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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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters It’s (Mostly) Not FEMA’s Fault
The problems blamed on emergency managers are often caused by the shortcomings of other governmental bodies, both before and after disasters.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Age of Reverse Censorship
The First Amendment was drafted when speech was expensive and attention was abundant. Can it adapt to an era of too much speech and too little attention?
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mpi04 / MediaPunch / IPX / AP How Post-Millennial Voters Could Change America
The newest voters in the 2018 midterm elections are less cynical about politics and more progressive than the young adults who came before them.
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Michelle R. Smith / AP The Unpredictable Political Effects of 2020 Census Tinkering
Critics say the administration is targeting Hispanics ahead of the population tally—but Trump-backing red states could stand to suffer as much as blue ones.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Can Anyone Fill the U.S. Leadership Vacuum on Climate Change?
American withdrawal from the Paris agreement is a test for the future of the globe, but also for the international order.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Trump Keeps Creating Crises
He needs them to maintain his support.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Of Course Trump Backed Down on Family Separations
Although the president cultivates an image of never giving an inch, his folding under pressure is the rule, rather than the exception.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Corruption in the Trump Administration Is Spreading
While petty scandals like Scott Pruitt’s grab attention, there are more egregious and profitable conflicts of interest elsewhere in Washington.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Trump Says He Will End the Family Separations He Imposed
The president said he plans to sign an executive order keeping undocumented immigrant children with their parents, but the plan contradicts his earlier statement and might be illegal.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump Says Democrats Want Immigrants to ‘Infest’ the U.S.
What are infestations? They are takeovers by vermin, rodents, insects. What does one do with an infestation? Why, one exterminates it.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters From ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ to ‘Change the Laws!’
President Trump once vowed he would single-handedly fix the system, but faced with an opportunity to end family separations at the border, he instead is passing the buck to Congress.
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Peter Morrison / AP The Unlabelling of an ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’
The Southern Poverty Law Center misstepped by including Maajid Nawaz on a 2016 list. But in trying to correct that mistake, it just made a new one.
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Customs and Border Patrol via Reuters Are Children Being Kept in 'Cages' at the Border?
A semantic debate is raging over what to call the pens where migrant kids are being held after separation from their parents.
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Evan Vucci / AP ‘Cult’ or Not, Trump’s Grasp on the Republican Party Is Stronger Than Ever
An action-packed week in domestic and global politics shows how the president has remade the GOP.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Remarkable Admission About Dishonesty
The president is open in his affection for oppressive rulers and in saying it’s acceptable to lie to the public. Why does anyone still doubt he means it?
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Cliff Owen / AP Watchdog Report Dismantles Trump Claims, but Slams Comey and the FBI
A much-anticipated inspector general’s investigation found no political bias in the Hillary Clinton email probe, but still condemned the former FBI director.
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Patrick Semansky / AP New York Goes After the Trump Foundation
A new lawsuit from the state attorney general claims the president's charity engaged in a years-long pattern of illegal behavior.
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Al Drago / Reuters Why Is Trump Protecting Scott Pruitt?
How has the head of the EPA withstood a deluge of corruption scandals? It all comes back to the president.
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Anthony Wallace / Pool via Reuters Trump’s Effusive, Unsettling Flattery of Kim Jong Un
The U.S. president gushed with praise for North Korea’s dictator, even as he ignored the country’s human-rights abuses and scolded democratically elected allies.
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David Duprey / AP The Prison Mental-Health Crisis, Viewed From the Inside
A reporter serving time in a New York state prison offers an inmate’s-eye view of the American penal system.
