Franklin Foer is a prominent American journalist and author, currently serving as a National Correspondent at The Atlantic since 2016. His career includes significant time as the editor of The New Republic, a role he held from 2006 to 2010 and again starting in 2012. He resigned in 2010 due to exhaustion from a search for a patron, and his firing in December 2014 by owner Chris Hughes led to an editorial crisis and mass resignations from the magazine's masthead.