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Why Crypto Is Much Riskier Than Normal Investments
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- Why Crypto Is Much Riskier Than Normal Investments
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Some crypto investors don’t understand the level of risk they’re taking—and now government regulators are backing away from new consumer protections, Molly White tells Anne Applebaum. “There were many instances where people lost their funds and they said, ‘I thought I had the same protections as a bank.’”
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- The Internet Was Built to Objectify Women
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- 37:11
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel confronts the growing crisis around AI-generated sexual abuse and the culture of impunity enabling it. He examines how Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok is being used to create and circulate nonconsensual sexualized images, often targeting women. Warzel lays out why this moment represents a red line for the internet: It is a test of whether society will tolerate tools that silence women through humiliation and intimidation under the guise of free speech.
Warzel is then joined by The Atlantic’s Sophie Gilbert, the author of Girl on Girl, for a conversation about how misogyny has been a constant throughline in the history of internet innovation, from Facebook to YouTube. Warzel and Gilbert discuss today’s AI-powered exploitation and explore how new technologies repeatedly repackage old abuses at greater scale and speed. They discuss why this wave of hostility feels so intense right now, how backlash politics and platform design re...
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- New Money, New Powers
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- 28:26
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Brandon LaRoque kept his life savings in a cryptocurrency account. One morning, as he went to check his balance, he discovered that it was all missing. LaRoque is one of many victims of the unregulated crypto industry. President Donald Trump has rolled back regulation of the industry, while he and his family have earned untold billions of dollars from new crypto ventures. Host Anne Applebaum talks with Molly White, a writer focused on the intersections of tech and finance. They discuss whether more people are bound to befall the same fate as LaRoque and how this new financial industry is shaping our politics and facilitating corruption within our government.
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- Arizona election official: "Look, you can't cancel the election."
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- President Trump has made comments questioning the necessity of midterm elections.
Arizona’s secretary of state talked about this threat earlier this week, telling Yvonne Wingett Sanchez “you can’t cancel the election.” “But here’s the problem,” he said. “The fact that we’re running through these scenarios in the first place should tell you something about the health of our democracy.”
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- Denmark’s Army Chief Says He’s Ready to Defend Greenland
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Danish forces are moving to Greenland to show NATO—and Donald Trump—that they’re serious about security, Isaac Stanley-Becker reports from Copenhagen.
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- Do ICE Officers Have 'Immunity'?
- Runtime
- 32:18
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Tensions are high in Minneapolis this week. The Trump administration is sending more federal agents. Protesters are calling for justice for the killing of an unarmed citizen. But what could actually happen legally? Especially when the Department of Justice seems more interested in trying to open a criminal investigation into the victim’s wife than the ICE officer who pulled the trigger?
We talk to the legal researcher Bryna Godar about the history of prosecutions against federal agents and why they’re not often successful. And we speak with the Atlantic staff writer Nick Miroff, who covers immigration, about what members of ICE are saying internally—and why they now feel more emboldened than ever.
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- A Conversation with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes
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- 42:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Recorded in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 13, 2026, this fireside chat features Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes in conversation with Atlantic staff writer Yvonne Wingett Sanchez. As the country approaches the 2026 midterm elections, Fontes discusses Arizona’s efforts to safeguard election integrity, protect voters, and strengthen democratic trust.
This conversation was part of The Atlantic Across America event series. In 1857, The Atlantic’s founders wrote that their magazine would make a sincere and honest effort to represent and champion what they called “the American idea.” The Atlantic will visit all 50 states in a series of events where we will surface and engage with the most urgent, complex, and distinctly American questions of the moment in the places where they are unfolding.
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- A Conversation with Ambassador Jeff Flake
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- 41:56
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and U.S. Senator Jeff Flake joins Atlantic contributor Evan Smith to talk about America’s position on the global stage. Recorded in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 13, 2026, this conversation comes as the United States enters the second year of an increasingly isolationist administration, raising timely questions about alliances, diplomacy, and influence abroad.
This conversation was part of The Atlantic Across America event series. In 1857, The Atlantic’s founders wrote that their magazine would make a sincere and honest effort to represent and champion what they called “the American idea.” The Atlantic will visit all 50 states in a series of events where we will surface and engage with the most urgent, complex, and distinctly American questions of the moment in the places where they are unfolding.
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- Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 57:06
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the menacing crises the Trump presidency is inflicting on the United States and its own movement to start 2026. David speculates that the recent lethal ICE incident in Minneapolis, Trump’s increasingly unhinged rhetoric, and the targeting of Jerome Powell indicate that MAGA world is cracking. He argues that Trump’s increasingly unpredictable and escalating actions are taking the MAGA movement, the Trump presidency, the U.S., and the rest of the world down a path of doom.
Then, David is joined by Timothy Naftali, the founding director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, to discuss perhaps Trump’s most brazen grift: his proposed presidential library in Miami. Frum and Naftali also discuss why comparisons of Trump to Nixon fall flat and how Trump’s actions in Venezuela reflect a policy of weakness.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of J...
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- A Breathtaking Week of Pure Trump Id
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The U.S. strike on Venezuela has emboldened Donald Trump to flex even more, Jonathan Lemire reports: “Trump is acting with little to no checks on his power—abroad and at home.”
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- Historian: How Trump Differs From Nixon
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- We have “a president with similar, but not identical, dark impulses” to Richard Nixon—but who uniquely “has no sense of shame and no guardrails,” Tim Naftali, the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, tells David Frum.
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- Elon Musk’s Grok and the Mass Undressing Scandal
- Runtime
- 11:34
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Galaxy Brain's Charlie Warzel reacts to the nightmare playing out on Elon Musk’s X.
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- Grok’s “Mass-Undressing Spree” Crossed a Line
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “This is, like, basic human decency: that we shouldn’t have tools that can very easily create viral content of women and children being undressed against their will.”
Grok’s “mass-undressing spree” and the lack of urgency from X and other platforms to address it have crossed a dangerous line, Charlie Warzel argues. Watch more:
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- ICE and the National Guard Are Acting with Impunity
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- 27:01
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. This shift was evident even before the shootings in Minneapolis and Portland this week. In this episode, George Retes, a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran, recounts how he was detained by ICE and held for three days without explanation. The Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum returns as host of Autocracy in America and talks with Margy O’Herron and Liza Goitein from the Liberty & National Security Program at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice about the potential impact of these forces on elections in November.
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- Grok’s ‘Digital Undressing’ Crisis and a Manifesto to Build a Better Internet
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- 1:13:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel discusses the nightmare playing out on Elon Musk’s X: Grok, the platform’s embedded AI chatbot, is being used to generate and spread nonconsensual sexualized images—often through “undressing” prompts that turn harassment into a viral game. Warzel describes how what once lived on the internet’s fringes has been supercharged by X’s distribution machine. He explains how the silence and lack of urgency isn’t just another content-moderation failure; it’s a breakdown of basic human decency, a moment that signals what happens when platforms choose chaos over stewardship.
Then Charlie is joined by Mike Masnick, Alex Komoroske, and Zoe Weinberg to discuss a vision for a positive future of the internet. The trio helped write the “Resonant Computing Manifesto,” a framework for building technology that leaves people feeling nourished rather than hollow. They discuss how to combat engagement-maximizing products...
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- "The Biggest Mistake Any President Has Made in the History of This Country.”
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- 5:48
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Senator Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) on White House threats to use the military to take Greenland.
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- Mark Kelly: Demotion Threat Sends a ‘Chilling Message’
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “This isn’t just about me anymore,” Mark Kelly tells Hanna Rosin about the Trump administration’s demotion threat. “This is a message to the American people: Shut up or there are consequences. And we cannot let that stand.”
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- Mark Kelly: The U.S. Seizing Greenland Would Embolden our Enemies— Radio Atlantic
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The U.S. seizing Greenland would embolden China and Russia to go after countries they covet, Mark Kelly tells @HannaRosin, adding that it “would probably be the biggest mistake any president has made in the history of this country.”
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- A Threat to Greenland Is a Threat to NATO | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 10:25
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In December 24th's episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum reacted to the Trump administration’s hostility toward NATO. David discussed why NATO was created, what it does, and why we should care about it. He also analyzed the United State’s global leadership role and why so many bad actors advocate for isolationism.
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- Title
- 'Aren't We Supposed to Be the Good Guys Here?'
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- 24:45
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- President Donald Trump likely won’t listen to this podcast, but Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona has a warning for him: Any attempt to take Greenland using military force will probably go down as the biggest mistake made by a president in all of U.S. history.
In this conversation with Kelly, we discuss the impact of the censure letter against him sent by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the legality of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean, the future of the Democratic Party, and his family’s response to political violence.
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- Behind Venezuela’s oil-reserve claims
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- David Frum tells Vivian Salama that Venezuela’s claim of massive oil reserves is likely inflated: “They just made the figure up … Chávez, for his own ego reasons, said: I want the number to be bigger.”
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- Introducing Season 3 of Autocracy in America
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Anne Applebaum hosts a new season of “Autocracy in America,” reporting on the sweeping changes unfolding in our country and preparing you to think about what might happen next.
Listen to the new season this Friday wherever you find your podcasts.
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- Trump’s FAFO Doctrine
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The country that introduced the Truman Doctrine, the Reagan Doctrine, and—Trump’s apparent favorite—the Monroe Doctrine “now embraces the plainest and most ostentatiously bellicose of national-security policies,” Missy Ryan and Ashley Parker report.
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- Trump Has No Plan for Venezuela | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 56:37
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the American seizure of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and President Donald Trump’s deeply flawed thinking about Venezuelan oil. David argues that Trump’s worldview of exploitation and predation is likely to doom his ambitions in Venezuela rather than secure them.
David is then joined by the national-security analyst David Rothkopf to examine the U.S. military operation in Venezuela and the Trump administration’s alarming lack of a coherent plan for what comes next. Rothkopf explores what it means for a president to sideline or altogether ignore the National Security Council before launching a major military action. Together, Rothkopf and Frum speculate about possible outcomes of the Maduro operation that Trump appears not to have considered.
Finally, David closes with his thoughts on Rudyard Kipling’s “Recessional” and the poem’s warning about natio...
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- The David Frum Show: Could Nicolás Maduro be acquitted?
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Maduro’s conviction in a U.S. court isn’t certain, the historian David Rothkopf tells David Frum: “We’ve seen a lot of cases put together by the Trump Justice Department falling apart because they’ve been mishandled from a legal perspective.”
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- Anne Applebaum: The narrative around Venezuelan conflict has been about "the glory" of the U.S.
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The Trump administration's victory narrative around its actions in Venezuela “is for U.S. domestic political consumption rather than to achieve something in Venezuela,” Anne Applebaum tells David Frum.
Watch the full episode now.
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- Is the U.S. Running Venezuela or Not?
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- 30:27
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- After the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by U.S. forces over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced that America would now “run” Venezuela. Staff writers Vivian Salama and Michael Scherer break down what might happen next (https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/trump-nicolas-maduro-venezuela/685493/) —and what Trump told The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/trump-venezuela-maduro-delcy-rodriguez/685497/) the day after the capture.
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- Title
- Even Close Allies Are Asking Why Trump Wants to Run Venezuela
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Even some of Donald Trump’s closest allies are unnerved by his brash approach to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Atlantic staff writers report.
Vivian Salama on the challenges Trump now faces—both in Venezuela and at home. Read more at the link.
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- Bonus Episode: How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela? (With Anne Applebaum) | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 29:26
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- David Frum is joined by The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum to react to the news of the American raid and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in a special episode of The David Frum Show.
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- The Internet’s Role in Shaping Americans’ Political Views
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “I’m not seeing everyone as just these absolutely passive observers,” Charlie Warzel argues.
Warzel and David Frum discuss how ever more tribal online discourse and algorithms have manipulated the current political environment.
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- Ashley Parker Behind the Byline
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Ashley Parker has dubbed the cowboy boot the perfect work professional shoe. She has worn pairs from her collection to the halls of Congress, to Washington galas, and even to interview the president.
This is “Behind the Byline,” a series from The Atlantic that lets you get to know the people behind our journalism.
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- No Easy Fix | An Update on Evan
- Runtime
- 21:32
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In July, we published a series of stories about San Francisco’s attempt to address a crisis unfolding on the city’s streets. We followed Evan, who had been homeless for years, as he sought an escape from the addiction that was threatening his life. Four months later, we check in on how he’s doing.
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- Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism | The David Frum Show x Galaxy Brain
- Runtime
- 1:00:49
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He examines the many actions President Donald Trump has taken that run counter to the ideals articulated in 1776, and considers how the Founders’ constitutional genius may ultimately be what frustrates Trump’s attempt to consolidate power.
David is then joined by his Atlantic colleague Charlie Warzel, a staff writer and the host of the Galaxy Brain podcast, to discuss the temptations that come with launching a new podcast and the challenge of serving an audience that often rewards extreme content. Together, they talk about the responsibility that comes with hosting a podcast in a media environment that prizes clicks over truth. They also explore how conspiracy theorists have come to function as an alternate reality of “mainstream media,” and why the fight for truth may not yet be lo...
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- The Best TV Shows of 2025
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Many of the years’ biggest TV shows flaunted wealth—but the shows Atlantic critics Sophie Gilbert and Shirley Li loved most this year demonstrated that moving and ingenious narratives still exist on screen.
See all their choices at the link: https://theatln.tc/PoGtyE4s
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- Title
- Behind the Byline with David Graham
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- David A. Graham can’t just name a Grateful Dead song after hearing only the first few bars—he can get pretty close to naming the year concert recordings were made.
In “Behind the Byline,” a series from The Atlantic that lets you get to know the people behind our journalism, the lifelong Deadhead talks about the soundtracks he grew up with for long car rides—and why the band he loves is timeless.
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- Eight Plot-Heavy Book Recommendations from M. L. Rio
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The author M. L. Rio recommends eight books for readers who crave intrinsic momentum and a lot of plot, be it a ticking time bomb or a freaky psychodrama.
See the full list here: https://theatln.tc/V8O3b27k
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- The Value of Social-Media Interaction for Older Generations
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- "There is almost always value in interaction and communication," Dr. Ipsit Vahia, the chief of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General's McLean Hospital, tells Charlie Warzel—even if it's communication about AI slop.
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- Are Your Parents Addicted to Their Screens? With Dr. Ipsit Vahia
- Runtime
- 54:39
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Are your parents addicted to their phone? In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel explores how technology is affecting an older generation of adults. Instead of a phone-based childhood, Warzel suggests, we may be witnessing the emergence of a phone-based retirement—one shaped by isolation, algorithmic feeds, and platforms never designed with aging users in mind.
To untangle whether this is a genuine crisis or a misplaced moral panic, Warzel speaks with Ipsit Vahia, chief of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General Brigham’s McLean Hospital in Massachusetts and a leading researcher on technology and aging. Vahia emphasizes that older adults are anything but a single category, and that screen use can be both protective and harmful, depending on context. The key, Vahia argues, is resisting reflexive judgment. Ultimately, this is an issue not of screens versus humans, but of how families navigate connection in a world where attention is mediated by devices in eve...
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- Netflix vs. Paramount
- Runtime
- 26:47
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- It was a great year for Warner Bros. Discovery: Two of its movies (One Battle After Another and Sinners) are front-runners for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and it had a string of critical hits and box-office successes with Superman, Weapons, and A Minecraft Movie. But despite those wins, the media conglomerate—which also owns HBO and CNN—found itself up for auction with two aggressive bidders: Paramount and Netflix.
The Atlantic movie critic David Sims explains why this deal could be bad for the movies. And our staff writer Frank Foer lays out why this deal could be bad for democracy—especially if President Donald Trump gets involved.
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- The 10 Best Albums of 2025
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The best albums of 2025 came more from cult musicians than from mainstream artists, Spencer Kornhaber argues.
Although some of the biggest pop artists turned out what feel like an forgettable product, Kornhaber says, albums from artists such as Geese, Rosalía, and Clipse stand out for being strange and personal.
But Kornhaber’s top album of the year was a surprise, even to him. Read more at the link.
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- Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing? | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 59:42
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the Trump administration’s hostility toward NATO. David discusses why NATO was created, what it does, and why we should care about it. David also analyzes the United State’s global leadership role and why so many bad actors advocate for isolationism.
Then David is joined by his Atlantic colleague Helen Lewis to talk about the proliferation and importance of right-wing “comedy” podcasts. They discuss why some comedians seem to go right-wing and why a growing audience is drawn to their uninformed rhetoric. Lewis also addresses the complicity comedians and their audience share in the rise of MAGA.
Finally, David closes the podcast with a discussion on Edith Wharton’s Autres Temps and how it speaks to moral panics, social pariahs, and so-called cancel culture.
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- Selecting the Top 25 Photos for 2025
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The towering blaze that engulfed a Hong Kong skyscraper, a view of the Northern Lights from the International Space Station: Alan Taylor on the qualities that make these images some of the most powerful photos in news over the past 12 months. https://theatln.tc/se4HCQRu
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- How the Trump Administration is Politicizing the Epstein Files
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The Epstein-files release on Friday appeared to front-load material related to Bill Clinton. Charlie Warzel speaks with Isaac Stanley-Becker and Adrienne LaFrance about how the Trump administration may be politicizing the files.
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- Bonus Episode: Reacting to the Epstein Files’ Release
- Runtime
- 1:11:38
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel, executive editor Adrienne LaFrance, and staff writer Isaac Stanley-Becker discuss the Department of Justice’s release of the Epstein files.
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- Title
- How prediction markets may be targeting young men
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Prediction markets are part of a larger “commercial and political kind of apparatus that is working really hard to separate young guys from their money,” Max Read tells Charlie Warzel.
Listen to the full episode at the link:
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- Prediction Markets and the "Suckerification" Crisis With Max Read
- Runtime
- 52:25
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel explores the burgeoning industry of prediction markets. These platforms let people wager on everything from elections and award shows to the most trivial internet ephemera, framing bets as tradable “shares” that rise and fall like stocks. With billions in weekly trading volume, massive new funding rounds, and even a CNN partnership with the prediction-betting platform, Kalshi, prediction markets are quickly moving from a niche curiosity to a mainstream-media fixture—openly touting ambitions to financialize everything.
Warzel is joined by writer Max Read, who argues that prediction markets sit at the intersection of gambling, finance, and a broader “suckerification” economy aimed at young men. Together they unpack whether the markets actually reflect the “wisdom of crowds” or whether they’re little more than a meta-game of vibes, ideology, and misvalued dumb money. The pair explore the culture of these pl...
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- This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Donald Trump’s televised speech last night was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” Tom Nichols argues.
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- ISIS Never Really Went Away
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- 28:31
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- More than a decade after its peak, the Islamic State has changed, but it isn’t defeated. This past weekend, the jihadist group reemerged in connection with two disparate acts of violence thousands of miles apart.
Two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Syria by a man the Pentagon says is affiliated with ISIS. A day later, at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, two men opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 and wounding dozens. The men had homemade ISIS flags in their car, and had recently traveled to an area in the Philippines where ISIS-affiliated groups are known to still be active. Are these incidents connected? And do they point to a group that’s evolving?
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- The dangers of politicians regulating the industries they invest in
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Crypto is big business for the Trump family. David Frum talks with the professor Will Thomas about the dangers of politicians regulating the industries they invest in.
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- How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy | The David Frum Show
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- 1:01:26
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the shooting at Bondi Beach and the rise of anti-Semitic violence globally. He discusses what governments can do to crack down on radicals and prevent future acts of violence.
Then David is joined by Will Thomas, a professor at the Michigan Ross School of Business, to discuss Thomas’s paper “Crypto Kleptocracy.” David and Thomas discuss how the second Trump term has embraced the crypto industry, how cryptocurrencies have enriched the Trump family, and the new channels for corruption that crypto opens.
Finally, David discusses Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” and what the novel can teach us about courage, a discussion relevant after an eyewitness reported that he thought police were slow to act during the terrorist attack on Bondi Beach.
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