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Kay Ivey
covi-19 vaccines
July 27, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene Compares COVID Vaccine Requirements to ‘Segregation’
The good news is that MTG has stopped using Holocaust analogies to attack anti-COVID measures. The bad news: She’s found another offensive analogy.
By
Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Apr. 12, 2021
Sex, Trump, and Insurrection: Alabama Republicans Are at It Again
With Mo Brooks winning Trump’s endorsement and John Merrill imploding in a sex scandal, Alabama’s 2022 Senate primary is off to a fine start.
By
Ed Kilgore
covid-19 stimulus
Mar. 23, 2021
Stimulus Spurs New Push for Red-State Medicaid Expansion
With Medicaid expansion really becoming a fiscal no-brainer, even states like Alabama and Wyoming are considering it.
By
Ed Kilgore
u.s. senate
Feb. 8, 2021
Richard Shelby, the Last of the South’s Senate Party-Switchers, to Retire
The six-term Alabama senator never changed that much but went with the flow of conservative southern politics.
By
Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
July 16, 2020
Brian Kemp Attacks Local Government Mask Orders
As other states move toward mask requirements, Kemp seems to be attempting to balance responsibility with “political incorrectness.”
By
Ed Kilgore
racism
Aug. 29, 2019
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Apologizes for Appearing in Blackface Skit in College
Old times there are not forgotten down in the Heart of Dixie.
By
Ed Kilgore
confederacy
June 3, 2019
Celebrate Racism! It’s Jefferson Davis’s Birthday in Alabama
And yet you wonder why this state enacted an aggressively reactionary abortion law?
By
Ed Kilgore
Apr. 19, 2018
Why Conservative Politicians Love Defending the Confederate Flag
The movement to protect the Lost Cause’s symbols and memorials shows that old neo-Confederate habits still live, from Alabama to the White House.
By
Ed Kilgore
Nov. 18, 2017
Alabama Governor to Vote for Scofflaw Roy Moore to Help Shape SCOTUS
Even if Moore were as morally pure as the driven snow, he’s unquestionably a serial rebel against the federal judges he would vote on as a senator.
By
Ed Kilgore
Nov. 15, 2017
The Fight Over Roy Moore Is Beginning to Divide the Alabama GOP
Even as high-ranking state GOP office-holders refuse to come to Moore’s defense, the state party chair is threatening loss of ballot access.
By
Ed Kilgore