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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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Trump Is Getting More Desperate—And More Dangerous
As Trump’s odds of success decrease, the risks that his ever more extreme efforts pose are increasing.
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Brooks Kraft / Corbis / Getty Trump Has Abdicated in the Face of Disaster
The nation faces an unprecedented crisis, and the president has left a void.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg / Getty There’s a Reason the Election Went So Smoothly
Local officials are the unsung heroes of 2020.
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Bloomberg / Getty The Last Time Trump Alleged Massive Fraud
After the 2016 election, President Trump claimed that millions of votes had been illegally cast. The commission he established to investigate this came up empty-handed.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Deafening Silence of Republican Leaders
Instead of speaking up, most elected officials in the GOP are staying quiet, and waiting on Trump to acknowledge reality.
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Carlos Barria / The Atlantic Trump Is the Loser
The president has become the thing he most despises.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Trump Is Powerless to Stop the Count
The president has run up against something he cannot control.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy
If public-opinion data are unreliable, we’re all flying blind.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty / The Atlantic The Nightmare Is Here
Even as the election remained unresolved, President Trump declared victory and denounced efforts to count the remaining votes as “a fraud.”
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Michael Reynold / Getty Trump’s Second Term Will Be Nothing Like His First
If he’s reelected, the president appears poised to dismiss an array of senior appointees, replacing them with loyalists.
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DHS / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Anonymous Failed
The highest-profile internal critic of the administration now admits that the basic premise of his argument was mistaken.
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Win McNamee / Getty The Press Is Giving Trump a Free Pass, Again
Media outlets appear to be operating on the assumption that Trump will lose, and are covering his latest scandals accordingly.
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Aaron Canipe Trump’s Fate Rests on Countrypolitan Counties
In Union County, North Carolina, change is coming—and the GOP is struggling to keep up.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty It’s All About the Investigation
Trump is betting his reelection on ginning up another investigation—the same demand that got him impeached.
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Julio Cortez / AP Biden Seizes Trump’s Populist Mantle
The president vowed to remember the forgotten men and women of America—but tonight, he forgot them.
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Adam Maida Signed, Sealed, Delivered—Then Discarded
Signature matching—which one expert described as “witchcraft”—could lead to thousands of legitimate ballots being thrown out.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Americans Saw Trump Unfiltered and Recoiled in Horror
Polling suggests that the president dealt a severe blow to his reelection chances with his performance in the first debate.
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Drew Angerer / Michael A. McCoy / Getty A Debate Between the Republican Past and the Democratic Future
The stakes are higher for Harris than for Pence. Here’s why.
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Win McNamee / Getty Trump Takes Off the Mask
After months of flirting with the notion, Trump is now explicitly asking Americans to absorb the deaths from the coronavirus and pretend all is fine.
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Gerry Broome / AP A Sexting Scandal Puts a Politician in the Hot Seat
Cal Cunningham’s indiscretion will test whether voters still care about the character of their elected officials in the age of Trump.
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