Franklin Foer is a staff writer and national correspondent at The Atlantic, since 2016. Previously, he was editor of The New Republic, from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2014. An author, Foer’s forthcoming book, The Last Politician: Inside the Biden White House and the Struggle for America’s Future, will be published in September 2023. His previous book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, was named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Sports Illustrated called his 2004 book, How Soccer Explains the World, “one of the most influential books of the decade.” A former New America fellow, he has also written for Slate and New York.
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