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Jonathan Rauch and the Fight for Truth | The David Frum Show
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- Jonathan Rauch and the Fight for Truth | The David Frum Show
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- 51:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses recent questions about President Donald Trump’s health and explores what a potential J. D. Vance presidency might mean for the country. He contrasts Trump’s impulsive, ego-driven style with Vance’s methodical, ideologically driven approach, examining how each wields power, pursues personal and political goals, and shapes domestic and foreign policy. Frum explains why understanding these differences is crucial for anticipating the challenges ahead.
Then Frum is joined by Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. They discuss how societies decide what’s real, why disinformation has become a central political strategy, and living in a “reality-based community.” Rauch explains the dangers of the “fire hose of falsehood,” why authoritarian regimes weaponize confusion, and why, even amid today’s ...
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- Behind the Byline: Ashley Parker
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- 3:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- When she was 12 years old, Ashley Parker told her parents that she thought she could write an article that could be published in a major magazine.
Now an Atlantic staff writer, Parker gives readers insight into her writing process, the most important skills for a reporter to develop—and what it was like to be on a jog as the president attacked her on Truth Social.
This is “Behind the Byline”: a new series from The Atlantic that lets you get to know the people behind our journalism. Hear from Atlantic staff and learn about their interests, their curiosities, and their quirks.
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- The Advocate
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- 33:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- When democracy and civil society are all you’ve known, they are easy to take for granted. However, for some autocracy is not just a word but a way of life.
Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Oleksandra Matviichuk. She leads the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and has become a leading figure in documenting the occupation of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Having both been born in unfree states, Garry and Oleksandra discuss Russia’s failure to resist Putin’s takeover and Ukraine’s success in fighting back.
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- A Blueprint for Military Takeovers
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- 35:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- President Donald Trump recently deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and has talked about federalizing the Guard in other cities across the country. In this episode of Radio Atlantic we talk to Atlantic staff writers Quinta Jurecic and Nick Miroff about which legal barriers might hinder Trump from using the military this way, how he might try to push past the courts, and what role immigration enforcement is playing in the president’s plans.
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- Mary Beard and Why America Isn’t Rome (And Why That Matters) | The David Frum Show
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- 55:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the misuse of history in today’s politics. He argues that fascism, once thought to have been buried by the Second World War, has reemerged in modern forms, thriving on the endless hunt for enemies, stoking culture wars, and exploiting new technologies. And he explains why the best antidotes remain liberty, equality, and sometimes humor.
Then David is joined by Mary Beard, one of the world’s foremost scholars of Rome and author of the New York Times best seller Emperor of Rome, for a conversation about what the ancient world can teach us about current politics. They discuss how Roman emperors wielded power, why excess and corruption were baked into the system, and how fragile even the strongest-seeming regimes can be. Beard explains why myths about Roman grandeur persist, what daily life actually looked like under the empire, and what lessons modern democracies should (and shou...
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- Tomato Season Is Different This Year, by Rachel Sugar
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Every summer includes a brief window in which the quality of produce is unparalleled—and this year, of all years, it’s especially worth indulging in the bounties of high tomato season, Rachel Sugar argues.
https://theatln.tc/2LCpQBzF
Come fall, Americans will once again be stuck with flavorless grocery-store tomatoes that are “pale imitations of dripping August heirlooms,” Sugar writes. Except this year, the tomatoes bound for grocery stores—which are mostly imported from Mexico—are stuck in President Donald Trump’s trade war.
https://theatln.tc/2LCpQBzF
Exactly what the tariffs will mean for grocery prices is hard to say, but any price increases will likely trickle down to the consumer—and whether Americans could even produce enough tomatoes to stock grocery stores year-round is another question entirely, Sugar reports at the link in our bio.
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- "Lamentations" by Nicole Krauss
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “In my heart, I considered Harold responsible. He took up the whole field of history, of prehistory; I couldn’t see how I could pursue it in his wake.”
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- The astonishing growth of ICE under the Trump presidency
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- President Donald Trump’s goal to deport 1 million people is fundamentally at odds with his “promise to deport the worst of the worst,” our staff writer Caitlin Dickerson tells David Frum.
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- The Politician
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- 34:24
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- What does the future of Europe look like with the rise of newly aggressive authoritarian states?
Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, a member of parliament in Lithuania. Like Garry, she’s a chess grand master who pivoted to politics. Lithuania is one of the most ardent defenders of Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Lithuanians worry that if Ukraine falls, their nation could be one of Russia’s next targets.
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- Peace in Ukraine Is Not a Real-Estate Deal
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- 32:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- There was so much symbolism in President Donald Trump’s two most recent international summits—in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then at the White House this week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In this episode, we talk with Anne Applebaum, who has been studying Ukraine and Russia for decades and understands their leaders’ underlying motivations. And we speak with politics and national-security writer Vivian Salama, who knows what Trump’s limitations are and explains what the next possible moves could be.
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- Caitlin Dickerson and How ICE Became Trump’s Secret Army | The David Frum Show
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- 55:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum begins with reflections on how Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown has transformed America into what he calls a “society based on fear.” Frum warns that the president’s methods risk discrediting not just immigration enforcement, but also law, police, and the very idea of democratic legitimacy.
Then Frum is joined by his Atlantic colleague Caitlin Dickerson, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning reporting has laid bare the human and institutional realities of immigration enforcement. They discuss her latest investigation into the staggering expansion of ICE and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which has supercharged its budget to unprecedented levels. Dickerson explains how billions of dollars in new funding are fueling mass detention, empowering private-prison companies, and reshaping U.S. diplomacy while failing to solve the core challenges of immigration.
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- The CEO
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- 37:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- With the United States stepping back from its global leadership role, many around Europe and the world are waiting for Germany to step forward. Will it?
Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the German multinational media and technology company Axel Springer, who argues that Europe is a “Sleeping Beauty” that must awaken to protect democracy and the open-society model. But can Germany overcome its historical guilt to become a leader in that fight?
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- Behind the Byline: Tom Nichols
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols was once a contestant on “Jeopardy,” became an expert in Russia, is now a professor—and even sometimes changes some minds on the internet. What’s the most interesting thing that’s ever happened to him?
This is “Behind the Byline”: a new series from The Atlantic that lets you get to know the people behind our journalism. Hear from The Atlantic’s staff, their interests, their stories, and their quirks.
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- No Easy Fix | 3. A Golden Opportunity
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- 37:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In July, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for an expansion of involuntary commitment—forcing people into treatment facilities—in response to the homelessness crisis. San Francisco has been attempting such an expansion for the past 19 months. What can the rest of the country learn from California?
This is the final episode in a three-part series from Radio Atlantic, No Easy Fix (https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/radio-atlantic/no-easy-fix/) , about homelessness and addiction in San Francisco.
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- David Frum Show: How housing costs are affecting policies
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman says there's political momentum around the issue of housing: “At the local level, especially, there has just been this religion that we have to make it easier to build houses.”
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- Glenn Kelman on Why Housing Feels Hopeless | The David Frum Show
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- 41:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the upcoming 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and what Donald Trump’s recent statements about “Victory Day” reveal about how America is forgetting the meaning of peace, cooperation, and democratic leadership.
Then David is joined by Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, for a candid look at the broken state of the U.S. housing market. Kelman explains why both buyers and sellers are miserable, how pandemic-era mortgage rates have frozen supply, and why the next generation is increasingly stuck, unable to buy, and often unable to move. They discuss zoning reform, immigration, housing deterioration, and why, despite the bleak outlook, Kelman still believes there’s hope for long-term correction—if America can relearn how to build.
0:00 David Frum reflects on the upcoming 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and Donald Trump's statements about "Victo...
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- Rebirth
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- 39:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Part IX: After Hurricane Katrina and the breach of the levees in 2005, Floodlines examined what went wrong in New Orleans and what those errors meant for the people left behind. Now, 20 years later, the host, Vann R. Newkirk II, revisits New Orleans to meet up with Le-Ann Williams again and learn more about how time has shaped the role she holds in her family and her city.
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- The Realist
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- 38:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Soviet dissidents have long admired the United States and its Founding Fathers for their attachment to a moral core, the basis for individual human liberty. So what happens when American power is used not for moral interests but for solely pragmatic ones?
Host Garry Kasparov is joined by George Friedman, the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures (http://geopoliticalfutures.com/) , a firm that analyzes foreign policy and forecasts global events. George’s view of the world—drawn from the experience of his family fleeing Nazis in Eastern Europe—echoes Henry Kissinger’s geopolitical philosophy: realism, not idealism. Garry and George consider whether realism is realistic, and what the future of American foreign policy means for democracy at home.
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- No Easy Fix | 2. Tolerance
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- 34:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- At the onset of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, U.S. cities began trying new ways to stop the spread of infection among drug users. Ideas that were first seen as radical, such as needle exchanges, quickly caught on—because they worked. San Francisco is one of the first places where such programs took root. Now it’s one of the places questioning whether they should still exist.
This is the second episode of a new three-part miniseries from Radio Atlantic, No Easy Fix, about what it takes to escape one’s demons.
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- How Closely Ukrainians Follow U.S. Politics
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “Ukrainians are more adept at understanding American politics than Americans are,” the journalist Tim Mak tells David Frum. “Their lives depend on it.”
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- Annoying People to Death
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Donald Trump’s signature second-term domestic legislation, implements a nationwide work requirement for Medicaid. Republican lawmakers insist that this will not cut the insurance program—but in reality, Annie Lowrey argues, the new rule will “saddle taxpayers with billions of dollars of new costs and low-income Americans with hundreds of millions of hours of busywork.”
More than 20 million Americans will have to set up accounts to let the state know that they are in compliance with the new Medicaid work requirement, out of compliance, or not subject to it. “Republicans are not protecting Medicaid,” Lowrey argues. “They are voting to annoy their own constituents to death.”
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- Ukraine Won’t Surrender, with Adrian Karatnycky and Tim Mak | The David Frum Show
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- 54:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about the crumbling of U.S. support for Ukraine under President Donald Trump. He lays out how the Trump administration has slowed the flow of weapons to Ukraine, undermined sanctions on Russia, and made empty promises about future action while spending more money upgrading Trump’s private jet than aiding Ukraine’s defense.
Then David is joined by the journalist Tim Mak, reporting from Kyiv, and Adrian Karatnycky, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, for a conversation about Ukraine’s resilience in the face of U.S. abandonment. They discuss why the Ukrainian people remain united, how battlefield conditions have evolved, and why no politician—Ukrainian or American—can force a peace that rewards Russian aggression. They also talk about President Volodymyr Zelensky’s controversial anti-corruption reforms, the surge of youth-led protests, and whether Ukr...
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- A New Season of Autocracy in America
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and lifelong democracy activist, is hosting the second season of “Autocracy in America” from The Atlantic.
Joined by top experts, Kasparov guides new conversations about how a complacency with liberal values has fueled a democratic retreat—and a new belligerence among dictators.
Listen every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts.
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- The Ambassador
- Runtime
- 41:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How should American power be deployed in the world? Since the Cold War, America’s role as a global leader has been up for debate.
Host Garry Kasparov and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton dissect the state of the neoconservative geopolitical worldview. They consider what the latest iteration of the “America First” foreign-policy rationale signals for democracy worldwide and analyze what it means that the new American right sometimes sounds like the old American left.
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- No Easy Fix | 1. Vanishing Point
- Runtime
- 33:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- For the past five years, American cities have tried—and often failed—to meaningfully address worsening homelessness and addiction.
In San Francisco, a city that has become emblematic of these crises, a new mayor has pledged to prioritize the problem. And one man, living on the street and struggling with addiction, is ready to make a change.
This is the first episode of a new three-part miniseries from Radio Atlantic, No Easy Fix, about what it takes to escape one’s demons.
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- Some New Gen Z Workplace Trends
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “I have had it with these so-called workplace trends,” Alexandra Petri writes.
First, there was “quiet quitting,” when an employee works only during work hours and puts in only the precise amount of work required to keep their job. And now we’re at “micro-retirement,” a new trend of not working for a week or two weeks every 18 months, sometimes while employed, sometimes between jobs.
“Are you sure these are new workplace trends?” Petri asks. “Are you sure you aren’t just describing a routine phenomenon in an alarmed way?”
Read the full article at the link.
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- Professor Doug Irwin on Trump’s Power Over Trade
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the 1930s, Congress began delegating powers over tariffs to the president, the professor Doug Irwin says. That authority has grown—and Donald Trump “uses it very differently than previous presidents.”
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- Douglas Irwin and How Trump Weaponized World Trade | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 55:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum examines how protectionism, once a fringe idea in U.S. politics, became central to modern Republican trade policy. He traces how President Donald Trump made tariffs a political weapon, and why these policies continue to carry political appeal despite their economic cost.
Then David is joined by the historian and trade expert Doug Irwin for a conversation about what tariffs actually do. Irwin explains how protectionist policies have repeatedly backfired in American history, why they persist, and how the U.S. abandoned the bipartisan free-trade consensus that lasted for nearly a century. The two discuss who really pays for tariffs, why tariffs rarely achieve their stated goals, and what it would take to rebuild political support for open markets.
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- ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists,” Lila Shroff writes.
After The Atlantic received a tip, Shroff had asked the chatbot to help create a ritual offering to Molech, a god associated with child sacrifice. In discussions beginning with anodyne questions about demons and devils, Shroff found “that the chatbot can easily be made to guide users through ceremonial rituals and rites that encourage various forms of self-mutilation.” The chatbot also led her through other chants, invocations, and rituals—including detailed instructions on how to carry out the sacrifice of large animals.
Few ChatGPT queries are likely to lead so easily to such calls for ritualistic self-harm. But the conversations about Molech that Shroff had are a perfect example of just how porous AI safeguards can be.
“ChatGPT likely went rogue,” Shroff continues, “because, like other large language models, it was trained on much of the text that exists online—pres...
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- The Dissident
- Runtime
- 39:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death. Dissidents stand up anyway.
Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Masih Alinejad, whose work for women’s rights against the Islamic Republic of Iran has led to her exile in the United States. It has not ended her fight, nor has distance made her safe—she was targeted for assassination at her Brooklyn home. Masih and Garry discuss the importance of safeguarding the values of democracy before it’s too late.
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- Representative Ritchie Torres: “It’s not enough for the center left to be against the far left”
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It’s not enough for the center left to oppose the far left, Representative Ritchie Torres tells David Frum—it needs to offer solutions to problems such as the affordability crisis.
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- Title
- A conversation with Julie K. Brown, an expert on the Epstein case
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “I could see this like a train wreck that you can't take your eyes from because you know it's gonna happen.”
For “Radio Atlantic,” Adrienne LaFrance speaks with the reporter Julie K. Brown about the reaction of Trump's base to the decision not to release the Epstein files, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/cvJzDJTmJ6g
- Title
- A New Kind of Family Separation
- Runtime
- 27:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Trump administration is again going after undocumented minors—but their approach is different than it was during his first presidency.
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- Ritchie Torres and the Fight for the Political Center | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 50:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on press freedom. David discusses Trump’s lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, explains how Trump is using presidential power to suppress coverage of his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and argues that Trump’s second term represents a deeper threat to the First Amendment than anything seen in modern American history.
Then David is joined by Representative Ritchie Torres of New York for a conversation about the future of the Democratic Party. Torres explains why the Democratic center has become too passive; how the far left gained influence through intensity, not majorities; and why slogans alone can’t solve America’s affordability crisis. They discuss the rise of performative politics, the need for a serious governing agenda, and Torres’s personal journey from public housing to Congress.
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- The Pollster
- Runtime
- 38:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Have Americans grown complacent, thinking nothing can shake the United States’ democracy? Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Frank Luntz, someone well versed in taking the temperature of the American public.
Luntz is perhaps best known as a behind-the-scenes operative in Republican politics. He is the pioneer of an “Instant Response” focus-group technique that lets him understand not just what people think but why. That’s how he began to sense, more than 10 years ago, that something had gone very wrong in American politics. Frank and Garry discuss how the problem started—and what must be done to fix it.
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- Title
- Nobody (Not Even Trump) Can Control the Epstein Story
- Runtime
- 3:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “Donald Trump has lost control of the Jeffrey Epstein situation,” Charlie Warzel says. Trump is normally savvy at diverting focus, directing news cycles, and speaking to what his supporters care about, Warzel continues, “but here, he’s completely misjudged it.”
“Whatever happens next,” Warzel says, “we’re going to learn a lot about Trump’s ability to control attention.”
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- Title
- Epstein Conspiracy, or Epstein Conspiracy Theory?
- Runtime
- 28:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Donald Trump and his Department of Justice kicked the conspiracy-theory beehive last week when they rescinded previous promises to make public the government’s secret files on Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier and convicted sex offender charged with the sex trafficking of minors. The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, speaks with the journalist who broke the Epstein story in 2018. Julie K. Brown is an investigative reporter for the Miami Herald and author of the book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. They discuss the significance of Trump’s reversal, the information that’s still hidden from the public, and what the latest revelations mean for Epstein’s hundreds of victims.
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- Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok on the End of the Independent FBI | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 1:00:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about President Donald Trump’s decision to shut down the conversation aroundmove on from the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. David explains why Trump’s move has triggered backlash from parts of his own base and why it reveals a deeper political fracture inside the MAGA movement.
Then David is joined by the former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, who shares his insights on what’s happening at the bureau during Trump’s second term. Strzok, who is still engaged in a lawsuit with the government over his 2018 firing, explains how Trump loyalists such as the FBI’s director, Kash Patel, and its deputy director, Dan Bongino, are dismantling the agency’s national-security functions: purging experts, sidelining investigations, and leaving the United States dangerously vulnerable to terrorism, foreign espionage, and cyberattacks.
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- Title
- Dropkick Murphy's Ken Casey on Punk, Politics, and More
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “When it’s not the ultra, ultra right, we’ll have a lot of people that … identify with our music even though they don’t vote the same as us,” Ken Casey, the lead singer and front man for the popular Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, said.
Casey has recently gone viral for a number of clips from one of the band’s shows, including confrontations with audience members over politics. He spoke with The Atlantic about the release of Dropkick Murphys’ newest album, “For the People,” and the role of punk music today.
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- Title
- Garry Kasparov on the similarities he sees between Trump’s second administration and Putin’s Russia
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Garry Kasparov talks with Anne Applebaum about what’s strikingly similar between Donald Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia—and why Trump faces some challenges that Putin didn’t.
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- Title
- The Return
- Runtime
- 30:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Since The Atlantic first released the podcast Autocracy in America last fall, Donald Trump was elected president again. Staff writer Anne Applebaum describes how Trump’s return to the White House fits into the changing geopolitical landscape as she hands the show over to its new host: Garry Kasparov. The former world chess champion and lifelong democracy activist will guide a series of conversations about society’s complacency with liberal values and how this carelessness has fueled a democratic retreat—and a new belligerence among dictators.
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Garry chairs the Renew Democracy Initiative (http://rdi.org/) , publisher of T...
- Title
- Should You Be Having More Babies?
- Runtime
- 30:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the United States and many other Western countries, the decision to have children or not is sometimes framed as a political affiliation: You’re either in league with conservative pronatalists, or you’re making the ultimate personal sacrifice to reduce your carbon footprint. But the declining global birth rate is a fact that defies politics. Dean Spears, a co-author of the new book After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People, hopes to start a conversation about what a depopulated future might look like, why we should try to avoid it, and how to make the case for more people without undoing social progress.
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- George Conway on Why the Courts Won’t Save Democracy From Trump | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 51:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about the deep implications of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”—not only for Americans’ rights and freedoms, but also for the future of American economic strength. David argues that Trump’s budget and tax policies are reshaping the U.S. economy in ways that will leave the country poorer, less innovative, and more isolated from the rest of the world than we were before.
David is then joined by George Conway for a conversation about the dangers our legal institutions are facing in the Trump presidency. They discuss Conway’s journey from corporate litigator to outspoken critic of Trump, the dangers of relying on courts to restrain executive lawlessness, and the failure of Congress to uphold its constitutional duties. Conway also explains why our legal system, even when functioning properly, may be structurally incapable of stopping a president who is determi...
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- The Patriotic Punk
- Runtime
- 28:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks to Ken Casey, frontman for the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, about the time he called out a fan in the audience who was wearing a MAGA shirt. The band has been around for three decades and has its working-class roots in Quincy, Massachusetts. At concerts, the band often dedicates its song “First Class Loser” to Donald Trump, and it sells T-shirts that say “Fighting Nazis since 1996.” Goldberg speaks with Casey about watching his fans and people he loves fall in love with Trump, and about how Democrats might be able to win them back.
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- Bridget Brink on Trump, His Betrayal of Ukraine, and Why She Resigned | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 44:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning: The United States’ support for Ukraine is collapsing under Donald Trump’s second term—and with it, the global system of peace and security that has protected Americans for decades. David explains what Trump’s latest actions reveal about his motivations, and why Ukraine’s survival may now depend on the outcome of the 2024 election.
Then David is joined by the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and now Democratic congressional candidate Bridget Brink, who served under both President Biden and President Trump. They discuss the true stakes of the war, the failure of the Trump administration to develop or execute a coherent Ukraine policy, and why Brink ultimately chose to resign her post. She offers a firsthand account of life in Kyiv during the early days of the full-scale invasion, the dangers facing American diplomats in war zones, and the institutional breakdowns now threaten...
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- Former US Ambassador to Ukraine on America's waning support
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On “The David Frum Show,” Bridget Brink shares what her last few days working as the ambassador to Ukraine revealed about the country’s relationship with the United States—and what the loss of America as a strategic partner could mean.
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- Title
- Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The safety of America’s food supply is getting murkier. If there’s one thing you can do right now to help protect yourself, it’s this: swearing off bagged, prechopped lettuce, Nicholas Florko writes.
America’s system for tracking and responding to foodborne illnesses has been woefully neglected for decades, and recently it’s been undermined even further. The Biden administration cut funding for food inspections, and the Trump White House’s attempts to ruthlessly thin the federal workforce have made the future of food safety even more uncertain. “The system faces so many stressors,” Florko writes, “that regulators may miss cases of foodborne illness, giving Americans a false sense of security.”
Bagged lettuce ups the odds of getting a tainted product: The process of making prechopped lettuce essentially entails putting whole heads through a wood chipper, Florko explains. Once a single infected head enters that machine, some pieces of the inf...
- Title
- Coming Soon: A New Season of Autocracy in America
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The former world chess champion and lifelong democracy activist Garry Kasparov guides a new series of conversations about society’s complacency with liberal values and how this carelessness has fueled a democratic retreat—and a new belligerence among dictators.
New episodes launch every Friday, starting July 11.
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- Title
- What’s So Shocking About a Man Who Loves His Wife?
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “My love for my wife does not exist solely online. I often express it directly to her, or talk about her in glowing terms to friends and co-workers,” writes Jeremy Gordon.
“So the first time that someone called me a ‘wife guy,’ I wasn’t sure how to react.”
If you are encountering the phrase “wife guy” for the first time and think it surely must mean “a guy who loves his wife,” you would be wrong. The term, a by-product of several converging online trends, has come to describe someone whose spousal affection is so ostentatious that it becomes inherently untrustworthy—a man so consistently and loudly psyched about being married that sirens are set off in the minds of family members and strangers alike.
But what’s so wrong about a man openly loving his wife? At the link, read more of Gordon’s reconsideration of the term.
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- Title
- Who Could Rule Iran Next?
- Runtime
- 29:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We talk with the writer Arash Azizi about what kinds of seismic changes could be coming for his home country of Iran, and whether he thinks they could make things better—or much worse.
Read more from Azizi at The Atlantic here (https://www.theatlantic.com/author/arash-azizi/) .
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