Looking Forward
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James Bennet has been the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic since 2006. Prior to joining The Atlantic, he was the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times. More
The short story has been integral to The Atlantic since our first issue, in 1857, in which we published four stories, including “The Mourning Veil,” by Harriet Beecher Stowe. But as longtime, generously loyal readers know, for the past five years we have published fiction once a year in a special newsstand issue, rather than in any of our 10 subscriber issues. During what has been widely noted to be a “challenging” (read: harrowing) business…… More »
“The Bush I knew was part scamp and part bumbler, a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup, a weekday gym rat and weekend napster,” wrote Frank Bruni in Ambling Into History, his knowing account of that campaign and the first eight months of Bush’s presidency. Yet Bruni also saw in Bush a sense of wonder about the office and “a profound sense of responsibility.” … More »
Of President Obama's stated goals for the taxpayers' investment in General Motors--"To get G.M. back on its feet, take a hands-off approach and get out quickly"--the middle one is likely to work against those at either end. The government can't hope to fix G.M. and sell it off without getting under the hood. Over decades now of restructuring plans at the company, two things have demonstrably not helped get much done: Money and time. The government can't simply give…… More »
A modest proposal for President Obama… More »
Obama describes himself as seized by a novel fear—his stomach knotting, his face growing hot. He was already conscious of himself as black, but this was the first time he realized that his race could be seen as a bad thing, that maybe “something was wrong with me.” He was 9 years old—lucky, he wrote, to have had so many years “free from self-doubt,” and still certain of the love of his white mother. (Though the man’s…… More »
"The money-world feels generally as if it had taken an overdose of persimmons,” The Atlantic reported in its first issue, condemning the leveraged speculation that led to the financial crisis of 1857. For those readers who had never wolfed down too many persimmons, the magazine helpfully elaborated: … More »
This issue, then, is the eighth thoroughgoing redesign, the eighth effort to harmonize The Atlantic’s style with its substance and the timbre of the times. The look is the work of the graphic designer Michael Bierut and his colleagues at the design firm Pentagram, collaborating with The Atlantic’s art director, Jason Treat. I’ve left it to Michael, on page 34, to describe the design. I’ll walk you through the magazine’s new structure. … More »
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