Adam Harris

Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Adam is a staff writer at The Atlantic where he has covered education and national politics since 2018. He is the author of The State Must Provide, a narrative history of racial inequality higher education. He was previously a reporter at the Chronical of Higher Education, where he covered federal education policy and historically black colleges and universities. He was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 list. He is currently working on his second book, Is This America, a history of the South’s role in politics and how the region shapes us as a nation.