Gillian White
Managing Editor, The Atlantic
Gillian White is a managing editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees special projects, podcasts, and editorial Atlantic Live events. Her previous roles at the magazine include deputy editor, senior editor, and senior associate editor. Prior to joining The Atlantic in 2014, White was an associate editor and columnist at Kiplinger, where she covered economics, financial services, housing, retail, and small business. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and MarketWatch. White is a member of The Philadelphia Inquirer’s board of directors.
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While the United States has the world’s deepest and most liquid capital markets, and the largest number of billionaires in the world, we also have historic levels of wealth in...
When people say that no one else in the world makes ice cream like you do, you must be making pretty good ice cream. And so it is with Jeni Britton Bauer, art student turned w...
By some measures, American women are enjoying more opportunity today than ever before. And the #MeToo movement brought women’s stories of surviving harassment and assault to t...
How do we develop scalable policy solutions that will empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes? How we can improve...
Every few months, it seems, we see more startling evidence — from the Catholic Church, to USA Gymnastics, to the Boy Scouts — of just how rampant sexual abuse of children is i...
A defining feature of the American Dream is upward income mobility — the ideal that children will achieve a higher standard of living than their parents. Economist Raj Chetty’...
What is feminism, and is anyone doing it right? As the movement has gone mainstream and come under greater scrutiny, it seems any consensus on the meaning of “feminism” has be...
The #MeToo movement has forced America into a transparent conversation about sex and power. From clear cut cases of assault, harassment and misogyny to poor communication, bad...
Mental health disorders are rampant in America’s correctional facilities — in many cases, our prisons and jails are the main providers of mental health treatment in their muni...
American women have lived their daily lives — before and after the epic election of 2016 and its accompanying drama — up against a set of structures, barriers, and mindsets th...