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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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The House Should Call Hunter Biden to Testify
Democrats have valid reasons for resisting GOP attempts to muddy the impeachment hearings—but extra transparency might be worth more.
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Erin Scott / Reuters It’s Not What the President Did—It’s Why He Did It
Today’s impeachment hearings depicted a president whose interest in Ukraine was personal, not policy-based.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Republicans Know Trump Is Innocent—They’re Trying to Figure Out Why
The three leading GOP defenses of the president contradict one another.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Democrats’ Biggest Impeachment Challenge
Because every witness and even the president are telling essentially the same story about Ukraine, the suspense has gone out of the inquiry.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Why Hasn’t Trump Thrown Rudy Giuliani Under the Bus?
Freezing out his attorney might make political sense for the president, but it would also require him to admit something went wrong in Ukraine.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP The More We Learn, the Worse Things Look for Trump
Republicans insisted that the full account would vindicate the president, but that’s not how it’s worked out.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters It Was a Corrupt Quid Pro Quo
Not only did the president hold up aid to Ukraine; he made its release contingent on a statement advancing his own political interests.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Government Officials Are Living in Fear of Trump’s Tweets
Testimony from a former ambassador vividly illustrates how the president wields his Twitter account to bend bureaucrats to his will.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Reverse Cover-Up
By inviting the nation to read the transcript of his call with Ukraine’s leader, the president tries to signal that he has nothing to hide.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters The Party-Line Impeachment
The House approved a resolution structuring its impeachment inquiry, in a vote that underscored the implacability of partisanship.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Republicans Have Only Three Choices
As the evidence mounts against President Trump, the GOP faces three unpalatable options.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Trump’s Defenders Are Now Attacking the Patriotism of a Purple Heart Officer
Without substantive defenses of the president, and deprived of process complaints, Trump’s allies resort to toxic xenophobia and baseless accusations.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Democrats Call Trump’s Bluff
The speaker announced today that the full House will hold a vote to set the terms of the impeachment inquiry.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters John Kelly’s Astonishing Accusation
In the absence of an aide willing to tell the president he can’t break the law, it was inevitable that Trump would commit impeachable acts, claims his former chief of staff.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Donald Trump Has a Big Problem in the Senate
A resolution meant to be a show of solidarity by Republicans with the president has instead become a sign of weakness.
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Carlos Jasso / Reuters Why Republicans Are Complaining About the Impeachment Process
And why their complaints are finding an audience
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Impeachment Just Became Inevitable
The testimony of William Taylor confirmed that what seemed improbable just a few weeks ago is now all but certain.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP William Taylor Delivers the Smoking Gun
It doesn’t matter what President Trump wants to call it—of course it was a quid pro quo.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Nothing Changed on Impeachment, and Everything Changed
Trump’s base isn’t going anywhere, but that might not matter to his fate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Journey From Double Down to Flip-Flop
A president who has long ignored criticism is suddenly giving in, reversing course on the G7 summit and withdrawal from Syria.
