Barton Gellman Joins The Atlantic as Staff Writer
Gellman will focus his early reporting on the coronavirus pandemic and the government’s response to the unfolding crisis.
Gellman will focus his early reporting on the coronavirus pandemic and the government’s response to the unfolding crisis.

In The Atlantic’s May issue, Kate Julian reports on the rise of anxiety and depression in children, and why changes in parenting may be one key to the solution.
Pointing yourself toward happiness—even in the midst of a global pandemic.

The Atlantic’s eight-part podcast, reported by Vann R. Newkirk II, explores the aftermath of the day the levees broke.


Deadline to Enter: Monday, February 17, 2020; First Place Award: $25,000; Finalists’ Award: $3,000
New section debuts with “Birdie,” a short story by Lauren Groff

Whitney Dangerfield to become senior Ideas editor



New visual identity and product experience launch today, with redesigned print magazine and reimagined iOS App.

Essays consider how America is coming apart—and prospects for rebuilding a more civil, functional, and unified society.

Interviews include: Mayors of Atlanta, Freetown, Helsinki, Louisville, Reykjavik, San Juan, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.; Michael R. Bloomberg; actor Jimmie Fails, filmmaker and musician Dave Grohl; Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Worker Alliance; and Frank Sirius of the Chuck Brown Band
Five winners to each receive $40,000 this spring.


In The Atlantic’s November issue, Franklin Foer reports on the global scale of the Amazon CEO’s influence, and his ambitions beyond Earth

This project will cover issues from a constitutional perspective and answer many of the fundamental questions now being asked about our system

Tufekci will write regularly for The Atlantic about the intersection of technology, politics, and society