Adam is an award-winning journalist. He is currently a staff writer at The Atlantic covering national politics and a National Fellow at New America. He is the author of The State Must Provide, a narrative history of racial inequality higher education, forthcoming from Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. He was previously a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education where he covered federal education policy and historically black colleges and universities. Prior to joining The Chronicle he worked at ProPublica. His writing has appeared in BBC, Bleacher Report, and EBONY Magazine.