Atlantic Stepping Up Its Political Coverage

Two years after chairman David Bradley, facing mounting costs, moved the 148-year-old Atlantic Monthly from Boston to D.C., the magazine is ramping up its political content, events–and staff–in advance of the 2008 presidential election.

In December, the magazine–celebrating its 150th anniversary next month–will publish the first cover story written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular conservative blogger whom the Atlantic lured away from Time magazine earlier this year. Sullivan’s cover subject? Barack Obama.

In January, the magazine will publish a “State of the Union” cover package that looks at America “after Iraq” and homeward at the issues that have been overshadowed by the war.