has been held by a…
Jose Torres and Kayla Norton, a couple from Douglas County, Georgia, wept in court as a judge handed down their sentences for a July 2015 incident in which Torres, Norton, and many others associated with the pro-confederate flag group Respect the Flag, drove a convoy of trucks onto a black family’s lawn and…
Donald Trump has selected Republican congressman Tom Price as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is known in Washington, D.C. as one of the Affordable Care Act’s most vehement critics.
One of the worst things about fall, besides everything, is that it’s clown hoax season. Without fail, as soon as the leaves start to drop from the trees, terrible people all over this country start dressing up like circus demons in order to scare kids and go mega-viral. Or, in the case of two people in Georgia, they…
Earlier this week, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that “upskirting”—the “practice” of taking a picture under a person’s skirt without their consent—is legal in the state due to a legislative loophole.
Radar Online is reporting that the sexual assault investigation into Ian Connor, a stylist and model associated with Kanye West and Kylie Jenner, has been dropped. As Jezebel reported in April, 23-year-old Emory University student Malika Anderson accused Connor of rape, but also said she believed the case would…
I remember the first time I voted: Jeb was up for re-election as Florida’s gubernatorial candidate and I thought, why not? Actually, I thought nothing at all, I just went into the booth and pulled the lever, or pressed the button, or hung the chad, or did whatever the fuck I thought I was supposed to do to fulfill my…
On Monday, the anonymous Twitter account Raped at Spelman sent out a series of tweets alleging that she had been raped by four Morehouse College students. “This is my freshmen year at Spelman [College] and my last year because I decided to leave after what happened to me,” the user tweeted.
After Hollywood, the NFL, and many corporations threatened to boycott the Peach state over House Bill 757, which would allow faith-based organizations to discriminate against the LGBT community, Governor Nathan Deal has walked back his state’s very bad plan.
Administrators at Bullard Elementary School in Kennesaw, Georgia, have had to change elements of its yoga and mindfulness practices after parents protested that their children were being corrupted by evil non-Christian beliefs.
