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Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Pandemic Response

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked everyone to stay home. He's issued PSA videos, with his mini donkey and mini horse, and from his jacuzzi, urging peopl...

The Coronavirus Response, with Senator Sherrod Brown

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Senator Sherrod Brown discusses the Trump administration's response to the pandemic and what he thinks Congress needs to do now. The progressive Ohio ...

This Isn’t Trump’s Katrina (Except When It Is)

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Vann Newkirk joins Isaac Dovere to discuss Floodlines—the new Atlantic podcast about Hurricane Katrina—and what lessons the disaster response in 2...

Beating Donald Trump, with David Plouffe

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The campaign manager behind Obama’s 2008 election breaks down the state of the Democratic party. What do Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden each need to d...

South Carolina, with Jennifer Palmieri

29 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Former Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri discusses the South Carolina primary, how 2020 is different than 2016, and how sexism still shapes American poli...

The Unlearned Lessons of 2016, with Katy Tur

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Democrats slugged it out in Nevada this week, the president undermined the Justice Department in Washington. News anchor Katy Tur—and everyone el...

A Historic Vote on Equal Rights, and Hopes for Gun Control

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On Thursday, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton presided over debate on a bill to advance the Equal Rights Amendment. After the bill passed, she sat down i...

The New Hampshire Primary, with Chris Pappas

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After the chaos of Iowa, New Hampshire is set to deliver the first clear results of the 2020 presidential race. And on the show to preview the first p...

The Iowa Caucuses, with J.D. Scholten

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Isaac Dovere previews the Iowa caucuses with congressional candidate J.D. Scholten. A former baseball player running to represent the state’s most r...

The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On Thursday, Radio Atlantic is becoming The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic. As the 2020 voting begins, this show will relaunch with a new name and...

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 year. A lawyer with experience in government oversigh...

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 candidates (his review: "such bad actors"). Learn...

"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 escalate to one. Gallego is a progressive congress...

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 billionaire presidential candidate has spent two y...

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, explains why he’s unconvinced by the Democrats’...

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, the United Kingdom also shocked observers by voti...

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 Republicans of peddling Russian propaganda. Anne Applebau...

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.” Two contributors to the issue, Harvard professor ...

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 more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

President Pete?

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mayor Pete Buttigieg discusses his unlikely presidential run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 though, he’s traveled the parts of America typicall...

Sanders vs. Warren?

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The fourth Democratic debate this week highlighted Elizabeth Warren’s new front-runner status. It also marked the return to public events for Bernie...

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 documents his five years in the region for a new b...

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 to have done the same work as the whistle-blower. ...

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 capital. Minnesota senator and presidential candi...

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 control debate, and why running his home state has uniq...

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 generations. Donald Trump inherited a business from hi...

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. Isaac Dovere joined for the trip and they talked abou...

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 plans to withdraw troops from Syria. As the last "adul...

Recession Politics

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week showed increasing signs that a recession could be on the horizon. Manufacturing is shrinking. Job growth is slowing. The markets are spooked...

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 first-time politician, but he’s found a followi...

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 AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the sam...

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’s new Democratic attorney general and the state’...

The Veteran Candidate

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman and presidential candidate, joins Isaac Dovere this week. Moulton shares his thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, ‘...

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 which they came.” Journalists have spent the wee...

Trump Diplomacy

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the British ambassador to the United States resigned after private cables leaked with his frank assessment of the White House and its occup...

The Other Republican

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has experience taking down a Republican president. He began his career in politics as one of the first lawyers...

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. It was a crystallizing moment for an issue that ha...

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 Rapids, Iowa, for the unofficial kick-off of the f...

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 basic question: how far should partisan politics go? ...

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 Alabama, abortion is now banned under state law, withou...

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 our privacy, why aren’t we willing to pay to ke...

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 departure from his party. Despite long championing f...

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 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Orbán describ...

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. In the Trump era, comedians have struggled to adj...

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 question of impeachment — and each came to a...

The Trauma at the Border

20 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr ordered immigration judges to stop releasing asylum seekers on bail. The move signals an even fiercer immigr...

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 we know which is which? Some big names have trail...

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. On Wednesday, Biden announced in a video that he is...

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, Barr shared his brief summary of the big conclusions...

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 president’s financial interests from their time in ...

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 less than the nineteen to twenty-four years recom...

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 resurgent in 2018, but the lessons from both election...

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 conman, and a cheat. He also brought documents. Trum...

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 him elevated power to move money around, but it wa...

Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” over private photos of him obtained by the tabloid. ...

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 in the 1980s. The controversy now enveloping the s...

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 ‘progressive prosecutor’ despite a more mixed r...

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 deal to resolve it. Why does the “master dealma...

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 Director James Comey, the bureau opened an inquiry into...

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, often feel like forces for disunity. Anger and disco...

What Happened to the GOP?

20 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Observing antidemocratic ‘power grabs’ by state Republicans, Atlantic staff writer George Packer writes that “the corruption of the Republican P...

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 2016 election. As part of Russia’s years-long effo...

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 world’s first genetically edited babies. The claim...

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 counsel’s office said he repeatedly lied to fede...

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 senate and governor elections have both come down to a...

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 midterm elections, speaking in turn with: Vann Newkirk...

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 Congress. Coming amid a shocking spree of political...

The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi

26 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On October 2nd, Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again. Details of the...

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 story of Cherokee ancestry, hoping to blunt a favorit...

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 Americans, access to higher education—especially at...

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 of Ferguson, Missouri. Among them was a school ad...

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 editors to ask how people manage to make and cons...

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 first anniversary. Beyond a potential hearing remi...

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 democracy in its October issue. Anne Applebaum writ...

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’s Chief National Correspondent, but he’s spent t...

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 a grim milestone: the hurricane season of 2017 wa...

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 Franklin Foer and David A. Graham. Was Tuesday a turn...

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, Hollywood is trying to mute the complaint that it lacks r...

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 of its aftermath. How did Charlottesville change th...

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. So we’ve decided to take the opportunity to lift...

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 we’re used to in NATO summits is gone. But it’...

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/August issue of The Atlantic. Urbanization and glo...

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 images of undocumented migrants held in cages, sou...

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 segregation, that life-expectancy gap can be as mu...

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 span of a year from trading insults to trading fa...

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 their fellow citizens than in winning them over. Among...

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 American-born writers – an Israeli author and a M...

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 a full year now. Despite his seemingly leak-proof ...

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 Atlantic staff writer (and past Radio Atlantic guest) ...

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 Barr’s outspoken devotion to President Trump. Many ...

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 constitutional democracy,” writes John Dickerson in his May...

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 powers. With over half a million dead and millions...

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 most basic existential questions: Who am I? Where do...

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 worst crisis of trust in its 14-year history.” Thi...

Trumpocracy

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“Trump gambled that Americans resent each other’s differences more than they cherish their shared democracy. So far that gamble has paid off,” w...

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. began by remarking on the introduction he’d bee...

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, generational divides, class stratification, Facebook...

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 businesses. But by the numbers, America has become ...

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 began to clear a path for an indefinite term as Ch...