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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Scott Eisen / Getty Did Trump Lose His Big Gamble on Biden?
The president got himself impeached in the frantic pursuit of a candidate who now looks like an also-ran.
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Nam Y. Huh / AP Sanders Is Winning Because He's Popular
Voters like the senator from Vermont—it’s socialism that makes them nervous.
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Win McNamee / Getty This Is What an Unleashed Trump Looks Like
The president is bestowing favor on his loyal defenders, and visiting revenge on those he feels have betrayed him.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Why Would a Billionaire Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night?
Six theories for why Donald Trump insists on billing taxpayers
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Evan Vucci / AP Charity Toward None, Malice Toward All
Donald Trump takes a post-impeachment victory lap.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters This Is Donald Trump’s Best Week
The Democratic Party is deeply divided, the president’s approval rating is climbing, and he’s putting the impeachment process behind him.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The State of the Union as Spectacle
President Trump delivered an address in which the words were secondary.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why the Iowa Caucus Birthed a Thousand Conspiracy Theories
A panicked electorate is more susceptible to believing claims without evidence.
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Daniel Savage What Does Nate Silver Know?
The famous data journalist thinks the media are making the same mistakes this year as they did in 2016.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Lamar Alexander Just Gave Democrats What They Wanted
If removing Trump from office was never a realistic outcome of impeachment, then securing Republican condemnation of the president’s behavior was the most the House could have hoped to achieve.
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Evan Vucci / AP Republicans Are Prepared to Go Down With Trump
Or to triumph with him.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Republicans Are Making a Kafkaesque Argument
They are racing to finish Trump’s Senate trial before new evidence of his wrongdoing can emerge.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Here’s What Trump Has Been Up to While Americans Have Been Distracted by Impeachment
While public attention is focused on the Senate, the president is making controversial policy moves.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters No, Democrats Aren’t Trying to Overturn the 2016 Election
A surprisingly durable talking point is wrong in at least four ways.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters Why Trump’s Lawyers Keep Attacking Adam Schiff
Instead of mounting a defense of their client, the president’s lawyers homed in on remarks delivered by the House Democrat back in September.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mitch McConnell’s Potemkin Trial
Senate Republicans can scarcely afford to hold a trial—but they can hardly afford not to hold one either.
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Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Does Anyone Dare Tell Trump the Truth?
The president’s habit of shooting the messenger is going to prove costly.
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Mike Segar / Reuters We Can’t Afford to Ignore Lev Parnas’s Explosive Claims
We can’t afford to accept them at face value either.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Joe Biden, Incumbent
The Democratic primary looks less peculiar if you ascribe to the former vice president the strengths—and weaknesses—of incumbency.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Whatever the Question, the Answer Is Trump
The Iran crisis illustrates that if there’s little the president can do to alienate his supporters, there’s just as little he can do to win over his opponents.
