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Ten seats away from history: Georgia Democrats are flipping the state House

Georgia’s rural healthcare under strain after thousands drop insurance

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One nation, overcharged: Georgians pay the price for broken healthcare system

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Georgia gave America its modern death penalty. Fifty years is long enough.

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Why would anyone attack a self-made American like Rick Jackson?

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Georgia high school diplomas should mean something, but playing field is not level

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Michelle Obama Park offers lessons about land swaps and the price of promises

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Keisha Lance Bottoms must release her business’s secret client list

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Georgia high school diplomas should mean something, but playing field is not level

In Georgia, more than two thirds of third graders were not reading at grade level and the state faces a teacher shortage. Students in poverty are particularly affected.

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Michelle Obama Park offers lessons about land swaps and the price of promises

Michelle Obama Park is a long-awaited addition to DeKalb County, but its history offers lessons about public land, land swaps and what communities can lose along the way.

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Keisha Lance Bottoms must release her business’s secret client list

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms demands her opponent to disclose his investments, but she won’t release details of her KRLB LLC’s client list.

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Advances in cancer treatment aid Jimmy Carter

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Will the breakthrough that helped Jimmy Carter be around for the next patient?

American scientific research has thrived because it is independent, but political pressure is weakening the ability of the system around science to function at its best.

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Rick Jackson claims to be a self-made man. Let’s unpack this American myth.

Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson is touting his story as a self-made man who owes nobody anything, but that feeds into an old and dangerous American myth.

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ICE can learn from use-of-force reforms adopted by Atlanta Police Department

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE should learn from the Atlanta Police Department's reforms on use-of-force following the police killing of Rayshard Brooks.

Rick Jackson announced on agriculture policy

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Rick Jackson gives Republicans the steam power to push against Trump headwinds

Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson is providing downballot candidates the momentum to win their elections.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones and the difficult school choices Black parents have faced for 150 years

Nikole Hannah-Jones’ recent New York Times essay about school choice echoes a debate Black families in Georgia have faced for generations.

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This partnership raises the bar on preparing talent for Georgia’s workforce

Technical College System of Georgia and online Western Governors University have partnered to offer Georgians an affordable education that meets workforce demands.

Georgia College furthers its tie to author O’Connor

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‘Best Colleges’ rankings overlook value of smaller, regional universities

U.S. News & World Report's 2027 Best Colleges list recognizes the prowess of national universities, but regional schools in Georgia should not be overlooked.

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Norfolk Southern merger should lead to expanded Atlanta freight rail hub

The Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific merger could improve mobility, stitch together neighborhoods and free up hundreds of acres of strategically located urban land.

New medical doctors receive their degrees from Morehouse School of Medicine in May. Unfortunately, a 2025 JAMA Internal Medicine study revealed Black physicians die at more than twice the rate of white doctors. (Ben Gray for the AJC)

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The hidden toll on Black doctors: We are saving lives but losing our own.

We have a health crisis among Black doctors, and healing Black physicians is how we start to heal medicine itself.

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Georgia’s next attorney general must defend families, safety and open records

Brian Strickland, Republican nominee for Georgia attorney general, lays out his agenda for keeping Peach State families' safe and protecting access to open records.

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African American history is American history: The power of never giving up

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture emerged from decades of work by members of Congress, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.

Georgia’s Democratic Socialists are getting harder to ignore

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Patricia Murphy’s take on Democratic Socialists of America galvanizes readers

Atlanta Journal-Constitution politics columnist Patricia Murphy's explanation of the Democratic Socialists of America's platform drew spirited responses from readers.

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Sickle cell disease has endured so long. There should be better treatments.

After more than a century, sickle cell disease patients are still waiting for the treatment pipeline to catch up with the disease, and it shouldn’t be that way.