Radio Atlantic

Mon, 28 Apr 2025

Why would President Donald Trump invite The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Tru...

Thu, 24 Apr 2025

For a while, it seemed as if DOGE Elon and Tesla Elon could exist in the same space-time continuum. ...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

Sarah McBride made models of the White House when she was 6. Her childhood dream, as a Delawarean, w...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

The stock market has been tanking since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs a week ago...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

If the Trump administration’s actions and rhetoric against universities sound vaguely familiar, th...

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, and staff writer Shane Harris published more det...

Tue, 25 Mar 2025

The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, received a connection request on Signal from a “...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

It’s been five years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. But there may be another potenti...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

How has the cease-fire changed water access in Gaza? And what does it mean when the people in charge...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

How far would a parent go to understand their child? How much might a parent believe? A popular new ...

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

The sound designer Randy Thom was faced with a challenge: What does a robot sound like? And what if ...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

We talk with staff writer Anne Applebaum about what she calls the “end of the post–World War II ...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Americans used to move all the time to better their lives. Then they stopped. Why? Read Yoni Appelba...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

In a new memoir, the singer-songwriter Neko Case recounts a childhood of poverty and neglect: a moth...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

Parts of the federal government are being dismantled. But although the decisions from President Dona...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

Our attention is finite and valuable. And it’s nearing its breaking point. In a new book, MSNBC ho...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

In a matter of hours after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump delivered on a promise in...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

As Donald Trump prepares to take office again, the country is still coming to terms with what happen...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

The MAGA alliance that helped elect Donald Trump is starting to show signs of fracturing. It recentl...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

Hanna talks to the creators of an AI project called Future You. She also has a conversation with a f...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

Why should a teenager bother to read a book, when there are so many other demands on their time? We ...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

Recently, professors at elite colleges told Atlantic writer Rose Horowitch that their students don’...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, his desire to recast January 6 as a day of “love and p...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

Anti-vaccine sentiment is, more or less, as old as vaccines. When Cotton Mather promoted inoculation...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

We warned you last month to “Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula.” In a recent study conducted ...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

With all the noise around Donald Trump’s nominees, it’s easy to lose sight of his administration...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

We hash out the “Democrats are too woke” theory with New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who tweeted t...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

In the last few months of his campaign, Trump was free and open with his dictatorial impulses, as he...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

One thing tomorrow’s election will test is Americans’ appetite for chaos, particularly the kind ...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has mused, a few times, about throwing reporters in jail if they...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

The way Donald Trump talks about January 6 has evolved over time. Directly after the insurrection, h...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

Autocrats often dare their followers to believe absurd claims, as a kind of loyalty test, because “...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

North Carolina has voted for a Democratic president only once since the 1970s. But the party’s dre...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

The American family continuously evolves. People are marrying later, and having fewer children. Gay ...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

One prevailing stereotype of a political assassin is someone with strong convictions. Another stereo...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

Rachel had a hit song. Then it became inextricably linked with a failed presidential campaign. Get m...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Kamala Harris expertly manipulated Trump. It won her the debate. Can it win her the White House? Sta...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

After successive heat waves across the country this summer, people finally found an unexpected sourc...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

Democrats are lately employing a strategy against Donald Trump that he has been using effectively ag...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

The patients had tried everything. Except ketamine.   This is the third and final part of Script...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Cooper thought he understood how his psych meds were affecting him. There was a lot he didn’t know...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

One medication could help end the opioid crisis. Why are so few people taking it? This episode ...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

Liat Beinin Atzili was kidnapped on October 7 and spent more than 50 days in a Gazan home, We spoke ...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

After a 2018 Supreme Court decision kicked off a wave of legalization across America, sports gamblin...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Joe Biden has announced he’ll no longer seek reelection. With a little over 100 days left until th...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

The Republican Party is gathered in Wisconsin to renominate Donald Trump for president. The conventi...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

America is not new to political violence, but the near-assassination of Donald Trump is an attack wi...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

After his disastrous debate performance in June, President Biden faced calls from Democratic lawmake...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

The prevailing narrative of remote work has often been boiled down to: Workers love it, and bosses h...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

Parliamentary elections on July 4th look bleak for Britain’s ruling Conservative Party. The Tories...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

For years now, the fanciest places in air travel keep getting fancier. Airport lounges have become b...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

Humanity’s transition to life online is disorienting, but perhaps not without comparison. Accordin...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

Later this summer, the Supreme Court will rule on City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, one of the most im...

Thu, 30 May 2024

Sasha Velour won RuPaul's Drag Race with her spectacular rose-petal lip sync. She wrote and illustra...

Thu, 23 May 2024

After months of struggle with little movement, the war in Ukraine may be nearing a crucial point. Wi...

Thu, 16 May 2024

Researchers have been hard at work on a number of male contraceptives that could hit the market in t...

Thu, 09 May 2024

What happens when voices can be copied so well they can fool friends, family… and voters? Staff w...

Thu, 02 May 2024

Staff writer Zoë Schlanger is the proud owner of a petunia that glows in the dark. But she doesn’...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

Writer Gary Shteyngart set sail on the inaugural voyage of the biggest cruise ship ever built—the ...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

The Stormy Daniels case may have a less serious fact pattern. But it might turn out to be the one ch...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

Is having a Birkin bag ... a right? Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024

Where were you for the 2017 total eclipse? Where will you be this year? And where will you be for th...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

Atlantic political reporter John Hendrickson has had a stutter since he was a kid. Recently he heard...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they've argued the most about: being on their phone. ...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the course of her career as a...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

We talk to Oscar-nominated sound designer Johnnie Burn about how he created the soundscape of horror...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

The original “Burn Book” from Mean Girls was used to spread rumors and gossip about other girls ...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

Dr. Richard Friedman has been teaching and seeing patients for more than 35 years. Recently, he wrot...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

How would life be different if we centered it on our friends? In her new book, The Other Significant...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

In this week’s episode of Radio Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of The Atlantic,...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

After the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, in 2018, a video circulated showing the sc...

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

This episode originally aired August 2023. Many people, especially those dealing with long COVID, su...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

Editor Saahil Desai walks us through the surprising history of the barcode, from its origins in the ...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

Donald Trump has an “overwhelming lead” in the Iowa caucus but he is not the sure winner. There ...

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

The illusion persists, despite all evidence. Americans are pessimistic about the economic future. Th...

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

For the holiday, Radio Atlantic is sharing the first episode of the Atlantic podcast How to Keep Tim...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

We’re in the coldest season. We’re in the shopping season. We’re in the season of hygge. All t...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

How easily could a reelected President Trump bend the military to his will? We talk to Tom Nichols, ...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

How did evangelical Christians shift from being reluctant supporters of Trump to among his most pass...

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

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Thu, 23 Nov 2023

Thanksgiving is often a time of disagreements big and small. In this episode we talk to Amanda Riple...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

Hollywood is getting back on its feet now that the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America ...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

Tech evangelist. Libertarian dreamer. Republican megadonor. Peter Thiel is many things. As Atlantic ...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

Marwan Bardawil’s job is to provide water in Gaza. This is difficult in normal times, nearly impos...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

After Jordan Peele directed the movie Get Out in 2017, he unlocked the genre of Black horror, which ...

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

Nearly two weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel, Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood is on the groun...

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

Israeli journalist Amir Tibon and his family live along the Israel-Gaza border. He told Radio Atlant...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

The Biden administration has had some monumental successes: a complicated vaccine rollout, a signifi...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

Ozempic and other drugs like it are being heralded as game changers for weight loss. Radio Atlantic ...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

 When Jenisha Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, went home to Kentucky to interview her family...

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

Making small talk can be hard—especially when you’re not sure whether you’re doing it well. Bu...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

All of a sudden it seems like everyone knows someone who has tested positive for COVID. Are we back ...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

This week Texas will join the 20 or so other states that have passed laws restricting access to medi...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

The front-runner for the Republican nomination did not show up at the debate, but in the sharp excha...

Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Megan Rapinoe speaks with Atlantic staff writer Frank Foer. The retiring soccer star discusses her d...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

Many people, especially those dealing with long COVID, suffer from fatigue. But not common, everyday...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

Michael spent years fighting isolation, depression, and despair. Then he met Sam.  If you’re ha...

Thu, 03 Aug 2023

The U.S. women’s team has been the dominant force in soccer for a decade, although you wouldn't ne...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

A lot of people are plagued by the feeling that society used to be better, that neighbors were more ...

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

Marriages today are much more flexible than they used to be. Women’s roles have changed. Gay marri...

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

For months, more than a thousand researchers and technology experts involved in creating artificial ...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

A heat dome in Texas. Wildfire smoke polluting the air in the East and Midwest. The signs are everyw...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads a private army called the Wagner Group, attempted what many have called...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Are we just too impatient for America’s famously leisurely national pastime? Hanna Rosin asks staf...

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

The Supreme Court is about to issue a set of rulings on affirmative action in higher education. If i...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta spent long stretches of the past year talking to CNN’s then-CEO Chris...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

Politicians, pundits, and even the surgeon general have been highlighting the risks that social medi...

Thu, 25 May 2023

Host Hanna Rosin talks to Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Anne Applebaum ...

Thu, 11 May 2023

The Atlantic has long been known as an ideas-driven magazine. Now, we’re bringing that same ethos ...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

What can memorials to tragedy in one country tell Americans about how to remember the legacy of slav...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

The first episode of a new podcast from The Atlantic about a revolution undone. Subscribe to Holy We...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023

Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Apri...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

With Google and Microsoft releasing new AI tools, it feels like the future is now with artificial in...

Fri, 24 Feb 2023

The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Secretary of State Antony Blinken as pa...

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. Staff writer Tom Nichols, an...

Thu, 29 Dec 2022

Humans last set foot on the Moon 50 years ago. Now we’re going back, but the way we explore space—...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

The GOP is in a strange place. After falling short of expectations in the midterms, some Republicans...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022

December is here and with it comes the third winter of the pandemic. With the holiday travel and ind...

Sat, 19 Nov 2022

Part of the appeal of the World Cup is watching a country’s finest soccer players represent their ...

Sat, 19 Nov 2022

The Atlantic staff writers Franklin Foer and Clint Smith talk about who they're rooting for and why ...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

Mark Leibovich talks with Tim Alberta about the often-overlooked group of people crucial to American...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

When Taliban forces seized control of Kabul last year, many Afghans faced life-changing choices. One...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

Can an island that keeps getting pummeled by hurricanes ever be free? Executive Producer Claudine Eb...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022

Atlantic fellow Bushra Seddique tells the story of the moment everything changed for her in Kabul, a...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Anne Applebaum traveled to Kyiv i...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks with staff writer Caitlin Dickerson about her ...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

The Atlantic's Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance discusses a post-Roe America with two contributing...

Sat, 07 May 2022

This week, Politico published a leaked draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case o...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Disinformation is the story of our age. We see it used as a tactic of war and to further embolden au...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022

After years of threats, Russian forces invaded Ukraine—culminating in the largest attack against o...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021

On The Review, The Atlantic's writers and guests discuss how we entertain ourselves and how that sha...

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

Hello Ticket listeners. We'd like to introduce you to a new show, How to Build a Happy Life. In this...

Fri, 05 Feb 2021

A new podcast from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, The Experiment, tells stories from our unfinished ...

Fri, 22 Jan 2021

Isaac Dovere reflects on the inauguration of President Joe Biden, the path through an election year ...

Fri, 08 Jan 2021

John Bresnahan has covered Congress for decades, recently as Politico’s Capitol Hill bureau chief ...

Thu, 17 Dec 2020

The House majority whip from South Carolina gave Joe Biden the key endorsement of his candidacy. Wha...

Fri, 04 Dec 2020

As conspiracy theories about the Georgia vote count have escalated into threats, a state election of...

Fri, 20 Nov 2020

A quarter-million Americans have now died of COVID-19. The spread of the virus is as bad as it’s e...

Fri, 13 Nov 2020

The Virginia Congresswoman shares her concerns over President Trump’s post-election actions and wh...

Thu, 29 Oct 2020

Between the pandemic and President Trump, election night this year will be unlike any other. As usua...

Fri, 23 Oct 2020

The man who wrote The Art of the Deal reflects on Donald Trump, his presidency, and what the coming ...

Fri, 09 Oct 2020

The former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee discusses President Trump, the pandemic, a...

Wed, 30 Sep 2020

With the election only weeks away, President Trump is down in the polls, sowing doubt about the inte...

Thu, 17 Sep 2020

In 2016, the Green Party won more votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin than Donald Trump’...

Thu, 03 Sep 2020

Elected at 31, Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor is a young Black progressive and the face of a new ...

Fri, 21 Aug 2020

Only a few years ago, Chad Mayes was the Republican leader in the California Assembly. Now, he’s o...

Sat, 08 Aug 2020

Susan Rice, the former U.N. Ambassador and National Security Advisor for the Obama administration, i...

Fri, 24 Jul 2020

Florida congresswoman Donna Shalala was one of many first-time candidates in 2018. But unlike other ...

Fri, 10 Jul 2020

The Alabama senator discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with its...

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

The 2016 Republican presidential candidate announces her intention to vote for Joe Biden, and the co...

Sat, 13 Jun 2020

The second-highest elected official in New York City is a progressive activist who’s worked to cha...

Fri, 29 May 2020

The mayor of Dayton, Ohio, on how badly America's cities need a bailout—and how painful the impact...

Fri, 15 May 2020

Senator (and doctor) Bill Cassidy discusses the coronavirus response, vaccines, and how states like ...

Fri, 01 May 2020

The governor of one of the hardest-hit states discusses the coronavirus response, how he thinks abou...

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

The former presidential candidate discusses universal basic income, coronavirus-linked bigotry again...

Fri, 24 Apr 2020

Georgia politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams discusses elections in a pandemic, vice ...

Sat, 11 Apr 2020

Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund discusses Wisconsin’s election debacle and how the...

Fri, 03 Apr 2020

Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins to discuss Michigan’s coronavirus response and her relationship wi...

Sat, 28 Mar 2020

Grace Meng represents New York in Congress. Her Queens district is at the center of the U.S. coronav...

Wed, 25 Mar 2020

Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked everyone to stay home. He's issued PSA videos, with his mini donkey ...

Fri, 20 Mar 2020

Senator Sherrod Brown discusses the Trump administration's response to the pandemic and what he thin...

Fri, 13 Mar 2020

Vann Newkirk joins Isaac Dovere to discuss Floodlines—the new Atlantic podcast about Hurricane Kat...

Fri, 06 Mar 2020

The campaign manager behind Obama’s 2008 election breaks down the state of the Democratic party. W...

Sat, 29 Feb 2020

Former Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri discusses the South Carolina primary, how 2020 is different th...

Fri, 21 Feb 2020

As Democrats slugged it out in Nevada this week, the president undermined the Justice Department in ...

Fri, 14 Feb 2020

On Thursday, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton presided over debate on a bill to advance the Equal Right...

Fri, 07 Feb 2020

After the chaos of Iowa, New Hampshire is set to deliver the first clear results of the 2020 preside...

Thu, 30 Jan 2020

Isaac Dovere previews the Iowa caucuses with congressional candidate J.D. Scholten. A former basebal...

Tue, 28 Jan 2020

On Thursday, Radio Atlantic is becoming The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic. As the 2020 voting b...

Fri, 24 Jan 2020

The new mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, won all fifty of Chicago’s wards in a landslide last yea...

Thu, 16 Jan 2020

The governator discusses the Republican party, his commitment to the environment, and the Democratic...

Thu, 09 Jan 2020

Ruben Gallego says President Trump doesn’t understand war, but the situation with Iran could soon ...

Fri, 20 Dec 2019

On the day President Trump is impeached, Isaac Dovere visits the Nixon Library with Tom Steyer. The ...

Fri, 13 Dec 2019

Steve Chabot, a House Republican who helped lead his party's impeachment fight against Bill Clinton,...

Thu, 05 Dec 2019

Donald Trump wasn’t the only election surprise of 2016. Three months before he won the presidency,...

Fri, 22 Nov 2019

During an impeachment hearing this week, President Trump's former top Russia adviser accused Republi...

Thu, 14 Nov 2019

The special December issue of The Atlantic focuses on a single theme: “How to Stop a Civil War.”...

Thu, 07 Nov 2019

Senator Tim Kaine discusses Democrats' historic win in Virginia and what it means for 2020. Learn mo...

Thu, 31 Oct 2019

Mayor Pete Buttigieg discusses his unlikely presidential run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Thu, 24 Oct 2019

James Fallows spent decades covering national politics for The Atlantic. For the last four years tho...

Fri, 18 Oct 2019

The fourth Democratic debate this week highlighted Elizabeth Warren’s new front-runner status. It ...

Fri, 11 Oct 2019

Staff writer Mike Giglio has been reporting on ISIS since before Americans knew what to call it. He ...

Thu, 03 Oct 2019

As a CIA officer detailed to the White House, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin is one of the few people ...

Thu, 26 Sep 2019

As impeachment news comes in by the minute, The Atlantic hosts its annual festival in our nation’s...

Thu, 19 Sep 2019

The Montana governor talks about his presidential campaign, his personal connection to the gun contr...

Thu, 12 Sep 2019

Begun with a gold-rush brothel in the Yukon, the Trump empire has long been passed down through gene...

Fri, 06 Sep 2019

This week, Beto O'Rourke took a bus out of New York. Not a campaign bus, just a regular old bus. Isa...

Thu, 29 Aug 2019

In December, Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned in protest after President Trump announced plan...

Fri, 23 Aug 2019

This week showed increasing signs that a recession could be on the horizon. Manufacturing is shrinki...

Thu, 15 Aug 2019

Andrew Yang joins Isaac Dovere on the trail in Iowa. Yang’s campaign started as a long-shot from a...

Thu, 08 Aug 2019

On Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker gave a speech on gun violence and white nationalism at the Emanuel...

Thu, 01 Aug 2019

While in Detroit covering the Democratic debates, Isaac Dovere sits down with Dana Nessel, Michigan’...

Fri, 26 Jul 2019

Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman and presidential candidate, joins Isaac Dovere this week...

Fri, 19 Jul 2019

On Sunday, President Trump told four members of Congress to “go back” to the countries “from w...

Thu, 11 Jul 2019

This week, the British ambassador to the United States resigned after private cables leaked with his...

Thu, 27 Jun 2019

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has experience taking down a Republican president. He began ...

Fri, 21 Jun 2019

On Wednesday—for the first time in a decade—Congress held a hearing on reparations for slavery. ...

Thu, 13 Jun 2019

The 2020 race is on. Staff writer Edward-Isaac Dovere, who covers Democratic politics, was in Cedar ...

Thu, 06 Jun 2019

In the coming days, the Supreme Court will announce its decisions on two cases that ask the same bas...

Thu, 30 May 2019

Recent weeks have seen unprecedented anti-abortion bills pass in states across the country. In Alaba...

Thu, 23 May 2019

Privacy is now the most important idea on the internet—so what exactly is it? And if we care about...

Thu, 16 May 2019

Trump isn’t like most Republican presidents, but his views on trade have been an unusually firm de...

Thu, 09 May 2019

Franklin Foer joins Isaac Dovere to discuss his story in the June issue of The Atlantic about Hungar...

Thu, 02 May 2019

Last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the first one in years without a comedian....

Thu, 25 Apr 2019

Atlantic Ideas Editor Yoni Appelbaum and Vox editor-at-large Ezra Klein have both deeply researched ...

Sat, 20 Apr 2019

On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr ordered immigration judges to stop releasing asylum seeker...

Fri, 12 Apr 2019

The crowded race for the Democratic nomination includes both frontrunners and long-shots, but how do...

Thu, 04 Apr 2019

In recent days, three women have accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate contact. O...

Thu, 28 Mar 2019

Last week, the special counsel submitted his report to Attorney General Bill Barr. And this week, Ba...

Sat, 23 Mar 2019

When elected, most presidents either sell their assets or put them in a blind trust. Isolating a pre...

Thu, 14 Mar 2019

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will spend around seven years in federal prison — far...

Thu, 07 Mar 2019

The Democratic party is in a battle with itself. After devastating losses in 2016, the party was res...

Thu, 28 Feb 2019

On Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen called the president a racist, a co...

Thu, 21 Feb 2019

Last week, President Trump declared a national emergency to get funding for the wall. The move gave ...

Thu, 14 Feb 2019

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” ov...

Wed, 06 Feb 2019

Recently, news broke that Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both wore blackface ...

Fri, 01 Feb 2019

Senator Kamala Harris has drawn criticism for beginning her 2020 campaign by pitching herself as a ‘...

Thu, 24 Jan 2019

The government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history, but President Trump seems no closer to a...

Thu, 17 Jan 2019

On Friday, the New York Times published a startling story: In 2017, days after Trump fired FBI Direc...

Thu, 10 Jan 2019

Social media platforms once promised to connect the world. Today’s digital communities, though, of...

Thu, 20 Dec 2018

Observing antidemocratic ‘power grabs’ by state Republicans, Atlantic staff writer George Packer...

Fri, 14 Dec 2018

On Thursday, Maria Butina became the first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence the 20...

Thu, 06 Dec 2018

A Chinese researcher recently touched off a global controversy when he announced the birth of the wo...

Thu, 29 Nov 2018

Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Mueller probe has collapsed. In a Monday filing, the special ...

Fri, 16 Nov 2018

The midterms were over a week ago, but a number of races have yet to be called. In Florida, the sena...

Fri, 09 Nov 2018

Executive Editor Matt Thompson interviews Atlantic reporters on what lessons they drew from the midt...

Fri, 02 Nov 2018

The upcoming midterms mark the first nationwide referendum on the Trump presidency and the GOP-led C...

Fri, 26 Oct 2018

On October 2nd, Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate i...

Fri, 19 Oct 2018

Senator Elizabeth Warren recently shared results of a genetic analysis to back up her family’s sto...

Fri, 12 Oct 2018

A college education has become a key asset towards success in the American economy, but for many Ame...

Fri, 05 Oct 2018

Four years ago, after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, protestors took to the streets...

Fri, 28 Sep 2018

After a news week that’s felt more like a news month, Matt Thompson sits down with two experienced...

Fri, 21 Sep 2018

As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces assault allegations, the #MeToo movement reaches its ...

Fri, 14 Sep 2018

With authoritarianism and populism on the rise around the world, The Atlantic examines the fate of d...

Fri, 07 Sep 2018

Mark Leibovich has a day job covering the reality show of politics as the New York Times Magazine’...

Fri, 31 Aug 2018

This week, the most rigorous estimate yet of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria was published, marking...

Thu, 23 Aug 2018

Matt and Gillian discuss Paul Manafort’s guilty verdict and Michael Cohen’s guilty plea with Fra...

Fri, 17 Aug 2018

With movies like Crazy Rich Asians, BlacKkKlansman, and Sorry To Bother You out in theaters, Hollywo...

Fri, 10 Aug 2018

It’s been a year since the violence of the “Unite the Right” rally and the political turmoil o...

Fri, 20 Jul 2018

The first anniversary of Radio Atlantic this week coincides with one of the newsiest weeks of 2018. ...

Fri, 13 Jul 2018

As President Trump meets with other western leaders in Europe, the spirit of democratic cooperation ...

Fri, 06 Jul 2018

“Humanity is now in the midst of its fastest-ever period of change,” writes Ed Yong in the July/...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018

Outrage over families separated at the border has reached a fever pitch. Social media is awash with ...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018

Nationwide, black Americans live three years less than white Americans. In places with a history of ...

Fri, 08 Jun 2018

Two of the world’s most volatile heads of state—Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump—have moved in the...

Fri, 01 Jun 2018

A new generation of political activists have grown up more interested in provoking outrage from thei...

Fri, 25 May 2018

The decades-old dispute between Israelis and Palestinians seems to be at a new low these days. Two A...

Fri, 18 May 2018

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has been the focus of headlines and cable news for ...

Fri, 11 May 2018

This week's Radio Atlantic brings you the first episode of our new show Crazy/Genius, hosted by Atla...

Fri, 04 May 2018

Some Americans who grew up identifying with Roseanne have found themselves alienated by Roseanne Bar...

Fri, 27 Apr 2018

“We are a president-obsessed nation, so much so that we undermine the very idea of our constitutio...

Fri, 20 Apr 2018

Long the crossroads of civilizations, Syria has now spent seven years as the proxy warzone of great ...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018

In her new book Futureface, Alex Wagner writes that “immigration raises into relief some of our mo...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018

As Atlantic staff writer Robinson Meyer recently wrote, Facebook “is currently embroiled in the wo...

Fri, 06 Apr 2018

“Trump gambled that Americans resent each other’s differences more than they cherish their share...

Fri, 30 Mar 2018

In his last speech, known to history as “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr....

Fri, 23 Mar 2018

The family is where the forces that are driving Americans farther apart—political polarization, ge...

Fri, 16 Mar 2018

“Politicians from both parties publicly worship the solemn dignity of entrepreneurship and small b...

Fri, 09 Mar 2018

Discarding the limits on a leader's time in office is a classic autocrat's move. So when Xi Jinping ...

Fri, 02 Mar 2018

Moviegoers across America are filling theaters to see, as The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer describes it,...

Fri, 23 Feb 2018

After Rick Magnis, a Texas judge, reviewed the evidence in Benjamine Spencer’s case, he recommende...

Tue, 20 Feb 2018

In part one of our three-part series "No Way Out," Barbara Bradley Hagerty told the story of how Ben...

Fri, 16 Feb 2018

In 1987, Jeffrey Young was robbed and killed, and his body was left on a street in the poor neighbor...

Fri, 09 Feb 2018

Conor Friedersdorf recently argued in The Atlantic that in this moment, when the truth is bitterly c...

Fri, 02 Feb 2018

“Conventional wisdom suggests that the temptations of Washington, D.C., corrupt all the idealists,...

Fri, 26 Jan 2018

Once again, immigration is at the top of America's legislative agenda, as it has been, seemingly eve...

Fri, 19 Jan 2018

The 'retail apocalypse' is upon us, they say. In the United States, 2017 saw emptied malls, shuttere...

Fri, 12 Jan 2018

As the anniversary of his inauguration nears, a new book filled with salacious claims about the Trum...

Fri, 05 Jan 2018

As 2018 begins, tensions and tumult in America are high. But before the end of 1968, Conor Friedersd...

Fri, 22 Dec 2017

Every year is impossible to synthesize. Yet 2017 was not just another year. To help us wrangle the c...

Fri, 15 Dec 2017

Vladimir Putin just announced, to the surprise of no one, that he will run for reelection as Preside...

Fri, 08 Dec 2017

That Pence is the vice president of the United States is "a loaves-and-fishes miracle," writes McKay...

Fri, 01 Dec 2017

In December 2007, the U.S. marked the beginning of its longest recession since World War II. Now the...

Fri, 24 Nov 2017

For generations, Hollywood has defined what masculinity means in the U.S., with iconic screen figure...

Fri, 17 Nov 2017

Andrew Anglin spent his formative years flirting with hippie progressivism, then tried his hand at b...

Fri, 10 Nov 2017

It’s a year after Donald Trump's upset election victory. Before and after the 2016 election, Presi...

Fri, 03 Nov 2017

Since the 2016 election heightened America's deep political divides, the mantle of patriotism has be...

Fri, 27 Oct 2017

Allegations of sexual harassment (and more) by powerful men in numerous industries have been leading...

Fri, 20 Oct 2017

"Infidelity," Esther Perel writes in the October issue of The Atlantic, "happens in bad marriages an...

Thu, 12 Oct 2017

Few journalists have gotten a peek inside X, the secretive lab run by Google's parent company Alphab...

Fri, 06 Oct 2017

In his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Atlantic's national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coate...

Fri, 29 Sep 2017

According to the U.S. intelligence community, this much is settled fact: Russia intervened in the 20...

Fri, 22 Sep 2017

The idea that public schools are failing is one of the most commonly heard complaints in American so...

Fri, 15 Sep 2017

Eight months into the Trump administration, we're taking stock: What is shaping up to be President T...

Fri, 08 Sep 2017

Immigrants flock to the U.S. in pursuit of the American Dream. But does the end of the Deferred Acti...

Sat, 02 Sep 2017

If history is any guide, the biggest problems for residents of the Houston area will come into focus...

Fri, 01 Sep 2017

"Winter is coming," they warned us, and the seventh season of Game of Thrones might have proved them...

Fri, 25 Aug 2017

It's been ten years since the iPhone came out, and now the first generation to grow up with smartpho...

Thu, 17 Aug 2017

After white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of three America...

Fri, 11 Aug 2017

When did the reality-based community start losing to reality show celebrity? Why are "alternative fa...

Wed, 09 Aug 2017

Given new revelations about North Korea's nuclear capabilities—and newly harsh rhetoric from Presi...

Fri, 04 Aug 2017

Our increasingly smart machines aren’t just changing the workforce, they’re changing us. Already...

Fri, 28 Jul 2017

America prides itself on pluralism and tolerance, but how far does that tolerance extend when it com...

Fri, 21 Jul 2017

The Atlantic was founded on the eve of the Civil War to advance the American idea. But as we approac...

Tue, 11 Jul 2017

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