The Atlantic Continues Its Hiring Spree With the Addition of Franklin Foer

He'll write features and essays for the magazine.

Former New Republic editor Franklin Foer is the latest writer added to editor Jeffrey Goldberg‘s collection of big-name post-election hires, a spree initiated in response to the election, as Goldberg explained to Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone.

But Goldberg said the election “lit a fire under” him to “quickly and definitively” build out the magazine’s stable.

“The Atlantic was created for moments for like this ― quite literally,” Goldberg said. “The Atlantic was created at a moment of intense fracturing.”

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