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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Mike Segar / Reuters The Republican Backlash Against Trump's Vote-Fraud Commission
GOP secretaries of state have pushed back on a request for voter data, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff says it could endanger national security.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Exit the Government Ethics Chief
Walter Shaub, who became an unlikely star for challenging President Donald Trump’s flouting of norms, will leave office six months early.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How Trump Sows Confusion and Doubt
The president avoids outright denials of inconvenient facts, preferring to cast doubt through innuendo and misdirection.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters Why Fact-Checking Doesn't Faze Trump Fans
The president’s backers aren’t impervious to reality: Confronted with untruths, they concede he was wrong, but don’t waver in their support for him.
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Seth Wenig / AP The Murder of Miosotis Familia
An NYPD officer was shot and killed as she sat in a truck early Wednesday morning, in what officials called an “unprovoked” attack.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why the Media's Defense Against Trump Has Proven So Ineffective
The press may never succeed in eliciting popular sympathy—instead, it needs to convince members of the public that the president’s rhetoric will hurt them, too.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why Trump Keeps Returning to Reddit
The president’s love of memes drawn from the message board shows his uncommon need for adulation and inability to assess the source of information he receives.
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters How the World Can Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Global outbreaks like the 2014 episode of Ebola are a certainty in a connected world, which means public-health authorities have to think across borders too.
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Paul Darrow / Reuters What Interacting With Robots Might Reveal About Human Nature
The most urgent question for people is not whether machines will take their jobs, but how machines will change the way they behave in society.
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Ian Wagreich / The Aspen Institute Who Would the Founders Impeach?
As discussion of removing Trump ripples through the political world, a legal scholar argues that impeachment is both an essentially American tool and widely misunderstood.
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Cheryl Gerber / Reuters Where Will the Removal of Confederate Monuments Stop?
An eminent historian explains why taking down Civil War statues doesn’t erase history—and why statues to slaveholding Founding Fathers aren’t next.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters Trump: There Are (Probably) No Tapes
The president admits he never had any recordings of conversations with James Comey, but his idle threat has already set off a catastrophic chain reaction.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Is a Russian-Interference Truther Once More
On Twitter, the president claims vindication against claims of collusion and reverses his acknowledgement of Kremlin tampering with the election.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Fall of a Foreign-Affairs Reporter
The Wall Street Journal has fired Jay Solomon for becoming involved with an arms dealer, but reporters have often been unable to resist getting their hands dirty with the topics they cover.
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Reuters Do African Americans Have a Right to Bear Arms?
And if so, why won’t the justice system or the NRA stand up for it?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What Is the Point of Sean Spicer's Briefings?
The White House press secretary claims he hasn’t spoken with the president about basic issues, which is either a bizarre oversight or simply implausible.
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Jim Young / Reuters Republicans Will Continue to Stick With Secrecy as Long as It Works
The White House and the Republican leadership in Congress are doing their best to block disclosures—and it seems to be helping them enact their agenda.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Self-Contradictory Defense
Is the special counsel looking at the president? Did Trump fire James Comey on his own or because of a recommendation? On key questions, the White House can’t choose what story it wants to tell.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters An Attack From the ISIS Playbook
The London attack seems to fit with a pattern of growing attacks on Muslims—both in Europe and in the United States.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Panic President
Rarely does a leader in a liberal democracy embrace, let alone foment, fear. But that’s exactly what Donald Trump did in response to attacks in London, as he has often done before.
