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68-401: Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates ( / ˌ t ɑː n ə ˈ h ɑː s i / TAH -nə- HAH -see ; born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic , where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy . In 2015 he received

136-521: A Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics . His first novel, The Water Dancer , was published in 2019. Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland . His father, William Paul Coates (known by his middle name), was a Vietnam War veteran, former Black Panther , publisher, and librarian. His mother, Cheryl Lynn Coates (née Waters), was a teacher. Coates's first name, Ta-Nehisi,

204-595: A MacArthur Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation . Coates' work has been published in numerous periodicals. He has published four nonfiction books: The Beautiful Struggle (2008), Between the World and Me (2015), We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017), and The Message (2024) . Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction . He has also written

272-631: A Black bookstore called the Black Book. Later, Black Classic Press was established with a tabletop printing press in the basement of the Coates family home. Coates's father had seven children collectively, five boys and two girls, by four women: His father's first wife had three children, his mother had two boys, and the other two women each had a child. The children were raised together in a close-knit family; most lived with their mothers and at times with their father. Coates has said that he lived with his father for

340-543: A brownstone in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 2016, although they did not move into the brownstone due to media attention that accompanied the purchase. In 2016, he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Oregon State University . The Atlantic The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and

408-645: A career in journalism. He is the only child in his family without a college degree. In mid-2014, Coates attended an intensive program in French at Middlebury College to prepare for a writing fellowship in Paris , France. Coates's first journalism job was as a reporter at The Washington City Paper ; his editor was David Carr . From 2000 to 2007, Coates worked as a journalist with various publications, including Philadelphia Weekly , The Village Voice , and Time . His first article for The Atlantic , "This Is How We Lost to

476-436: A digital subscription model, restricting unsubscribed readers' access to five free articles per month. In June 2020, The Atlantic released its first full-length documentary, White Noise , a film about three alt-right activists. By its third year, it was published by Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields , which later became part of Houghton Mifflin , based in the city known for literary culture. The magazine

544-459: A dozen topics. In December 2011, a new Health Channel launched on TheAtlantic.com, incorporating coverage of food, as well as topics related to the mind, body, sex, family, and public health. Its launch was overseen by Nicholas Jackson, who had previously been overseeing the Life channel and initially joined the website to cover technology. TheAtlantic.com has also expanded to visual storytelling , with

612-507: A history of redlining that included a discussion of the grassroots organization the Contract Buyers League , of which Clyde Ross was a leader. The article focused not so much on reparations for slavery as on the institutional racism of housing discrimination. Coates has worked as a guest columnist for The New York Times , having turned down an offer to become a regular columnist there. He has written for The Washington Post ,

680-405: A man and thinker." Coates's second book, Between the World and Me , was published in 2015. The title is drawn from a Richard Wright poem of the same name about a black man discovering the site of a lynching and becoming incapacitated with fear, creating a barrier between himself and the world. Coates said that one of the origins of the book was the death of a college friend, Prince Jones , who

748-557: A more progressive editorial position. Kruger had written, from 2013 to 2016, for both the Philadelphia Weekly and the rival City Paper consecutively. He stated that since the Philadelphia Weekly owns the intellectual rights of the defunct City Paper, he would revive some features from that publication. The publication moved to digital-only publication in 2022. Topics updated weekly include: News, Arts, Music, Opinion, Food/Drink, People, Sports, "Sex with Timaree", LGBTQ, Betting/Casino,

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816-507: A new editorial staff. In 2006, Bradley hired James Bennet , the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times , as editor-in-chief. Bradley also hired Jeffrey Goldberg and Andrew Sullivan as writers for the magazine. In 2008, Jay Lauf joined the organization as publisher and vice-president; as of 2017, he was publisher and president of Quartz . In early 2014, Bennet and Bob Cohn became co-presidents of The Atlantic , and Cohn became

884-451: A news- and opinion-tracking site launched in 2009, and TheAtlanticCities.com, a stand-alone website started in 2011 that was devoted to global cities and trends. According to a Mashable profile in December 2011, "traffic to the three web properties recently surpassed 11 million uniques per month, up a staggering 2500% since The Atlantic brought down its paywall in early 2008." In 2009,

952-481: A separate website. Its co-founders included Richard Florida , urban theorist and professor. The stand-alone site has been described as exploring and explaining "the most innovative ideas and pressing issues facing today's global cities and neighborhoods." In 2014, it was rebranded as CityLab.com , and covers transportation, environment, equity, life, and design. Among its offerings are Navigator, "a guide to urban life"; and Solutions, which covers solutions to problems in

1020-436: A staff member of Emerson Collective, Peter Lattman, being immediately named as vice chairman of The Atlantic . David G. Bradley and Atlantic Media retained a minority share position in this sale. In May 2019, technology journalist Adrienne LaFrance became executive editor. In December 2020, former Wired editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson was named CEO of The Atlantic . Philadelphia Weekly From 1986 to 2015,

1088-432: Is a reference to three people: Samori Ture , a Mandé chief who fought French colonialism , black Cuban revolutionary Antonio Maceo Grajales , and Coates's father, who was known by his middle name of Paul. Coates met his wife when they were both students at Howard University . He is an atheist and a feminist . With his family, Coates moved to Prospect Lefferts Gardens , Brooklyn, New York, in 2001. The family purchased

1156-591: Is derived from an ancient Egyptian language name for Nubia (reconstructed as nḥsj ) – a region along the Nile river in present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Coates's father founded and ran Black Classic Press , a publishing company specializing in African-American titles. The Press grew out of a grassroots organization, the George Jackson Prison Movement (GJPM), which initially operated

1224-458: The Washington Monthly , and O magazine. Coates left his position as a national correspondent for The Atlantic in 2018 after a decade with the magazine. In a memo to the staff, the editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg , said: "The last few years for him have been years of significant changes. He's told me that he would like to take some time to reflect on these changes, and to figure out

1292-457: The 2016 presidential campaign , the editorial board endorsed a candidate for the third time in the magazine's history, urging readers to support Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a rebuke of Republican Donald Trump 's candidacy. After Trump prevailed in the November 2016 election, the magazine became a strong critic of him. In March 2019, a cover article by editor Yoni Appelbaum called for

1360-425: The 2020 presidential election , and urged its readers to oppose Trump's re-election bid. In early 2024, The Atlantic published a special 24-article issue titled "If Trump Wins," warning about a potential second term for Trump being worse than his first. In October, the publication endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in her presidential bid against Trump in the 2024 election . In 2005, The Atlantic and

1428-679: The Aspen Institute launched the Aspen Ideas Festival , a ten-day event in and around the city of Aspen, Colorado . The annual conference features 350 presenters, 200 sessions, and 3,000 attendees. The event has been called a "political who's who " as it often features policymakers, journalists, lobbyists, and think tank leaders. On January 22, 2008, TheAtlantic.com dropped its subscriber wall and allowed users to freely browse its site, including all past archives. By 2011 The Atlantic ' s web properties included TheAtlanticWire.com,

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1496-759: The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism as its journalist-in-residence in late 2014. In 2017, Coates joined the faculty of New York University 's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute as a Distinguished Writer in Residence. In 2021, he joined the Howard University faculty as writer-in-residence in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds the Sterling Brown chair in the English Department. In 2015–16, Coates

1564-483: The impeachment of Donald Trump : "It's time for Congress to judge the president's fitness to serve." In September 2020, it published a story, citing several anonymous sources, reporting that Trump referred to dead American soldiers as "losers". Trump called it a "fake story", and suggested the magazine would soon be out of business. In 2020, The Atlantic endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in

1632-727: The media diets of people from entertainment, journalism, and politics; and "Trimming the Times", the feature editor's summary of the best content in The New York Times . The Atlantic Wire rebranded itself as The Wire in November 2013, and was folded back into The Atlantic the following year. In August 2011, it created its video channel. Initially created as an aggregator, The Atlantic ' s video component, Atlantic Studios, has since evolved in an in-house production studio that creates custom video series and original documentaries. In September 2011, The Atlantic launched CityLab ,

1700-455: The 100 best books of the 21st century. In 2016, Coates wrote the sixth volume of Marvel Comics ' Black Panther series, which teamed him with artist Brian Stelfreeze . Issue #1 went on sale on April 6, 2016, and sold an estimated 253,259 physical copies, the best-selling comic for the month. He also wrote a spinoff of Black Panther — Black Panther and the Crew —that ran for six issues before it

1768-592: The Atlantic, and is read beyond the limits of the English language. At that dinner he announced his idea for the magazine: Mr. Cabot is much wiser than I am. Dr. Holmes can write funnier verses than I can. Mr. Motley can write history better than I. Mr. Emerson is a philosopher and I am not. Mr. Lowell knows more of the old poets than I. But none of you knows the American people as well as I do. The Atlantic ' s first issue

1836-588: The Black Classic Press was a huge influence. Coates has said that he read many of the books his father published. Coates also enjoyed comic books and Dungeons & Dragons during his childhood. Coates attended a number of Baltimore-area schools, including William H. Lemmel Middle School and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute , before graduating from Woodlawn High School . He attended Howard University , leaving after five years to start

1904-535: The Earth like fabric and allows him to travel across large areas via waterways. The novel is also an Oprah's Book Club selection. Coates's most recent nonfiction book, The Message , reflects on his visits to Dakar , Senegal; Chapin, South Carolina ; and the West Bank and East Jerusalem . The latter trip left a deep impression on Coates. In a 2024 profile for New York , he said, "I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt

1972-423: The English language edition of CityLab.com . The site has not been updated since 2018. In early December 2019, Atlantic Media sold CityLab to Bloomberg Media , which promptly laid off half the staff. The site was relaunched on June 18, 2020, with few major changes other than new branding and linking the site with other Bloomberg verticals and its data terminal. In September 2019, TheAtlantic.com introduced

2040-663: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Coates during the latter's appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the book The Message . Dokoupil implied that the book "reads like the work of an extremist" and questioned Coates about Coates's view regarding Israel's right to exist. Some CBS staffers were angered by the interview and CBS executive Adrienne Roarke said that an internal review found that it did not meet network standards. In 2009, Coates lived in Harlem with his wife, Kenyatta Matthews, and son, Samori Maceo-Paul Coates. His son's name

2108-522: The Obama era, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy , was announced by Random House, with a release date of October 3, 2017. Coates added essays written especially for the book bridging the gaps between the previously published essays, as well as an introduction and an epilogue. The book's title is a quote from 19th-century African American congressman Thomas E. Miller of South Carolina, who asked why white Southerners hated African Americans after all

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2176-459: The White Man", about Bill Cosby and conservatism, started a new, more successful, and more stable phase of his career. The article led to an appointment with a regular column for The Atlantic , a blog that was popular, influential, and had a high level of community engagement. Coates became a senior editor at The Atlantic , for which he wrote feature articles as well as his blog. Topics covered by

2244-501: The addition of the "In Focus" photo blog, curated by Alan Taylor. In 2015, TheAtlantic.com launched a dedicated Science section and in January 2016 it redesigned and expanded its politics section in conjunction with the 2016 U.S. presidential race. In 2015, CityLab and Univision launched CityLab Latino , which features original journalism in Spanish as well as translated reporting from

2312-426: The autumn of 1857, Moses Dresser Phillips , a publisher from Boston , created The Atlantic Monthly . The plan for the magazine was launched at a dinner party, which was described in a letter by Phillips: I must tell you about a little dinner-party I gave about two weeks ago. It would be proper, perhaps, to state the origin of it was a desire to confer with my literary friends on a somewhat extensive literary project,

2380-526: The award for general excellence by the American Society of Magazine Editors. In 2024, it was reported that the magazine had crossed one million subscribers and become profitable, three years after losing $ 20 million in a single year and laying off 17% of its staff. As of 2024, the website's executive editor is Adrienne LaFrance , the editor-in-chief is Jeffrey Goldberg , and the CEO is Nicholas Thompson . In

2448-635: The best path forward, both as a person and as a writer." In 2008, Coates published The Beautiful Struggle , a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore and its effect on him. In the book, he discusses the influence of his father W. Paul Coates , a former Black Panther; the prevailing street crime of the era and its effects on his older brother; his own troubled experience attending Baltimore-area schools; and his eventual graduation and enrollment in Howard University. The lack of interpersonal skills and

2516-502: The blog included politics, history, race, culture, sports, and music. His writings on race, such as his September 2012 The Atlantic cover piece "Fear of a Black President" and his June 2014 feature " The Case for Reparations ", have been especially praised, and won his blog a place on the Best Blogs of 2011 list by Time magazine and the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism from The Sidney Hillman Foundation. His blog

2584-460: The complexity of Coates's father sheds light on a world of absentee fathers. As Rich Benjamin wrote in a 2016 article in The Guardian , "Fatherhood is a vexed topic, particularly so for an author such as Coates" and continues with " The Beautiful Struggle makes an enduring genre cliche—the father-son relationship—unexpected and new, as well as offering a vital insight into Coates's coming of age as

2652-569: The economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston as The Atlantic Monthly , a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery , and other major political issues of that time. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson , Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Harriet Beecher Stowe , and John Greenleaf Whittier . James Russell Lowell

2720-553: The entirety of his upbringing, and that, in his family, the important overarching focus was on rearing children with values based on family, respect for elders, contributing to your community, an approach to family that was common where he grew up. Coates grew up in Baltimore's Mondawmin neighborhood during the crack epidemic . Coates's interest in literature was instilled at an early age when his mother, in response to bad behavior, would require him to write essays. His father's work with

2788-612: The glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel". According to the profile, The Message "lays forth the case that the Israeli occupation is a moral crime, one that has been all but covered up by the West". The book is dedicated to Coates' sons, Samori and Chris. Coates was the 2012–2014 MLK visiting scholar for writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He joined

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2856-518: The good they had done during the Reconstruction Era . Coates sees parallels between that period and the Obama presidency. Coates's first novel, The Water Dancer , was published in 2019. It is a surrealist story set in the time of slavery and centers around a superhuman protagonist, Hiram Walker, who has a photographic memory but cannot remember his mother. Walker is also able to transport people long distances by "conduction", which involves folding

2924-500: The headline "The Negro Is Your Brother". The magazine has published speculative articles that inspired the development of new technologies. The classic example is Vannevar Bush 's essay " As We May Think " (July 1945), which inspired Douglas Engelbart and later Ted Nelson to develop the modern workstation and hypertext technology. The Atlantic Monthly founded the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1917; for many years, it

2992-508: The longer title, and with Goldberg as moderator, was the one broadcast on August 11, 2023. In 1860, three years into publication, The Atlantic ' s then-editor James Russell Lowell endorsed Republican Abraham Lincoln for his first run for president and also endorsed the abolition of slavery . In 1964, Edward Weeks wrote on behalf of the editorial board in endorsing Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson and rebuking Republican Barry Goldwater 's candidacy. In 2016, during

3060-446: The magazine launched The Atlantic Wire as a stand-alone news aggregator site. It was intended as a curated selection of news and opinions from online, print, radio, and television outlets. At its launch, it published op-eds from across the media spectrum and summarized significant positions in each debate. It later expanded to feature news and original reporting. Regular features in the magazine included "What I Read", describing

3128-603: The magazine won a National Magazine Award for fiction. Editors have recognized major cultural changes and movements. For example, of the emerging writers of the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway had his short story " Fifty Grand " published in the July 1927 edition. Harking back to its abolitionist roots, in its August 1963 edition, at the height of the civil rights movement , the magazine published Martin Luther King Jr. 's defense of civil disobedience , " Letter from Birmingham Jail ", under

3196-558: The magazine would stay in Boston for the foreseeable future, as it did for the next five-and-a-half years. In April 2005, however, the publishers announced that the editorial offices would be moved from their longtime home at 77 North Washington Street in Boston to join the company's advertising and circulation divisions in Washington, D.C. Later in August, Bradley told The New York Observer that

3264-490: The move was not made to save money—near-term savings would be $ 200,000–$ 300,000, a relatively small amount that would be swallowed by severance-related spending—but instead would serve to create a hub in Washington, D.C., where the top minds from all of Bradley's publications could collaborate under the Atlantic Media Company umbrella. Few of the Boston staff agreed to move, and Bradley then commenced an open search for

3332-545: The paper was owned by Review Publishing, along with sister publication South Philly Review . In 2015, both papers were sold to Broad Street Media, parent of the Northeast Times . In 2016, Richard Donnelly, president of New Jersey–based distribution company Donnelly Distribution, acquired Broad Street Media and its affiliates. Donnelly formed Newspaper Media Group. In late 2018, self-described "American Capitalist" Dan McDonough Jr. acquired Philadelphia Weekly. By late 2020,

3400-517: The particulars of which I shall reserve till you come. But to the Party: My invitations included only R. W. Emerson , H. W. Longfellow , J. R. Lowell , Mr. Motley (the 'Dutch Republic' man), O. W. Holmes , Mr. Cabot , and Mr. Underwood , our literary man. Imagine your uncle as the head of such a table, with such guests. The above named were the only ones invited, and they were all present. We sat down at three P.M., and rose at eight. The time occupied

3468-676: The presidency of Barack Obama . In an interview with Amy Goodman , Coates criticized Israel 's behavior towards Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the United States' support for Israel. He compared the segregation between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories to Jim Crow laws in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On September 30, 2024, CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil discussed

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3536-579: The publication announced a switch in editorial stance to conservative, which was considered unnatural for an urban alternative weekly. The announcement put forth the claim that voices on the right are no longer being published in the city, and to be a truly alternative publication, the weekly must give those voices a platform. In late 2021, McDonough sold the publication to Paradise Media, a digital marketing company based in Puerto Rico. In early 2022, Paradise hired Josh Kruger as editor in chief, to bring back

3604-544: The publication's sole president in March 2016 when Bennet was tapped to lead The New York Times ' s editorial page. Jeffrey Goldberg was named editor-in-chief in October 2016. On July 28, 2017, The Atlantic announced that billionaire investor and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs (the widow of former Apple Inc. chairman and CEO Steve Jobs ) had acquired majority ownership through her Emerson Collective organization, with

3672-476: The volumes of the books America in the King Years by Branch, specifically At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968 . The project will be produced by Oprah Winfrey and air on HBO . Coates is set to adapt Rachel Aviv's 2014 The New Yorker article "Wrong Answer" into a full-length feature film of the same title, starring Michael B. Jordan and directed by Ryan Coogler . In February 2021, it

3740-499: Was announced that Jeffrey Goldberg , who had served as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic since 2016, had been named as Washington Week 's tenth moderator, and that the politics and culture publication would also enter into an editorial partnership with the television program – which was retitled accordingly as Washington Week with The Atlantic – similar to the earlier collaboration with the National Journal . The first episode under

3808-582: Was awarded a visiting fellowship at the American Library in Paris during which he worked on an unpublished novel about an African American from Chicago who moves to Paris. As of 2019, Coates was working on America in the King Years , a television project with David Simon , Taylor Branch , and James McBride . The project is about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement , based on one of

3876-674: Was canceled. In 2018, Coates announced he would be writing a ninth volume of the Captain America series, teaming him with artists Leinil Yu and Alex Ross ; in that volume, he depicted the Nazi supervillain Red Skull espousing the writings of the Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson . Peterson said his work was used out of context to portray him unfavorably, calling it an attack on himself. Coates's collection of previously published essays on

3944-445: Was its first editor. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine also published the annual The Atlantic Monthly Almanac . The magazine was purchased in 1999 by businessman David G. Bradley , who fashioned it into a general editorial magazine primarily aimed at serious national readers and " thought leaders "; in 2017, he sold a majority interest in the publication to Laurene Powell Jobs 's Emerson Collective . The magazine

4012-427: Was longer by about four hours and thirty minutes than I am in the habit of consuming in that kind of occupation, but it was the richest time intellectually by all odds that I have ever had. Leaving myself and 'literary man' out of the group, I think you will agree with me that it would be difficult to duplicate that number of such conceded scholarship in the whole country besides... Each one is known alike on both sides of

4080-674: Was operated in partnership with Little, Brown and Company . Its published books included Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) and Blue Highways (1982). The press was sold in 1986; today it is an imprint of Grove Atlantic . In addition to publishing notable fiction and poetry, The Atlantic has emerged in the 21st century as an influential platform for longform storytelling and newsmaker interviews. Influential cover stories have included Anne Marie Slaughter 's "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" (2012) and Ta-Nehisi Coates 's "A Case for Reparations" (2014). In 2015, Jeffrey Goldberg 's "Obama Doctrine"

4148-466: Was praised for its engaging comments section, which Coates curated and moderated heavily so that "the jerks are invited to leave [and] the grown-ups to stay and chime in." Coates said he worked on his article "The Case for Reparations" for almost two years. He had read Rutgers University professor Beryl Satter 's book Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America ,

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4216-784: Was published in November 1857, and quickly gained notability as one of the finest magazines in the English-speaking world. In 1878, the magazine absorbed The Galaxy , a competitor monthly magazine founded a dozen years previously by William Conant Church and his brother Francis P. Church ; it had published works by Mark Twain , Walt Whitman , Ion Hanford Perdicaris and Henry James . In 1879, The Atlantic had offices in Winthrop Square in Boston and at 21 Astor Place in New York City . A leading literary magazine, The Atlantic has published many significant works and authors. It

4284-680: Was published monthly until 2001, when 11 issues were produced; since 2003, it has published 10 per year. It dropped "Monthly" from the cover with the January/February 2004 issue, and officially changed the name in 2007. In 2024, it announced that it will resume publishing monthly issues in 2025. In 2016, the periodical was named Magazine of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors . In 2022, its writers won Pulitzer Prizes for feature writing and, in 2022, 2023, and 2024 The Atlantic won

4352-517: Was purchased in 1908 by editor at the time, Ellery Sedgwick , and remained in Boston. In 1980, the magazine was acquired by Mortimer Zuckerman , property magnate and founder of Boston Properties , who became its chairman. On September 27, 1999, Zuckerman transferred ownership of the magazine to David G. Bradley , owner of the National Journal Group , which focused on Washington, D.C. and federal government news. Bradley had promised that

4420-534: Was reported that Coates had been hired to write the script of a new Superman feature film from DC Films and Warner Bros. Pictures , with J. J. Abrams producing. In an interview with Ezra Klein , Coates outlined his analysis that the extent of white identity expression in the United States serves as a critical factor in threat perceptions of certain European Americans and their response to political paradigm shifts related to African Americans , such as

4488-413: Was shot by police in a case of mistaken identity. One of the book's themes is what physically affected African-American lives, such as their bodies being enslaved, violence that came from slavery, and various forms of institutional racism. The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction . It was 7th on The Guardian 's list of

4556-740: Was the first to publish pieces by the abolitionists Julia Ward Howe (" Battle Hymn of the Republic " on February 1, 1862), and William Parker , whose slave narrative , "The Freedman's Story" was published in February and March 1866. It also published Charles W. Eliot 's "The New Education", a call for practical reform that led to his appointment to the presidency of Harvard University in 1869, works by Charles Chesnutt before he collected them in The Conjure Woman (1899), and poetry and short stories, and helped launch many national literary careers. In 2005,

4624-499: Was widely discussed by American media and prompted response by many world leaders. As of 2022, writers and frequent contributors to the print magazine included James Fallows , Jeffrey Goldberg, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Caitlin Flanagan , Jonathan Rauch , McKay Coppins , Gillian White, Adrienne LaFrance , Vann R. Newkirk II , Derek Thompson , David Frum , Jennifer Senior, George Packer , Ed Yong , and James Parker. On August 2, 2023, it

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