The Atlantic Hires Idrees Kahloon as Staff Writer
This week, The Atlanti c also announced two additional staff writers: Vivian Salama, joining next month from The Wall Street Journal to cover national security and foreign policy; and Tom Bartlett, who began yesterday to cover health and science under the second Trump administration. Tom was a staff writer for 22 years at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Below is the staff note about Idrees from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, executive editor Adrienne LaFrance, deputy executive editor Yoni Appelbaum, and deputy editor Juliet Lapidos:
Dear All,
For the next installment in our continuing series Someone Amazing Is Joining The Atlantic, we are pleased to announce that Idrees Kahloon is Joining The Atlantic. Idrees is currently the Washington bureau chief of The Economist, where he leads coverage of national politics. Although The Economist treats authorship like a state secret, we have ascertained that Idrees was behind some of that magazine's best, most compelling stories, including, What If Joe Biden Decided Against Running for Re-Election?, published in 2023. (Idrees pointed out in this piece that the Democratic bench has plenty of talent.) He also wrote a special report on the geography of poverty and opportunity in America.
Idrees started at The Economist right out of college, as a data journalist. While still in school he interned with the editorial boards of The Lexington Herald-Leader and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And he has moonlighted as a critic for The New Yorker, writing Books essays on Thomas Piketty and Richard Reeves, among others.
Idrees likes to cook in his spare time––though he doesn't have much of that, since he recently became a father––and claims he enjoys reading the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Please join us in welcoming him to the team.
Best wishes,
Jeff, Adrienne, Yoni and Juliet
The Atlantic has welcomed a number of editors and writers this year, including managing editor Griff Witte; staff writers Isaac Stanley-Becker, Tyler Austin Harper, Quinta Jurecic, Nick Miroff, Toulouse Olorunnipa, Ashley Parker, Alexandra Petri, Missy Ryan, Michael Scherer, Jamie Thompson, Josh Tyrangiel, Caity Weaver, and Nancy Youssef; and senior editors Jenna Johnson and Dan Zak. Please reach out with any questions or requests.
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