Podcast Episodes

AI Won’t Really Kill Us All, Will It?

Episode 28

For months, more than a thousand researchers and technology experts involved in creating artificial intelligence have been warning us that they’ve created something that may be dangerous. Something t…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Sorry, Honey, It’s Too Hot for Camp

Episode 27

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 nothing like our own. In this episode we talk to the cli…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

The Power of a Failed Revolt

Episode 26

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads a private army called the Wagner Group, attempted what many have called a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Technically, it failed. But the fact that he mana…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Can Baseball Keep Up With Us?

Episode 25

Are we just too impatient for America’s famously leisurely national pastime? Hanna Rosin asks staff writer Mark Leibovich whether the changes MLB is making to baseball this summer could help him, and…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

The End of Affirmative Action. For Real This Time.

Episode 24

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 allowed to consider race in admissions. In this …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

The Rise and Fall of Chris Licht and CNN

Episode 23

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 cable giant as a venue more welcoming to Republicans. In…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

The Problem With Comparing Social Media to Big Tobacco

Episode 22

Politicians, pundits, and even the surgeon general have been highlighting the risks that social media poses to young people’s mental health. The problem is real—but is it as serious as those caused b…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

The War Is Not Here to Entertain You

Episode 21

Host Hanna Rosin talks to Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Anne Applebaum about their trip to Ukraine, their interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, why conti…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

(Re)introducing Radio Atlantic

Episode 20

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, The Atlantic’s flagship podcast, with a new host: s…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

How Germany Remembers the Holocaust

Episode 19

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 to Germany to understand how Germany memorializes…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago