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Russia! Live with Julia Ioffe and Eliot A. Cohen
Episode 13
According to the U.S. intelligence community, this much is settled fact: Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. But beyond that basic consensus, much remains un…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
What Are Public Schools For?
Episode 12
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 American parents—and the history of the nation's…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Will America's Institutions Survive President Trump?
Episode 11
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 subsequent presidents preserve or disregard the norms…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
A Memo to the Huddled Masses
Episode 10
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 call for millions of undocumented Americans? In th…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
News Update: The Questions After Harvey
Episode 9
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 turned elsewhere. In this Radio Atlantic extra, Matt…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
What Game of Thrones Has Taught Us About Politics
Episode 8
"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 Westeros would coincide with so many troubling events i…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Are Smartphones Harming Our Kids?
Episode 7
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 who has studied generational behaviors, has found…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum on Charlottesville's Aftermath
Episode 6
After white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of three Americans, President Trump's equivocating responses shocked Republicans and Democrats alike. Did this repr…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Kurt Andersen on How America Lost Its Mind
Episode 5
When did the reality-based community start losing to reality show celebrity? Why are "alternative facts" and fake news suddenly ubiquitous features of the landscape? The spread of American magical th…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
News Update: Mark Bowden on North Korea
Episode 4
Given new revelations about North Korea's nuclear capabilities—and newly harsh rhetoric from President Trump—Jeffrey Goldberg and Matt Thompson talk with Mark Bowden, author of The Atlantic's July/Au…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago