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The Personal Is the Political in a Hotly Contested Georgia House Race

As Lucy McBath releases a new memoir detailing the death of her son, incumbent Karen Handel shares her own harrowing experience.

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Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm

“Just about everyone carrying a gun was a convict.”

Photographs by Bruce Jackson