David A. Graham
Graham previously edited The Atlantic's politics section and has reported for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The National. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters We're Watching an Antidemocratic Coup Unfold
Acts of sabotage against the president are perilous to the American system of government. They're also self-serving.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Reuters There's Always a New Low for the Trump White House
Bob Woodward's latest book shows the administration is broken, and yet what comes next could be even worse.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Proud Corruption of Donald Trump
The president has finally stated it plainly: He believes the government should subjugate rule of law to his political needs.
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Alex Wroblewski / Reuters Don McGahn Was the Most Productive Person in Trump's White House
The White House counsel outlasted many other top administration officials and oversaw judicial appointments, the president’s single biggest achievement.
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Evan Vucci / AP John McCain’s Death Brought Out the Worst in the Trump Administration
A skirmish over whether to fly the White House flag at half-staff showcases its pettiness, divisiveness, disorganization, and lack of backbone.
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Yana Paskova / Getty Why Trump Can't Understand the Cases Against Manafort and Cohen
The president is used to operating in a business milieu where white-collar crime is common and seldom prosecuted aggressively.
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Alex Brandon / AP Collusion Isn’t Trump’s Biggest Problem Anymore
The president and his allies are grappling with an escalating existential threat: With Tuesday’s revelations, he was implicated in a crime.
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Richard Drew / AP What Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Means for Trump
The president’s former fixer on Tuesday said he broke campaign laws at Trump’s behest, paying off two women who alleged extramarital affairs.
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Gerry Broome / AP The Dramatic Fall of Silent Sam, UNC’s Confederate Monument
Protesters toppled the 1913 statue Monday night, making it the latest Civil War memorial to be removed either by government or by demonstrators acting on their own.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Are Trump’s Lawyers an Asset or a Liability?
The testimony of the attorneys Michael Cohen and Don McGahn could pose major problems for the president—a risk exacerbated by the chaos on his defense team.
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Jim Watson / Reuters Trump’s Risky War of Choice Against the Generals
The president’s decision to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance has drawn fire even from figures like Robert Gates and David Petraeus, who have avoided criticizing him.
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Jim Young / Reuters The End of the David Clarke Era
The successor to the controversial former Milwaukee County sheriff lost his primary on Tuesday, the latest law-enforcement officer to lose to a reformist this year.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The White House's Striking Equivocation on a Trump N-Word Tape
The president’s spokeswoman has risked her credibility for him time and again, but on Tuesday she wouldn’t give a direct answer about whether he was recorded using a racist slur.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump’s Attacks on Omarosa Are Getting Even More Vicious
In recent days, the president has used disparaging and racially charged language to go after his former aide.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Can’t Trump Just Condemn Nazis?
In marking the one-year anniversary of a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the president again fails to differentiate between bigots and those who oppose them.
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Susan Walsh / AP Why the Space Force Is Just Like Trump University
The gap between the hype and the reality of the proposed new branch of the military makes the project almost entirely an exercise in misleading branding.
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Charlotte Kesl How a Blue Wave Could Crash Far Beyond Washington
Hundreds of progressive, state-level candidates running in 2018 could pull the Democratic Party leftward for years to come.
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Bill Hennessy / Reuters What Rick Gates’s Testimony Means for Manafort—And Trump
In federal court on Monday, the political operative said he had helped his mentor conceal his earnings and falsify his tax returns.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Double Damage of the President’s Trump Tower Admission
His tweet about the purpose of the June 2016 meeting contradicts his earlier denials and could spell trouble for his son and him.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Scandalous Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
In debating whether collusion is a crime, Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani are successfully changing the subject from political misconduct to legalistic parsing.
