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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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Didn’t Make the Storm, but He’s Making It Worse
The president didn’t put any of the globe’s authoritarians in office, but he’s encouraged their worst instincts.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Obama Warned Trump—But He Didn’t Listen
The 44th president became a devotee of unilateral presidential actions—and then saw many moves quickly reversed once he left office.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Jeffrey Epstein’s Final Act of Impunity
Once more, a member of America’s elite has escaped accountability for his alleged crimes.
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Sarah Silbiger / Reuters Trump Is Too Thin-Skinned to Protect the United States
The president’s aides are reluctant even to broach the dangers of white racist violence in his presence.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s White Identity Politics Appeals to Two Different Groups
The president’s overt racism now risks fragmenting his coalition.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Says There Are Some Very Bad People on Both Sides
The president’s false equivalencies amount to a denial of the role that ideology played in the El Paso shooting.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters Trump the Bulldozer
Freed of advisers who disagreed with him, the president has followed through on some long-deferred campaign promises—but the results are not what he hoped for.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Obama Still Sounds Like a President
The former consoler in chief issued a statement on El Paso and Dayton that contrasted sharply with Trump’s rhetoric.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Five Things Trump Is Blaming for El Paso
The president buried his rare condemnation of white supremacy beneath an avalanche of other factors.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Republican Party Is Losing Its Future
Representative Will Hurd’s retirement leaves the party with just one black member of Congress.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Ratcliffe’s Withdrawal Reveals Trump Still Doesn’t Understand Appointments
There’s a tension built into the constitutional system—and the president is pushing it to the limit.
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Alessandro Garofalo / Reuters The Democratic Candidates Are Deeply Ambivalent About Obama
The candidates may praise the 44th president, but from health care to immigration, they have real policy differences with him.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Elizabeth Warren’s Big Night
The senator’s plea that voters set aside their fears and back the candidate they believe in helped her stand out on a crowded stage.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Trump Makes Clear What Black Voters Had to Lose
“What the hell do you have to lose?” the president asked in the summer of 2016. The answer is now only all too plain.
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SasaStock / PixieMe / Shutterstock / The Atlantic An Offbeat Approach to Bonding With Cats
It involves a spiky, silicone tongue.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Trump’s Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
President Trump seems eager to divert attention from impeachment and investigations, but distractions work only if they distract.
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LM Otero / AP Political Fundraising Has a Big, Nasty Secret
U.S. campaign-finance laws have been written to prevent donors from taking advantage of politicians—but do little to protect donors from being scammed.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Forget the Theater Criticism—Mueller’s Conclusions Are the Real News
Covering whether the odds of impeachment are up or down and what President Trump is tweeting is more comfortable for many reporters.
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Chip Somodevilla / Pool via Reuters The Tragedy of the Congress
There’s basic agreement between Mueller and Democrats in Congress on the facts of what Trump did, but no one wants to be the one who does something about it.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Most Revealing Exchange of the Mueller Hearing
A Democrat asked the former special counsel whether the president had met each of the three elements necessary to prove obstruction of justice. Mueller’s answers spoke volumes.
