The Department of Justice is unlikely to receive much benefit of the doubt from the public in its fumbling of the Epstein files, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. In The Atlantic Daily, he points out the department’s series of compounding failures:

DOJ could really use the benefit of the doubt in the Epstein files. Too bad they've badly squandered it: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Department of Justice is unlikely to receive much benefit of the doubt from the public in its fumbling of the Epstein files, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. In The Atlantic Daily, he points out the department’s series of compounding failures:

I'm at the Kennedy Center. I'm at the Trump Center. I'm at the combination The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

I'm very honored to see THE PROJECT on the longlist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction pen.org/announcing-t...

Lol

Frosty the Snowman was alive as he could be, suggesting inherent limits on his capacity to BE alive. A hell of which we can only begin to conceive.

Former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt has died. #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

The Trump administration is robbing Peter to give a bonus to, uh, Peter www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I genuinely can't even get into Trump's mindset here. "I honored myself. That means I'm special."

The team that extracted Maria Corina Machado from Venezuela worried that the self-proclaimed "peace president" might inadvertently kill the actual Nobel Peace laureate www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Political journos: I strongly encourage you to submit your best work for the year to the Toner Prizes: portal.newhouseawards.com/2026-toner-p...

My “I have not lost control of the House” soundbite is raising many questions already answered by the soundbite

Donald Trump—who has deemed himself the “peace president”—has escalated the administration’s position against Venezuela, and many of the conflicts he claims to have resolved stubbornly refuse to stop, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Government policy works www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

[email protected] is such a good reporter he can even make Cary interesting www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Counterpoint: I am no Jane Austen, and neither are you

Big-government conservatism www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Is Markwayne Mullin dumb or does he think everyone else is? www.notus.org/newsletters/...

when you're definitely being transparent and accountable www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What ever happened to the plan to recommission Alcatraz?

@dgraham.bsky.social: “The simplest reason Trump posted this is the same reason he posts anything: The man cannot resist making everything about himself, even if it’s the heartbreaking murder of a beloved artist in an alleged domestic dispute.”

[email protected] bait www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...

This is a peculiar kind of isolation that the Post is describing! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump confronts political mortality www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

#ncpol (via Politico Playbook)

Donald Trump may have thought the rules of political gravity don't apply to him, “but not even the most fearsome and durable leader escapes the eventual decay of their power,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Folks ... www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...

Indiana redistricting, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Letitia James indictments: All "likely losses that Trump decided, all on his own, to blow up into major, high-profile defeats," @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social writes goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trumps-awf...

It's a trick: every Person of the Year is dumb

I'm delighted that THE PROJECT made @bookshop.org's year-end list of the 100 top sellers! bookshop.org/lists/100-be...

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Counterpoint: Fuck you

“Currently”

I barely qualify as a music writer this year or most years, but I had the honor of eulogizing Francis Davis at his old home www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

They should though

I'll be live with @katiecouric.bsky.social talking about Project 2025's 2025 at 2:15! substack.com/@katiecouric...

This may be the ultimate "Imagine if Obama did it" www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

I'll be live with @katiecouric.bsky.social talking about Project 2025's 2025 at 2:15! substack.com/@katiecouric...

Gosh, I hope it's the New York Times bestselling THE PROJECT: HOW PROJECT 2025 IS RESHAPING AMERICA bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

BREYER'S ICE DEEM www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Throwback: Here's my 2014 article on Tony Dokoupil's great memoir, "The Last Pirate" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The median U.S. household has lost about $2,250 in 2025 spending power, per Tom Edsall www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

There are too many open racists in the Trump administration to even keep track of www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

So as I was saying www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

DHS ordering a church to take down a nativity scene!? Wait, so is Trump waging a WAR ON CHRISTMAS!? I’ve been warned about this for years by Fox News!

Bring back the Honda Fit www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino recently admitted to lying as a political pundit. @dgraham.bsky.social on media personalities turned administrators and their complex relationship with the truth, in The Atlantic Daily: bit.ly/44NpqYS