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Editor in Chief
Madeleine Schwartz lives in Paris, where she writes about the rise of the far right, urban politics and art fraud. Her work appears in The London Review of Books, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where she previously worked as an editor. In 2019, her article “The End of Atlanticism: Has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?” won the European Press Prize. She used the prize money to create The Ballot, a two-year online magazine about international politics. The Ballot published writers in over 40 countries, everywhere from Azerbaijan to Ukraine. This whet her appetite to publish more international reporting in a new magazine. She teaches journalism at Sciences Po.

Managing Editor
Mara Wilson oversees audience development and newsroom operations. She previously worked as an editor at The Atlantic, where she specialized in audience engagement. Her reporting has been featured in The Atlantic and Vice Magazine. She lives in Chicago.

Editors
Lindsay Gellman is a writer based in New York whose work focuses on uncovering patterns of harm in the health industry, and on the ethical treatment of vulnerable patient populations. She was a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Germany, where she reported on predatory cancer clinics. Her investigations into unscrupulous Lyme-disease clinics, stem-cell treatment businesses, and fertility-coaching practices have appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, WIRED, and New York Magazine. She teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.

Linda Kinstler is a writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. Her reporting and criticism on issues of memory politics, technology, law, and history can be found in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian and elsewhere. Her first book, Come to This Court and Cry (Public Affairs, 2022), is an investigation into denialism, historical revisionism, and judicial overreach in Eastern Europe. She is also a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley, where she has taught in the Art of Writing Program.

Julian Lucas is a writer based in New York whose work focuses on the representation of history in literature, games, and the visual arts. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and an editor-at-large at Cabinet. His essays and reviews have also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review. He was a finalist for the 2020–2021 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Ben Mauk is a Berlin-based writer and filmmaker. His work concerns borders, migration, asylum, and statelessness, and he has reported from disputed territories and conflict zones in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. His essays and investigations are published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, and the London Review of Books, among others. He is a two-time National Magazine Award finalist and his first documentary film, Reeducated, a co-production with The New Yorker about mass internment in China, won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media. He co-founded and directs the Berlin Writers' Workshop.

Design Director
Lucy Andersen is a Brooklyn-based designer. She specializes in brand identities, websites, illustration, and book and editorial design.

Operations Manager
Carleen Coulter is a Berlin-based photographer, curator, and arts administrator. In addition to overseeing accounting and permissions for The Dial, she is program director of the Berlin Writers' Workshop. She previously worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was director of KN: Raum für Kunst in Kontext, a project space and gallery in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Her photography appears in Granta, The Paris Review Daily, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications, often in collaboration with writers, journalists, and artists.

Copy Editor
Brian Ransom has edited fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics for The Paris Review, New York Review Comics, and Astra Magazine, among others. His own nonfiction has appeared on The Paris Review Daily and in T: The New York Times Style Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Fact Checker
Sujay Kumar is a journalist in Chicago. He is the managing editor of the Investigative Project on Race and Equity and he fact-checks for Columbia Global Reports and The Drift. He has worked as editor in chief of the Chicago Reader and as a culture editor at Fusion and The Daily Beast.

Editorial Interns
Eythana Miller is a writer and editor from Montana. She was a California Humanities Emerging Journalist fellow and her work appears in CalMatters, The Berkeley Political Review, and Edible Shasta-Butte. A California transplant, she studies political economy at UC Berkeley.

Liana Raguso is an editor living in Chicago, where she has edited for The Point and Euphony. She studies English Literature at the University of Chicago.

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Board
Marc DaCosta
Jessica Henderson
Madeleine Schwartz

Advisors
Carroll Bogert
Joergen Ejboel
Ivan Krastev
Peter Pomerantsev
Christopher D. Shea
Alice Spawls
Richard Tofel
Diane Wachtell

Founding Donor
Beverly Rogers

Support
Open Society Foundations
The de Groot Foundation

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