#editorial-team

#editorial-team

The creation of a special staff writer role for an Atlantic historian has been a goal of mine for many years. One reason this role took so long to fill is that we were inundated with interest and were forced to plough through an enormous number of candidates.

Idrees is currently the Washington bureau chief of The Economist, where he leads coverage of national politics. He has ascertained that Idrees was behind some of that magazine's best, most compelling stories.