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Kelly Loeffler
September 8, 2023
Tori Otten
Damn: Georgia Grand Jury Wanted Lindsey Graham Charged in Trump Indictment
A report from the Fulton County grand jury recommended charges against all the Republican senator for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
February 10, 2022
Grace Segers
Congress Has Finally Concluded That Insider Trading Is Bad
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are teeming with ideas to halt the practice of self-enrichment. Which one will they choose?
December 17, 2021
Matt Ford
No, Members of Congress Should Not Own Individual Stocks
Nancy Pelosi believes that lawmakers should be allowed to participate in the “free market economy.” Well, they are “free” to leave office then!
January 6, 2021
Alex Shephard
Georgia Shows the GOP’s Dismal Future Without Trump
The Republican Party is in disarray.
December 29, 2020
Matt Ford
Mitch McConnell Is Giving Us a Sneak Preview of the Political Hell to Come
The Senate majority leader is poisoning a bipartisan effort to increase stimulus checks to $2,000—and foreshadowing his tactics under a Biden administration.
December 28, 2020
Timothy Pratt
Can Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Make History?
The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making.
December 21, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
The Conservative War Against the Black Church
As the Georgia runoffs descend into attacks on the Reverend Raphael Warnock’s faith, the right’s long-simmering antipathy for Black theological traditions is swinging into view.
December 7, 2020
Matt Ford
The Georgia Runoff Elections Are a Referendum on Political Corruption
Good governance and political ethics have taken a beating in recent decades, but Peach State voters will have the chance to reverse that trend.
December 2, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
American Military Supremacy is Not Inevitable
The United States decided to rule the world. We can also decide to step back.
December 2, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Transcript: Questioning U.S. Military Primacy
November 20, 2020
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Kelly Loeffler
The Republican senator profited from a pandemic while millions of Americans lost their jobs.
August 10, 2020
Nick Martin
Kick Kelly Loeffler Out of the WNBA
The Georgia senator and Atlanta Dream owner is practically begging the league to expel her so she can become a supposed victim of “cancel culture.” Call her bluff.
July 28, 2020
Kevin Mahnken
It’s Shaping Up to Be a Horrific Election Season for Republican Women
Trump’s reelection is coinciding with trends that might leave the GOP with its least gender-balanced legislature in years.
June 4, 2020
Libby Watson
The Stock Market Is an Engine of Civic Destruction
The chief mechanism of wealth accumulation relentlessly and unfailingly pits the American people against their elected representatives.
March 24, 2020
Alex Pareene
The Republican Plot to Save the Rich
The GOP’s coronavirus response has one goal: to preserve America’s economic hierarchy.
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