The Atlantic is announcing the hires of four new staff writers: Kelsey Ables, Janay Kingsberry, Will Oremus, and Matt Viser. All are joining from The Washington Post.Kelsey and Janay will both focus on the major cultural institutions facing pressure from the Trump administration. Will has produced authoritative work about technology and the fracturing of reality, and will continue this line of coverage. Matt has covered the White House and national politics since 2018 and most recently served as the Post’s White House bureau chief.Below are the announcements about our new staff:Kelsey Ables has recently been focused on the various pressures facing major cultural institutions in the Trump era—but she has a wide variety of interests, including visual art, architecture, and design. She has been a nimble and erudite reporter on a challenging beat, covering the convulsions at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institution. She has also written smartly and entertainingly on any number of other subjects, including D.C.’s “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” and the unsettling ubiquity of Kusama pumpkins. Kelsey got her start covering museums and architecture at the Post, and served in the newspaper’s Seoul hub for a stint, writing overnight on a wide array of newsy subjects, including U.S. politics and the papal conclave.Janay Kingsberry has dominated the culture beat nationally for the Post. She has been ambitious and smart on the rolling Kennedy Center crisis, as well as the planned changes to Washington’s monumental landscape. And she scooped that the Smithsonian had removed mention of President Trump from an impeachment exhibit. Before taking on the arts beat, she was a sharp and versatile reporter for the Post’s Style section, where she wrote memorably about Jennifer Hudson’s “spirit tunnels,” grief, social media, and much more. She previously worked at Politico and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Will Oremus also comes to us from The Washington Post, where he has produced authoritative work about technology and the fracturing of reality. He has broken news about the AI industry’s quest to scan millions of the world’s books, profiled a policeman who spent a month in jail for posting a Charlie Kirk meme, and written about the proliferation of conspiracy theories after a devastating hurricane in North Carolina. Before joining the Post, Will worked at OneZero and Slate.Matt Viser is also joining us from The Washington Post, where he’s spent nearly eight years producing distinctive and authoritative coverage of national politics, most recently as the paper’s White House bureau chief. Matt is a highly accomplished chronicler of the presidency, with the prizes to prove it: He’s won both the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. During the Biden and Trump administrations, Matt has delved into the family dynamics and personal proclivities that shape history-making decisions. When not covering the biggest stories of our time, Matt delights in finding odd and quirky tales—the museum in rural Kansas that’s dedicated to the losers of each presidential election, for instance, and Michael Dukakis’s completely normal Thanksgiving habit of collecting old turkey bones from his neighbors. Matt previously spent 16 years at The Boston Globe, where his reporting on city and state governments often took him past The Atlantic’s historic home, the Old Corner Bookstore.Press Contacts:Anna Bross and Paul Jackson | press@theatlantic.com