The Atlantic has endorsed only three individuals for President of the United States. These two.
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Atlantic has endorsed only three presidential candidates in 159 years.
Abraham Lincoln (1860) and Lyndon B. Johnson (1964) were the first two.
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And this one.
For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton.
In October of 1860, James Russell Lowell, the founding editor of The Atlantic,
warned in these pages about the perishability of the great American
democratic experiment if citizens (at the time, white, male citizens)
were to cease taking seriously their franchise ....
This is so powerful and historically significant. It takes my breath away.
