Radio Atlantic
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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, “a high-tech utopia that is a fictive manifesta...
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 recommended a new trial for Spencer “on the grounds of act...
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 Benjamine Spencer was convicted for the murder of Jef...
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 neighborhood of West Dallas. Benjamine Spencer was tried a...
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 contested, fiction presents us an opportunity. It a...
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, naïfs, and ingenues who settle there," Franklin ...
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 every generation, for much of the nation's history. B...
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, shuttered department stores, and once-iconic brands fallin...
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 Trump administration has become a bestseller. Faced wi...
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 Friedersdorf reminded us in The Atlantic, "Martin Luther Ki...
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 chaotic, extraordinary events of the last 12 months...
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 President of Russia. In her January/February 2018 Atlanti...
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 Coppins in the latest issue of The Atlantic. It's...
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 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency b...
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 figures such as John Wayne. But Wayne's stoic, taciturn ...
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 becoming a tribal hunter-gatherer. But he only achi...
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, President Trump referred to journalists as enemies to h...
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 become fodder for a bitter tug-of-war. Is it patriot...
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 news reports across America. On-the-record accoun...
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 and in good marriages. It happens even in open relat...
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 Alphabet. Its scientists are researching cold fusion, ho...
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 Coates writes about the past eight years of his career—...
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 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump....
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 society. But what are they failing to do? Surveys of...
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 Trump's effect on America’s institutions? Will su...
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 Action for Childhood Arrivals program mean a wake-up c...
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 only after the nation's attention has already tur...
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 right. But no one mentioned that winter in Wester...
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 smartphones is coming of age. Jean Twenge, a psychologist ...
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 Americans, President Trump's equivocating responses shock...
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 facts" and fake news suddenly ubiquitous features of...
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 President Trump—Jeffrey Goldberg and Matt Thompson ta...
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, algorithms are directing human activity in all s...
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 comes to religious expression? Could faith in general...
'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 approach the magazine's 160th anniversary, has that idea ...
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 they are, and where they're heading next. Don't miss...