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I found this interesting letter from Al Smith, in response to accusations by Charles C. Marshall that Smith would be against Church-State separation. It could perhaps be included in the history section of the article. Part of the dialogue mentions the encyclical Immortale Dei by Pope Leo XIII. [3] [4] ADM (talk) 23:36, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
The Atlantic has published some valuable material on the Mideast conflict. Perhaps this could be noted in the entry. [5][6] [7] [8] ADM (talk) 19:46, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The Atlantic → The Atlantic (magazine) — And turn this into a dab between the magazine and the ocean, per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_January_8#Category:The_Atlantic_.28magazine.29. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:26, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Reading the last two sections of "The Atlantic," "Atlantic Wire" and "Atlantic Cities," it's difficult to not see those paragraphs as laudatory of the subject matter to the point that they are effectively unpaid advertisements for these features of "The Atlantic." They are definitely not NPOV. I'm going to change the paragraphs to make them less nakedly laudatory toward their subject matter.174.16.52.161 (talk) 08:51, 31 December 2012 (UTC) . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.247.107 (talk) 05:01, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
That Image of Cover page is not represents the magazine I guess.--Auto1080p (talk) 08:57, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
No idea how to do it, but should this not be added?
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The article talks about how "monthly" was dropped from its name, but it never says what the original name was or that it had "monthly" in it. This is confusing. -KaJunl (talk) 11:45, 5 March 2016 (UTC) KaJunl (talk) 11:45, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Note about this edit and its reversion here. I had opened a discussion at RSN about that ref after it was added. See Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Allsides.com Jytdog (talk) 04:12, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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What about some information on the magazine's political stance? Probably legit to offer some kind of information along those lines. The Atlantic is usually regarded as a little left of center -- it has certainly featured works deeply critical of the Bush administration -- but with regular contributions by Robert Kaplan, P. J. O'Rourke, and David Brooks, I wonder whether it would be safer to classify this magazine as right-of-center?
I know this might raise POV issues, but nobody would object to writing that The Nation is a left-leaning publication, the New Republic is hawkish, and the American Spectator right-leaning. Anyway, thought I'd ask. Bds yahoo 02:55, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The fair thing would be to note that it is dependably pro-Left in its ideology. Calling it "moderate" is just not accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.152.216.213 (talk) 22:34, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
One fairly neutral thing to do is to make mention of the ownership and funding of the magazine. ISTR that THE ATLANTIC switched to a not-for-profit status awhile back, but I'm not sure about the particulars.
I think it's important to mention the class component of the magazine and it's audience explicitly as it is characteristic of the publication.
Hi, I'm a subscriber to the Atlantic and I don't think it is left or right, and I think saying "While many of The Atlantic's articles are nonpolitical or written from a moderate stance, the magazine is generally considered to have a liberal slant" still goes too far. I vote for Democrats and Republicans. If the National Journal qualifies as "nonpartisan", why shouldn't the Atlantic? True, the Atlantic is edgier than National Journal, but publishing "works deeply critical of the Bush administration" should not earn a magazine a liberal or left-of-center label. (If it does, I fear for US journalism.) For example, George Will is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative but he's written very critical opinion pieces about the Bush administration's poor fiscal discipline, curtailment of civil liberties, etc. So have "arch conservatives" Robert Novak and Charles Krauthammer. Are they left-of-center? No way. I recall an insightful article in the Atlantic about Roe v. Wade where the (staff?) author wrote that Roe was unconstitutional and abortion should be decided by legislatures. I don't think that's a liberal position. Anyway, I think the Atlantic should be called "nonpartisan," or at least that it presents both liberal and conservative authors and perspectives, and in sum, plays it straight. Honestly, I would actually argue that the Atlantic is a "progressive" publication. And I still consider the term "progressive" neither liberal nor conservative (i.e. the meaning it used to have before liberals started trying to rebrand themselves as "progressives.") Just my 2¢. 151.200.30.69 (talk) 22:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
This article is self-contradicting. It describes the magazine as "center-right", but yet places it in the "Modern American Liberal Magazines" group —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.87.28.36 (talk) 16:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Is it really necessary to ascribe a political leaning to this magazine? A few things to consider. First, unlike other periodicals, The Atlantic never (so far as I have seen) publishes anything resembling a staff editorial. Everything is signed. It is not possible to apply the same rules by which we would describe the New York Times as having a liberal editorial slant or the Wall Street Journal as having a conservative slant. Similarly, the variety of content on the Atlantic's pages suggests that they are not at all trying to advance a specific political agenda. Second, the argument that the because its readership is probably skewed toward East Coast liberals is entirely specious. This is like saying the Washington Post is pro-Administration (Republican or Democrat) because so many of its readers are federal employees. Moreover, we shouldn't be commenting on the economic or social makeup of the magazines audience without, you know, facts. As for the idea that it should be called "progressive," that doesn't work either. Unless applied to the Progressive movement of the early 20th century, this term is to vague and frankly too normatively charged to be used in any objective way. "Progress" is like motherhood and apple pie, but reasonable people differ on what actually constitutes progress. So let's banish that term altogether —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcmitch96 (talk • contribs) 18:02, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Apart from Left-Right issues, it would be interesting to inquire on The Atlantic's positions on the Mideast conflict, as would be the case for many notable publications. ADM (talk) 11:28, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
This story may shed some light on The Atlantic's political leanings, or lack there of. A spokeswoman is quoted as stating that "as an institution, The Atlantic is part of ‘no party or clique,’ as our founders put it." Might be worth noting this in the article and stating that as a journal, The Atlantic has no notable political leanings. Individual authors of stories published there might vary in their personal views, but on the whole, the publication does not have a strong conservative or liberal bias. SteveChervitzTrutane (talk) 08:23, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Funny, I came to this article specifically to see if there was mention of any political bias in the publication. I was citing it on a controversial and wanted to know whether I should expect responses like "That proves nothing! What do you expect from a liberal (or conservative?) rag like that." Rather than debating which of two terms to apply, and given how polarized and partisan so much mainstream media is, it seems it would be a good idea to point out that it is in fact neither (or both). To think that there is still a place where liberals and conservatives can both speak to the same audience! What a relief. If you need a label for that, how about "sanity." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.175.79 (talk) 03:16, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Someone labeled it as liberal. I dont think its liberal at all. its mostly pragmatic. It does have liberal commentators. Its online blogs tend to lean liberal. But its overall theme, and main articles are not liberal. Please refrain from labeling it conservative or liberal until you have discussed it here! Surag (talk) 03:50, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
As a solid but not extreme conservative, I would say that as of March 2018 The Atlantic is still pretty balanced between left and right. But I've noticed that the CityLab website owned by The Atlantic is decidedly hard left. Why the disparity in outlook? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.46.251.153 (talk) 19:53, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
The magazine is liberal --Mccommas (talk) 17:51, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
As The Atlantic has sold the CityLab site to Bloomberg, I believe CityLab should become a standalone stub or move to the Bloomberg page.Jojuj (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Why lock the article for vandalism when you could halt anonymous edits removing factual info? Such as the anonymous edits that removed my entry that included citation! Darksurf (talk) 13:40, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
The tweet had the FOIA requested documents attached. So basically, someone is claiming documents from the government itself are not reliable? Did they removed it without actually checking the reference? Darksurf (talk) 16:50, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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Change editor from 1980-1999 to William Whitworth, NOT Maxine Trottier 97.101.130.5 (talk) 00:08, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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Could someone please restore Special:Permalink/1026526260 as the last good revision? Dwightny7 (talk · contribs)'s edits introduced an error (verifiable here), which 173.49.159.165 (talk) corrected, but 173.49's corrections didn't fully revert the issues (a source is still missing, and a spelling error was introduced). See Special:Diff/1027473753/1026526260 for the net effect of the two edits. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 05:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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'nother one. The most recent edit introduced a statement that goes against both the rest of the article and past consensus. Arguably crosses over into WP:COIU territory, but out of an abundance of caution I'll leave it to someone else. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 22:53, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
I deleted the statement "For example, Emily Dickinson, after reading an article in The Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, asked him to become her mentor" because I could not find a reliable source to back this up. It is true that she asked him to be her mentor -- there is ample evidence of the letters she sent asking him this -- but I could not find any credible sources to support the claim that this happened "after reading an article in The Atlantic." The best I could find was this article which mentions the fact that he wrote an Atlantic article but makes no reference to Dickinson reading that article before asking him for guidance. I think deleting the sentence is the best course of action because it might lead to the impression that she asked him to be her mentor because of his writings in the Atlantic, a claim that I cannot find any sources to support (and because it was left uncited for over seven years I'm choosing to assume that there are no credible sources that support this -- although I may be wrong about that). Since there doesn't seem to be a source to support the idea that this Atlantic article had anything to do with her choice to ask him to be his mentor, it doesn't seem fit to be in a wiki page about The Atlantic and so I deleted it. Kduggirala (talk) 22:20, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
There appears to be frequent and targeted vandalism on this page. I have removed a sentence in the introduction which referenced the depressing attitude of the journal and the 'doomers' who read it. Since then, the opening sentence has been edited to refer to the journal as a 'promoter of doom' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.220.253 (talk) 15:01, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Also noticed this, how annoying. Have removed the latest vandalism (“promoter of doom”). Williamxoxo (talk) 17:15, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
She's now suing The Atlantic... AnonMoos (talk) 00:57, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
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This edit references a New Republic piece that jokingly refers to The Atlantic as "a risk factor for suicide", but certainly doesn't make any serious claim to that effect, and says nothing about doctors recommending against depressed people reading it. As there's some slim chance this was a good-faith edit, as a former employee I'm not comfortable removing it myself as vandalism, but could someone please revert the edit? Thank you. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 22:34, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Please correct your redirect from CityLab to Bloomberg_L.P.#CityLab. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:34, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
The entire article reads like an advertisement for The Atlantic. This problem was even discussed back in 2012. Adenyoyo (talk) 20:14, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
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It highlights the international legal landscape for media. It's relevant information in the public's interest.
EpicEpochEditor (talk) 02:22, 11 March 2024 (UTC) EpicEpochEditor (talk) 02:22, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Legal Settlement in Japan (2024) In January 2024, The Atlantic settled a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit filed in a Japanese court by the children of Bernard Krisher over a December 2017 article by Molly Ball titled "When the Presses Stop." The piece profiled their father, Bernard Krisher, a resident of Japan, who was a journalist and philanthropist known for founding the Cambodia Daily, a newspaper in Cambodia. The plaintiffs contended that the article contained numerous inaccuracies and sought corrections to preserve Krisher's legacy.
The settlement resulted in The Atlantic making significant updates to the original article, removing private facts about Krisher and his wife’s medical condition, addressing errors and clarifications.
The incident raised questions about journalistic practices and fact-checking standards and highlighted the challenges U.S. media organizations face in the international legal landscape. The Atlantic, while reaching a settlement, did not admit any liability or wrongdoing and expressed disappointment over the plaintiffs' decision to publicize the incident post-settlement. [1]
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Noting that EpicEpochEditor appears to be using BluePandaWrites with as a sockpuppet (along with at least one IP as well) with all being single purpose accounts related to Bernie Krisher (the above subject) and Molly Ball's article in the Atlantic on Krisher. EpicEpochEditor has acknowledged a potential COI, and their edits on Ball's article, at least, strike me as potential WP:BLP concerns. CAVincent (talk) 06:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)