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Elections January 5, 2024

How the Iowa caucuses became the first major challenge of US presidential campaigns

by Steffen W. Schmidt, Iowa State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The first and most visible test of Republican candidate support in the 2024…

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Elections January 5, 2024

Pundits: Central to democracy, or partisan spewers of opinion who destroy trust

by Mike McDevitt, University of Colorado Boulder, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Walter Lippmann, who lived from 1889 to 1974, was an early and prime…

Opinion January 3, 2024

Political Cartoonist Clay Jones tackles the plagiarism issue

Clay Jones riffs on the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay amid charges of plagiarism, and on Trump echoing the words of Adolph Hitler during a rally. Follow the links…

Derek Caffe holding a hard hat stands in front of an aging house

Austell January 2, 2024

Conversation with Derek Caffe about downtown Austell, his duplex project, and Create Austell

[All photos and renderings provided by Derek Caffe] Last Friday, the Courier interviewed Derek Caffe, one of the founders of Create Austell. Create Austell states on its Facebook Page that…

Economy December 28, 2023

Economic lookahead: As we ring in 2024, can the US economy continue to avoid a recession?

by D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] With economic forecasters rewriting their 2024 outlooks…

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Science and Technology December 28, 2023

AI could improve your life by removing bottlenecks between what you want and what you get

by Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in…

Marietta December 26, 2023

The Bell Bomber plant: 1942-1945

Photo above: a B29 in flight, Public Domain, retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B-29_in_flight.jpg In 1942 a small ad appeared in newpapers across Georgia, including this one from the February 20 edition of…

Photo from 1914 newspaper with group of Atlanta boosters meeting in Chattanooga about Dixie Highway project

History December 25, 2023

More on the history of the automobile in Cobb County: The building of the Dixie Highway

[This is an expansion of an article we published in August, with added materials from the Georgia Historic Newspapers database and website housed at the University of Georgia] Each year…

Justice December 21, 2023

Trump claims Constitution gives him immunity − here’s why judges and the Supreme Court may not agree

by Stefanie Lindquist, Arizona State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission Former President Donald Trump has claimed he is immune from prosecution – specifically on…

Drawing of a poinsettia, with radial red petals and radial green leaves

History December 20, 2023

Joel Roberts Poinsett: Namesake of the poinsettia, enslaver, secret agent and perpetrator of the ‘Trail of Tears’

by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] If people know the name Joel Roberts Poinsett today, it is likely because of…

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