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Iran Wants Him Arrested. He's Going Back Anyway.
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- Iran Wants Him Arrested. He's Going Back Anyway.
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- 28:55
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The writer-director Jafar Panahi’s new film, It Was Just an Accident, is the second Iranian film ever nominated for multiple Oscars. Panahi is in the United States for the awards season, but soon after, he plans to return to Iran, where he may well be arrested.
His co-writer on the film was recently jailed after signing a letter objecting to the deadly crackdown on protests in Iran. Panahi, who also signed the letter, has been sentenced to one year in prison in absentia. His lawyer has said they plan to appeal the sentence.
But Panahi doesn’t seem afraid. (He made It Was Just an Accident in secret, as he has in the past with other films.) Even with the crackdown in Iran and violence against protesters here in the U.S., he says he still has reason to hope: “I see a greater future. I see from above.”
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- How Trump Could Break the 2026 Elections | The David Frum Show
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- 57:54
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” David opens with his reaction to the racist AI video of Barack and Michelle Obama that was posted and quickly deleted by President Trump’s Truth Social account. He argues that when the president engages in this behavior, it undermines his administration’s other actions that resemble those of a normal presidency.
David is then joined by Stephen Richer, a former Republican county recorder of Maricopa County. They discuss Stephen’s experience navigating Trump’s 2020 election denial, standing up to pressure from the president, and confronting election denialism within his own party. They also examine the Trump administration’s current activities in Georgia and how they could set the stage for more election denialism in 2026.
Finally, David reflects on Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” as the series marks its 250th anniversary. Though the monumental work r...
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- How state and federal courts can protect the integrity of this year’s elections
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The courts are “one of the bulwarks against anything that might happen in the 2026 election” process, Stephen Richer, former Arizona election official, tells David Frum.
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- ‘Together, We Are America’
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- 0:15
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- For most of his Super Bowl performance, Bad Bunny “had been mugging merrily to the camera, flaring his eyes and making hammy gestures to illustrate his words,” Spencer Kornhaber writes. But as exploding power lines evoked the electrical outages that have plagued Puerto Rico in recent years, anger seemed to twitch in his face as he rapped his song “El Apagón” (“The Power Outage”).
“Through affect alone, he got across a sense of betrayal that many Puerto Ricans of his age—commonly called the ‘crisis generation’—have spoken of feeling after a string of political scandals and natural disasters amid ongoing gentrification by mainlanders,” Kornhaber continues.
“That message was, indeed, political,” Kornhaber writes. “So was his culminating statement of ‘God bless America,’ which he followed by listing countries in North and South America, thereby asserting the transnational nature of the culture that he represents. Pushing toward t...
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- How "Looks-maxxing" Reflects the Political Moment
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “The first thing they destroyed was the institutions, and now they’re trying to destroy the rest of us and themselves,” Aidan Walker tells Charlie Warzel about the cultural and political forces behind the “looks-maxxing” trend. Watch the full episode:
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- The Logical End Point of ‘America First’ Foreign Aid
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- For the past half century, the U.S. has tried to deploy foreign aid wherever it is needed most—but under the Trump administration, humanitarian projects are being evaluated by a different measure, Hana Kiros reports.
The administration’s approach to foreign aid emphasizes dealmaking and transactions over charity. The strategy may gain more resources for the U.S. in the short term, but it also risks sacrificing other goals: “The American intelligence community has long known that insurgent groups … rely on desperation, food insecurity, and hopelessness to gain recruits,” Kiros writes.
The State Department has said that the department will continue to work with partner governments for security purposes. But after U.S.-funded health and counterterrorism programs in Mozambique were cut last year, ISIS surged into the vacuum, Kiros writes.
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- The Meaning of 'Melania'
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- 24:33
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Melania movie is pitched as a documentary following the first lady of the United States in the lead-up to her husband’s second inauguration. But it’s missing all the hallmarks of a journalistic, biographical film. What you get instead is a series of aphorisms that clang loudly against the reality being shaped by Donald Trump. And of course, shot after shot of $1,000 shoes, gold decorations, and private planes.
The Atlantic staff writer Sophie Gilbert describes the film as a “two-hour perfume commercial." Gilbert joins the show to talk about the movie, about the real Melania, and about President Trump’s efforts to shape culture.
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- Is ICE Allowed Around Polling Places?
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “The U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke … There is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot,” Stacey Abrams tells Anne Applebaum.
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- Who Is Clavicular (And Why Should You Care)?
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- 45:45
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- On this week’s Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel takes listeners deep into the internet’s fever swamps to examine how figures who once would’ve stayed on the fringes now dominate mainstream feeds. The episode charts the rise of Clavicular, a young livestreamer who’s gone from an absurdist curiosity to a fixture in the manosphere and its adjacent right-wing influencer culture. Using Clavicular as a lens—his extreme body modification, relentless self-documentation, and a willingness to do anything for attention—Charlie discusses the rise of nihilistic Zoomer influencers. Then Charlie is joined by the internet-culture researcher Aidan Walker, who helps situate Clavicular alongside figures such as Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, revealing how the “looksmaxxing” movement collides with grievance politics and an anti-political, “algorithm-first” ideology. Together they explore what happens when the gatekeepers are gone, and when nihilism becomes a default way for budding attentio...
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- A Memorial in Kyiv Honors Those Killed in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- In Kyiv’s Independence Square, a makeshift memorial dedicated to those killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine has grown as the casualty numbers have climbed, Simon Shuster reports.
“This is made by the people who stood side by side from day one,” one veteran tells Shuster at the memorial.
Read more of Shuster’s reporting from Kyiv: https://theatln.tc/y3S0rECi
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- Title
- The Trump Administration Has its Eyes on the Midterms and Beyond
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- 30:32
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Trump White House is changing the rules of our political system through intimidation, the distortion of information, financial corruption, and the dismantling of government offices. In the final episode of this season, we examine whether the administration is also trying to change the rules of our elections. Dawn Baldwin Gibson, a North Carolina pastor, tells us about how, in 2024, her vote was challenged for reasons that still aren’t clear to her. Host Anne Applebaum interviews Stacey Abrams, who has spent years fighting voter-suppression tactics. Abrams argues that Gibson’s story is one of many attempts to change how people vote and how their votes are counted.
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- American Democracy Under Occupation
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- 25:32
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- When heavily armed agents of the federal government arrived in Minneapolis, the people of the Twin Cities responded with surprising strength.
In this episode, residents describe what drove them to act, and host Anne Applebaum speaks with Atlantic contributing writer Robert Worth about what he learned when he observed the tactics of the federal agents and the response of Minnesotans.
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- What Jeff Bezos May Have Misunderstood About The Washington Post
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “One thing that Jeff Bezos knows probably better than anyone else is that digital industries tend to focus around one big winner”—but The Washington Post isn't the digital-newspaper version of Amazon, Joshua Benton tells Hanna Rosin.
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- It Was So Cold in Florida, Iguanas Fell Out of Trees
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- 0:22
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- As near-freezing temperatures reached southern Florida, cold-stunned iguanas dropped from the trees, unable to handle the chill.
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- The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
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- 0:11
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “The modern attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word,” Rose Horowitch reports. “Now professors are finding that they can’t even get students—film students—to sit through movies”:
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- How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post
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- 31:22
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- In a dismal morning Zoom call on Wednesday, The Washington Post’s executive editor, Matt Murray, announced that they were laying off roughly a third of its already diminished staff.
We talk to Joshua Benton, the founder of and a senior writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, about how the Post reached this point, the loss to journalism, and how Jeff Bezos is uniquely responsible.
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- Trump Versus Canada | The David Frum Show
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- 1:04:32
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” David opens with his thoughts on the reported $500 million-dollar deal between World Liberty Financial, a Trump-family business venture, and the United Arab Emirates, as reported by “The Wall Street Journal.” David discusses the helplessness we feel as we are bombarded with stories where it seems all restraint has broken down and explains what laws exist that are meant to curtail corrupt practices.
Then, David is joined by former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to discuss the Trump administration’s overtures to an Albertan secessionist movement, the harm the Trump presidency has done to the American-Canadian alliance, and how Trump is pushing Canada into China’s arms. David and Premier Kenney also discuss how the failures to address immigration by liberal parties across the West have led to dangerous far-right populist movements.
Finally, David discusses “The Imperialist,” by Sara Jeannette Duncan...
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- The Last Days of the Southern Drawl
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Annie Joy Williams was raised in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, near Nashville, “where the accents
grow stronger with each mile you travel from the city,” she writes. “My dad has always had a southern accent: His words fall out of his mouth the way molasses would sound if it could speak, thick and slow.”
Growing up, Williams watched people snicker at redneck characters on television. “I knew what the accent was supposed to convey: sweet but simpleminded … I was always clear on one fact: I wasn’t going to have a southern accent when I grew up.”
Recent studies suggest she’s part of a trend: Young people are losing their southern accents. But if this keeps up, Williams writes, “by the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.”
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- Countdown to the Next Arms Race
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- With the last significant nuclear-arms-control treaty about to expire, "the world is about to get a little more dangerous this week," Tom Nichols argues.
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- Yes, It’s Fascism by Jonathan Rauch
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- 0:08
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump,” Jonathan Rauch argues. “For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit. For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action. For yet another, the term is hazily defined, even by its adherents.”
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But “over Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism,” Rauch argues. “Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak ...
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- The Melania Documentary Is a Disgrace by Sophie Gilbert
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- 0:14
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Throughout the new documentary “Melania,” the camera seems desperate to find action—and although there is little, Sophie Gilbert argues, the film’s existence does reveal something about the entertainment industry.
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The film received a $40 million bid from Amazon, which was reported to include a roughly $28 million personal fee for Melania Trump, a further $35 million marketing budget, and an aggressive rollout across more than 3,300 theaters. It “bears underlining here that first ladies prior to Melania have typically declined—out of a sense of propriety rather than specific ethical constraints—to profit directly from their role while in office,” Gilbert writes.
“Melania” contains little substance, Gilbert argues, and in the documentary, the director Brett Ratner mostly “captures his subject walking from liminal place to liminal place in five-inch heels, the camera trailing her like a lap dog.” The first...
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- The David Frum Show: How Trump Could Permanently Alter the Presidency
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “I don't think we’re ever going back to a pre-Trump presidency,” contributing writer David Brooks tells David Frum. “We could be walking into an age where presidential power is ramped up and congressional power continues to deteriorate.”
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- Why an IRS Worker Resigned
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Kathleen Walters worked at the IRS for nearly 20 years before resigning over an order to share data on immigrants that her legal team said would actually break the law. “If you lose a job, you can get another job,” she says. “But if you lose your integrity, it is very hard to get it back.”
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- Tim Walz on Why Minneapolis Is Being Targeted
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- "I think they hate this because this is a state that works. And that assault will come to your state soon," Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told Isaac Stanley-Becker. Listen to the episode:
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- What Makes a Good Online Post From a Politician?
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “One of my favorite questions to ask politicians of any age, but especially the older ones, is ‘Tell me about what side of the internet you are on.’”
The digital political strategist Amanda Litman discusses with Charlie Warzel how politicians can develop a credible online presence. Listen to the episode:
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- How to Be a Citizen in the Information War (And Stay Sane)
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- 44:04
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- On this week’s “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel opens with what it means to live in 2026, when our phones can drop us into graphic, real-time violence without warning—and when documenting that violence can be both traumatizing and politically consequential. Using recent footage out of Minneapolis as a lens, he explores the uneasy collision of algorithmic feeds, misinformation, and the moral weight of witnessing. Charlie also traces how viral documentation can puncture official narratives, pushing stories beyond political circles and into unexpectedly “apolitical” corners of the internet, even as platform-ownership shifts and suspected censorship (or outages that look like censorship) deepen public paranoia about who controls what we see.
Then, Charlie is joined by Amanda Litman, a political digital strategist and the co-founder of Run for Something. They discuss how to be a good citizen in the information war without losing your mind. Specifically: In an age of a...
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- Rise of the Trump Loyalist
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- 29:15
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Kathleen Walters was only 23 days away from qualifying for early retirement at the IRS when she decided to quit, rather than acquiesce to a Trump-administration request that she break the law and compromise millions of people’s privacy. She’s one of hundreds of thousands of civil servants who have left or been fired from their federal-government jobs in the past year. In this episode, host Anne Applebaum speaks with Don Moynihan, an expert in the history of public policy from the University of Michigan. He explains how the destruction of America’s civil service is part of the administration’s greater effort to create a government that derives its power through unprecedented means and fundamentally disrupts democracy as we know it.
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- Tim Walz on Radio Atlantic: “This has got to end.”
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- 0:34
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “I keep hearing from the White House that we need to cooperate,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz tells Isaac Stanley-Becker. “I don't know what you want me to say about cooperating with a force who clearly was doing everything wrong.”
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- Why Authoritarians Attack Academic Institutions
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Autocrats don’t just attack educational institutions; they seek to turn them into “a place that breeds the values of authoritarianism, suspicion, hostility,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat tells Anne Applebaum. Listen to the full episode of “Autocracy in America”:
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- Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis
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- 25:59
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling and shares the view from his state.
“ The way you win this is through nonviolence, that you cannot do violence,” Governor Tim Walz told the Atlantic staff writer Isaac Stanley-Becker in Minneapolis on Wednesday (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/tim-walz-fort-sumter-minneapolis-ice/685801/) . “And I know my constituents are mad at me for saying that. They’re shooting us. They’re killing us. They’re beating us. They’re taking our children. But you see what’s happening now. For all that power and all that cruelty, they are retreating massively. Now, I believe they’ll only retreat far enough to get to the next day or the next news cycle. But again, they underestimated this state, and I think they’re underestimating the American people. I’m still baffled—if you were gonna pick two states to mess with, Maine and Minnesota, especially in the middle of winter, not sma...
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- Believe Your Eyes
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- People are risking their lives in Minneapolis to document the actions of federal agents, Charlie Warzel argues: “If the truth is ever going to win out over propaganda, it can only do so in the face of overwhelming evidence.”
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- Minneapolis Is a Second Amendment Wake-Up Call
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Ahead of ICE coming to his home state, staff writer Tyler Austin Harper made the decision to stop carrying his personal handgun that he keeps under his shirt most days “in full compliance with Maine’s concealed-carry laws,” because the past few weeks in Minneapolis “have made it apparent that ICE and Border Patrol don’t put much store in the law or Constitution.”
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- What the Neocons Got Right | The David Frum Show
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- 1:03:21
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” David opens with his reflections on the recent shootings in Minneapolis. He argues that these killings, alongside ICE’s warrantless home raids and mistaken detentions, and the reports of deaths in custody, are not isolated abuses but signs of a rapidly deepening crisis in American democracy, one in which basic rights and due process are applied unevenly and increasingly contested. David asks whether the country can find a way back from a dangerous moral and political impasse, as a majority of Americans recoil from these actions while a determined minority continue to defend them.
Then, David is joined by the “New York Times” columnist and Atlantic contributor David Brooks. Frum and Brooks discuss the origins of the term “neocon,” what the neocons got right, and why they should be listened to today. Brooks describes how America’s problems long predate Trump, and why elections alone cannot fix what has been l...
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- Why Trump Shifted Course in Minneapolis, by Jonathan Lemire and Russell Berman
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The statements from congressional Republicans expressing concern after Saturday’s shooting of Alex Pretti were relatively mild. But as Donald Trump watched the situation unfold from the White House, he grew uneasy with the pushback from his party—and with the National Rifle Association’s criticism of comments from a law-enforcement official, Jonathan Lemire report.
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- Welcome to the American Winter by Robert F. Worth
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “Behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest,” Robert Worth reports from the city.
At times, Worth was reminded of his coverage of the Arab Spring in 2011, in which a series of street clashes between protesters and police “quickly swelled into a much larger struggle against autocracy,” he writes. “As in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Minneapolis has seen a layered civic uprising where a vanguard of protesters has gained strength as many others who don’t share progressive convictions joined in feeling, if not always in person.”
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- Radio Atlantic: The role of observers in Minneapolis
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “The only reason we know that this happened the way it happened was because so many people in that neighborhood were also prepared to witness,” Adam Serwer tells Hanna Rosin from Minneapolis.
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- Another Death in Minneapolis
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- 28:20
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- A second American was shot and killed by federal agents. The Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer joins from Minneapolis to describe what he’s seen there in recent days, describing it as a form of activism America’s not seen since the 1960s—perhaps even earlier.
Serwer spent last week in Minneapolis talking to protesters. “They know that ICE has the guns. They know that if ICE kills them, this federal government will call them a terrorist and not even bother to investigate. And they're still out there. Because they feel very strongly about finding a way to nonviolently resist a federal government that has openly said it’’’s there to persecute them.”
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- Painting and Puns With Alexandra Petri
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Come on a journey with the Atlantic staff writer Alexandra Petri as she paints a portrait of Oscar Wilde (and a bird!) while discussing sip-n-paints, how she became a humor writer, and her lifetime of pun-making.
This is “Behind the Byline,” a series from The Atlantic that lets you get to know the people behind our journalism. Find all of Petri’s work at the link: https://theatln.tc/j8dWcYkR
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- How Minneapolis Protests Differ From Other Modern Protests
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The Minneapolis protests are less online-based than many other modern protests, Ryan Broderick tells Charlie Warzel: “To compare that to the other side, which is extremely online, is a total inversion of everything I’ve seen in my career.” Listen to the episode:
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- ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content
- Runtime
- 46:48
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” host Charlie Warzel speaks with the reporter Ryan Broderick about how the internet’s fragmentation of attention and facts has bled into real-world political violence in Minneapolis this month. From the viral spread of a right-wing video about day-care fraud in Minnesota to the aggressive ICE activity in the region that followed, the episode charts how online content routinely shapes government action and public perception.
Broderick, who spent days in Minneapolis after the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, describes what he saw on the ground: how protesters and law enforcement are behaving differently this time around, especially with regard to filming and digital organizing. The conversation explores a novel and concerning feedback loop where what happens online spurs real-world interventions, which then generate more content for audiences elsewhere, compounding division and uncertainty about what’s true.
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- Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education
- Runtime
- 27:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her lab’s funding. The administration’s attacks on medicine, culture, and education—which include funding cuts and verbal threats—are about more than just budgeting and bravado. Our host, Anne Applebaum, speaks with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, who argues that this effort is part of a larger autocratic project to maintain power.
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- Title
- The Discarded
- Runtime
- 28:57
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Last year, there was a mass exodus of federal workers: Some were pushed out, while others left on their own. All in all, more than 300,000 Americans left government jobs. The Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer spent months talking to dozens of them, finding out who they were, what they did, and ultimately what, as a country, we may have lost.
Read Foer’s full story: “The Purged.” (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-federal-worker-layoffs-interviews/685321/)
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- Title
- Trump Gives a Stump Speech at Davos
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum “revealed what he still doesn’t understand about American power on the global stage,” David A. Graham argues.
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- NATO Troops in Greenland Could Mean More Uncertainty for Putin
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Europe shoring up NATO defenses in Greenland introduces “a flip side of uncertainty” for Vladimir Putin, Fiona Hill tells David Frum. Listen to the full episode:
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- Why Trump Sides With Putin | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 58:29
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum examines one of the most consequential deceptions of the Trump presidency: the insistence that grocery prices are falling when Americans know from lived experience that they are not. David explains how tariffs and trade policy are deliberately driving food costs higher, why Trump keeps lying about it, and how breaking this promise strikes at the core of the fragile trust between voters and government.
Then David is joined by Fiona Hill, a former adviser to three U.S. presidents and a key witness in Trump’s first impeachment, to analyze how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why Trump remains so drawn to strongman power. Frum and Hill discuss Putin’s long game in Ukraine, Trump’s archaic and backward worldview, and how Trump’s presidency has been a gift to Putin while steadily eroding American credibility abroad.
Finally, David closes the episode with a discussion of “Among the...
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- Yair Rosenberg on the Biggest Myth About Trump's Base
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Trump’s base isn’t abandoning him—but several groups have an interest in pushing the claim that they are, Yair Rosenberg argues.
- Title
- Trump's Greenland-Invasion Threat Should Be the Last Straw
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The people and politicians around Trump must stand up to him when it comes to his threat to invade Greenland, Anne Applebaum argues.
- Title
- 65 Essential Children's Books
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The beautiful illustrations of “The Mitten,” the humor of “A Baby Sister for Frances,” the lessons of “Miss Rumphius”—these are some of what our editors loved from The Atlantic’s 65 essential children’s books.
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- Sophie Gilbert on the persistence of misogyny on tech platforms
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “Name a tech platform,” Sophie Gilbert argues, and “it has been created because someone somewhere wanted to ogle women.”
Gilbert speaks with Charlie Warzel about how the use of Grok to create AI-generated nudes is the latest manifestation of a long-running phenomenon in tech.
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- Title
- How 'Heated Rivalry' Actually Takes Sex Seriously
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “Heated Rivalry,” the Canadian ice-hockey TV series that’s become a phenomenon, “knows the value of good sex scenes,” Faith Hill argues. The series shows the scenes “not for thrills or laughs or snapshots of a fleeting moment but for illustrating how the characters’ relationship develops, touch by touch, over time. It takes sex seriously in an era when few shows do.”
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