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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LM Otero / AP The Internal Contradictions of Republicans’ COVID-19 Politics
Crises have the power to expose tensions within ideologies, and the current pandemic has made some of those in contemporary American conservatism vividly apparent.
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Evan Vucci / AP Biden’s ‘America First’ Policy on Afghanistan
The president has prioritized American troops and interests over the fate of those in Afghanistan.
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Office of the NY Governor / AP The Atlantic Daily: What Did Andrew Cuomo Think Would Happen?
The governor of New York requested an investigation into allegations that he had sexually harassed multiple women. Today, the state attorney general’s office announced findings of at least 11 credible accusations.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Insurrection Was Just Part of the Plot
The full contours of Trump’s effort to overturn the election are coming into view.
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Getty; The Atlantic Delta Is Ruining the Summer, and It’s Anti-vaxxers’ Fault
The vaccines promised freedom, but political opportunists have spoiled that.
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OsakaWayne Studios / Getty; Adam Maida / The … All Crime Is Local
Americans are overestimating crime, even when they say crime in their neighborhoods hasn’t changed.
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The Atlantic Suddenly, Conservatives Care About Vaccines
A number of leaders on the right suddenly urged their audiences to get vaccinated in the past day. Why now?
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Leah Millis / Reuters Biden Is Speaking to an America That Doesn’t Exist
Many citizens support the recent attacks on democracy, and those who don’t face a system stacked against them.
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Adam Maida ; The Atlantic The Rise of Anti-history
The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / … Trump’s Fantasy Legal World
The former president is obscuring the very real legal problems he has with imaginary ones he wants.
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Kevin Dietsch / Getty Biden Doesn’t Have an Answer to America’s Crime Spike
The president has few levers he can pull on to reduce the country’s murder rate.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Joe Manchin Was Never a Mystery
The hopes that progressives attached to the West Virginian regarding the voting-rights bill were clearly unrealistic. Plus: What to do if you want to decrease your dependence on Amazon.
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Tom Williams / Getty; The Atlantic Joe Manchin Was Never a Mystery
It’s always been pretty obvious who he is: a middle-of-the-road guy with good electoral instincts, decent intentions, and bad ideas.
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George Nikitin / AP Janet Malcolm the Magician
The late author could be bracingly clear or confidingly sympathetic, but her most consistent modus operandi was to obscure and complicate.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic There Once Was a Republican Fight for D.C. Statehood
RIP
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Trump’s DOJ Was More Dangerous Than We Knew
Revelations since Biden’s inauguration are adding detail to a portrait of ethical decay at the department.
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Associated Press; Popperfoto / Getty; Paul Spella / … Trumpists Are America’s Jacobites
45 meets the ’45. Outlander meets outlandish.
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Getty / The Atlantic This Isn’t Normal, Either
Just beneath a thin veneer of orderliness, the United States faces a set of perilous, unresolved threats.
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Courtney Pedroza for The Washington Post / Getty Republicans’ Phony Argument for Election Audits
The Arizona audit will only undermine faith in democracy.
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Spencer Platt / Getty The Frightening New Republican Consensus
Conservatives may disagree with one another about what happened in 2020, but they’re converging on a belief that Democrats win close elections only through fraud.
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