- NPR’s Bob Mondello has some recommendations for those who are looking for a viewing alternative to the convention.
- “One thing you learn from movies featuring political conventions: Angela Lansbury should not be allowed anywhere near them.”
- Trump’s ghostwriter contends that if you want to elect the guy who wrote The Art of the Deal, you need to vote for Tony Schwartz.
- The Economist imagines Trump’s first 100 days.
- And then they examine the “dissonance between gloomy rhetoric and recent performance.” Facts are friendly.
- Chris Christie’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week.
- (A friend of mine read that lede and said, “That had to have been written by a woman.”)
- (Alexander is found here, too.)
- A team of scientists examines how the Appalachian Trail is a victim of its own success.
- Georgia is less red than in the past in part because of suburban African-Americans in metro Atlanta. At least, according to the New Georgia Project.
- MARTA tests out a double-decker bus.
- Charges dropped against Fannin Focus publisher and his attorney.
- Meet the new executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority.
- Decluttering and simplicity is different when you’re poor.
- Speaking of Alexander – this one hit hard.