In The Atlantic’s first challenge, revealed 168 years in the past in Boston, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about an data overload at a time when American life felt unmoored: “On this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations.”
Tonight The Atlantic returns to its birthplace to launch an occasion collection, The Atlantic Throughout America, that can ultimately take it to all 50 states––at a second within the nation that Emerson might simply as properly be describing. Throughout the subsequent three years, The Atlantic will maintain occasions with its journalists in cities in each state to speak concerning the vary of points and concepts that the journal covers, together with the beliefs of American democracy, the present administration, tradition, know-how, the surroundings, and extra. Many occasions can be in partnership with native and nonprofit newsrooms which can be doing distinctive work, and can think about native and nationwide points.
“The Atlantic was based to be the journal of the American thought, and we attempt to dwell as much as that mandate immediately,” mentioned Jeffrey Goldberg, the journal’s editor in chief. “The 250th anniversary of America’s founding represents a wonderful second to go to our readers, and our future readers, throughout the nation.”
The collection’s inaugural sold-out occasion, taking place tonight in Boston in partnership with WBUR, options interviews with Goldberg, On Level host Meghna Chakrabarti, and Congressman Jake Auchincloss. The occasion will talk about themes from The Atlantic’s particular November challenge, “The Unfinished Revolution,” exploring 250 years of the American experiment and the historical past and classes of the nation’s founding period. Livestream tickets can be found right here, and are free for Atlantic subscribers.
The Atlantic will maintain occasions within the following cities within the first a part of 2026; extra particulars and ticketing can be introduced. Readers can join occasion updates right here.
- January: Phoenix; and Sante Fe, New Mexico
- February: Miami
- March: New Orleans; and Durham, North Carolina
- April: Omaha, Nebraska
- Might: Salt Lake Metropolis
The Atlantic Throughout America tour is a part of the journal’s broader efforts to have interaction extra deeply with subscribers and readers, to succeed in new audiences, and to serve extra areas with its journalism. The Atlantic has been considerably increasing its attain over the previous decade and is a yr into an editorial enlargement that has added 50 newsroom jobs. The journal continues to set new information for subscribers and general income. This fall, The Atlantic started providing each public U.S. highschool free digital subscriptions, and now practically 1,300 excessive faculties have free entry to The Atlantic’s journalism and 168-year archive.
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