Leighton Rowell

Five years ago, Jonathan Merritt moved from Buford to Brooklyn, New York. Almost immediately, Merritt found he couldn't communicate with the people...

With American politics more polarized than ever, most Americans have at least one thing in common going into midterms: they tend to stay home on...

Today, "On Second Thought" took a scan of the state. We spoke with NPR political reporter Asma Khalid about low voter turnout, and heard from some of...

Is Georgia turning blue? That question came up in 2014 when Jason Carter ran for governor , in 2016 when Hillary Clinton ran for president and in 2017...

The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education made segregation of America’s public schools illegal. But decades before Thurgood Marshall...