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How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy | The David Frum Show
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- How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy | The David Frum Show
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- 1:01:26
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- 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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- Coming Soon: Season 3 of Autocracy in America
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The Trump administration is making radical, unprecedented changes to American institutions. By doing so, it is seeking to transform the American political system as well. To explain Donald Trump’s project, and to talk about where it might be going, The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum is returning to host a new season of Autocracy in America. She’ll introduce listeners to Americans whose lives were changed during the administration’s first year, and will ask historians, analysts, and political scientists how new laws and policies might affect the midterm elections in November.
Coming January 2026.
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- Were humans meant to broadcast?
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- "I feel pretty ominous about the future,“ Derek Thompson tells Charlie Warzel, “and it’s partly because I’m not sure that we’re made to broadcast, as a species.”
In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” they discuss what media-consumption trends reveal about us. Listen to the full episode:
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- The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Some people are becoming reliant on AI to navigate basic aspects of daily life, Lila Shroff reports.
“We’re still in an earlier era of AI where companies haven’t necessarily turned up the volume all the way in terms of making their tools super addictive,” Shroff explains. But “it’s not hard to imagine a near future where companies start doing a lot more to keep us hooked in conversation.”
Read more about the people dependent on AI—and the consequences they’re facing—at the link: https://theatln.tc/mRlywSbX
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- How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV, With Rachel Martin, Ashley Carman, and Derek Thompson
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- 1:02:19
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel turns the camera on himself to ask a simple question: Why are you seeing his face?
Using YouTube’s takeover of podcasts as a starting point, he explores how video has devoured audio and turned podcasts into something closer to daytime TV and late-night talk shows. NPR’s Rachel Martin, host of the celebrity-interview show Wild Card, joins to talk about her own shift from intimate, audio-only conversations to highly visible video chats with mega-celebrities. She explains how the visual layer changes everything—from building trust with guests and audiences to deepening parasocial relationships, and why showing your face is necessary in a low-trust media world.
To trace the business and cultural arc of this pivot, Bloomberg reporter Ashley Carman explains the rise and fall of the podcast “gold rush”—from the Serial era to Spotify’s billion-dollar bet, to the collapse of expensive narrative audio and Yo...
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- Indiana GOP Defies Trump Over Redistricting
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Despite heavy-handed influence from the president and his allies, Indiana Republicans rejected a redistricting plan that would have given Republicans all nine seats in the state’s U.S. House delegation.
"This is perhaps the biggest defeat that Trump has suffered from any Republican-led state thus far in his second term," Russell Berman reports from Indiana:
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- He's Undocumented. She's Not.
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- 39:13
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- A young Chicago couple—one is an undocumented immigrant from Poland, and the other is a U.S. citizen—face a choice: stay in the place they’ve called home—or give up on the place that doesn’t seem to want them anymore.
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- 65 Essential Children's Books
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The musicality of “Green Eggs and Ham,” the loving energy of “Olivia,” the chaos of “Hippos Go Berserk”—our editors discuss their choices for our list of 65 essential children’s books.
Watch them read from their picks, and find all the titles at the link in our bio:
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- How Trump’s Plan to Steal the 2026 Elections Could Fail | The David Frum Show
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- 52:02
- 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 absurd Peace Prize awarded to Donald Trump by FIFA. David discusses how the invented prize reflects what FIFA understands about our president—that he’s the kind of leader who can be won over with shiny trinkets and fancy ceremonies.
Then, David is joined by Michael Waldman from the Brennan Center for Justice to discuss how the Trump administration might try to undermine or even outright steal the 2026 elections. David and Michael discuss the possible actions Trump could take, along with the systems in place to stop him and what reforms need to happen to the American electoral system. Michael also discusses the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and what Republicans are doing to undermine it.
Finally, David closes the episode with a discussion of an article titled “How Responsibility Shapes Career Success for Leaders,” and what a lesson in managemen...
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- Representative Jake Auchincloss on how Democrats can close the gender gap
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Representative Jake Auchincloss to Jeffrey Goldberg on how Democrats can win over young male voters: “Don’t patronize them … It’s condescending. You tell them where they’re going and what they’re building. You say, ‘We need you. This country needs you.’”
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- Michael Waldman on How Congress Can Ensure Free and Fair Elections
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- From national efforts against gerrymandering to Supreme Court term limits, Michael Waldman, the president of the Brennan Center, tells David Frum about changes Congress could make to elections in a post-Trump era:
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- How Big a Problem Is “AI Psychosis”?
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Charlie Warzel speaks with author Kashmir Hill about the ever more alarming relationships people build with chatbots, and the consequences of “AI psychosis.” Listen to the episode:
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- Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250
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- 1:08:02
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The Atlantic's November 2025 issue was dedicated to “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project that examines the founding of the United States and brings the nation’s history to bear on its present—and its future.
To celebrate this project, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, and Meghna Chakrabarti, host of On Point, sat down at WBUR's CitySpace in Boston for a conversation about America at 250 and the most urgent, complex and challenging questions the country is facing.
Then, Goldberg interviewed Representative Jake Auchincloss, a rising political star in Massachusetts, to discuss his thoughts on our current political climate, the future of democracy and how the country can collectively move through the next 250 years.
0:00 Welcome remarks to the event
8:00 Jeffrey Goldberg and Meghna Chakrabarti of On Point talk about The Atlantic's history and America at 250
36:25 Jeffrey Goldberg and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in con...
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- When AI Chatbots Break Our Minds, With Kashmir Hill
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- 59:07
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel explores the strange, unsettling relationships some people are having with AI chatbots, as well as what happens when those relationships go off the rails. His guest is Kashmir Hill, a technology reporter at The New York Times who has spent the past year documenting what is informally called “AI psychosis.”
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- Title
- Is This the End of Kids on Social Media?
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- 31:11
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Australia is about to become the first country in the world to ban kids under 16 from having social-media accounts. Other countries have attempted partial restrictions, but Australia’s Online Safety Amendment is the first real ban, and it comes with heavy fines for social-media companies that fail to comply. In this episode, we hear from the woman in charge of enforcing the policy, the teens who will be affected by it starting next week, and a researcher who doesn’t think Australia’s plan is the right answer.
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- Architect of Obamacare: Health Care Is Still a Mess | The David Frum Show
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- 44:18
- 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 shocking alleged corruption that has informed President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and the scandal of the recently proposed “peace plan” by the United States. He goes on to discuss how the many scandals of the Trump presidency make it hard to focus on just one, as it is quickly replaced in the news cycle by another.
Then David is joined by Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor and the chairman of the economics department at MIT. Gruber discusses the backlash he faced as a key architect of the Affordable Care Act and why the American health-care system still feels so broken. David and Gruber also talk about the war on both vaccines and science that is being waged by the conservative right.
Finally, David closes the episode with a discussion of “They Thought They Were Free,” by Milton Mayer, and what we can learn about teaching soldie...
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- How the Trump administration's actions on health research could have lasting effects
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- “People don’t realize the lifeblood of economic growth that is publicly financed research”—and it’s going to take “decades to reverse” the Trump administration’s effect on health research, the MIT professor Jonathan Gruber tells David Frum.
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- The Bubble-Wrapped President
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Some Republicans and Donald Trump allies fear that the president is growing out of touch with what the public wants, Jonathan Lemire reports. He explores what’s at stake for the GOP.
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- 2025 Gift Guide: The Atlantic’s Staff Shares Its Holiday-Gift Recommendations
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- What’s the perfect present for someone who’s always seeking inspiration? Or the friend who has everything? From $11 to an inflatable tube man, four Atlantic staff writers share their favorite presents for the holiday season.
See our editorial team’s curated list of 50 unique gifts for bringing joy to your loved ones: https://theatln.tc/pAb0jggZ
Illustrations by Matija Medved
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- How Politics Can Be Warped By Algorithms
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- “Once the claws are in you through social media—it starts dragging down the whole democracy with it.”
The journalist Eliot Higgins speaks with Charlie Warzel about how algorithmic incentives can affect how people make political decisions. Listen to the episode:
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- America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
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- 55:25
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel sits down with Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative collective Bellingcat, to examine how our public sphere slid from healthy debate into what Higgins calls “disordered discourse.” Higgins is an early-internet native who taught himself geolocation during the Arab Spring and later built Bellingcat’s global community. He has spent the past decade exposing war crimes and online manipulation with publicly available data. Higgins has recently come up with a framework to help understand our information crisis: Democracies function only when we can verify truth, deliberate over what matters, and hold power to account. All three are faltering, he argues.
In this conversation, Warzel and Higgins trace the incentives that broke the feed: how algorithms reward outrage, how “bespoke realities” form, why counterpublics can devolve into virtual cults, and what “simulated” accountability looks like in practic...
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- Holiday Gift Guide: The Atlantic's Staff Members Share Their Recommendations
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- What’s the perfect gift for the adventurer in your life? Do you know someone who needs to touch grass? From horribly illustrated artwork to a self-rotating globe, Atlantic staff writers and editors share their recommended presents for the holiday season.
At the link, see our editorial team’s curated list of 50 unique gifts for bringing joy to your loved ones: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/11/holiday-gift-guide-2025/683893/
Shirt design courtesy of Sean Ryan
Illustrations by Matija Medved
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- How Alison Roman Does Thanksgiving
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- 33:57
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- In Alison Roman’s newest cookbook, “Something From Nothing,” her pantry is her primary inspiration. In this live conversation, we talk with Roman about her family Thanksgiving, why she makes her own baby food, and why simple really is better. We also discuss food trends, and what life is like for her as a solo creator. Then, we put the cookbook’s philosophy of simplicity to the test with an onstage game in which Alison must choose three pantry ingredients from a bag and come up with a delicious dinner.
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- How X Blew Up Its Own Platform With a New Location Feature
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature called “About This Account”—and immediately plunged the site into chaos, Charlie Warzel argues.
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- David Frum: Doge ended up as a "total fiasco"
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- DOGE was “a kind of decapitation strike against the executive functions of the United States government,” David Frum argues.
Watch “The David Frum Show”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gyi8r1zExU&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1
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- Decline and Fall of the Conservative Mind | The David Frum Show
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- 1:01:04
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- On this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the unceremonious end of the Department of Government Efficiency. He examines the legacy DOGE leaves behind, why it failed, and how it became yet another example of the Trump administration’s drive to make America’s government weaker and smaller.
David is then joined by the historian and biographer Sam Tanenhaus to discuss his sweeping new biography of William F. Buckley Jr., “Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America.” Frum and Tanenhaus reflect on the Bill Buckley they both knew, exploring his strengths, his flaws, and his influence on the American conservative movement from the 1960s onward.
Finally, David closes with a discussion of Booth Tarkington’s novel “Alice Adams” and the lessons we can still take from a once-celebrated, now often-derided work of American literature.
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- Bridesmaid Inflation
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Annie Joy Williams has been a bridesmaid seven times, spending almost $20,000 on other people’s weddings. She explores the financial burden of being in a wedding party—and whether there might be any relief:
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- How Trump Could Subvert the Midterms
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos. His success could have dire consequences for American democracy, David A. Graham argues in The Atlantic’s December issue.
Read the full story: https://theatln.tc/ebZsy4Ty
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- Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Elias Wachtel is 23 years old, and he doesn’t have an smartphone. A few months ago, Elias opted for a dumbphone—a device that can call, text, play music, take photos, and give directions, but that has no ability for endless scrolling. This means no email, no social media, and no internet.
He explains why he decided to make the switch and how it has changed his life, both practically and psychologically.
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- Sports-gambling Sites Aren’t Playing the Long Game
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Sports-gambling apps and websites have become a fracking-like operation, Charlie Warzel argues: "Extract as much as you can, scale as much as you can get it, and you have to get it now."
For this episode of "Galaxy Brain," Warzel speaks with the journalist Pablo Torre about how these companies are failing to “play the long game.”
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- Pablo Torre on the Gambling Boom That Could Break Sports
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- 48:36
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Are sports the most valuable commodity in the world? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel is joined by Pablo Torre for an examination of the role that sports and rampant sports betting are playing in our politics, culture, and economy. Pablo Torre is a longtime journalist and the host of the podcast and YouTube show Pablo Torre Finds Out, where he reports on everything from football fans on death row and what it’s like to be a trangender athlete in high school to analyzing the coach Bill Belichick’s shirtless ring-cam footage. Torre is a student of the internet as well, and a keen observer of our attention economy. Sports, he argues, are the last monocultural product—the only sure way to draw eyeballs on an ever-fractured internet.
In this episode, Warzel and Torre dig into why billionaires and nation-states are buying teams and partnering with sports leagues. Torre discusses what he’s learned about journalism from bingeing YouTube videos and why having ...
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- When Border Patrol Comes to Town
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- 40:56
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- When the Trump administration promised a mass deportation campaign they initially relied on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Disappointed with ICE’s pace and tactics, the White House turned to the Border Patrol for more sweeping, military-style enforcement. Commander-at-large Gregory Bovino has brought his green-uniformed agents (and his film crew) to Los Angeles, Chicago, now North Carolina, and perhaps soon New York City.
Staff writer Nick Miroff on what happens when an agency trained for dangerous desert borders operates in crowded American cities.
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- The End of the American Empire | The David Frum Show
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- 59:53
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- On this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the recent gifts given to President Donald Trump by the Swiss government. He argues that the incident is yet another example of Trump’s favor being won through personal gifts and another sign of how his administration has forced the United States to abandon its traditional leadership role in the global order, reshaping American foreign policy into something closer to that of an extractive predator state.
David is then joined by Margaret MacMillan, emeritus professor of history at the University of Toronto and emeritus professor of international history at Oxford University, for a conversation about what a “post-American” world order might look like. They examine the United States’ retreat from global leadership under Trump, and consider whether the U.S. functions as an empire and whether that empire is now in decline.
Finally, David closes with a discus...
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- David Frum: What’s behind the Trump administration’s hostile approach to Canada?
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The Trump administration is “creating a lot of mistrust out there in the world of the United States and its motives. And once you lose trust, I think it is very difficult to restore it,” the historian Margaret MacMillan tells David Frum.
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- YouTuber Hank Green on the Future of the Internet
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The internet started as “Creative Common and Wikipedia,” Hank Green tells Charlie Warzel: “Now we have the discourse, and the discourse is in charge.”
For the debut episode of “Galaxy Brain,” The Atlantic’s new weekly show, Warzel and Green explore what the history of the internet could tell us about its future.
Watch every Friday wherever you find your podcasts:
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- Hank Green: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better | Galaxy Brain
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- 53:08
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- In this inaugural episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel examines the state of the internet as it stands now in November 2025 with Hank Green, a true citizen of the internet—somebody who has made a living riding the algorithmic waves of the social web. Warzel and Green look back on a time when the internet felt small, more serendipitous, and inspiring, and try to tease apart what went wrong. Are people starting to leave TikTok? How exactly did the internet turn into a misery machine? What makes a great headline? Why is it easier now for some people to trust creators over institutions? Green helps make sense of the internet we live on and offers his reasons for why it might get worse before it gets better (but it could get better!).
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- David Frum: The Democrats Used the Shutdown to Their Advantage
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- With the government shutdown, the Democrats scored “political points against the Trump administration in a way that the Republican shutdowns of the past have never been able to do,” David Frum argues.
Watch “The David Frum Show” now.
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- What If AI Is a Bubble?
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- 27:04
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The money keeps coming. Global spending on artificial intelligence is projected to hit $375 billion this year. In 2026, the figure is supposed to approach half a trillion dollars.
The sums invested already are so staggering that the United States is beginning to look like an “Nvidia-state (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/) ,” where the tech boom is fueling a great majority of economic growth. But lately, tech watchers have started to ask the obvious question: Is this boom in fact a bubble?
We talk to the Atlantic staff writer Charlie Warzel about what might happen—to companies, to the economy, to ordinary Americans—if one day that bubble were to burst.
Charlie covers tech and all the strange, unmooring things it does to culture. And he has a new Atlantic video podcast called Galaxy Brain (https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2025/11/introducing-galaxy-bra...
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- What Abraham Lincoln Can Teach Us About The American Revolution
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- To Abraham Lincoln, the American Revolution was “a living legacy to which we are bound,” our staff writer Jake Lundberg says, one Lincoln used to build a popular antislavery politics.
As part of our special issue marking 250 years since the nation’s founding, Lundberg explores why Lincoln “might be the figure best suited to teach us how to tell the story of the Revolution and live the story of the Revolution.”
Read more at the link: https://theatln.tc/mkqoG5MY
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- MAGA Has Repulsed Young Women | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 1:02:33
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- On this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts about the impending end to the government shutdown. David argues that the fight within the Democratic Party about ending the shutdown isn’t about the shutdown itself; rather, it’s about the future face of the party. David argues that now is a good moment to make a deal and that the Democrats have accomplished all they could hope to from the shutdown. He also cautions that allowing the left wing of the Democrats’ base to use any potential deal as a means to push the party down a more confrontational, more radical path must be avoided.
Then David is joined by The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell. David and Sarah discuss the exit polls from this year’s elections and the current state of play within the American electorate. Sarah discusses how the increasing gender gap in voting patterns reflects a broader polarization between higher- and lower-information voters. Sarah also dis...
- Title
- Ask Alison Roman Your Thanksgiving Meal Questions
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Do you really need to put that “modern twist” on the Thanksgiving meal?
The “Radio Atlantic” host Hanna Rosin will be sitting down with the chef and author Alison Roman next week—and wants to hear from you.
Are you wondering if that outlandish recipe you found online is really worth it? Or maybe looking for ways to simplify your Thanksgiving menu? Leave a comment below to submit your question.
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- Title
- How Republicans Could Respond to Democrats’ Election Wins
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Democrats’ victories this week may only increase the urgency with which Republicans already view the 2026 midterms, David Graham argues, adding: Trump and his allies will do anything they can to make the election results “closer without having to actually change the policies that they want to pursue.”
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- Will 2026 Be a Fair Fight?
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- 26:56
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Go ahead, Democrats. Enjoy your victory parties. But after that, brace yourselves, because Republicans may not be playing by the same rules a year from now. Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term—indeed, since his loss in 2020—he has shown his willingness to subvert the rules (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/2026-midterms-trump-threat/684615/) of free and fair elections. In various ways, he’s used his power to intimidate potential opponents, Democratic donors, and even voters who might oppose him. We talk to the Atlantic staff writer David A. Graham about this week’s election as a test run for 2026, the gerrymandering arms race, and future possible scenarios of election meddling.
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- Venezuelan Editor on “Buildup” of Tensions with U.S.
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Venezuelans have experienced “propaganda” about Americans attacking for decades, Quico Toro tells David Frum, but now “there’s this disorienting feeling of ‘Wait a minute—this time it’s different.’”
Watch “The David Frum Show”: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO
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- Introducing Galaxy Brain, The Atlantic’s New Weekly Show
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Spend enough time online and reality starts to feel surreal. Galaxy Brain, The Atlantic’s new weekly podcast hosted by Charlie Warzel, is a space for conversations, explanations, and tangents to help you understand what’s going on.
Premiering November 14 on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe now: https://theatln.tc/dDMz2HTu
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- America on the Brink of War With Venezuela | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 1:00:52
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about the coming Supreme Court battle over President Donald Trump’s use of tariff powers. If the Court endorses Trump’s claim that anything he deems an emergency allows him to impose tariffs, Frum argues that the United States will face a constitutional crisis unlike any before. The president will, in effect, have staged a “constitutional coup,” stripping Congress of its most fundamental Article I powers.
Then Frum speaks with Quico Toro of Caracas Chronicles about the Trump administration’s escalating pressure on Venezuela. They explore what American intervention might look like, the realities of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s hold on control, and whether any foreign power could truly bring his rule to an end.
Finally, Frum closes with a reflection on Lion Feuchtwanger’s The Oppermanns and the rising tide of conspiracist anti-Semitism seen on both th...
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- Introducing: Galaxy Brain with Charlie Warzel
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The internet has warped public life: Politicians behave like influencers, the economy resembles a casino, and people can no longer agree upon a consensus reality. New conspiracy theories, memes, and main characters seem to pop up every day. A constant war is on for your attention, and it’s easy to feel lost. Each week, Galaxy Brain and its host, Charlie Warzel, invite you into conversations to make sense of the fire hose of information. Is AI destroying our ability to think? Do your grandparents have a screen-time problem? Galaxy Brain looks beyond the algorithm and anchors you to the real—however strange it may be.
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- Title
- How To Cook A 250-Year-Old Soup
- Runtime
- 4:07
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Looking to try a new recipe for fall? Join the food historian Victoria Flexner on her journey to recreate a Revolutionary-era soup.
As part of The Atlantic’s special issue on the American Revolution, Flexner met the award-winning documentarian Ken Burns at one of Burns’s favorite haunts, The Restaurant at Burdick’s, in Walpole, New Hampshire.
Under the guidance of Wesley Babb, The Restaurant at Burdick’s executive chef, Flexner cooked West Indian pepper pot soup, a savory, spicy dish composed of global and indigenous ingredients that may have been enjoyed at America’s first birthday party—a raucous gathering in 1777 attended by the nation’s Founding Fathers. Flexner then sat down with Burns to discuss the role that food and dining played during the era of America’s founding.
Read about the cuisine and drink of the Revolution, and more from “The Unfinished Revolution,” at TheAtlantic.com.
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- Title
- Why Nicholas Thompson Runs
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Nicholas Thompson took up running to be like his father; he kept going to avoid becoming him.
Thompson joined Atlantic editor Paul Bisceglio on a run around The Wharf in Washington, D.C., to discuss what the sport has done for him, how it helped him after his battle with cancer, and more.
Read Thompson’s full article, excerpted from his book “The Running Ground,” at the link: https://theatln.tc/YfNHKHyY
📸 : Courtesy of Nicholas Thompson; Santi Visalli / Archive Photos / Getty; Grace Buono; Mariana Labbate.
- Title
- Atlantic Trivia: Revolutionary War Edition
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Atlantic senior editor Drew Goins is on the National Mall in the name of life, liberty and trivial pursuits.
Test your Revolutionary War know-how with some colonial trivia. And for questions delivered each day to your inbox, sign up for The Atlantic Daily newsletter.
