David A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

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.

Michael Kovac / Getty / The Atlantic Woodward Reveals How Controversies Help Trump Jared Kushner, the journalist says, boasts about the president’s ability to change the conversation.

Carolyn Kaster / AP Biden Is in Denial About the Republican Party The Democratic nominee insists that he can restore bipartisan comity on Capitol Hill. GOP senators suggest otherwise.

T.J. Kirkpatrick / The New York Times / ... Bill Barr’s Stinging Attack on Bill Barr It’s impossible to square the attorney general’s latest speech with his own record in office.

Getty / The Atlantic An Experiment in Wisconsin Changed Voters’ Minds About Trump Changing voters’ minds is famously difficult, but a recent progressive effort found real success.

Mark Wilson / Getty A Paranoid Rant Says a Lot About Where Trumpism Is Headed A bizarre video posted by Michael Caputo may be a sign of things to come.

Leon Neal / Getty Trump Is Living in Denial From the coronavirus to Russian electoral interference, the president keeps trying to paper over problems instead of addressing them.

Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Trump Is Running His Campaign Like He Ran His Businesses The president is again profiting handsomely at the expense of those trusting enough to give him money.

Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty How Trump Masks His Incoherence Many of the president’s statements are difficult to decode—so why doesn’t that concern his supporters?

Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Kenosha Could Cost Trump the Election The president thinks that inflaming racial tension and provoking violence will aid his campaign. The numbers suggest otherwise.

Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Trump Is Flaunting His Impunity The real message of the Republican National Convention is that the president can get away with almost anything.

Morry Gash / AP The Shooting of Jacob Blake Is a Wake-Up Call The national conversation may have moved on from police violence, but the shootings themselves continue.

NurPhoto / Getty The Party of Bill Kristol and Angela Davis Joe Biden pulled off a tricky balancing act last night. Now he has to keep it up until November.

Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma / Getty / ... The Bush-Gore Recount Is an Omen for 2020 An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern history

Getty / The Atlantic The ‘Blue Shift’ Will Decide the Election Something fundamental has changed about the ways Americans vote.

T. J. Kirkpatrick / Redux The Tragedy of Herman Cain The entrepreneur turned politician embodied some of America’s best traits—and some of its worst.

Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Trump Can’t Postpone the Election—But He’s Trying to Destroy Its Legitimacy The president today suggested postponing the November balloting, a move he lacks the legal authority to carry out.

Caitlin Ochs / Reuters Trump’s Effort to Provoke Violence Is Working The president sent federal agents into Portland with the apparent aim of inciting a confrontation.

Paras Griffin / Kevin C. Cox / Getty; ... The Battle for Local Control Is Now a Matter of Life and Death The coronavirus has raised the stakes of a long-simmering conflict between red states and blue cities.

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Congress Is a Hostile Workplace A fellow representative accosted the New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the latest example of behavior on Capitol Hill that wouldn’t be tolerated elsewhere.