Podcast Episodes

The Pollster

Season 2 Episode 2

Have Americans grown complacent, thinking nothing can shake the United States’ democracy? Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Frank Luntz, someone well versed in taking the temperature of the American p…

Published on 2 months ago

The Return

Season 2 Episode 1

Since The Atlantic first released the podcast Autocracy in America last fall, Donald Trump was elected president again. Staff writer Anne Applebaum describes how Trump’s return to the White House fit…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Coming Soon: A New Season of Autocracy in America

Season 2 Episode 1

The former world chess champion and lifelong democracy activist Garry Kasparov guides a new series of conversations about society’s complacency with liberal values and how this carelessness has fuele…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Bonus: Goldberg on Signalgate

Anne Applebaum speaks with The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg about the consequences of the Signal breach. This conversation was recorded live from The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulan…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Introducing: We Live Here Now

Season 1

Hosts Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev talk with Hanna Rosin about the new series We Live Here Now. Rosin, along with her co-host, Lauren Ober, recently found out that their new neighbors moved t…

Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago

Politicize ‘Freedom’

Season 1 Episode 5

Freedom in the United States is a word that has had more than one meaning. It has meant freedom for some people and the repression of others. In a democracy, freedom also means the right to take part…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Join the Kleptocracy

Season 1 Episode 4

Since the earliest days of the republic, America’s international friendships have shaped domestic politics. And some of those friendships helped America strengthen its democratic principles. So what …

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Consolidate Power

Season 1 Episode 3

Donald Trump has vowed to eliminate hundreds of workers across federal agencies if he becomes president again. Consolidating power and placing friends in key roles are textbook autocratic maneuvers, …

Published on 1 year ago

Capture the Courts

Season 1 Episode 2

In authoritarian states, the public has no agency and no real access to justice. Renée DiResta, a scholar who researches online information campaigns, struggled to counter false accusations leveled a…

Published on 1 year ago

Start With a Lie

Season 1 Episode 1

The corruption of democracy begins with the corruption of thought—and with the deliberate undermining of reality. Stephen Richer, an election official in Arizona, and Adam Kinzinger, a former Republi…

Published on 1 year ago