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Jay Bookman

Jay Bookman

Jay Bookman covered Georgia and national politics for nearly 30 years for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, earning numerous national, regional and state journalism awards. He has been awarded the National Headliner Award and the Walker Stone Award for outstanding editorial writing, and is the only two-time winner of the Pulliam Fellowship granted by the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of "Caught in the Current," published by St. Martin's Press.

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No country for old men
By: - July 12, 2024

A new world is straining to be born, and at some point it requires new American leadership. Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the last of their generation, are both trying to stand in its way. Trump hopes to block and even reverse the emergence of that new world through brute authoritarian force, trying to “Make […]

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Absurd claims like imagined plot to kill Trump would be big if true
By: - June 7, 2024

When FBI agents converged on Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022, they did not come just to seize highly classified national-security documents that Donald Trump had taken illegally from the White House and then refused to return, in defiance of a court order. Those agents had come to kill Trump. That is, if  you believe the […]

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Marjorie Taylor Greene clown show just the thing to unite a divided America
By: - May 3, 2024

We are a divided country these days, so much so that certain people have taken to mad mutterings about a “national divorce,” secession or even civil war. But fear not, fellow Americans, for a time of healing and reunion may be upon us. If you have doubts, I get it, because what could inspire renewed […]

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