I spent the first 16 years of my career at The New Republic, an ideologically heterodox but center-left magazine centered on politics and based in Washington. In 2011, I made a change that I have never regretted for a single moment: I joined New York Magazine. After 13 wonderful years here, I am making another change: I am joining The Atlantic.

It felt a bit like moving to a different country — but a wonderful new country, with strange, fascinating customs of its own you come to appreciate through close and sustained exposure. New York is, well, New York. It is a national magazine, but its sensibility is very much rooted in America’s cultural capital rather than its political capital, where I’ve continued to live and work all along.

At New York, I’ve had the chance to work with people who see the world from a different perspective........

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