Upset because Facebook and Google invade your privacy? Be glad you don’t live in China.

WASHINGTON

There is the story about the preacher who was hard at work saving souls at a tent revival. One person said he had coveted his neighbor’s wife and was remorseful. “Hallelujah, my child, you are forgiven!” the preacher cried. Another confessed he had once stolen a loaf of bread from the local …

One of the classes I regularly teach is a research methods course in which I teach students how to find or collect and analyze data. In one of their assignments in the course, students have to use the U.S. Census Bureau website to look up and report data on Glynn County. Then, I ask them wha…

Giving credit where due, President Donald Trump was the primary catalyst for potentially bringing an official end to the Korean War, returning peace to that peninsula, and hopefully simultaneously removing nearly 60 nuclear weapons, as well as hundreds of other conventional and chemical shor…

WASHINGTON

A summertime surprise is roiling the Georgia GOP’s gubernatorial primary.

Thou shalt not covet. It says so in Exodus 20. It is the 10th and last commandment, but the one we probably violate most.

I have been pretty critical of the Republican Party even though I was, for a time, an elected Republican. I criticized George W. Bush vocally for being what some branded a “big government conservative.” Under Bush, the size and scope of the federal government grew at a reckless rate, not for…

President Donald Trump appears to belong to what might be called the Benjamin Disraeli school of diplomacy.

The left is quickly running out of excuses for why Donald Trump’s economic policies have caused a boom rather than the bust that they predicted with such great certainty.

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Each year, the trustees of Social Security and Medicare issue their report delivering the news, invariably dismal, about the financial condition of the nation’s two largest entitlement programs.

My daddy used to say we were wasting money in Georgia painting a center line down our highways. Nobody ever went north. They all came down here to live so they could make fun of how we talk. Well, thanks to the state of Vermont, that may be changing.

One of the many unanticipated benefits of writing under “From the Murphy Center” has been the enhanced connection with our community. Often someone will tell me that they read a column and liked it. One time someone said, “Don’t give up the day job — whatever that is.” Even a few of the men …

Despite an open-Governor’s race, with spirited contests among both major parties, Georgia voters stayed away from the May General Primary Elections in droves. Yes, there are candidates on the ballot, local and statewide, with little or no name I.D. But there will inevitably be complaint, com…

Don’t fall for the sweet sounds suddenly being cooed about Georgia’s teacher pension fund.

The Georgia Press Association just finished its 132nd annual convention on Jekyll Island this past week.

“Though New York City has one of the most segregated schools systems in the country,” writes Elizabeth Harris of The New York Times, until now, Mayor Bill de Blasio “was all but silent on the issue.”

WASHINGTON

“Are you on the take?”

As we churn through primary season, laying the framework for November’s elections, we’re seeing the emergence of a new face of the Democratic Party — more progressive, more left wing.

WASHINGTON

To those of you new to these pages, you likely are not familiar with Claude the Whitetail Deer and his colleagues on Jekyll Island.

Work fashion has changed much over the years, especially office work fashion — fashion for what used to be called “white collar” jobs.

“Not just ignorant...irresponsible.” That was the reaction by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on sudden and significant tariffs for import into the United States of Canadian aluminum, steel and other commodities, citing national security concerns.

“There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party,” John Boehner told a Mackinac, Mich., gathering of the GOP faithful last week. “The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.”

WASHINGTON

Across Georgia, school is out! As students sink into summer, school districts are wrapping up the last year with “austerity cuts” to the state’s k-12 budget.