Georgia
The Lede
Jimmy Carter Rests
During a week of funerals, supporters and loved ones reflect on the former President’s legacy. “He understood that the arc of history is long,” his grandson said.
By Charles Bethea
The Political Scene
How Pro-Trump Activists Hijacked Georgia’s Election Board
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.
By Jonathan Blitzer and Charles Bethea
The Political Scene
Inside the Republican National Committee’s Poll-Watching Army
The R.N.C. says it has recruited tens of thousands of volunteers to observe the voting process at precincts across the country. Their accounts of alleged fraud could, as one Trump campaign official put it, “establish the battlefield” for after November 5th.
By Antonia Hitchens
The Lede
Kamala Harris Makes Her Case Beyond Big Cities
At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.
By Emily Witt
Dispatch
A Summer of Hope and Despair in Tbilisi
Georgians are bracing for a crucial election this October. Will the opposition stave off the country’s turn to Russian-style authoritarianism?
By Nadia Beard
The Political Scene Podcast
A Georgia Official Pressured by Trump Prepares for Another Election
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, refused to “find” votes for Donald Trump in 2020. Amid threats, he says he’s ready for voters to cast their ballots in 2024.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jerry Seinfeld on Making a Life in Comedy (and Also, Pop-Tarts)
At seventy, the comedian débuts as a movie director with “Unfrosted,” about the invention of the Pop-Tart. And Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger on how to convince an election denier.
Letter from the South
Fani Willis Survives the Effort to Disqualify Her
A judge ruled that the Fulton County D.A. can stay on the case against Trump, as long as her special prosecutor steps aside, but noted that “an odor of mendacity remains.”
By Charles Bethea
Letter from the South
The Tangled Fates of Fani Willis and Her Biggest Case
Will the Fulton County D.A.’s “clandestine” relationship derail her effort to prosecute Trump?
By Charles Bethea
Letter from the South
What Do We Owe a Prison Informant?
A man in Georgia says he risked his life for years and was abandoned. But there are very few rules protecting those who provide law enforcement with information.
By Charles Bethea
News Desk
Why Did Sidney Powell Plead Guilty?
The former attorney for Donald Trump was one of nineteen people indicted in Georgia for allegedly conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
By Charles Bethea and Sue Halpern
Letter from the South
How a Man in Prison Stole Millions from Billionaires
With smuggled cell phones and a handful of accomplices, Arthur Lee Cofield, Jr., took money from large bank accounts and bought houses, cars, clothes, and gold.
By Charles Bethea
Letter from Biden’s Washington
The Harsh Glare of Justice
On the ex-President’s snarly mug shot from the Fulton County Jail and a 2024 reality of Trump, Trump, and more Trump.
By Susan B. Glasser
Letter from the South
Waiting for Trump at the Fulton County Jail
A contingent of supporters and a swarm of media have descended on the spot where the former President will soon be booked on RICO charges.
By Charles Bethea
Daily Comment
Fani Willis’s Indictment of Donald Trump and a Voting-System Breach
The charges include allegations about a largely overlooked incident in Coffee County, Georgia.
By Sue Halpern
Q. & A.
The Benefits and Drawbacks to Charging Trump Like a Mobster
Racketeering statutes allow prosecutors to arrange many characters and a broad set of allegations into a single narrative. Making the story cohere can be a challenge.
By Isaac Chotiner
Daily Comment
There Is Nothing Élitist About the Indictments Against Trump
The judicial system is doing its work, and the former President has never been a man of the people.
By Adam Gopnik
Our Columnists
Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Trump’s Other Partners in Alleged Crime
In Georgia, eighteen “crackpot lawyers,” former Trump campaign officials, and local Republicans have been indicted for conspiring with the former President to overturn the 2020 election.
By John Cassidy
Letter from Biden’s Washington
In Georgia, Trump and His Gang Get the Mob Treatment
Monday evening brought the fourth and presumably final indictment of the ex-President.
By Susan B. Glasser
Letter from the South
A Witness’s Strange Day at the Trump Grand Jury in Georgia
The journalist George Chidi saw a Georgia Republican walk into a conference room and became a significant witness in a potentially historic prosecution.
By Charles Bethea