This election is almost over. Its end cannot arrive soon enough. Americans are exhausted. Many of them have already voted. Some states are reaching or exceeding their 2016 presidential turnout. If the polls are correct — and there is reason to think they are, given the fixes employed in 2018…

During the course of the COVID-19 crisis, an ongoing, and very legitimate, national debate has continued about the wisdom of lockdowns.

Why is the stock market so high? I get asked this riddle every day.

As you may have heard by now, a group of young men from the University of Georgia, the oldest state-chartered university in the nation, located in Athens, the Classic City of the South and home to more Rhodes Scholars than a coon dog has fleas recently engaged in a scrum with a group of semi…

Things that stand out for me about the economy and the pandemic are how fast the economy declined, how quickly businesses failed, the speed at which unemployment increased and how little mention has been made of long-term Federal Reserve monetary policy.

As a political analyst and columnist, I try to provide an informed opinion, based on known and generally agreed facts. We will not likely know the winner of the White House and multiple other contests on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, or even the morning after. The networks and other ne…

Among the things that may have changed forever in 2020 is Americans’ willingness to get serious about the national debt.

In the RealClearPolitics polling average, Joe Biden has a 4.2% lead in the battleground states at the time of this writing. That is more relevant than the national polls. Had 2016 not happened, we’d all be writing the obituary of the Trump campaign right now.

When COVID-19 hit, I quarantined in Eastern Massachusetts. Biking around the woods, I noticed something strange.

In fiscal year 2020, which ended on Sept. 30, the U.S. government set some impressive new records.

Joe Biden keeps claiming to be a centrist Democrat.

I recall several presidential elections ago, an elementary school teacher wrote a newspaper column about a mock election he held in his class.

I would say great minds run in pairs, but when it comes to my friend and Great American, Stewart Rodeheaver, that does him a disservice. Simply put, his mind is a couple of laps ahead of mine.

My friend Dan will die today. I am writing this on Friday morning, Oct. 16. Later today, doctors will turn off the machines that are keeping Dan alive. Dan’s symptoms began two days ago. He is young — in his early 30’s — and this is a shock.

Since my first election, a general primary in 1980, I have missed voting in one special election bond referendum, and one presidential preference primary, back when we did not have ‘no excuse’ absentee voting in Georgia (1984). My voting patterns and loyalty even pre-date the “I Have Voted” …

“Apres moi, la deluge,” predicted Louis XV after his army’s stunning defeat by Prussia’s Frederick the Great at the Battle of Rossbach in 1757.

Don’t you hate it when you get to the end of your ballot, and suddenly you’re faced with an unfamiliar constitutional amendment or referendum?

On Monday of last week, to use the phrase “sexual preference” was completely acceptable. As recently as last month, multiple gay rights publications used the phrase. Leon Panetta had used the phrase in the past couple of years. Joe Biden has used the phrase this year.

“The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday.

The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett provide a fitting warmup act to the presidential election that will follow in a few weeks.

RING! RING! RING!

I spent some time last month working with a nonprofit organization that has been developing their Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) plan. In light of the social justice issues that have gained prominence and public attention this year, the organization is seeking to improve their operati…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a member of the 7th District Court of Indiana, is our 163th nominee to serve as Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1789. She is only the fifth woman to be nominated. She is the second female nominated by a GOP President, there have been three female As…

To: Richard Woods, State Schools Superintendent

Before the first Trump-Biden debate, moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered: The Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.

In 2016, I was convinced Hillary Clinton would win. Her losing forced on some needed humility about my perspective on politics. Now I’m routinely accused of saying Donald Trump will lose or of betraying my values by saying I’d vote for the guy. There’s not really any winning, or even fun to …

New York City is becoming an economic basket case.

I try not to write about whatever all the ponderous political pundits are pontificating about at the time. I am just not a “me too” kind of guy. But, I am going to have to make an exception this week and mention the recent presidential debate. To call it a debacle is being too kind. To the c…

On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was killed in Glynn County and suddenly the world became aware of Brunswick, Georgia, in a most despicable way.