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Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic. Before taking on this role, he spent nearly a decade covering politics and foreign policy as a staff writer for the magazine. Previously, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent and the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, and a writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is a recipient of the National Magazine Award for reporting, and is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Her books Gulag: A History; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956; and Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine have appeared in more than two dozen translations. Her most recent book is Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Applebaum is a former columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Cullen Murphy is the editor at large of The Atlantic and a former managing editor of the magazine. He has also been the editor at large of Vanity Fair. His books include The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own; Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America; God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World; and Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe.