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Jay Bookman
Jay Bookman covered Georgia and national politics for nearly 30 years for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, earning numerous national, regional and state journalism awards. He has been awarded the National Headliner Award and the Walker Stone Award for outstanding editorial writing, and is the only two-time winner of the Pulliam Fellowship granted by the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of "Caught in the Current," published by St. Martin's Press.
Bookman: Top Republicans embrace Marjorie Taylor Greene’s violent rhetoric
By: Jay Bookman - October 20, 2022
In a recent campaign video, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican from Georgia, likened Democrats to destructive feral hogs allowed to range free and destroy the American countryside. But Marjorie had a solution: As the camera followed her, she grabbed a rifle and climbed aboard a waiting helicopter, where she tracked down and shot a […]
Fulton DA builds 2020 election conspiracy story from bottom to top
By: Jay Bookman - September 19, 2022
I don’t think Georgia is prepared for what’s coming its way. I don’t know how it could be, not with the most important and controversial trial in American history looming in its not-too-distant future. Now, maybe that trial will never happen. After months of investigative work into an alleged criminal conspiracy to interfere with and […]
It was nearly a coup — Column
By: Jay Bookman - August 18, 2021
On Dec. 28, a top official in the Trump Department of Justice circulated an extraordinary, potentially history-altering letter to his colleagues, writing that “I see no valid downsides” to issuing the letter and proposing that they “get it out as soon as possible.” In that letter, reported recently ABC News, Jeffrey Clark falsely claimed that […]
Georgia senators in runoff sow distrust of Georgia’s own election system
By: Jay Bookman - December 11, 2020
For coverage of the important Georgia U.S. Senate runoff election, follow the Reformer’s sister publication, Georgia Recorder. The state of Texas has filed a disrespectful, insulting and legally ludicrous lawsuit against the state of Georgia, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that we’re too corrupt and incompetent to be trusted to run our own elections. So […]
Government can’t stop the fierce winds of cultural change
By: Jay Bookman - July 6, 2020
We are living through history, through a tumultuous time in which change accelerates, the once-solid becomes fluid and no one has any real idea of where this thing is headed. Living in chaos, trying to make daily sense of it, has been frightening, exhilarating and confusing. Someday our grandchildren, reading about this era in their […]