Trump will force American conservatives to swallow football

The anticipation has been one of The Atlantic’s strong points since its creation in 1857. This memorable literary and political magazine, where some of the most prestigious writers of the moment write, has turned its website into a very dynamic place for reflection and debate. In 2024, it reached the symbolic milestone of one million subscribers in its digital and print versions.

Founded by a group of writers in Boston a few years before the Civil War, the magazine set out to be not the “organ of any party,” but the spokesperson for the “American idea.” The publication of the first texts by Mark Twain, war reports by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (a powerful defense of non-violence in 1963) upholds this ideal.

Although the magazine has rarely endorsed a presidential candidate, it has taken a stand against Donald Trump three times, denouncing the danger he represents. The Atlantic has even become a kind of bête noire for the Republican president, as well as the current editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. However, Goldberg was mistakenly included in a Signal loop where war plans were being exchanged, inadvertently offering him a huge scoop.