Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The governator discusses the Republican party, his commitment to the environment, and the Democratic...
"He Doesn't Understand War"
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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?
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the day President Trump is impeached, Isaac Dovere visits the Nixon Library with Tom Steyer. The ...
Why Impeachment Is Different This Time Around
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Chabot, a House Republican who helped lead his party's impeachment fight against Bill Clinton,...
Britain Votes (Again)
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump wasn’t the only election surprise of 2016. Three months before he won the presidency,...
Is Russia Winning the Impeachment Hearings?
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During an impeachment hearing this week, President Trump's former top Russia adviser accused Republi...
How to Stop A Civil War
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The special December issue of The Atlantic focuses on a single theme: “How to Stop a Civil War.”...
Virginia Hates Tyrants
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Senator Tim Kaine discusses Democrats' historic win in Virginia and what it means for 2020. Learn mo...
President Pete?
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mayor Pete Buttigieg discusses his unlikely presidential run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
Reporting in ‘Forgotten America’
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
James Fallows spent decades covering national politics for The Atlantic. For the last four years tho...
Sanders vs. Warren?
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth Democratic debate this week highlighted Elizabeth Warren’s new front-runner status. It ...
How ISIS Returns
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Staff writer Mike Giglio has been reporting on ISIS since before Americans knew what to call it. He ...
Understanding the Whistle-Blower
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As impeachment news comes in by the minute, The Atlantic hosts its annual festival in our nation’s...
Steve Bullock's Longshot Case
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Montana governor talks about his presidential campaign, his personal connection to the gun contr...
The Heir
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Begun with a gold-rush brothel in the Yukon, the Trump empire has long been passed down through gene...
On the Road with Beto
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In December, Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned in protest after President Trump announced plan...
Recession Politics
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week showed increasing signs that a recession could be on the horizon. Manufacturing is shrinki...
Andrew Yang's Campaign Against the Coming Dystopia
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker gave a speech on gun violence and white nationalism at the Emanuel...
Rebuilding the Blue Wall
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While in Detroit covering the Democratic debates, Isaac Dovere sits down with Dana Nessel, Michigan’...
The Veteran Candidate
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman and presidential candidate, joins Isaac Dovere this week...
How to Cover Racist Tweets
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Sunday, President Trump told four members of Congress to “go back” to the countries “from w...
Trump Diplomacy
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the British ambassador to the United States resigned after private cables leaked with his...
The Other Republican
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has experience taking down a Republican president. He began ...
The Fight for Reparations
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday—for the first time in a decade—Congress held a hearing on reparations for slavery. ...
The Reelection Battle Begins
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The 2020 race is on. Staff writer Edward-Isaac Dovere, who covers Democratic politics, was in Cedar ...
Partisanship at the Supreme Court
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recent weeks have seen unprecedented anti-abortion bills pass in states across the country. In Alaba...
Introducing Crazy/Genius Season 3
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy is now the most important idea on the internet—so what exactly is it? And if we care about...
Trump’s Trade War
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Trump isn’t like most Republican presidents, but his views on trade have been an unusually firm de...
Liberalism’s Last Stand
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Franklin Foer joins Isaac Dovere to discuss his story in the June issue of The Atlantic about Hungar...
Is Politics Funny Anymore?
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the first one in years without a comedian....
To Impeach Or Not To Impeach?
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Atlantic Ideas Editor Yoni Appelbaum and Vox editor-at-large Ezra Klein have both deeply researched ...
The Trauma at the Border
20 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr ordered immigration judges to stop releasing asylum seeker...
Can A Long-Shot Candidate Beat Donald Trump?
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The crowded race for the Democratic nomination includes both frontrunners and long-shots, but how do...
Sex, Gender, and the Democratic Party
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In recent days, three women have accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate contact. O...
Politics After Mueller
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the special counsel submitted his report to Attorney General Bill Barr. And this week, Ba...
President Trump’s Post-Mueller Corruption Problem
23 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will spend around seven years in federal prison — far...
The Future of the Democratic Party
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Democratic party is in a battle with itself. After devastating losses in 2016, the party was res...
President Trump's New Legal Nightmare
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen called the president a racist, a co...
State of Emergency
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, President Trump declared a national emergency to get funding for the wall. The move gave ...
Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” ov...
Something Rotten in the State of Virginia
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, news broke that Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both wore blackface ...
Kamala Harris, Progressive Prosecutor?
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Senator Kamala Harris has drawn criticism for beginning her 2020 campaign by pitching herself as a ‘...
The Art of the Shutdown Deal
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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?
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday, the New York Times published a startling story: In 2017, days after Trump fired FBI Direc...
How to Fix Social Media
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Social media platforms once promised to connect the world. Today’s digital communities, though, of...
What Happened to the GOP?
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Observing antidemocratic ‘power grabs’ by state Republicans, Atlantic staff writer George Packer...
Does the NRA Connect Trump to Russia?
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, Maria Butina became the first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence the 20...
The First Gene-Edited Babies
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A Chinese researcher recently touched off a global controversy when he announced the birth of the wo...
What’s Happening With Mueller and Manafort?
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Mueller probe has collapsed. In a Monday filing, the special ...
Florida Flashbacks
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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?
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Editor Matt Thompson interviews Atlantic reporters on what lessons they drew from the midt...
Midterms in the Wake of Political Violence
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The upcoming midterms mark the first nationwide referendum on the Trump presidency and the GOP-led C...
The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On October 2nd, Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate i...
The Politics of Ancestry
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Senator Elizabeth Warren recently shared results of a genetic analysis to back up her family’s sto...
America's Higher Education Crisis
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A college education has become a key asset towards success in the American economy, but for many Ame...
Remembering Ferguson with DeRay Mckesson
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Four years ago, after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, protestors took to the streets...
Is the Public Square Gone?
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces assault allegations, the #MeToo movement reaches its ...
Is Democracy Dying?
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With authoritarianism and populism on the rise around the world, The Atlantic examines the fate of d...
How Much Longer Can Football Last?
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Leibovich has a day job covering the reality show of politics as the New York Times Magazine’...
The Endless Devastation of Hurricane Season
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the most rigorous estimate yet of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria was published, marking...
Trump’s Worst Day
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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?
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With movies like Crazy Rich Asians, BlacKkKlansman, and Sorry To Bother You out in theaters, Hollywo...
Charlottesville: One Year Later
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a year since the violence of the “Unite the Right” rally and the political turmoil o...
Keepers of the Year 2018
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The first anniversary of Radio Atlantic this week coincides with one of the newsiest weeks of 2018. ...
The Future of Europe
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As President Trump meets with other western leaders in Europe, the spirit of democratic cooperation ...
Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Humanity is now in the midst of its fastest-ever period of change,” writes Ed Yong in the July/...
The View from the Border
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nationwide, black Americans live three years less than white Americans. In places with a history of ...
The North Korea Summit
08 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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’
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A new generation of political activists have grown up more interested in provoking outrage from thei...
Is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Past Solving?
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The decades-old dispute between Israelis and Palestinians seems to be at a new low these days. Two A...
Happy Mueller-versary
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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?
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Radio Atlantic brings you the first episode of our new show Crazy/Genius, hosted by Atla...
Is Politics Ruining Pop Culture?
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Some Americans who grew up identifying with Roseanne have found themselves alienated by Roseanne Bar...
Is the Presidency Broken?
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“We are a president-obsessed nation, so much so that we undermine the very idea of our constitutio...
The Syria Disaster, Seven Years In
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Long the crossroads of civilizations, Syria has now spent seven years as the proxy warzone of great ...
Becoming White in America
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Futureface, Alex Wagner writes that “immigration raises into relief some of our mo...
News Update: Who Could Tame Facebook?
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As Atlantic staff writer Robinson Meyer recently wrote, Facebook “is currently embroiled in the wo...
Trumpocracy
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Trump gambled that Americans resent each other’s differences more than they cherish their share...
King Remembered
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The family is where the forces that are driving Americans farther apart—political polarization, ge...
Does America Have a Monopoly Problem?
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Politicians from both parties publicly worship the solemn dignity of entrepreneurship and small b...
If We Could Learn From History
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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)
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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)
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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?
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Conventional wisdom suggests that the temptations of Washington, D.C., corrupt all the idealists,...
Who Gets to be American?
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The 'retail apocalypse' is upon us, they say. In the United States, 2017 saw emptied malls, shuttere...
The Presidential Fitness Challenge
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As the anniversary of his inauguration nears, a new book filled with salacious claims about the Trum...
How Has America Changed Since 1968?
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As 2018 begins, tensions and tumult in America are high. But before the end of 1968, Conor Friedersd...