Peter Beinart, essayist and former editor of The New Republic, will join The Atlantic and National Journal, in January as contributing editor.

Most recently, Beinart, who has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Financial Times and Newsweek. Most recently, he was senior political writer for The Daily Beast.

Beinart has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, Meet the Press and The Colbert Report.

He wrote “The Good Fight,” “The Icarus Syndrome,” and “The Crisis of Zionism.”

Tim Grieve, e-i-c at NJ, called Beinart “one of the most entrepreneurial journalists working today” who has helped shift the “national conversation about American politics and foreign policy.”

Beinart also participate in live events slated for the AJ and NJ during 2014.