Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic and the moderator of Washington Week With The Atlantic. He joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a national correspondent and in 2016 was named editor in chief, the 15th person to serve as editor in The Atlantic's 168-year history. During his editorship, The Atlantic has set new audience and subscription records, and won its first-ever Pulitzer Prizes. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, The Atlantic received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors, the top award in the industry.

Before joining The Atlantic, Goldberg served as the Middle East correspondent and then the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Earlier in his career, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine. He began his career as a police reporter for The Washington Post. Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror and On Heroism: McCain, Milley, Mattis, and the Cowardice of Donald Trump. A former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, he also served as a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and as the distinguished visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Reporting; the Daniel Pearl Award for Reporting; the Overseas Press Club’s award for human-rights reporting; the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporting.

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  1. The Pete Hegseth Exception

    Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.

    photo of Pete Hegseth's head next to his text 'We are currently clean on OPSEC. Godspeed to our Warriors.' Photo of John Ratclilffe's head and his text: 'A good start.' Photo of Michael Waltz's head with text of fist, U.S. flag, and fire emoji.
    Illustration by Erik Carter. Sources: Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty; Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Getty; Andrew Harnik / AFP / Getty.
  2. MAGA’s Foundational Lie

    The movement claims to stand with the police. Trump’s decision to pardon the cop-beaters of January 6 exposed his movement for what it is.

    photo of man wearing helmet and goggles with face painted in U.S.-flag stripes carrying Trump MAGA flag with gallows behind
    United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  3. The American Experiment

    At 250, the Revolution’s goals remain noble and indispensable.

    photo of the title page of The Pennsylvania Magazine, with engraved illustration of American symbols, from July 1776
    Photograph by Rythum Vinoben for The Atlantic. Document courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.