All it took was one mistake by a voter in Georgia to propel a conspiracy theory to nationwide attention and the upper echelons of Republican politics. Election officials in the state said that the voter, a woman whose name they did not disclose, visited a polling site in Whitfield County …
Read More »At Least 7 Dead After Georgia Ferry Dock Collapses
At least seven people were killed on Saturday when the gangway of a ferry dock collapsed on an island in Georgia, the authorities said. The deaths on Sapelo Island were confirmed by Mark Deverger, the volunteer fire chief for McIntosh County. He said did not know the specifics of what …
Read More »The 25-Year-Old Georgia Senate Candidate Looking to Unseat a Fake Trump Elector
Ashwin Ramaswami, a Democrat running for a Georgia State Senate seat, grew up in a wealthy stretch of Atlanta suburbs transformed by the tech industry and waves of Indian American immigrants, like his parents, who have settled there. It is a part of the American South where the percentage of …
Read More »John F. Kennedy Jr.’s 1990s-Era Magazine Is Back, With a QAnon Twist
On a Saturday morning in August, a few hundred people gathered at a convention center in Hot Springs, Ark., paying between $145 and $475 to hear from a cast of far-right speakers. They included a body builder-turned-pundit who carries a tomahawk and promotes an antisemitic conspiracy theory, and a pro-Trump …
Read More »Opinion | This Election Will Need More Heroes
True political courage — the principled stand, the elevation of country over party pressure, the willingness to sacrifice a career to protect the common good — has become painfully rare in a polarized world. It deserves to be celebrated and nurtured whenever it appears, especially in defense of fundamental American …
Read More »Judge Halts Biden Student Debt Plan Right After It Was Allowed to Proceed
A federal judge in Missouri temporarily blocked a Biden administration plan to cancel student debt less than a day after another judge had allowed it to proceed, throwing into uncertainty the fate of a program that could affect more than 27 million borrowers. The decision, which came down late Thursday, …
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