No Easy Fix | 1. Vanishing Point
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the past five years, American cities have tried—and often failed—to meaningfully address wor...
A New Kind of Family Separation
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is again going after undocumented minors—but their approach is different ...
Epstein Conspiracy, or Epstein Conspiracy Theory?
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and his Department of Justice kicked the conspiracy-theory beehive last week when they ...
Should You Be Having More Babies?
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the United States and many other Western countries, the decision to have children or not is somet...
The Patriotic Punk
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks to Ken Casey, frontman for the Celtic punk b...
Who Could Rule Iran Next?
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We talk with the writer Arash Azizi about what kinds of seismic changes could be coming for his home...
Change Your Personality
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A few years ago, Olga Khazan, author of Me, But Better, set out to change her personality, which eve...
The Real Problem With Trump's Parade
Fri, 13 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this bonus episode of Radio Atlantic, we talk with staff writer Tom Nichols about how all the pie...
Elon and the Genius Trap
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Explaining how Musk tanked his reputation has many ways: First, he alienated environmentalists by te...
Mossad’s Former Chief Calls the War in Gaza ‘Useless’
Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In April, 250 former Israeli intelligence officers signed their names to an open letter of protest a...
Why Pilots Don't Get Therapy
Thu, 29 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic’s Jocelyn Frank reports on the detailed system that may be unintentionally leading pi...
What RFK Jr. Doesn’t Understand About Autism
Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We talk with Eric Garcia, author of We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation and a polit...
Trump and the Crown Prince
Thu, 15 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lavender carpets. Golden swords. Arabian horses. President Trump arrived in the Gulf to a royal welc...
The Art of the Doll
Thu, 08 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Recently, Donald Trump mused that “maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you...
Why Is Trump So Into Crypto?
Thu, 01 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the past few years, Donald Trump has changed his mind about cryptocurrency. He’s gone from beli...
Trump Is Enjoying Himself
Mon, 28 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Why would President Donald Trump invite The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Tru...
Elon Musk's Luck Runs Out
Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For a while, it seemed as if DOGE Elon and Tesla Elon could exist in the same space-time continuum. ...
Sarah McBride Is Used to the Hate
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sarah McBride made models of the White House when she was 6. Her childhood dream, as a Delawarean, w...
Tariffs Are Paused. Uncertainty Isn't.
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The stock market has been tanking since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs a week ago...
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
If the Trump administration’s actions and rhetoric against universities sound vaguely familiar, th...
Classified, or Not Classified?
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, and staff writer Shane Harris published more det...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Our Editor Their War Plans
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:11:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, received a connection request on Signal from a “...
The Bird-Flu Tipping Point
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s been five years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. But there may be another potenti...
Water Is Not Political
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How has the cease-fire changed water access in Gaza? And what does it mean when the people in charge...
The Mind Readers
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How far would a parent go to understand their child? How much might a parent believe? A popular new ...
What Does a Robot With a Soul Sound Like?
Fri, 28 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The sound designer Randy Thom was faced with a challenge: What does a robot sound like? And what if ...
The Five Eyes Have Noticed
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We talk with staff writer Anne Applebaum about what she calls the “end of the post–World War II ...
Americans Are Stuck. Who's to Blame?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Americans used to move all the time to better their lives. Then they stopped. Why? Read Yoni Appelba...
The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In a new memoir, the singer-songwriter Neko Case recounts a childhood of poverty and neglect: a moth...
Purge Now, Pay Later
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Parts of the federal government are being dismantled. But although the decisions from President Dona...
The War for Your Attention
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Our attention is finite and valuable. And it’s nearing its breaking point. In a new book, MSNBC ho...
The Chaos of Blanket Pardons
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In a matter of hours after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump delivered on a promise in...
January 6 and the Case for Oblivion
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As Donald Trump prepares to take office again, the country is still coming to terms with what happen...
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Starts to Fracture
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The MAGA alliance that helped elect Donald Trump is starting to show signs of fracturing. It recentl...
Me, My Future, and I
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Hanna talks to the creators of an AI project called Future You. She also has a conversation with a f...
The Books We Read in High School (Part 2)
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Why should a teenager bother to read a book, when there are so many other demands on their time? We ...
The Books We Read in High School (Part 1)
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Recently, professors at elite colleges told Atlantic writer Rose Horowitch that their students don’...
“We Live Here Now” and Trump’s Retelling of January 6
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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As Donald Trump returns to the White House, his desire to recast January 6 as a day of “love and p...
How Fragile Is Our Vaccine Infrastructure?
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Anti-vaccine sentiment is, more or less, as old as vaccines. When Cotton Mather promoted inoculation...
Why Are You Still Cooking With That?
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We warned you last month to “Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula.” In a recent study conducted ...
Trump's Vision to Remake the Military
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With all the noise around Donald Trump’s nominees, it’s easy to lose sight of his administration...
Democrats’ Immigration Problem
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We hash out the “Democrats are too woke” theory with New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who tweeted t...
Are We Living in a Different America?
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the last few months of his campaign, Trump was free and open with his dictatorial impulses, as he...
Does America Want Chaos?
Mon, 04 Nov
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
One thing tomorrow’s election will test is Americans’ appetite for chaos, particularly the kind ...
Is Journalism Ready for a Second Trump Administration?
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has mused, a few times, about throwing reporters in jail if they...
Trump and the January 6 Memory Hole
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The way Donald Trump talks about January 6 has evolved over time. Directly after the insurrection, h...
Autocracy Is in the Details
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Autocrats often dare their followers to believe absurd claims, as a kind of loyalty test, because “...
It Could All Come Down to North Carolina
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
North Carolina has voted for a Democratic president only once since the 1970s. But the party’s dre...
The Fight to Be the Most “Pro-family”
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The American family continuously evolves. People are marrying later, and having fewer children. Gay ...
The Modern Political Assassin
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
One prevailing stereotype of a political assassin is someone with strong convictions. Another stereo...
A Campaign-Song Nightmare
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rachel had a hit song. Then it became inextricably linked with a failed presidential campaign. Get m...
Trump, Triggered
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 01:13:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kamala Harris expertly manipulated Trump. It won her the debate. Can it win her the White House? Sta...
The Neck Fans Are Coming
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After successive heat waves across the country this summer, people finally found an unexpected sourc...
Laughing at Trump
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Democrats are lately employing a strategy against Donald Trump that he has been using effectively ag...
Scripts | 3. A Special Drug
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The patients had tried everything. Except ketamine. This is the third and final part of Script...
Scripts | 2. The Mandala Effect
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Cooper thought he understood how his psych meds were affecting him. There was a lot he didn’t know...
Scripts | 1. A Hard Pill to Swallow
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
One medication could help end the opioid crisis. Why are so few people taking it? This episode ...
One Israeli Hostage’s Unusual Experience in Gaza
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Liat Beinin Atzili was kidnapped on October 7 and spent more than 50 days in a Gazan home, We spoke ...
The Devil’s Bargain of Sports Betting
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After a 2018 Supreme Court decision kicked off a wave of legalization across America, sports gamblin...
Biden Steps Aside. How Might Harris Step Up?
Mon, 22 Jul
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Joe Biden has announced he’ll no longer seek reelection. With a little over 100 days left until th...
Trump’s Wholesale Renovation of the Republican Party
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Republican Party is gathered in Wisconsin to renominate Donald Trump for president. The conventi...
The Long Simmer of Political Violence in America
Mon, 15 Jul
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
America is not new to political violence, but the near-assassination of Donald Trump is an attack wi...
A Crisis for Democrats
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After his disastrous debate performance in June, President Biden faced calls from Democratic lawmake...
Who Really Benefits From Remote Work?
Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The prevailing narrative of remote work has often been boiled down to: Workers love it, and bosses h...
Britain’s Conservatives Are About to Lose Big
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Parliamentary elections on July 4th look bleak for Britain’s ruling Conservative Party. The Tories...
The Airport Lounge Arms Race
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For years now, the fanciest places in air travel keep getting fancier. Airport lounges have become b...
What Cities Can Teach Us About Life Online
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Humanity’s transition to life online is disorienting, but perhaps not without comparison. Accordin...
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Homelessness?
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Later this summer, the Supreme Court will rule on City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, one of the most im...
Is Sasha Velour in Danger?
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sasha Velour won RuPaul's Drag Race with her spectacular rose-petal lip sync. She wrote and illustra...
Russia’s Psychological Warfare Against Ukraine
Thu, 23 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After months of struggle with little movement, the war in Ukraine may be nearing a crucial point. Wi...
Finally, Male Contraceptives
Thu, 16 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Researchers have been hard at work on a number of male contraceptives that could hit the market in t...
The Chaos of AI Voice Cloning
Thu, 09 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What happens when voices can be copied so well they can fool friends, family… and voters? Staff w...
If Plants Could Talk
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Staff writer Zoë Schlanger is the proud owner of a petunia that glows in the dark. But she doesn’...
In Search of America on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Writer Gary Shteyngart set sail on the inaugural voyage of the biggest cruise ship ever built—the ...
Trump’s Courtroom Campaign
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Stormy Daniels case may have a less serious fact pattern. But it might turn out to be the one ch...
Money Can Buy You Everything, Except Maybe a Birkin Bag
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Is having a Birkin bag ... a right? Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action...
During the Eclipse, Don't Just Look Up
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Where were you for the 2017 total eclipse? Where will you be this year? And where will you be for th...
Do Trump Supporters Mind When He Mocks Biden’s Stutter?
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Atlantic political reporter John Hendrickson has had a stutter since he was a kid. Recently he heard...
The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they've argued the most about: being on their phone. ...
Inside a Hospital’s Abortion Committee
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the course of her career as a...
The Sound of Cruelty
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We talk to Oscar-nominated sound designer Johnnie Burn about how he created the soundscape of horror...
The Lost Boys of Big Tech
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The original “Burn Book” from Mean Girls was used to spread rumors and gossip about other girls ...
Maybe You Should Quit Therapy
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Dr. Richard Friedman has been teaching and seeing patients for more than 35 years. Recently, he wrot...
What If Your Best Friend Is Your Soulmate?
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How would life be different if we centered it on our friends? In her new book, The Other Significant...
The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode of Radio Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of The Atlantic,...
The ‘Coward of Broward’ Re-Examined
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, in 2018, a video circulated showing the sc...
Fatigue Can Wreck You (Redux)
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This episode originally aired August 2023. Many people, especially those dealing with long COVID, su...
The Last Days of the Barcode
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Editor Saahil Desai walks us through the surprising history of the barcode, from its origins in the ...
Nikki Haley Could Surprise Us
Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Donald Trump has an “overwhelming lead” in the Iowa caucus but he is not the sure winner. There ...
Why a Good Economy Feels Like a Bad One
Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The illusion persists, despite all evidence. Americans are pessimistic about the economic future. Th...
How to Waste Time
Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For the holiday, Radio Atlantic is sharing the first episode of the Atlantic podcast How to Keep Tim...
Don’t Buy That Sweater
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We’re in the coldest season. We’re in the shopping season. We’re in the season of hygge. All t...
A Military Loyal to Trump
Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How easily could a reelected President Trump bend the military to his will? We talk to Tom Nichols, ...
How Trump Has Transformed Evangelicals
Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How did evangelical Christians shift from being reluctant supporters of Trump to among his most pass...
The Cockroach Cure
Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The story of a real-life miracle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How to Have a Healthy Argument
Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Thanksgiving is often a time of disagreements big and small. In this episode we talk to Amanda Riple...
The Post-Strike Future of Hollywood
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Hollywood is getting back on its feet now that the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America ...
Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy
Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:37:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Tech evangelist. Libertarian dreamer. Republican megadonor. Peter Thiel is many things. As Atlantic ...
The Man Working to Keep the Water On in Gaza
Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Marwan Bardawil’s job is to provide water in Gaza. This is difficult in normal times, nearly impos...
What Scares Jordan Peele?
Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After Jordan Peele directed the movie Get Out in 2017, he unlocked the genre of Black horror, which ...
What’s Next in Gaza
Wed, 18 Oct
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nearly two weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel, Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood is on the groun...
“We’re Going to Die Here”
Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:33:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Israeli journalist Amir Tibon and his family live along the Israel-Gaza border. He told Radio Atlant...
Why Don’t Biden’s Political Wins Register With Voters?
Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Biden administration has had some monumental successes: a complicated vaccine rollout, a signifi...
After Ozempic
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ozempic and other drugs like it are being heralded as game changers for weight loss. Radio Atlantic ...
Jenisha from Kentucky
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Jenisha Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, went home to Kentucky to interview her family...
Radio Atlantic Presents: How to Talk to People
Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Making small talk can be hard—especially when you’re not sure whether you’re doing it well. Bu...
How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get?
Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
All of a sudden it seems like everyone knows someone who has tested positive for COVID. Are we back ...
Trans in Texas
Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week Texas will join the 20 or so other states that have passed laws restricting access to medi...
The GOP Debate: Trumpiness Without Trump
Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:36:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The front-runner for the Republican nomination did not show up at the debate, but in the sharp excha...
Megan Rapinoe Answers the Critics
Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Megan Rapinoe speaks with Atlantic staff writer Frank Foer. The retiring soccer star discusses her d...
Fatigue Can Wreck You
Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Many people, especially those dealing with long COVID, suffer from fatigue. But not common, everyday...
Lobotomy Day
Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Michael spent years fighting isolation, depression, and despair. Then he met Sam. If you’re ha...
Why a U.S. Women’s Team Loss Could Actually Be A Good Thing
Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The U.S. women’s team has been the dominant force in soccer for a decade, although you wouldn't ne...
‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A lot of people are plagued by the feeling that society used to be better, that neighbors were more ...
Why Can’t We Quit Weddings?
Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Marriages today are much more flexible than they used to be. Women’s roles have changed. Gay marri...
AI Won’t Really Kill Us All, Will It?
Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For months, more than a thousand researchers and technology experts involved in creating artificial ...
Sorry, Honey, It’s Too Hot for Camp
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A heat dome in Texas. Wildfire smoke polluting the air in the East and Midwest. The signs are everyw...
The Power of a Failed Revolt
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads a private army called the Wagner Group, attempted what many have called...
Can Baseball Keep Up With Us?
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Are we just too impatient for America’s famously leisurely national pastime? Hanna Rosin asks staf...
The End of Affirmative Action. For Real This Time.
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 22:41:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Supreme Court is about to issue a set of rulings on affirmative action in higher education. If i...
The Rise and Fall of Chris Licht and CNN
Thu, 08 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta spent long stretches of the past year talking to CNN’s then-CEO Chris...
The Problem With Comparing Social Media to Big Tobacco
Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Politicians, pundits, and even the surgeon general have been highlighting the risks that social medi...
The War Is Not Here to Entertain You
Thu, 25 May 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Host Hanna Rosin talks to Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Anne Applebaum ...
(Re)introducing Radio Atlantic
Thu, 11 May 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic has long been known as an ideas-driven magazine. Now, we’re bringing that same ethos ...
How Germany Remembers the Holocaust
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What can memorials to tragedy in one country tell Americans about how to remember the legacy of slav...
Holy Week — Part 1: Rupture
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The first episode of a new podcast from The Atlantic about a revolution undone. Subscribe to Holy We...
Introducing Holy Week
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Apri...
What AI Means for Search
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With Google and Microsoft releasing new AI tools, it feels like the future is now with artificial in...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Fri, 24 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Secretary of State Antony Blinken as pa...
This Is Not Your Parents' Cold War
Fri, 17 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. Staff writer Tom Nichols, an...
Our Strange New Era of Space Travel
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Humans last set foot on the Moon 50 years ago. Now we’re going back, but the way we explore space—...
The Republican Party Is in a Strange Place
Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The GOP is in a strange place. After falling short of expectations in the midterms, some Republicans...
This COVID Winter Will Be Different
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
December is here and with it comes the third winter of the pandemic. With the holiday travel and ind...
For Love of the Game
Sat, 19 Nov
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Part of the appeal of the World Cup is watching a country’s finest soccer players represent their ...
A Short History of Brazilian Soccer
Sat, 19 Nov
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Atlantic staff writers Franklin Foer and Clint Smith talk about who they're rooting for and why ...
What’s at Stake for Election Workers
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:37:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Mark Leibovich talks with Tim Alberta about the often-overlooked group of people crucial to American...
Who Leaves, Who Stays
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:30:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Taliban forces seized control of Kabul last year, many Afghans faced life-changing choices. One...
What Puerto Rico Needs Most
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:42:00 -0000
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Can an island that keeps getting pummeled by hurricanes ever be free? Executive Producer Claudine Eb...
The New Kabul
Fri, 23 Sep
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Atlantic fellow Bushra Seddique tells the story of the moment everything changed for her in Kabul, a...
Zelensky is Everywhere
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:00:00 -0000
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The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Anne Applebaum traveled to Kyiv i...
Caitlin Dickerson on family separation
Mon, 22 Aug
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The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks with staff writer Caitlin Dickerson about her ...
Laws and Rights After Roe
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 22:37:00 -0000
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The Atlantic's Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance discusses a post-Roe America with two contributing...
The Future of Roe
Sat, 07 May
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This week, Politico published a leaked draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case o...
Barack Obama on Disinformation and The Future of Democracy
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:00:00 -0000
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Disinformation is the story of our age. We see it used as a tactic of war and to further embolden au...
Russia's War
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:19:00 -0000
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After years of threats, Russian forces invaded Ukraine—culminating in the largest attack against o...
Presenting: The Review, a new podcast from The Atlantic
Fri, 22 Oct
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On The Review, The Atlantic's writers and guests discuss how we entertain ourselves and how that sha...
How To Build A Happy Life: A new podcast from The Atlantic
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:39:00 -0000
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Hello Ticket listeners. We'd like to introduce you to a new show, How to Build a Happy Life. In this...
Introducing: The Experiment
Fri, 05 Feb
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A new podcast from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, The Experiment, tells stories from our unfinished ...
Biden: The Candidate for the Trump Moment
Fri, 22 Jan
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Isaac Dovere reflects on the inauguration of President Joe Biden, the path through an election year ...
John Bresnahan Helps Us Understand What The Hell Just Happened
Fri, 08 Jan
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John Bresnahan has covered Congress for decades, recently as Politico’s Capitol Hill bureau chief ...
Jim Clyburn
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:52:00 -0000
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The House majority whip from South Carolina gave Joe Biden the key endorsement of his candidacy. Wha...
Gabe Sterling
Fri, 04 Dec
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As conspiracy theories about the Georgia vote count have escalated into threats, a state election of...
Ed Yong
Fri, 20 Nov
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A quarter-million Americans have now died of COVID-19. The spread of the virus is as bad as it’s e...
Abigail Spanberger
Fri, 13 Nov
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The Virginia Congresswoman shares her concerns over President Trump’s post-election actions and wh...
Brian Stelter
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:30:04 -0000
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Between the pandemic and President Trump, election night this year will be unlike any other. As usua...
Tony Schwartz
Fri, 23 Oct
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The man who wrote The Art of the Deal reflects on Donald Trump, his presidency, and what the coming ...
Hillary Clinton
Fri, 09 Oct
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The former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee discusses President Trump, the pandemic, a...
Barton Gellman
Wed, 30 Sep
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With the election only weeks away, President Trump is down in the polls, sowing doubt about the inte...
Howie Hawkins
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:08:00 -0000
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In 2016, the Green Party won more votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin than Donald Trump’...
Mandela Barnes
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 23:22:00 -0000
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Elected at 31, Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor is a young Black progressive and the face of a new ...
Chad Mayes
Fri, 21 Aug
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Only a few years ago, Chad Mayes was the Republican leader in the California Assembly. Now, he’s o...
Susan Rice
Sat, 08 Aug
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Susan Rice, the former U.N. Ambassador and National Security Advisor for the Obama administration, i...
Donna Shalala
Fri, 24 Jul
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Florida congresswoman Donna Shalala was one of many first-time candidates in 2018. But unlike other ...
Doug Jones
Fri, 10 Jul
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The Alabama senator discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with its...
Carly Fiorina
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:00:00 -0000
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The 2016 Republican presidential candidate announces her intention to vote for Joe Biden, and the co...
Jumaane Williams
Sat, 13 Jun
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The second-highest elected official in New York City is a progressive activist who’s worked to cha...
Nan Whaley
Fri, 29 May
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The mayor of Dayton, Ohio, on how badly America's cities need a bailout—and how painful the impact...
Bill Cassidy
Fri, 15 May
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Senator (and doctor) Bill Cassidy discusses the coronavirus response, vaccines, and how states like ...
Phil Murphy
Fri, 01 May
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The governor of one of the hardest-hit states discusses the coronavirus response, how he thinks abou...
Andrew Yang
Mon, 27 Apr
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The former presidential candidate discusses universal basic income, coronavirus-linked bigotry again...
Stacey Abrams
Fri, 24 Apr
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Georgia politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams discusses elections in a pandemic, vice ...
Voter Suppression By Pandemic
Sat, 11 Apr
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Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund discusses Wisconsin’s election debacle and how the...
‘The Woman From Michigan’
Fri, 03 Apr
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins to discuss Michigan’s coronavirus response and her relationship wi...
Risking Exposure in Congress
Sat, 28 Mar
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Grace Meng represents New York in Congress. Her Queens district is at the center of the U.S. coronav...
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Pandemic Response
Wed, 25 Mar
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked everyone to stay home. He's issued PSA videos, with his mini donkey ...
The Coronavirus Response, with Senator Sherrod Brown
Fri, 20 Mar
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Senator Sherrod Brown discusses the Trump administration's response to the pandemic and what he thin...
This Isn’t Trump’s Katrina (Except When It Is)
Fri, 13 Mar
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Vann Newkirk joins Isaac Dovere to discuss Floodlines—the new Atlantic podcast about Hurricane Kat...
Beating Donald Trump, with David Plouffe
Fri, 06 Mar
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The campaign manager behind Obama’s 2008 election breaks down the state of the Democratic party. W...
South Carolina, with Jennifer Palmieri
Sat, 29 Feb
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Former Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri discusses the South Carolina primary, how 2020 is different th...
The Unlearned Lessons of 2016, with Katy Tur
Fri, 21 Feb
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As Democrats slugged it out in Nevada this week, the president undermined the Justice Department in ...
A Historic Vote on Equal Rights, and Hopes for Gun Control
Fri, 14 Feb
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On Thursday, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton presided over debate on a bill to advance the Equal Right...
The New Hampshire Primary, with Chris Pappas
Fri, 07 Feb
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After the chaos of Iowa, New Hampshire is set to deliver the first clear results of the 2020 preside...
The Iowa Caucuses, with J.D. Scholten
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 23:19:00 -0000
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Isaac Dovere previews the Iowa caucuses with congressional candidate J.D. Scholten. A former basebal...
The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic
Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:30:00 -0000
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On Thursday, Radio Atlantic is becoming The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic. As the 2020 voting b...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
Fri, 24 Jan
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The new mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, won all fifty of Chicago’s wards in a landslide last yea...
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Show-Business Politics
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:00:00 -0000
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The governator discusses the Republican party, his commitment to the environment, and the Democratic...
"He Doesn't Understand War"
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:00:00 -0000
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Ruben Gallego says President Trump doesn’t understand war, but the situation with Iran could soon ...
Will the Trump Presidential Library Have an Impeachment Section?
Fri, 20 Dec
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On the day President Trump is impeached, Isaac Dovere visits the Nixon Library with Tom Steyer. The ...
Why Impeachment Is Different This Time Around
Fri, 13 Dec
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Steve Chabot, a House Republican who helped lead his party's impeachment fight against Bill Clinton,...
Britain Votes (Again)
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:21:41 -0000
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Donald Trump wasn’t the only election surprise of 2016. Three months before he won the presidency,...
Is Russia Winning the Impeachment Hearings?
Fri, 22 Nov
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During an impeachment hearing this week, President Trump's former top Russia adviser accused Republi...
How to Stop A Civil War
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:00:00 -0000
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The special December issue of The Atlantic focuses on a single theme: “How to Stop a Civil War.”...
Virginia Hates Tyrants
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:00:00 -0000
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Senator Tim Kaine discusses Democrats' historic win in Virginia and what it means for 2020. Learn mo...
President Pete?
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:00:00 -0000
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg discusses his unlikely presidential run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
Reporting in ‘Forgotten America’
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:19:45 -0000
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James Fallows spent decades covering national politics for The Atlantic. For the last four years tho...
Sanders vs. Warren?
Fri, 18 Oct
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The fourth Democratic debate this week highlighted Elizabeth Warren’s new front-runner status. It ...
How ISIS Returns
Fri, 11 Oct
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Staff writer Mike Giglio has been reporting on ISIS since before Americans knew what to call it. He ...
Understanding the Whistle-Blower
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:39:00 -0000
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As a CIA officer detailed to the White House, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin is one of the few people ...
Amy Klobuchar, Live at The Atlantic Festival
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:27:27 -0000
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As impeachment news comes in by the minute, The Atlantic hosts its annual festival in our nation’s...
Steve Bullock's Longshot Case
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:00:00 -0000
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The Montana governor talks about his presidential campaign, his personal connection to the gun contr...
The Heir
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:00:00 -0000
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Begun with a gold-rush brothel in the Yukon, the Trump empire has long been passed down through gene...
On the Road with Beto
Fri, 06 Sep
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This week, Beto O'Rourke took a bus out of New York. Not a campaign bus, just a regular old bus. Isa...
The Man Who Couldn't Take It Anymore
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0000
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In December, Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned in protest after President Trump announced plan...
Recession Politics
Fri, 23 Aug
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This week showed increasing signs that a recession could be on the horizon. Manufacturing is shrinki...
Andrew Yang's Campaign Against the Coming Dystopia
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:00:00 -0000
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Andrew Yang joins Isaac Dovere on the trail in Iowa. Yang’s campaign started as a long-shot from a...
Cory Booker on White Supremacist Violence
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0000
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On Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker gave a speech on gun violence and white nationalism at the Emanuel...
Rebuilding the Blue Wall
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:30:00 -0000
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While in Detroit covering the Democratic debates, Isaac Dovere sits down with Dana Nessel, Michigan’...
The Veteran Candidate
Fri, 26 Jul
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Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman and presidential candidate, joins Isaac Dovere this week...
How to Cover Racist Tweets
Fri, 19 Jul
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On Sunday, President Trump told four members of Congress to “go back” to the countries “from w...
Trump Diplomacy
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:55:54 -0000
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This week, the British ambassador to the United States resigned after private cables leaked with his...
The Other Republican
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 04:00:00 -0000
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Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has experience taking down a Republican president. He began ...
The Fight for Reparations
Fri, 21 Jun
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On Wednesday—for the first time in a decade—Congress held a hearing on reparations for slavery. ...
The Reelection Battle Begins
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:30:00 -0000
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The 2020 race is on. Staff writer Edward-Isaac Dovere, who covers Democratic politics, was in Cedar ...
Partisanship at the Supreme Court
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:39:47 -0000
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In the coming days, the Supreme Court will announce its decisions on two cases that ask the same bas...
The Abortion Debate’s New Urgency
Thu, 30 May 2019 23:19:00 -0000
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Recent weeks have seen unprecedented anti-abortion bills pass in states across the country. In Alaba...
Introducing Crazy/Genius Season 3
Thu, 23 May 2019 04:00:00 -0000
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Privacy is now the most important idea on the internet—so what exactly is it? And if we care about...
Trump’s Trade War
Thu, 16 May 2019 04:00:00 -0000
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Trump isn’t like most Republican presidents, but his views on trade have been an unusually firm de...
Liberalism’s Last Stand
Thu, 09 May 2019 18:32:12 -0000
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Franklin Foer joins Isaac Dovere to discuss his story in the June issue of The Atlantic about Hungar...
Is Politics Funny Anymore?
Thu, 02 May 2019 10:00:00 -0000
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Last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the first one in years without a comedian....
To Impeach Or Not To Impeach?
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:48:45 -0000
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Atlantic Ideas Editor Yoni Appelbaum and Vox editor-at-large Ezra Klein have both deeply researched ...
The Trauma at the Border
Sat, 20 Apr
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On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr ordered immigration judges to stop releasing asylum seeker...
Can A Long-Shot Candidate Beat Donald Trump?
Fri, 12 Apr
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The crowded race for the Democratic nomination includes both frontrunners and long-shots, but how do...
Sex, Gender, and the Democratic Party
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 04:49:52 -0000
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In recent days, three women have accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate contact. O...
Politics After Mueller
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:48:02 -0000
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Last week, the special counsel submitted his report to Attorney General Bill Barr. And this week, Ba...
President Trump’s Post-Mueller Corruption Problem
Sat, 23 Mar
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When elected, most presidents either sell their assets or put them in a blind trust. Isolating a pre...
Paul Manafort and the Problem of White-Collar Crime
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:47:36 -0000
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will spend around seven years in federal prison — far...
The Future of the Democratic Party
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:02:27 -0000
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The Democratic party is in a battle with itself. After devastating losses in 2016, the party was res...
President Trump's New Legal Nightmare
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:48:00 -0000
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On Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen called the president a racist, a co...
State of Emergency
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:04:48 -0000
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Last week, President Trump declared a national emergency to get funding for the wall. The move gave ...
Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:08:37 -0000
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” ov...
Something Rotten in the State of Virginia
Wed, 06 Feb
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Recently, news broke that Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both wore blackface ...
Kamala Harris, Progressive Prosecutor?
Fri, 01 Feb
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Senator Kamala Harris has drawn criticism for beginning her 2020 campaign by pitching herself as a ‘...
The Art of the Shutdown Deal
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:48:31 -0000
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The government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history, but President Trump seems no closer to a...
Is the President a Russian Asset?
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:03:08 -0000
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On Friday, the New York Times published a startling story: In 2017, days after Trump fired FBI Direc...
How to Fix Social Media
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:18:46 -0000
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Social media platforms once promised to connect the world. Today’s digital communities, though, of...
What Happened to the GOP?
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:01:10 -0000
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Observing antidemocratic ‘power grabs’ by state Republicans, Atlantic staff writer George Packer...
Does the NRA Connect Trump to Russia?
Fri, 14 Dec
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On Thursday, Maria Butina became the first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence the 20...
The First Gene-Edited Babies
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:56:00 -0000
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A Chinese researcher recently touched off a global controversy when he announced the birth of the wo...
What’s Happening With Mueller and Manafort?
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:11:00 -0000
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Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Mueller probe has collapsed. In a Monday filing, the special ...
Florida Flashbacks
Fri, 16 Nov
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The midterms were over a week ago, but a number of races have yet to be called. In Florida, the sena...
What Did We Learn From the Midterms?
Fri, 09 Nov
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Executive Editor Matt Thompson interviews Atlantic reporters on what lessons they drew from the midt...
Midterms in the Wake of Political Violence
Fri, 02 Nov
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The upcoming midterms mark the first nationwide referendum on the Trump presidency and the GOP-led C...
The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Fri, 26 Oct
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On October 2nd, Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate i...
The Politics of Ancestry
Fri, 19 Oct
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Senator Elizabeth Warren recently shared results of a genetic analysis to back up her family’s sto...
America's Higher Education Crisis
Fri, 12 Oct
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A college education has become a key asset towards success in the American economy, but for many Ame...
Remembering Ferguson with DeRay Mckesson
Fri, 05 Oct
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Four years ago, after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, protestors took to the streets...
Is the Public Square Gone?
Fri, 28 Sep
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After a news week that’s felt more like a news month, Matt Thompson sits down with two experienced...
The Reputations and Reckonings of #MeToo
Fri, 21 Sep
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As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces assault allegations, the #MeToo movement reaches its ...
Is Democracy Dying?
Fri, 14 Sep
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With authoritarianism and populism on the rise around the world, The Atlantic examines the fate of d...
How Much Longer Can Football Last?
Fri, 07 Sep
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Mark Leibovich has a day job covering the reality show of politics as the New York Times Magazine’...
The Endless Devastation of Hurricane Season
Fri, 31 Aug
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This week, the most rigorous estimate yet of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria was published, marking...
Trump’s Worst Day
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:30:00 -0000
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Matt and Gillian discuss Paul Manafort’s guilty verdict and Michael Cohen’s guilty plea with Fra...
When Does Hollywood’s Diversity Become Real Representation?
Fri, 17 Aug
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With movies like Crazy Rich Asians, BlacKkKlansman, and Sorry To Bother You out in theaters, Hollywo...
Charlottesville: One Year Later
Fri, 10 Aug
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It’s been a year since the violence of the “Unite the Right” rally and the political turmoil o...
Keepers of the Year 2018
Fri, 20 Jul
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The first anniversary of Radio Atlantic this week coincides with one of the newsiest weeks of 2018. ...
The Future of Europe
Fri, 13 Jul
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As President Trump meets with other western leaders in Europe, the spirit of democratic cooperation ...
Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
Fri, 06 Jul
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“Humanity is now in the midst of its fastest-ever period of change,” writes Ed Yong in the July/...
The View from the Border
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:53:00 -0000
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Outrage over families separated at the border has reached a fever pitch. Social media is awash with ...
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Fri, 15 Jun
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Nationwide, black Americans live three years less than white Americans. In places with a history of ...
The North Korea Summit
Fri, 08 Jun
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Two of the world’s most volatile heads of state—Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump—have moved in the...
A White House Troll ‘Owning the Libs’
Fri, 01 Jun
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A new generation of political activists have grown up more interested in provoking outrage from thei...
Is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Past Solving?
Fri, 25 May
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The decades-old dispute between Israelis and Palestinians seems to be at a new low these days. Two A...
Happy Mueller-versary
Fri, 18 May
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has been the focus of headlines and cable news for ...
Introducing Crazy/Genius: Why Can't Facebook Tell the Truth?
Fri, 11 May
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This week's Radio Atlantic brings you the first episode of our new show Crazy/Genius, hosted by Atla...
Is Politics Ruining Pop Culture?
Fri, 04 May
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Some Americans who grew up identifying with Roseanne have found themselves alienated by Roseanne Bar...
Is the Presidency Broken?
Fri, 27 Apr
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“We are a president-obsessed nation, so much so that we undermine the very idea of our constitutio...
The Syria Disaster, Seven Years In
Fri, 20 Apr
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Long the crossroads of civilizations, Syria has now spent seven years as the proxy warzone of great ...
Becoming White in America
Fri, 13 Apr
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In her new book Futureface, Alex Wagner writes that “immigration raises into relief some of our mo...
News Update: Who Could Tame Facebook?
Fri, 13 Apr
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As Atlantic staff writer Robinson Meyer recently wrote, Facebook “is currently embroiled in the wo...
Trumpocracy
Fri, 06 Apr
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“Trump gambled that Americans resent each other’s differences more than they cherish their share...
King Remembered
Fri, 30 Mar
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In his last speech, known to history as “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr....
The Family Unit in a Divided Era
Fri, 23 Mar
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The family is where the forces that are driving Americans farther apart—political polarization, ge...
Does America Have a Monopoly Problem?
Fri, 16 Mar
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“Politicians from both parties publicly worship the solemn dignity of entrepreneurship and small b...
If We Could Learn From History
Fri, 09 Mar
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Discarding the limits on a leader's time in office is a classic autocrat's move. So when Xi Jinping ...
Goodbye Black History Month, Hello Black Future
Fri, 02 Mar
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Moviegoers across America are filling theaters to see, as The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer describes it,...
How Innocence Becomes Irrelevant (No Way Out, Part III)
Fri, 23 Feb
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After Rick Magnis, a Texas judge, reviewed the evidence in Benjamine Spencer’s case, he recommende...
Who Killed Jeffrey Young? (No Way Out, Part II)
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:00:00 -0000
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In part one of our three-part series "No Way Out," Barbara Bradley Hagerty told the story of how Ben...
No Way Out, Part I
Fri, 16 Feb
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In 1987, Jeffrey Young was robbed and killed, and his body was left on a street in the poor neighbor...
From 'I, Tonya' to 'Cat Person,' Is 'Based On a True Story' Better?
Fri, 09 Feb
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Conor Friedersdorf recently argued in The Atlantic that in this moment, when the truth is bitterly c...
Paul Manafort and How the Swamp Was Made
Fri, 02 Feb
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“Conventional wisdom suggests that the temptations of Washington, D.C., corrupt all the idealists,...
Who Gets to be American?
Fri, 26 Jan
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Once again, immigration is at the top of America's legislative agenda, as it has been, seemingly eve...
Bricks, Clicks, and the Future of Shopping
Fri, 19 Jan
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The 'retail apocalypse' is upon us, they say. In the United States, 2017 saw emptied malls, shuttere...
The Presidential Fitness Challenge
Fri, 12 Jan
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As the anniversary of his inauguration nears, a new book filled with salacious claims about the Trum...
How Has America Changed Since 1968?
Fri, 05 Jan
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As 2018 begins, tensions and tumult in America are high. But before the end of 1968, Conor Friedersd...
Ideas of the Year, 2017 Edition
Fri, 22 Dec
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Every year is impossible to synthesize. Yet 2017 was not just another year. To help us wrangle the c...
Putin, Russia, and the End of History
Fri, 15 Dec
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Vladimir Putin just announced, to the surprise of no one, that he will run for reelection as Preside...
The Manifest Destiny of Mike Pence
Fri, 08 Dec
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That Pence is the vice president of the United States is "a loaves-and-fishes miracle," writes McKay...
The Great Recession, One Decade Later
Fri, 01 Dec
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In December 2007, the U.S. marked the beginning of its longest recession since World War II. Now the...
John Wayne, Donald Trump, and the American Man
Fri, 24 Nov
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For generations, Hollywood has defined what masculinity means in the U.S., with iconic screen figure...
How an American Neo-Nazi Was Made
Fri, 17 Nov
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Andrew Anglin spent his formative years flirting with hippie progressivism, then tried his hand at b...
The Press and the Election of 2016: One Year Later
Fri, 10 Nov
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It’s a year after Donald Trump's upset election victory. Before and after the 2016 election, Presi...
Khizr Khan on What Patriotism Requires
Fri, 03 Nov
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Since the 2016 election heightened America's deep political divides, the mantle of patriotism has be...
Reporting on Open Secrets, with Jodi Kantor and Katie Benner
Fri, 27 Oct
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Allegations of sexual harassment (and more) by powerful men in numerous industries have been leading...
Why Do Happy People Cheat?
Fri, 20 Oct
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"Infidelity," Esther Perel writes in the October issue of The Atlantic, "happens in bad marriages an...
Derek Thompson and the Moonshot Factory
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:41:00 -0000
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Few journalists have gotten a peek inside X, the secretive lab run by Google's parent company Alphab...
The Miseducation of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fri, 06 Oct
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In his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Atlantic's national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coate...
Russia! Live with Julia Ioffe and Eliot A. Cohen
Fri, 29 Sep
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According to the U.S. intelligence community, this much is settled fact: Russia intervened in the 20...
What Are Public Schools For?
Fri, 22 Sep
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The idea that public schools are failing is one of the most commonly heard complaints in American so...
Will America's Institutions Survive President Trump?
Fri, 15 Sep
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Eight months into the Trump administration, we're taking stock: What is shaping up to be President T...
A Memo to the Huddled Masses
Fri, 08 Sep
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Immigrants flock to the U.S. in pursuit of the American Dream. But does the end of the Deferred Acti...
News Update: The Questions After Harvey
Sat, 02 Sep
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If history is any guide, the biggest problems for residents of the Houston area will come into focus...
What Game of Thrones Has Taught Us About Politics
Fri, 01 Sep
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"Winter is coming," they warned us, and the seventh season of Game of Thrones might have proved them...
Are Smartphones Harming Our Kids?
Fri, 25 Aug
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It's been ten years since the iPhone came out, and now the first generation to grow up with smartpho...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum on Charlottesville's Aftermath
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:12:00 -0000
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After white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of three America...
Kurt Andersen on How America Lost Its Mind
Fri, 11 Aug
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When did the reality-based community start losing to reality show celebrity? Why are "alternative fa...
News Update: Mark Bowden on North Korea
Wed, 09 Aug
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Given new revelations about North Korea's nuclear capabilities—and newly harsh rhetoric from Presi...
Ask Not What Your Robots Can Do For You
Fri, 04 Aug
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Our increasingly smart machines aren’t just changing the workforce, they’re changing us. Already...
One Nation Under God?
Fri, 28 Jul
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America prides itself on pluralism and tolerance, but how far does that tolerance extend when it com...
'Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory'
Fri, 21 Jul
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The Atlantic was founded on the eve of the Civil War to advance the American idea. But as we approac...
Trailer
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:42:00 -0000
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Coming July 21: A weekly conversation about what's happening in our world, how things got the way th...