Georgia

Home Country

By Héctor Tobar,

What does it mean to be Latino?

Civil Warning

By Elliot Ackerman,

Are we living through another antebellum era?

We Shall Not Be Moved

By Audrea Lim,

Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers

The Real Jimmy Carter

By Steven Brill,

At 4:30 in the afternoon in the Admiral Benbow Inn in Jackson, Mississippi, Jimmy Carter sits opposite a dozen seventeen-year-olds, asking them to help him become president. “I grow peanuts…

Family Values

By Masha Gessen,

Mapping the spread of antigay ideology

A Matter of Life

By Mary Cuddehe,

The death penalty as a conservative conundrum

What Recovery?

By Kai Wright,

Two years in a town where the Great Recession never ended

From transcripts of conversations on September 17, 2011, recorded by FBI informant Joe Sims, among members of a Georgia militia arrested the following month on various charges. Dan Roberts was sentenced…

A Brief History of Scent

By Beau Friedlander,

The smell of life and death — and everything in between

Southern Discomfort

By LeRoy Wiley Gresham,

From the unpublished diaries of LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847–65), son of John J. Gresham, twice mayor of Macon, Georgia. LeRoy, a longtime invalid confined to his bed or to a…

Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta

Art by Kara Elizabeth Walker,

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