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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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Only Mueller's Team Knows What It's Actually Doing
With so little public information about a highly important probe, the urge to interpret—and overinterpret—each new morsel is strong.
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R.S. Clements / Library of Congress The Next Houston
Disaster planners have long feared that a direct hurricane hit on Miami or New York could be even more catastrophic than Harvey.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Works to Remedy His Empathy Deficit
After being criticized for showing insufficient emotion during a trip to Harvey, the president tried his hand at consolation on Wednesday.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Harvey Exposes Trump's Empathy Deficit
The president has excelled at celebrating America’s resilience, but struggled to express sympathy or consolation for Harvey’s victims.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Trump's Business Dealings Come Back to Haunt Him
A failed attempt to start a development in Moscow—which the president has denied—shows the dangers of intertwining business and politics so closely.
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Jim Salter / AP How St. Louis Workers Won and Then Lost a Minimum-Wage Hike
After a Missouri law took effect on Monday, the wage floor in the city was reduced to $7.70 per hour after three months at $10 per hour—the latest case of a state cracking down on a city that had enacted a progressive policy.
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Erich Schlegel / Getty Why Ordinary Citizens Are Acting as First Responders in Houston
It’s not necessarily a sign that government has failed—in a disaster as large as Harvey, authorities turn to volunteers like the Cajun Navy by design.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Commander in Chaos
With a Category 4 hurricane barreling down on Texas, President Trump pardoned a controversial lawman, sent a ban on transgender soldiers to the Pentagon, and lost a flamboyant aide.
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Eric Gay / AP Why Do Some People Decide to Ride Out Hurricanes?
“I can’t say that this is a totally safe thing to do, because it’s not. But it’s a decision I’ve made.”
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Hal Yeager / Getty Images Local Officials Want to Remove Confederate Monuments—but States Won't Let Them
Laws preventing the removal of statues raise questions not only about historical legacy but also about local control and public safety.
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Reuters Is Texas Ready for Hurricane Harvey?
Experts have long worried that a powerful storm striking the Gulf Coast could be a costly and deadly environmental disaster.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How to Tell Which Donald Trump Will Deliver a Speech
Ask two questions: What was his last public appearance like? And is he sticking to the script, or improvising?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump's Vacation Is Over
The president went to Phoenix to deliver a speech that was dishonest, assailed his own allies, and contradicted itself.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Durham's Anti-Klan Block Party
Hundreds of residents came out to the streets after rumors of a white-supremacist rally protesting the removal of a Confederate statue.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Bannon's Exit Leaves Trump Untethered
As the president cuts ties with establishment staffers, and forces out his populist firebrand, what’s left of Trumpism other than white identity politics?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump Is a Lame-Duck President
Just seven months into his presidency, Trump appears to have achieved a status usually reserved for the final months of a term.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The White House Is Under Siege
President Trump, forced to choose between working with business leaders and espousing white identity politics, has chosen the latter.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
The president used a narrow condemnation of neo-Nazis to mount a defense of the politics of white resentment.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Arrests Begin Following Durham Confederate Statue Toppling
Moments after a press conference demanding amnesty for protesters, sheriff’s deputies arrested Takiyah Thompson, who placed a rope around a Confederate monument Monday night.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Why White Supremacists Find Comfort in Trump's Erratic Messaging
The White House’s inconsistent statements muddle the official story, leave aides twisting in the wind, and give alt-right leaders reason for hope.
