Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Ideas of the Year, 2017 Edition
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Every year is impossible to synthesize. Yet 2017 was not just another year. To help us wrangle the c...
Putin, Russia, and the End of History
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Putin just announced, to the surprise of no one, that he will run for reelection as Preside...
The Manifest Destiny of Mike Pence
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
That Pence is the vice president of the United States is "a loaves-and-fishes miracle," writes McKay...
The Great Recession, One Decade Later
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2007, the U.S. marked the beginning of its longest recession since World War II. Now the...
John Wayne, Donald Trump, and the American Man
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For generations, Hollywood has defined what masculinity means in the U.S., with iconic screen figure...
How an American Neo-Nazi Was Made
17 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Anglin spent his formative years flirting with hippie progressivism, then tried his hand at b...
The Press and the Election of 2016: One Year Later
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a year after Donald Trump's upset election victory. Before and after the 2016 election, Presi...
Khizr Khan on What Patriotism Requires
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 2016 election heightened America's deep political divides, the mantle of patriotism has be...
Reporting on Open Secrets, with Jodi Kantor and Katie Benner
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Allegations of sexual harassment (and more) by powerful men in numerous industries have been leading...
Why Do Happy People Cheat?
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Infidelity," Esther Perel writes in the October issue of The Atlantic, "happens in bad marriages an...
Derek Thompson and the Moonshot Factory
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Few journalists have gotten a peek inside X, the secretive lab run by Google's parent company Alphab...
The Miseducation of Ta-Nehisi Coates
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Atlantic's national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coate...
Russia! Live with Julia Ioffe and Eliot A. Cohen
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
According to the U.S. intelligence community, this much is settled fact: Russia intervened in the 20...
What Are Public Schools For?
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that public schools are failing is one of the most commonly heard complaints in American so...
Will America's Institutions Survive President Trump?
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eight months into the Trump administration, we're taking stock: What is shaping up to be President T...
A Memo to the Huddled Masses
08 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Immigrants flock to the U.S. in pursuit of the American Dream. But does the end of the Deferred Acti...
News Update: The Questions After Harvey
02 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If history is any guide, the biggest problems for residents of the Houston area will come into focus...
What Game of Thrones Has Taught Us About Politics
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Winter is coming," they warned us, and the seventh season of Game of Thrones might have proved them...
Are Smartphones Harming Our Kids?
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's been ten years since the iPhone came out, and now the first generation to grow up with smartpho...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum on Charlottesville's Aftermath
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of three America...
Kurt Andersen on How America Lost Its Mind
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When did the reality-based community start losing to reality show celebrity? Why are "alternative fa...
News Update: Mark Bowden on North Korea
09 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Given new revelations about North Korea's nuclear capabilities—and newly harsh rhetoric from Presi...
Ask Not What Your Robots Can Do For You
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our increasingly smart machines aren’t just changing the workforce, they’re changing us. Already...
One Nation Under God?
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
America prides itself on pluralism and tolerance, but how far does that tolerance extend when it com...
'Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory'
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Atlantic was founded on the eve of the Civil War to advance the American idea. But as we approac...
Trailer
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Coming July 21: A weekly conversation about what's happening in our world, how things got the way th...