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 Nancy Pelosi Might Be the Last Barrier Between Trump and Impeachment
As White House stonewalling continues, Democrats are starting to speak more openly about the constitutional option, but their leader isn’t budging.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Don McGahn’s Testimony Would Be the Main Event
Forget Barr and Mueller. The former White House counsel would be a more interesting witness—and create something more closely resembling an impeachment hearing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Unchecked Corruption of Trump’s Cabinet
The lavish spending of top officials rarely makes headlines anymore, but that doesn’t mean the problem has gone away.
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An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
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Grigory Dukor / Reuters Trump’s Surreal Phone Call With Vladimir Putin
Once more, the president has failed to press the Russian president on electoral interference.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Is Trump Suddenly Talking About God?
The president says that faith helped him through the ordeal of the Mueller investigation.
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CC BY-SA Gage Skidmore Why Stephen Moore’s Fed Bid Failed
Trump’s choice for the Federal Reserve has a long track record of statements—on the economy, gender, and race—that left him with few supporters in the Senate.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Barr Misled the Public—And It Worked
Special Counsel Robert Mueller objected that the attorney general was mischaracterizing his investigation, but by then it was too late.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters One Big Difference Between Biden and Every Other Recent Democratic Nominee
The former vice president wants to win on a backward-looking platform.
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Steve Helber / AP Charlottesville Was a Turning Point
But which way the nation is headed remains a fiercely contested question.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters A Federal Court Makes an Aggressive Move Against Partisan Gerrymandering
A panel of judges in Michigan has thrown out a set of electoral maps and ordered new elections in several state-Senate districts.
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Wilfredo Lee / AP A Voting-Rights Debate Reveals Why Democrats Keep Losing
While 2020 hopefuls debate hypotheticals, state-level Republicans are curtailing the expansion of the franchise in Florida.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Refuses to Defend the United States
The president won’t take action to protect elections from foreign meddling, because he finds it politically and personally unpalatable.
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Mary F. Calvert / Reuters Trump Is Now in Open Defiance of Congress
The White House’s stonewalling leaves Democrats facing a new dilemma.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters There Are No Permanent Majorities
Democrats waiting for the Republican Party to destroy itself are bound to be disappointed.
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Anton Vaganov / Reuters America Is Fine With Collusion
The president’s lawyer says there’s nothing wrong with accepting help from a foreign government, and the political system seems to agree with him.
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Andrew Harnik / AP What If Everything Mueller Told Us Had Been New?
Trump’s critics expected much more from the special counsel’s report. But it would be foolish to shrug off what was already known.
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Leah Millis / Reuters No One Listens to the President
Trump keeps issuing orders, and staffers keep ignoring them because they’re illegal or unwise. It’s an unsustainable situation—but it shows no sign of abating.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Mueller’s Damning Portrait of Trump
The special counsel’s report shows a president who lies, acts rashly, and is routinely ignored by his own staff.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Barr’s Narrative of Victimhood
The attorney general’s presentation will likely please the president, but does little for the credibility of the Department of Justice.
