Charles Bethea

What followed at the state capitol astounded Jordan. “Giuliani took control of what felt like a mini-trial,” she recalled. He claimed that the Presidential election had been stolen from Trump, in part through election fraud in Georgia. He referred to “smoking gun” evidence of unmonitored vote counting, and of machines switching votes to Joe Biden—claims that Jordan, who as an an attorney had helped oversee the election locally, knew were bogus. Then a lawyer on Giuliani’s team played surveillanc…

The former governor of Illinois, who served time for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat, advises buffing up, finding a cool nickname, and watching out for crazies urinating in the oatmeal.

Turner was from Texas and told Maria that he was an oilman. He claimed to own several wells. “Royalties come in all the time,” he told her. Maria was intrigued: she knew famous people, but she’d never met an oilman before. A few weeks after their lunch, Turner came to her birthday dinner, at Bice, a white-tablecloth place downtown. When the bill arrived—likely amounting to around two thousand dollars—Turner pulled out his platinum credit card and paid it, before another man at the table, who app…

But it wasn’t bad news for everyone. A local lawyer named Phil headed downtown with his metal detector one recent afternoon. He hoped to unearth artifacts—or relics, in the parlance of such hunters—from the siege of Atlanta, which ended a hundred and sixty years ago this summer. “There’s still lots of overshot from the siege, if you can find it,” Phil said, from his truck, referring to spent Civil War ammunition, ranging from bullets to cannonballs. “These busted pipes may have done us a favor.”…

Donald Trump has dominated in polling of people who pay little attention to political news. What do they have to say?

A guest checks in to the All-Movie Hotel, in Georgia, where “Mr. F.” plays “Godfather”-themed pinball and finished postproduction on “Megalopolis.”

Lauren Boebert has a “tribal” design on her midriff, but there’s competition from John Fetterman and the tattoo caucus—and don’t forget John F. Kennedy or Theodore Roosevelt.

Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts plan to vote for whichever candidate gives crypto the biggest boost.

Since the 2020 race, the state has been at the center of a national movement to contest elections. Now a group of unelected officials is sowing suspicions about the 2024 results.

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.