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July 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
That Lazy “Black Americans for Trump” Event Exposed as Deceptive Ploy
Donald Trump is now fighting with the owner of the barbershop where he hosted the recent event.
October 11, 2023
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The Politics of Everything
The Battle Over “Cop City”
The years-long fight over a planned police training center in an urban forest near Atlanta has pitted community, climate, and justice activists against law enforcement. The result has been violence, arrests—and a renewed crackdown on protest.
September 5, 2023
Edith Olmsted
61 Cop City Protesters in Atlanta Are Being Hit With RICO Charges
Dozens of activists have been indicted for opposing the construction of a massive police facility outside Atlanta.
June 7, 2023
Prem Thakker
Atlanta Activists Want to Let the People Decide on Cop City
Organizers are pushing a referendum to let the public vote on whether their tax dollars should be used for a massive police facility.
June 6, 2023
Prem Thakker
Atlanta City Council Approves $67 Million for Cop City, Dismissing Mass Opposition
The funding approval for the gargantuan police facility comes after police killed a Cop City protester and arrested others en masse.
May 31, 2023
Prem Thakker
Atlanta Police Have Arrested Organizers of the Cop City Protest Bail Fund
Attention freedom-lovers: The targeting of a bail fund sets a very dangerous precedent.
May 3, 2023
Tori Otten
Atlanta Is the 190th Mass Shooting of 2023
America is on a record pace for shootings.
March 23, 2023
Prem Thakker
Concert Attendees Randomly Arrested During Cop City Protests Are Being Denied Bond
Welcome to America’s justice system.
March 22, 2023
Liza Featherstone
To Reduce Crime in Atlanta, Leave the Forest Alone
The propaganda around Cop City is all wrong: Public safety and green space go hand in hand.
March 9, 2023
Liza Featherstone
Atlanta’s “Cop City” and the Vital Fight for Urban Forests
The people protesting “Cop City”—at tremendous personal cost—deserve our support. They’re defending a vital public health and climate resource.
January 16, 2023
Natalie Foster
Guaranteed Income Programs Are Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
There are now over 100 pilot programs nationwide offering families direct cash support.
June 23, 2021
Rebecca Burns
Like Airbnb, but for Flophouses
A Georgia start-up aims to become the Airbnb for temporary shared housing. It calls it a solution to the housing crisis. Former tenants tell a different story.
March 24, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Saying Never Again to the Violence in Atlanta Means Saying No to More Policing
Massage workers and sex workers know how to fight the kind of extraordinary violence we saw last week. It’s time we listened.
August 21, 2019
Magazine
Brian Goldstone
The New American Homeless
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.
January 23, 2018
Graham Vyse
Trump’s “fake news” cry is heard during a very real terror threat against CNN.
December 7, 2017
Suzanne Monyak
Atlanta’s Mayoral Race Should Be a Warning to Democrats.
As long as the party continues to push candidates who favor big business, conservatives will make inroads in Democratic strongholds like Atlanta.
November 7, 2017
Suzanne Monyak
Can an African American Berniecrat Push Southern Democrats Left?
The candidacy of Vincent Fort, who is running to be the mayor of Atlanta, is being seen as a test of Democratic Socialism’s strength in the South.
October 13, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Winning Local Elections for the Left
As social democrats break through in "red" places like Birmingham, the national media is getting the story all wrong.
December 3, 2015
Bijan Stephen
Rebel Without A Pause
Killer Mike and the return of the politically engaged rapper.
January 31, 2014
Jenny Jarvie
A Scrappy Atlanta 'Zine Has Started a Nasty Debate About a Gay Icon and Free Expression
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