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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Jeff Roberson / AP The Final Fall of Eric Greitens
Missouri’s Republican governor announced that he will resign rather than face impeachment over allegations of sexual misconduct and violations of campaign-finance law.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Trump to North Korea: I Want You to Want Me
As badly as both leaders desire negotiations, they are even more eager for the other to appear to need it more.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Very Trumpian Letter to Kim Jong Un
The text reflected not only the president’s signature syntax, but also the clash between his desire for credit and his intuition to walk away.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'Maybe You Shouldn’t Be in the Country'
That was President Trump’s suggestion to NFL players who protest racial injustice. His comments, made in an interview with Fox News, highlight a dissonance in his thinking on free speech.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Collusion Happened
Despite what the president says, the question is answered.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Almost Always Folds
From trade deals to gun control and immigration to military deployments, the president has a consistent pattern: Talk a big game, then back down.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The President Who Cried Wolf
Will the president’s claims of political spying on his campaign prove true? The long string of failed vindications he’s rolled out in the past counsels skepticism.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s New Strategy for Responding to Robert Mueller
The president’s message focuses on undermining the investigators and investigation, rather than insisting that no crimes were committed.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The North Korea Summit Isn't a Real-Estate Deal
The negotiating tactics the president learned in his private-sector career don't work as well in international diplomacy.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump Finally Fesses Up to Reimbursing Michael Cohen
There’s still a great deal of mystery surrounding the president’s payment: Who knew about it, and why was it not previously disclosed?
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Wilfredo Lee / AP How Bill Clinton Stopped White House Leaks
And why the Trump administration will struggle to replicate his strategy.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Power of the Small Lie
The president has repeatedly “revealed” the same catchphrase as new, demonstrating how he uses minor untruths to confuse the public and destabilize facts.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Danger of Imitating Trump
Michael Cohen is the latest to try to adopt the president’s tactics, only to have it backfire.
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Jonathan Drew / AP Incumbents Are Out and a New Democrat Is In
Elections for district attorney and sheriff in two big North Carolina counties show how reformers are concentrating efforts at the micro level as national pushes stall out.
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Drew Angerer / Getty It Took Eric Schneiderman Just 3 Hours to Resign—Why?
What predicts whether a politician accused of sexual harassment or abuse will try to stay in office—or quickly fold?
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Logic of the NRA Choosing Ollie North as President
Why would the group select the Iran-Contra figure as its new leader? Because its strategy of defensiveness and stalemate has worked well so far.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Exactly Is Rudy Giuliani's Role?
Brought on to Trump’s legal team to negotiate with Robert Mueller and be a public face, he seems to be acting more broadly as an attorney and strategist, a risky choice.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump and His Aides Have No Idea What They're Talking About
A procession of contradictory statements leaves the public no closer to understanding the president’s deal with Stormy Daniels, but clearly shows the White House’s dishonesty.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Goes to War With Mueller
The president has repeatedly said he intends to intervene in the Justice Department, and leaks and changes to his legal team telegraph a strategy of escalation.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Triumph, Trump's Folly
Either the president has succeeded with North Korea where his predecessors have failed, or he has fallen into the same trap that ensnared them.
