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." 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, while the editor-in-chief as of 2006 is James Bennet. Originally a monthly publication, the magazine, subscribed to by 400,000 readers, now publishes ten times a year and features articles in the fields of political science and foreign affairs, as well as book reviews. In April, 2005, the editors of The Atlantic decided to cease publishing fiction in regular issues in favor of a newsstand-only annual fiction issue edited by longtime staffer C.

Michael Curtis. On January 22, 2008, TheAtlantic.com dropped its subscriber wall and allowed users to freely browse its site, including all past archives. In March 2009, TheAtlantic.com added a food channel edited by Corby Kummer and with contributions from Grant Achatz, Tim and Nina Zagat and even Ezekiel J.

Emanuel, among others.

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