Georgia Postcard
Wrongful Conviction, the Game!
Two exonerated convicts visit the escape room run by Cobb County, in Georgia, which was conceived as a prison-break scenario, with visitors playing the role of innocent inmates. Can they get out in time?
Stacey Abrams Courts the Republican Suspense-Novel-Reader Vote
Among the fans of Abrams’s new political thriller, “While Justice Sleeps,” are self-described conservatives, who size up the Democratic voting-rights activist as both a Marxist and a budding John Grisham.
A Would-Be Opponent Crashes a Marjorie Taylor Greene Rally
Marcus Flowers, a Black Army veteran who has raised more than a million dollars in his bid to unseat the QAnon-friendly congresswoman in 2022, gets kicked out of Greene and Matt Gaetz’s “America First” tour stop in Georgia.
Georgia Voters Sigh in Relief as the Partisan Junk Mail Ends
With Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock headed to the Senate, Atlantans cheer the end of the runoffs, or, as one called it, the run-ons.
Asking All Georgians: Are You Seventeen and a Half?
There are twenty-three thousand teen-agers in the state who weren’t old enough to vote in November, but who will be old enough to vote in the Senate runoffs, in January. These volunteers tried to find them.
In Georgia, the Dullest Spectator Sport in the World
The election audit was a sprawling affair, a television-unfriendly November Madness, confirming that Joe Biden was the first Democrat to take the state since Bill Clinton.
Corina Newsome and the Black Birders Movement
The wildlife conservationist, whose field site, in Georgia, is down the road from where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, helped organize #BlackBirdersWeek after a white woman called the cops on a black birdwatcher in Central Park.
Roller-Skating for Reproductive Rights
After Georgia passed a bill tightly restricting abortion rights, Atlanta activists grabbed some pro-choice goodies and took to the rink.
Getting Out the Vote for Stacey Abrams in a Borrowed Limousine
A city commissioner in Georgia brings voters to their polling stations in a white Cadillac on loan from a funeral parlor.
In Rural Georgia, Black Stacey and White Stacey Face Off
The progressive gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams meets with supporters and skeptics over ribs.