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Georgia’s 2021 legislative session and federal executive orders involving gun laws have prompted discussion among University of Georgia students and the Athens community. No legislation either promoting or restricting access to guns passed the Georgia General Assembly during this year’s session, leaving state legislators at a stalemate. Despite this, the debate around gun access continues to rage in the state. Proposed gun legislation in Georgia Senate Bill 309: Would require a mandatory five-day waiting period between the purchase and transfer of certain firearms. Senate Bill 179: ...

President Joe Biden wants to “lower the temperature” of politics. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) would prefer to crank it higher. Greene, a University of Georgia alumna, has not been shy about her loyalty to former President Donald Trump, even into Biden’s presidency. Three weeks into the new year, a freshly inaugurated Biden pleaded with his country to help put an end to the “uncivil war” of partisan polarization. Political division has only deepened through the close of the Trump era, as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the former president’s second impeachment...

In 2003 Audrey Haynes, associate professor and director of the applied politics certificate program at the University of Georgia, wrote, “The [political] parties became more ideologically extreme between 1991 and 2001. It remains to be seen whether the Republican trend in grassroots activity will translate into electoral success.” What followed the election of President George W. Bush in 2000 was a Republican shift in the Georgia General Assembly, a legislative body they have controlled since 2005, and a widening of the ideological gap between Democrats and Republicans.  In a ...