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Two weeks before Joe Biden’s Inauguration, L. Lin Wood answered his telephone. The defamation attorney and conspiracy theorist was at home, in Atlanta, watching a human-trafficking segment on the One America News Network. “I saw there was a warning out,” Wood told the caller. Maybe there was work in it for him? His recent clients have included the Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Wood appends heart emojis to their correspondences) and Kyle Rittenhouse (“a hero”), and he has litigated on behalf of Donald Trump, whose election-fraud suits in Georgia had failed under Wood’s...…Two weeks before Joe Biden’s Inauguration, L. Lin Wood answered his telephone. The defamation attorney and conspiracy theorist was at home, in Atlanta, watching a human-trafficking segment on the One America News Network. “I saw there was a warning out,” Wood told the caller. Maybe there was work in it for him? His recent clients have included the Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Wood appends heart emojis to their correspondences) and Kyle Rittenhouse (“a hero”), and he has litigated on behalf of Donald Trump, whose election-fraud suits in Georgia had failed under Wood’s...WW…

Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., who goes by Cleve, grew up in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta in the nineteen-seventies and eighties. His father owns a hundred-year-old company that makes utility poles, and his mother was a homemaker who later became an interior decorator. He had two sisters, one of whom died young, of brain cancer. He attended the prestigious Lovett School, in north Atlanta, where nearly all his classmates were white, and where, a few of those classmates told me recently, the N-word was occasionally heard in the hallways—making it “depressingly similar,” one said, to many...…Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., who goes by Cleve, grew up in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta in the nineteen-seventies and eighties. His father owns a hundred-year-old company that makes utility poles, and his mother was a homemaker who later became an interior decorator. He had two sisters, one of whom died young, of brain cancer. He attended the prestigious Lovett School, in north Atlanta, where nearly all his classmates were white, and where, a few of those classmates told me recently, the N-word was occasionally heard in the hallways—making it “depressingly similar,” one said, to many...WW…

When Roy Barnes was running for governor of Georgia, as a Democrat, in 1998, he could see that his party’s traditional coalition in the state was falling apart. For three decades, its base had consisted of urban Black voters and rural white voters. But the latter group “were voting more and more Republican—and there were fewer of them,” he told me recently. He managed to win, with the help of moderate white voters in Cobb County, then a largely conservative area, where he lived. But he needed a new strategy for reëlection. He tried hard, as governor, to appeal to white suburban women. “We...…When Roy Barnes was running for governor of Georgia, as a Democrat, in 1998, he could see that his party’s traditional coalition in the state was falling apart. For three decades, its base had consisted of urban Black voters and rural white voters. But the latter group “were voting more and more Republican—and there were fewer of them,” he told me recently. He managed to win, with the help of moderate white voters in Cobb County, then a largely conservative area, where he lived. But he needed a new strategy for reëlection. He tried hard, as governor, to appeal to white suburban women. “We...WW…

Early in November, 2011, Herman Cain, who had been the C.E.O. of Godfather’s Pizza and a conservative radio host, was tied in the polls with the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for President. “I am a businessman problem-solver, not a politician,” Cain often said. Like me, Cain lived in Atlanta, where he’d been raised by a janitor and a domestic worker, had gone to Morehouse College, and had worked for the Coca-Cola Company. I thought maybe I could land a splashy interview. I got as far as his idiosyncratic chief of staff, Mark Block, whom I spotted in...…Early in November, 2011, Herman Cain, who had been the C.E.O. of Godfather’s Pizza and a conservative radio host, was tied in the polls with the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for President. “I am a businessman problem-solver, not a politician,” Cain often said. Like me, Cain lived in Atlanta, where he’d been raised by a janitor and a domestic worker, had gone to Morehouse College, and had worked for the Coca-Cola Company. I thought maybe I could land a splashy interview. I got as far as his idiosyncratic chief of staff, Mark Block, whom I spotted in...WW…

In the sixties, Atlanta was dubbed “the city too busy to hate,” by a mayor hoping to distinguish it, positively, from the rest of Georgia. A friend of mine recently wondered whether Georgia’s Republican governor, , is now “too busy to wait.” A good question, but a bad joke. Atlanta, where I live, is home to the and some of the top research universities in the United States; its mayor, the Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, has embraced messages of caution coming from scientists and academics, near and far, since the began. Meanwhile, Kemp was one of the last governors to issue a...…In the sixties, Atlanta was dubbed “the city too busy to hate,” by a mayor hoping to distinguish it, positively, from the rest of Georgia. A friend of mine recently wondered whether Georgia’s Republican governor, , is now “too busy to wait.” A good question, but a bad joke. Atlanta, where I live, is home to the and some of the top research universities in the United States; its mayor, the Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, has embraced messages of caution coming from scientists and academics, near and far, since the began. Meanwhile, Kemp was one of the last governors to issue a...WW…

Klickitat County, in south-central Washington, along the border with Oregon, got its first confirmed case of the on March 14th. The seriousness of the virus was still sinking in for many Americans; the N.B.A. had suspended its season just three days before, and few schools had been closed at that point. But Washington State had seen the virus : the first U.S. case was diagnosed in suburban Seattle, in late January, and the first U.S. death occurred there, too, on February 29th. Klickitat, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island and home to around twenty thousand people, is a couple...…Klickitat County, in south-central Washington, along the border with Oregon, got its first confirmed case of the on March 14th. The seriousness of the virus was still sinking in for many Americans; the N.B.A. had suspended its season just three days before, and few schools had been closed at that point. But Washington State had seen the virus : the first U.S. case was diagnosed in suburban Seattle, in late January, and the first U.S. death occurred there, too, on February 29th. Klickitat, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island and home to around twenty thousand people, is a couple...WW…