The Atlantic is an American magazine founded as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston in 1857. Originally created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine, its current format is of a general editorial magazine. Written with content focusing on "foreign affairs, politics, and the economy [as well as] cultural trends," it is primarily aimed at a target audience of "thought leaders."[1][2]
The magazine's founders were a group of writers that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell (who would become its first editor). The current CEO and group publisher is John Fox Sullivan,[3] while the editor-in-chief as of 2006 is James Bennet.
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