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Charles Bethea

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 24, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Charles Bethea

    Does Anybody Know Who Darline Graham Is? (opens the original)

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    The lobbyist Jim Merrill’s long tenure as a Republican state representative in South Carolina means that he knows pretty much every person of relevance to the state’s politics. Between 2001 and 2017, when he resigned, Merrill represented the Ninety-ninth District in the state House; for four of those years, he was its majority leader. In 2016, he managed the local arm of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign. Recently, though, he and I discussed an up-and-comer about whom he knew surprisingly lit

  2. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Charles Bethea

    I Spy with My Little Eye . . . a Spy (opens the original)

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    Austin Kral and Ed Vogel stood in a downtown Atlanta park the other day, preparing to lead what they’d advertised on flyers as a “spy hunt.” The spies were the surveillance cameras used by police and the government, “and the corporate vender ecosystem,” Vogel said. He had on a black ball cap and a T-shirt that read “SILENCE = DEATH.” According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, there are more surveillance cameras in Atlanta, per capita, than anywhere outside of China—more than

  3. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Charles Bethea

    The Man Who Green-Lighted Trump’s Ballroom (opens the original)

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    Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., chairman of the United States Commission of Fine Arts, old Atlantan, chum of King Charles, and unapologetic Russophile, recently gathered fifty guests inside a replica Roman triumphal arch, in downtown Atlanta, for an intimate performance by Mikhail Simonyan, a Russian violinist and a Deputy Minister of Culture. An hour before the show, Simonyan, who lives in Siberia, wandered into Cook’s office atop Millennium Gate Museum—the anomalous arch’s name. He walked by fram

  4. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Charles Bethea

    One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail (opens the original)

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    Steve Eimers met Melissa Falk at Bethel Baptist Christian Academy, in upstate New York, when she was a senior and he was a junior transfer student. Steve, the son of a local preacher, bet a classmate that he’d be dating Melissa by Christmas; to expedite the process, he superglued his hand to hers in class. He lost the bet, but still managed to win her over. They married in 1996. Their first child, Hannah, arrived three years later. She had her father’s blue eyes, and, as she grew up, his sym

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