The anticipation has been one of the highlights of The Atlantic since its creation in 1857. This remarkable literary and political review, where some of the most prestigious writers of the moment write, has managed to make its site a very dynamic place for reflection and debate. In 2024, it crossed the symbolic mark of one million subscribers in its digital and paper versions.
Founded by a group of writers in Boston a few years before the Civil War, the magazine set out to be ‘the organ of no party’ but the spokesperson for the ‘American idea.’ The publication of Mark Twain’s first texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s war reports, and Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ (a vibrant defense of non-violence in 1963) does not deny this ideal.
Although the magazine has rarely endorsed a candidate for president, it has taken a stand against Donald Trump three times, denouncing the danger he represents. The Atlantic has even become a kind of bogeyman for the Republican president, as well as the current editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. However, the latter was mistakenly included in a Signal loop where war plans were being exchanged, thus being offered a huge scoop.
