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Trump’s Courtroom Campaign

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Stormy Daniels case may have a less serious fact pattern. But it might turn out to be the one chance to hold Donald Trump accountable for election...

Money Can Buy You Everything, Except Maybe a Birkin Bag

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is having a Birkin bag ... a right? Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action lawsuit against the French luxury design company ...

During the Eclipse, Don't Just Look Up

04 Apr 2024

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Where were you for the 2017 total eclipse? Where will you be this year? And where will you be for the next one in 2045? Hanna talks to Atlantic staff ...

Do Trump Supporters Mind When He Mocks Biden’s Stutter?

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Atlantic political reporter John Hendrickson has had a stutter since he was a kid. Recently he heard Donald Trump make fun of Joe Biden’s stutter, a...

The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they've argued the most about: being on their phone. Then, Hanna sits down with social psychologist Jon...

Inside a Hospital’s Abortion Committee

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the course of her career as a maternal-fetal medicine doctor that some patients...

The Sound of Cruelty

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk to Oscar-nominated sound designer Johnnie Burn about how he created the soundscape of horrors for The Zone of Interest. Burn explains how he c...

The Lost Boys of Big Tech

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The original “Burn Book” from Mean Girls was used to spread rumors and gossip about other girls (and some boys) at North Shore High School. Kara S...

Maybe You Should Quit Therapy

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Richard Friedman has been teaching and seeing patients for more than 35 years. Recently, he wrote about the idea that, if therapy has become less ...

What If Your Best Friend Is Your Soulmate?

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How would life be different if we centered it on our friends? In her new book, The Other Significant Others, Rhaina Cohen visits the extremes of frien...

The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode of Radio Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of The Atlantic, names and explains the political ideology of the ...

The ‘Coward of Broward’ Re-Examined

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, in 2018, a video circulated showing the school resource officer taking cover behind the wall...

Fatigue Can Wreck You (Redux)

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode originally aired August 2023. Many people, especially those dealing with long COVID, suffer from fatigue. But not common, everyday tiredn...

The Last Days of the Barcode

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Editor Saahil Desai walks us through the surprising history of the barcode, from its origins in the grocery business to its role in remaking our consu...

Nikki Haley Could Surprise Us

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump has an “overwhelming lead” in the Iowa caucus but he is not the sure winner. There is still a narrow window to change the course of t...

Why a Good Economy Feels Like a Bad One

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The illusion persists, despite all evidence. Americans are pessimistic about the economic future. They feel worse off than their parent’s generation...

How to Waste Time

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For the holiday, Radio Atlantic is sharing the first episode of the Atlantic podcast How to Keep Time. Co-hosts Becca Rashid and the Atlantic contri...

Don’t Buy That Sweater

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re in the coldest season. We’re in the shopping season. We’re in the season of hygge. All the cues point to buying yourself a new cozy sweate...

A Military Loyal to Trump

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How easily could a reelected President Trump bend the military to his will? We talk to Tom Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic who taught military...

How Trump Has Transformed Evangelicals

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How did evangelical Christians shift from being reluctant supporters of Trump to among his most passionate defenders? How did some evangelicals, histo...

The Cockroach Cure

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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How to Have a Healthy Argument

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thanksgiving is often a time of disagreements big and small. In this episode we talk to Amanda Ripley (author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and...

The Post-Strike Future of Hollywood

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hollywood is getting back on its feet now that the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes are over. But they've revealed that, once ...

Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tech evangelist. Libertarian dreamer. Republican megadonor. Peter Thiel is many things. As Atlantic staff writer Barton Gellman puts it in his new pro...

The Man Working to Keep the Water On in Gaza

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Marwan Bardawil’s job is to provide water in Gaza. This is difficult in normal times, nearly impossible now, and yet critical. Without enough clean ...

What Scares Jordan Peele?

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After Jordan Peele directed the movie Get Out in 2017, he unlocked the genre of Black horror, which mixed classic horror with the modern Black experie...

What’s Next in Gaza

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly two weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel, Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood is on the ground in Jerusalem. We talk to Graeme about what he’...

“We’re Going to Die Here”

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Israeli journalist Amir Tibon and his family live along the Israel-Gaza border. He told Radio Atlantic the dramatic story of how his family hid out fr...

Why Don’t Biden’s Political Wins Register With Voters?

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Biden administration has had some monumental successes: a complicated vaccine rollout, a significant infrastructure investment, and the lowest une...

After Ozempic

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ozempic and other drugs like it are being heralded as game changers for weight loss. Radio Atlantic host Hanna Rosin talks to Atlantic staff writer Ol...

Jenisha from Kentucky

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

 When Jenisha Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, went home to Kentucky to interview her family, she was “looking to get rid of the shame.” S...

Radio Atlantic Presents: How to Talk to People

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Making small talk can be hard—especially when you’re not sure whether you’re doing it well. But conversations are a central part of relationship...

How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get?

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

All of a sudden it seems like everyone knows someone who has tested positive for COVID. Are we back in a wave? How bad could it get? How effective wil...

Trans in Texas

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Texas will join the 20 or so other states that have passed laws restricting access to medical therapies and procedures for transgender child...

The GOP Debate: Trumpiness Without Trump

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The front-runner for the Republican nomination did not show up at the debate, but in the sharp exchanges between the leftovers, a lot was revealed abo...

Megan Rapinoe Answers the Critics

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Rapinoe speaks with Atlantic staff writer Frank Foer. The retiring soccer star discusses her detractors, the U.S. team’s role in the global ga...

Fatigue Can Wreck You

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many people, especially those dealing with long COVID, suffer from fatigue. But not common, everyday tiredness—it’s more like a total body crash t...

Lobotomy Day

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael spent years fighting isolation, depression, and despair. Then he met Sam.  If you’re having thoughts of suicide, please reach out to the ...

Why a U.S. Women’s Team Loss Could Actually Be A Good Thing

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. women’s team has been the dominant force in soccer for a decade, although you wouldn't necessarily know it from their performance in the Wo...

‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of people are plagued by the feeling that society used to be better, that neighbors were more helpful, that strangers once talked to you. Some p...

Why Can’t We Quit Weddings?

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Marriages today are much more flexible than they used to be. Women’s roles have changed. Gay marriage is legal. More and more people aren’t choosi...

AI Won’t Really Kill Us All, Will It?

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For months, more than a thousand researchers and technology experts involved in creating artificial intelligence have been warning us that they’ve c...

Sorry, Honey, It’s Too Hot for Camp

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A heat dome in Texas. Wildfire smoke polluting the air in the East and Midwest. The signs are everywhere that our children’s summers will look nothi...

The Power of a Failed Revolt

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads a private army called the Wagner Group, attempted what many have called a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin. ...

Can Baseball Keep Up With Us?

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are we just too impatient for America’s famously leisurely national pastime? Hanna Rosin asks staff writer Mark Leibovich whether the changes MLB is...

The End of Affirmative Action. For Real This Time.

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Supreme Court is about to issue a set of rulings on affirmative action in higher education. If it goes as expected, universities will no longer be...

The Rise and Fall of Chris Licht and CNN

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta spent long stretches of the past year talking to CNN’s then-CEO Chris Licht about his grand experiment to reset the cab...

The Problem With Comparing Social Media to Big Tobacco

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Politicians, pundits, and even the surgeon general have been highlighting the risks that social media poses to young people’s mental health. The pro...

The War Is Not Here to Entertain You

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Host Hanna Rosin talks to Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Anne Applebaum about their trip to Ukraine, their interview with ...

(Re)introducing Radio Atlantic

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

How Germany Remembers the Holocaust

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What can memorials to tragedy in one country tell Americans about how to remember the legacy of slavery in the U.S.? Staff writer Clint Smith traveled...

Holy Week — Part 1: Rupture

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The first episode of a new podcast from The Atlantic about a revolution undone. Subscribe to Holy Week: theatlantic.com/holyweek Apple Podcasts | Stit...

Introducing Holy Week

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a...

What AI Means for Search

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With Google and Microsoft releasing new AI tools, it feels like the future is now with artificial intelligence. But how transformative are products li...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Secretary of State Antony Blinken as part of our live conversation series, The Big Story....

This Is Not Your Parents' Cold War

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. Staff writer Tom Nichols, an expert on nuclear weapons and the Cold War, couns...

Our Strange New Era of Space Travel

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Humans last set foot on the Moon 50 years ago. Now we’re going back, but the way we explore space—and our relationship to it—has gone through so...

The Republican Party Is in a Strange Place

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The GOP is in a strange place. After falling short of expectations in the midterms, some Republicans blame Donald Trump, and some want to anoint a cha...

This COVID Winter Will Be Different

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

December is here and with it comes the third winter of the pandemic. With the holiday travel and indoor family gatherings, the season has brought trag...

For Love of the Game

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part of the appeal of the World Cup is watching a country’s finest soccer players represent their nations. For many fans, though, it doesn’t have ...

A Short History of Brazilian Soccer

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Atlantic staff writers Franklin Foer and Clint Smith talk about who they're rooting for and why in World Cup 2022. And Franklin Foer takes us on a...

What’s at Stake for Election Workers

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Leibovich talks with Tim Alberta about the often-overlooked group of people crucial to American voting. With election denialism plaguing the proc...

Who Leaves, Who Stays

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Taliban forces seized control of Kabul last year, many Afghans faced life-changing choices. One family's decision led to a harrowing journey for ...

What Puerto Rico Needs Most

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can an island that keeps getting pummeled by hurricanes ever be free? Executive Producer Claudine Ebeid speaks with Atlantic contributors Jaquira Día...

The New Kabul

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Atlantic fellow Bushra Seddique tells the story of the moment everything changed for her in Kabul, and The Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg...

Zelensky is Everywhere

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Anne Applebaum traveled to Kyiv in April to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zele...

Caitlin Dickerson on family separation

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks with staff writer Caitlin Dickerson about her recent piece, "An American Catastrophe," a compre...

Laws and Rights After Roe

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Atlantic's Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance discusses a post-Roe America with two contributing writers. Legal historian Mary Ziegler and constit...

The Future of Roe

07 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Politico published a leaked draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Cl...

Barack Obama on Disinformation and The Future of Democracy

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Disinformation is the story of our age. We see it used as a tactic of war and to further embolden autocrats.. The very tools that once helped pro-demo...

Russia's War

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After years of threats, Russian forces invaded Ukraine—culminating in the largest attack against one European state by another since the Second Worl...

Presenting: The Review, a new podcast from The Atlantic

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On The Review, The Atlantic's writers and guests discuss how we entertain ourselves and how that shapes the way we understand the world. Subscribe and...

How To Build A Happy Life: A new podcast from The Atlantic

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hello Ticket listeners. We'd like to introduce you to a new show, How to Build a Happy Life. In this series, host Arthur Brooks digs into research and...

Introducing: The Experiment

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A new podcast from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, The Experiment, tells stories from our unfinished country. On the first episode, host Julia Longori...

Biden: The Candidate for the Trump Moment

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Isaac Dovere reflects on the inauguration of President Joe Biden, the path through an election year like no other, and what the momentous changes of 2...

John Bresnahan Helps Us Understand What The Hell Just Happened

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Bresnahan has covered Congress for decades, recently as Politico’s Capitol Hill bureau chief and now as co-founder of Punchbowl News. He descri...

Jim Clyburn

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The House majority whip from South Carolina gave Joe Biden the key endorsement of his candidacy. What does the civil rights veteran want to see from h...

Gabe Sterling

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As conspiracy theories about the Georgia vote count have escalated into threats, a state election official rebuked President Trump and blamed him for ...

Ed Yong

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A quarter-million Americans have now died of COVID-19. The spread of the virus is as bad as it’s ever been. And it’s almost certainly going to get...

Abigail Spanberger

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Virginia Congresswoman shares her concerns over President Trump’s post-election actions and what she considers the lessons of 2020 for her fello...

Brian Stelter

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Between the pandemic and President Trump, election night this year will be unlike any other. As usual, television news networks are the narrators of o...

Tony Schwartz

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The man who wrote The Art of the Deal reflects on Donald Trump, his presidency, and what the coming weeks could bring.  Schwartz says Trump’s “pr...

Hillary Clinton

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee discusses President Trump, the pandemic, and election disinformation. Support this show and...

Barton Gellman

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the election only weeks away, President Trump is down in the polls, sowing doubt about the integrity of the vote, and refusing to commit to a pea...

Howie Hawkins

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 2016, the Green Party won more votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin than Donald Trump’s margins for victory. As a result, many Democrat...

Mandela Barnes

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Elected at 31, Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor is a young Black progressive and the face of a new Democratic party in the Midwest. With the nation’...

Chad Mayes

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Only a few years ago, Chad Mayes was the Republican leader in the California Assembly. Now, he’s out of the party. Ahead of next week’s Republican...

Susan Rice

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Rice, the former U.N. Ambassador and National Security Advisor for the Obama administration, is considered a leading candidate to become Joe Bid...

Donna Shalala

24 Jul 2020

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Florida congresswoman Donna Shalala was one of many first-time candidates in 2018. But unlike other freshman Democrats that flipped a district, she’...

Doug Jones

10 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Alabama senator discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with its Confederate legacy, and his hopes that this time ...

Carly Fiorina

25 Jun 2020

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The 2016 Republican presidential candidate announces her intention to vote for Joe Biden, and the concerns about the country that led to her decision....

Jumaane Williams

13 Jun 2020

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The second-highest elected official in New York City is a progressive activist who’s worked to change policing for years. He thinks this moment coul...

Nan Whaley

29 May 2020

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The mayor of Dayton, Ohio, on how badly America's cities need a bailout—and how painful the impact could be if they don't get one. Support this show...

Bill Cassidy

15 May 2020

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Senator (and doctor) Bill Cassidy discusses the coronavirus response, vaccines, and how states like his own Louisiana hope to reopen. Support this sh...

Phil Murphy

01 May 2020

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The governor of one of the hardest-hit states discusses the coronavirus response, how he thinks about reopening New Jersey, and his conversations with...

Andrew Yang

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The former presidential candidate discusses universal basic income, coronavirus-linked bigotry against Asian Americans, and how the pandemic has accel...

Stacey Abrams

24 Apr 2020

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Georgia politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams discusses elections in a pandemic, vice presidential aspirations, and Star Trek. Learn mor...

Voter Suppression By Pandemic

11 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund discusses Wisconsin’s election debacle and how the coronavirus has become a new tool of voter suppre...

‘The Woman From Michigan’

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins to discuss Michigan’s coronavirus response and her relationship with President Trump. Elected in the state’s 2018 ...

Risking Exposure in Congress

28 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Grace Meng represents New York in Congress. Her Queens district is at the center of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, where its hospitals face an ‘apoc...