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 Is Trump's Presidency Off to a Successful Start?
Overshadowed by headlines about chaos and infighting, the new administration is notching a string of early victories.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Many of His 'Day One' Promises Did Trump Fulfill?
The president laid out 18 promises in a “Contract With the American Voter,” but he only managed to check off a handful by Monday.
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Mike Derer / AP The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet
One of the women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct has sued him for defamation after he labeled her claims false.
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Sean Rayford / Brooks Kraft / Chip Somodevilla ... The Trump Promise Tracker
Following the 45th president’s progress toward the policies he laid out on the campaign trail
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Carlos Barria / Reuters 'Alternative Facts': The Needless Lies of the Trump Administration
If the president and his aides will tell easily disproven falsehoods about crowd sizes and speeches, what else will they be willing to dissemble about?
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Saul Loeb / Pool / Getty 'America First': Donald Trump's Populist Inaugural Address
The new president borrowed from the bleak, fiery tone of his presidential campaign, but said his election represented the ascension of the people over politicians in Washington.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Why Trump Is Keeping Some Obama Appointees Around
Without any of his key appointees confirmed by the Senate, the incoming president has turned to existing officials to help smooth the transition.
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Rick Bowmer / AP Sorry, Betsy DeVos: Guns Aren't a Bear Necessity in Schools
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education is right that animals sometimes menace schools, but her solution doesn’t seem to fit the problem.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters President Obama's Final Word: 'We're Going to Be Okay'
In his final press conference, the commander-in-chief reasserted his faith in progress and the American project.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters What Happens When a President Is Declared Illegitimate?
Some Democrats, most notably Representative John Lewis, have labeled Donald Trump with the same epithet applied to his two immediate predecessors.
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Evan Vucci / AP Monica Crowley and the Limits of Trump's Dismissal of the Press
The pundit was forced to decline a White House appointment after revelations that a book and a dissertation were rife with plagiarized passages.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Baltimore Police Agree to Stop Abusing Their Power
Under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, the troubled force will employ a variety of measures to protect constitutional rights and correct racial disparities.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Donald Trump Meets, and Assails, the Press
In his first formal press conference since July, the president-elect blamed Russia for hacks, offered a plan to resolve conflicts of interest, and scolded the media for its reporting on him.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Trouble With Publishing the Trump Dossier
In distributing a set of inflammatory allegations that it admitted it could not vouch for, BuzzFeed sidestepped a basic principle of journalism.
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John Gress / Reuters Barack Obama's Enduring Faith in America
In his farewell address, the president warned of threats to the nation’s tradition of democracy—none more than from inside—and rebuked Donald Trump, but sought to rally the country around shared ideals.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters What CNN's Report on Trump and Russia Does and Doesn't Say
The cable network reported Tuesday that intelligence officials briefed the president-elect and other top officials on purported claims by Russian agents that they possessed “compromising personal and financial information” concerning Trump.
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AP The U.S. Supreme Court Puts North Carolina's 2017 Elections on Hold
After a lower court ordered unusual legislative contests this year to mitigate unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, the justices temporarily stayed the order.
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Courtesy of the Hollingworth Family Clare Hollingworth: The Reporter Who Broke the News of World War II
The veteran British journalist, who scooped the story of Hitler’s invasion of Poland on her third day on the job and later unmasked Soviet spy Kim Philby, has died at 105.
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John Minchillo / AP Trump’s Senior Adviser-in-Law
The president-elect names Jared Kushner, husband of his daughter Ivanka, to a White House post—but it’s unclear if he can accept it.
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Track of the Day: ‘Freedom Day’
Many of the obituaries for Nat Hentoff, the writer and critic who died Saturday at 91, are focusing as much…
