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Fusion (WNEO 45.2 / WEAO 49.2):

Thursday, Dec. 3, at 6 PM 

The Past and Future of Project 2025

David A. Graham, Author, The Project: How Project 2025 is Reshaping America, and staff writer at The Atlantic

In his first two years in office, President Donald Trump remade the federal government, U.S policy, and Washington itself, using a blueprint laid out in Project 2025. What do the midterm elections mean for the Trump administration and for the ambitious ideology undergirding it?

About the Speaker: David A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is also the author of New York Times-bestselling book The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America. His coverage of the 2020 presidential election won the 2021 Toner Prize for Excellence National Political Reporting.

He was previously editor of The Atlantic’s politics section and reported for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The National in Abu Dhabi.

Graham lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he teaches journalism at Duke University. He grew up in Highland Square and is a proud product of the Akron Public Schools, including Firestone High School.