The anticipation has been one of the strong points of The Atlantic since its creation in 1857. This remarkable literary and political magazine, where the most prestigious writers of the moment write, has managed to make its website a 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 the “organ of no party, but the spokesperson for the American idea.” The publication of the early texts of Mark Twain, war reports by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963), a vibrant defense of nonviolence, confirms this ideal.
While the magazine has rarely endorsed a presidential candidate, it has taken a stance against Donald Trump three times, denouncing the danger he represents. The Atlantic has even become a sort of nemesis of 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 receiving a huge scoop.
