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Why Can’t We Quit Weddings?
Episode 29
Marriages today are much more flexible than they used to be. Women’s roles have changed. Gay marriage is legal. More and more people aren’t choosing …
2 years, 7 months ago
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 cr…
2 years, 7 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 nothin…
2 years, 7 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.…
2 years, 8 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 …
2 years, 8 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 b…
2 years, 8 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 …
2 years, 8 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 prob…
2 years, 8 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…
2 years, 9 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, T…
2 years, 9 months ago