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1 week ago | 
atlantamagazine.com | Bill Nigut
Michael Thurmond speaks about his most recent book to the Carrollton Kiwanis Club. If former DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond announces in the weeks ahead that he’s running for the Democratic nomination for governor, which seems increasingly likely, one of his most important allies on the campaign trail will be a Georgian who died 240 years ago.
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1 month ago | 
atlantamagazine.com | Bill Nigut
Brian Kemp at an event in 2023. Photograph by Megan Varner/Getty ImagesEmory University political science professor Dr. Andra Gillespie and I arranged to meet at a Kirkwood coffee bar this past Monday morning so I could get her insights about the challenges Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is likely to face as he stands for re-election next November. As Gillespie is one of the most astute observers of Georgia and national politics, I was eager to hear her thoughts.
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1 month ago | 
atlantamagazine.com | Bill Nigut
Chris Carr was the first candidate to enter the 2026 governor’s race. Photograph courtesy of Chris CarrWe are living in an era of seemingly endless political campaigning. Many voters were still exhausted from last November’s tumultuous presidential election when the state’s political class made a sharp turn and almost immediately began handicapping Georgia’s 2026 statewide races. So far, three candidates have declared their intentions to run for term-limited Governor Brian Kemp’s seat.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
saportareport.com | Bill Nigut
More than 30 years ago, theater lovers in metro Atlanta got a distressing lesson in what can happen when an arts institution becomes the victim of right-wing culture warriors.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
ajc.com | Bill Nigut |Roy Barnes
There’s a blue canvas bag that’s been sitting in a closet in my house for many years. It’s filled to the brim with press credentials and other memorabilia I’ve kept from the political events I started covering when I came to Atlanta to work at Channel 2 News more than 40 years ago.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Bill Nigut
This is a tale of three cities: Springfield, Ohio; Aurora, Colorado; and Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The first two are, of course, real cities. They’ve become the locus of disinformation spun by former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, in their efforts to demonize undocumented immigrants.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Bill Nigut
Georgia Democrats head to Chicago next week giddy with the belief that with Kamala Harris now their presidential nominee, the state could once again play an important role in sending a Democrat to the White House. They’ll join Democrats from across the country who feel a sense of unity that was fraying when polls suggested Donald Trump appeared to be on track to beat an aging President Joe Biden. My hometown of Chicago has hosted more national political conventions than any other U.S. city.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Bill Nigut
As the general election campaign between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump begins in earnest, I’m bracing myself, as I suspect many of you are too, for a long season of insults hurled back and forth between the candidates — dark warnings about the Third World status of our country today from Trump and cautions about his opponent putting democracy at risk from Biden.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Bill Nigut
When people ask me how I like my still relatively new job here at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, I tell them how thrilling it’s been that after spending many years in broadcast journalism, I now find myself working for one of the country’s most storied newspapers, founded more than 150 years ago.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Bill Nigut
Over the years since he glided down his golden escalator to announce his candidacy for president, Donald Trump has shown us something rare for a politician: He says the quiet parts out loud. Repeatedly, boldly and often defiantly. The most recent example is Trump’s pressure campaign to push Republicans in Congress to scuttle the border security bill negotiated painstakingly by a bipartisan group of senators. When the deal went down in flames in the Senate, Trump took credit. “Please blame it on me.
