The Atlantic, December 2025
200 x 264 mm, 104 pages
Washington, US
Monthly
Founded in 1857
Editor-in-chief: Jeffrey Goldberg
Creative director: Peter Mendelsund
The Atlantic covers a broad range of culturally relevant current affairs, from politics and business to art and the economy. Expect intelligent, engaging deep-dives and creative covers.
This issue leads with a look at how Donald Trump is already planning to disrupt the traditionally anti-imncumbent US midterm elections, followed by a further report on his desire to amass the powers of a king. Plus Nicholas Thompson reflects on his enthusiasm for rinning, and rapper Questlove looks back at the career of Sammy Davis Jnr.
On the Journal:
At Work With Peter Mendelsund, creative director: ‘I’m sincerely hoping that my ignorance of the magazine medium might allow me (and my partner in crime, Oliver Munday, also a book person), to make something truly unusual. And perhaps, it will help us to make a readerly magazine, which is what I imagine is called for here. I’m hoping.’
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