Noting that its readership “ranges from the White House to the Big House,” The Atlantic today published a letter from the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, informing the magazine that its December 2011 issue would not be delivered to the subscriber incarcerated within the facility.

Muammar Gaddafi‘s personal effects have begun to flow from his besieged palace, and so far they have been fabulous, curious, and generally befitting of a man with Gaddafi’s mystique. Today’s haul, however, brings something that might actually be useful. Someone found the Libyan leader’s diplomatic passport, and in it we find that his preferred spelling [...]

Last week, Times columnist Joe Nocera asked a simple question: what is business waiting for? Why isn’t the private sector making a determined push to put people to work? He identified a few factors: the focus on short-term profits and concern about being at a competitive disadvantage; The Atlantic‘s Derek Thompson took a wonkier look at the question. This weekend, the Times ran some responses that provide more insight.

In a story that’s already generating attention–and debate–The Atlantic‘s Garance Franke-Ruta reports that an “evangelical organizer” who works for the presidential campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann was “charged with terrorism in Uganda after being arrested for possession of assault rifles and ammunition in February 2006, just days before Uganda’s first multi-party elections in 20 years.” Franke-Ruta reports Peter Waldron spent 37 days in a prison ouside Kampala, with the charges later dropped. A movie about his ordeal is said to be in the works. On Saturday, Waldron helped get-out-the-vote efforts in Ames, Iowa for Bachmann, reportedly declining “repeatedly” to give his name to a reporter.

In a business rife with bland public relations boilerplate and embellished faux-intellectual patter, the occasional burst of unvarnished spleen can be refreshing. FishbowlDC‘s Betsy Rothstein shared just such an outburst this morning, as labor reporter Mike Elk went the eff off on The Atlantic‘s New Work Era Summit. Elk’s screed stands out because it sounds exactly like the kind of thing you might hear spat over an Amstel Light at a DC watering hole, but wouldn’t usually see in print.

Fox Business’ Eric Bolling drew criticism for remarks he made on Friday’s edition of Follow The Money, accusing President Obama of hosting “hoodlums” in the “hizzouse,” and later, referring to The White House as”the big crib.”

Following publication of my column denouncing the segment, Bolling and I had an intense, yet civil, debate on Twitter Sunday night, and tonight, he issued a brief apology for the remarks.

Fox Business’ Eric Bolling stirred controversy awhile back when he converted the pint that President Obama shared on a trip to Ireland into a bigger-and-deffer 40 oz, and this past Friday, he rolled out some more hip-hop parlance, accusing Obama of hosting “hoodlums” in the “hizzouse,” and later, referring to The White House as”the big crib.”

At one point late last night, CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry described getting emotional as a crowd gathered at the gates to the White House, waving flags and–at one point–singing the National Anthem. But some journalists who were in that crowd say the experience of being there gave them more mixed feelings. Alexis Madrigal, senior editor at The Atlantic was there, and he said at times the energy of the crowd was more like a rowdy bunch of sports fans who were “loud and boorish and silly. We treated the killing of a man who promoted the killing of thousands of Americans like a game with no consideration of the past or future costs.”

Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelance reporter who was recently detained by pro-Gaddafi forces with three other journalists, has been moved to a detainment center in Tripoli, reports say.

Atlantic reporter Clare Morgana Gillis is among four journalists who have been captured in Libya Tuesday afternoon by forces loyal Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Conservative author and blogger Andrew Sullivan announced over the weekend that he is leaving TheAtlantic.com, where he writes his “Daily Dish” blog, to join the Tina Brown-helmed Daily Beast / Newsweek merger.

Stefan Kanfer’s new biography about Humphrey Bogart, Tough Without a Gun, has led film fans and critics to reflect on the life and legacy of the Hollywood legend. “Bogie” passed away in 1957, but he’s left behind an indelible mark on Tinseltown; some say no star will ever achieve the level of success that Bogart did. What was it about the actor that made him such a force?

The Atlantic, a magazine that was founded when there were only thirty-one states in the union, will be making a profit this year— for the first time in at least a decade, according to the New York Times. They did this by imagining themselves “as a venture-capital-backed start-up in Silicon Valley whose mission was to attack and disrupt The Atlantic.” Yet beneath the digital makeover, they’re still print sentimentalists at heart—which they proved when they called the customer whose check officially brought them out of the red.

While vice-presidential loser Sarah Palin takes up considerable real estate in high-profile corners of media, the vice-presidential winner largely gets treated like a loser. But lately he’s been out there setting things straight in The Atlantic, on Morning Joe, and now in GQ. In an interview titled “$#!% Joe Biden Says,” the veep discusses everything from high-school girls to 2012 to double-dating with the Obamas.

In September, Fidel Castro dropped a bombshell that should have elicited more comprehensive responses from both major media outlets and leading political figures alike. Without much prompting, the ailing former leader bluntly proclaimed that communism isn’t working for Cuba. While the failures of “share-as-we-go” economics have been known for some time now, Castro’s comments may preface major changes in U.S.-Cuba relations.

Earlier today, Virginia Phillips, a judge of the United States District Court, issued a critical ruling suspending the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on gay servicemen and women. Whether it holds up or not, it’s a powerful strike against a policy President Barack Obama says he wants repealed – but, as The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan pointed out, it’s a strike that may die at the hands of the Obama administration’s Justice Department.

On the heels of some back-and-forth between top GOP Young Gun Eric Cantor and Nazi-Reenacting Congressional Candidate Rich Iott, Hardball‘s Chris Matthews interviewed the man who broke the story, The Atlantic‘s Joshua Green. The interview took a hilarious turn, however, when Matthews asked Green “Is this some kind of homoerotic thing they do, they put on these uniforms and dance around? What do they actually do?”

Green starts to answer, and Matthews asks, more insistently, “What do they do?”

Barely two days after Bill Maher and The Atlantic‘s Joshua Green outed him as a Nazi re-enactor, Congressional candidate Rich Iott (R-Ohio 9) is apparently unfit to re-enact a bad 80s movie. Iott has been dropped from the GOP’s ‘Young Guns’ website, and head Young Gun Eric Cantor has repudiated him. While Iott’s participation in the group was undeniably bad politics, does he really deserve to be thrown under dem bus?

It’s been a bizarre midterm campaign season. Taking a quick look back, Bill Maher ran through some of the highlights of the season: Christine O’Donnell, Krystal Ball, Carl Paladino– he even threw David Vitter in there for good measure. But this one seems to put the icing on the cake: meet GOP Congressional candidate Rich Iott of Ohio, who likes to reenact WWII battles as a Nazi in his spare time.

There have certainly been a lot of media match-ups lately, what with Jon Stewart‘s ‘rivalry‘ with Glenn Beck, and Bill Maher‘s culture clash with Bill O’Reilly. Now The Atlantic‘s resident blogger Andrew Sullivan wants a piece of the action. Taking issue with a particular “half-baked piece of nonsense” that the “dishonest” O’Reilly uttered, Sullivan is requesting that Fox News let him bring his ‘Daily Dish’ to O’Reilly’s ‘No Spin Zone.’

Whenever a major political party tries to “rebrand” itself, aesthetically, it inevitably ends in disaster. Last time it was GOP.com, but to prove the graphic failure is bipartisan, the Democrats have come up with a new logo, and a new slogan (“change that matters”). An exasperated Bill Maher tried to help out the party by offering some new slogans, like “fighting for you (to a point)” and “we got Lisa Ling‘s sister out of Korea.”

Cuban ex-tyrant and current mascot Fidel Castro has been duped by the imperialist media! Castro trusted The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg enough to grant him an interview, and instead of quoting verbatim his every six-hour harangue on the virtues of Marxism, Goldberg found fascinating a nugget of regret the Comandante let drop: “the Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.” This means “exactly the opposite” of what it says!

When Marc Ambinder went live on Wednesday with his story for The Atlantic that former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman was coming out as a gay man–in one of the worst kept secrets in Washington, D.C.–the story may have appeared to come out of nowhere. Although the story reads as if Ambinder had been [...]

Last week Chris Lehmann, Bookforum editor and Managing Editor of Yahoo’s News Blog, announced the launch of his new book, Rich People Things. The book was born out of his long-running column of the same name for The Awl. Nisha Chittal speaks to Lehmann about the book, the column, and the events that led him to write about so-called “Rich People Things”

The Pentagon Papers Of Our Time. This is the title being given to the new Wikileaks release of more than 90,000 military documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan. It’s hardly surprising given the parallels often drawn between Afghanistan and Vietnam — but what are the real similarities and differences? James Fallows makes some comparisons in The Atlantic.