The Atlantic
State of Our Union: How National Policies Impact Local Communities | The Atlantic Festival 2025
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- State of Our Union: How National Policies Impact Local Communities | The Atlantic Festival 2025
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- 22:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Explore how national policies influence state and local policies, practices, and communities and will shape the states over the next decade.
Speakers include:
- Valerie Arkoosh, Secretary of Human Services, Pennsylvania
- Nicholas Florko, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
- Meena Seshamani, Secretary, Department of Health, Maryland
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s role on the global stage. From domestic change to international complexity, The Atlantic presents forward-looking conversations with the people shaping what's next.
Explore the full event: https://www.theatlantic.com/live/on-the-future-atlantic-festival-event-2025/
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- America’s Economic Forecast | The Atlantic Festival 2025
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- 22:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Cecilia Rouse, former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, sits down with The Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey to unpack the forces reshaping the global economy. From long-term tariff strategies and their ripple effects on global supply chains to the delicate interplay between trade policy, international diplomacy, and domestic priorities, this wide-ranging conversation will help us deepen our understanding of America’s economic future.
Speakers include:
- Annie Lowrey, staff writer, The Atlantic
- Cecilia E. Rouse, president, the Brookings Institution
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s role on the global stage. From domestic change to international complexity, The Atlantic presents forward-looking conversations with ...
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- Washington Week Live With The Atlantic
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Americans are “not yet” living in an autocracy, Anne Applebaum tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
“We still have plenty of agency … Just because [people around Donald Trump] know what the playbook is and they’ve started to follow it doesn’t mean that they achieve their goal in the end.”
Watch the full panel discussion from The Atlantic’s On the Future event at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKMhcf83KY&t=147s&ab_channel=TheAtlantic
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- Why Is Trump So Into Crypto?
- Runtime
- 36:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the past few years, Donald Trump has changed his mind about cryptocurrency. He’s gone from believing it was “based on thin air” to wanting the U.S. to become the “crypto capital of the world.” Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey (https://www.theatlantic.com/author/annie-lowrey/) breaks down how the president’s reversal of opinion about this notoriously volatile industry could destabilize the U.S. financial system—and lead to a crypto-induced economic crisis.
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- America’s Pro-Disease Movement | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “If you’re just going to reaffirm the status quo, you don’t need a university to do that.”
In this week’s episode of “The @davidfrum Show,” the University of Oxford’s director of global health, Alan Bernstein, examines the Trump administration’s attacks on science and vaccine research. Watch the full episode at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2LMLOg9SE&t=18s
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- Staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer discuss their interview with Donald Trump
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “There was a bit of an element of game recognizes game.”
The staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer discuss their interview with Donald Trump, and his response to Signalgate:
https://theatln.tc/fkY9K9cL
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- What’s Next for the U.S.-Canada Relationship? | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 30:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Kirsten Hillman, Ambassador of Canada to the United States, joins The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a discussion about the past, present, and future of the relationship between the United States and Canada.
Speakers include:
- Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
- Kirsten Hillman, Ambassador of Canada to the United States
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s role on the global stage. From domestic change to international complexity, The Atlantic presents forward-looking conversations with the people shaping what's next.
Explore the full event: https://www.theatlantic.com/live/on-the-future-atlantic-festival-event-2025/
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- Washington Week Live With The Atlantic | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 40:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Enjoy a special presentation of Washington Week With The Atlantic, the longest-running prime-time-news-and-analysis program on television, where we will discuss the first 100 days of the new administration.
Speakers include:
- Tim Alberta, staff writer, The Atlantic
- Anne Applebaum, staff writer, The Atlantic
- Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic
- Tom Nichols, staff writer, The Atlantic
- Ashley Parker, staff writer, The Atlantic
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s role on the global stage. From domestic change to international complexity, The Atlantic presents forward-looking conversations with the people shaping what's next.
Explore the full event: https://www.theatlantic.c...
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- America’s Pro-Disease Movement, with Alan Bernstein | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 47:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses how misinformation, distrust in science, and extremist rhetoric are fueling a deadly resurgence of preventable diseases in the United States—and urges clear and responsible leadership to protect public health.
He’s then joined by Alan Bernstein, the director of global health at the University of Oxford, to examine the long-term consequences of the right’s war on science and vaccine research.
Finally, David answers listener questions on creating laws to counter Donald Trump’s norm violations, on David’s confidence in the future of free and fair elections, and how to teach civics to high schoolers in the Trump era.
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- On the Future: Inside the Forces Changing Our World | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 4:22:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How are seismic shifts in politics, policy, and power structures reshaping our world? At On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event, The Atlantic brings together top minds from across industries for crucial conversations on where America is headed—and how global systems will evolve in response.
Join us for a deep dive into the defining issues of our time, featuring:
• Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic—for a live taping of Washington Week
• Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein, co-authors of Abundance—on the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress
• Francis Collins, former director, National Institutes of Health—on the future of American healthcare
From climate innovation and health equity to economic strategy and geopolitical risk, this program convenes the change-makers shaping the next decade.
Explore the full event: https://www.theatlantic.com/live/on-the-future-atlantic-festival-event-2025/<...
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- Tim Alberta: Trump's Eroding Support Could Harm Conservatism
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Atlantic staff writer Tim Alberta says Donald Trump’s support has seen “erosion across the board,” which could continue without a course correction from the president.
“Trump himself will probably never pay the price for this, but … the Republican Party, the institutions of conservatism in this country, they’re going to pay the price.”
Watch more from On the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwfIheOvho
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- The Problem of Finding a Marriageable Man
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- 49:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Women now outnumber men on U.S. college campuses. There’s a common belief that the college gender gap has led to a decrease in marriage rates for college-educated women, but the economist Benny Goldman says the data just don’t support that narrative. Instead, shifts in educational attainment and marriage rates have had a much starker effect on non-college-educated women and low-earning men.
Further reading:
“Bachelors Without Bachelor’s: Gender Gaps in Education and Declining Marriage Rates (https://benjamindgoldman.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/papers/education_marriage/education_marriage.pdf) ,” by Benjamin Goldman, Clara Chambers, and Joseph Winkelmann
“Marriage Market Sorting in the U.S (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4966988) ,” by Anton Cheremukhin, Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, and Antonella Tutino
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- The Atlantic's Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer Discuss Interviewing Donald Trump
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "He is someone who is trying to win the minute, the hour, the day, the person he is talking to."
Staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer talk about their Oval Office interview with Donald Trump—and how the president can change from attacking reporters on social media one day to wooing them in the Oval Office the next.Subscribe to The Atlantic on YouTube: http://bit.ly/subAtlanticYT
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- Trump Is Enjoying Himself
- Runtime
- 40:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Why would President Donald Trump invite The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Trump has attacked as a “total sleazebag,” to meet with him in the Oval Office? We talk with Goldberg about what Trump told him about Signalgate. We also talk with Atlantic staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer about the lessons Trump learned from his time in the political wilderness, and how he is applying them in his second term (which he is apparently experiencing as a grand adventure).
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- How to Age Up Together
- Runtime
- 37:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the next 10 years, our society will become more old than young. How do we leverage this time to build stronger intergenerational connections? Eunice Nichols, the co-CEO of CoGenerate, has spent more than two decades bringing older and younger people together to address issues that affect us cross-generationally. She explains how a history of structural policies, some of them great innovations, have contributed to this age-segregated era and about what a future could look like if people from different generations choose to partner together more often.
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- Elon Musk's Luck Runs Out
- Runtime
- 31:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- For a while, it seemed as if DOGE Elon and Tesla Elon could exist in the same space-time continuum. One of them carried out Donald Trump’s ruthless cost-cutting mission while the other pitched cars that appealed most to people who were highly likely to oppose that mission, or even rage against it.
Then this week came Tesla’s first quarterly earnings report since Elon Musk started his work with DOGE, which showed that the company’s profits were down 71 percent from the same time last year. The Atlantic staff writer Charlie Warzel talks with Patrick George, editor in chief of InsideEVs, about how Musk found himself in this predicament.
Further reading:
Patrick George on how “Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks” (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/tesla-earnings-elon-musk-doge/682551/)
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- How To: Defy Death
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The lines between wellness culture and longevity are blurring—and many influencers are promising not just longer lives, but better ones. For the first episode of “How to Age Up,” Timothy Caulfield joins Natalie Brennan and Yasmin Tayag to explore how to dodge misinformation and unproven theories—while still pursuing a long and meaningful life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWdvinJT-HQ&ab_channel=TheAtlantic
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- The Crises of Due Process | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 58:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this episode of The David Frum Show, David examines the dangerous path the Trump administration is charting by deporting and detaining individuals without hearings—an assault on due process that threatens the foundation of American justice.
He’s then joined by former Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler to explore what America’s institutions can realistically do to push back against Trump’s executive overreach—and the serious risks facing the courts, the Federal Reserve, and the American public if Trump continues unchecked.
Finally, David answers listener questions on Republican contempt for blue states, reclaiming the term “globalist,” and how citizens can effectively fight back.
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- Ex-Acting Attorney General: Public Must Press Politicians To Counteract Erosion of Laws and Norms
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "Democracy got us into this mess, and democracy is going to have to get us out."
Former Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler says that the public must encourage politicians to follow norms and principles, even when they’re not mandated to do so by the law. Subscribe to watch tomorrow’s episode of “The David Frum Show”: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO
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- Would You Give PornHub Your ID?
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- What happened when states tried to stop kids from watching porn? Search traffic to the major website that complied with new laws plummeted, while search traffic to a site that didn’t comply rose.
Researcher Zeve Sanderson talks to Jerusalem Demsas about the unintended consequences of the law—and why he isn’t resigned to defeat. Listen to the latest episode of "Good on Paper" for more:
https://theatln.tc/cXcAjZGr
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- Minority Rule in America
- Runtime
- 53:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a government that they hoped would be impervious to tyranny of the majority. What they didn’t spend much time worrying about was the reverse: a tyranny of the minority. The political scientist Steve Teles explains how very small minorities have come to dominate government and what should be done about it.
Further Reading:
“Minoritarianism Is Everywhere (https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/minoritarianism-is-everywhere) ,” by Steve Teles
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706046/tyranny-of-the-minority-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/) , by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
“The Great Political Sort Is Happening at the Office (https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archiv...
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- Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Research indicates that the number of teens experiencing romantic relationships has dropped. In one 2023 poll, 56 percent of Gen Z adults said they’d been in a romantic relationship at any point in their teen years, compared with 76 percent of Gen Xers and 78 percent of Baby Boomers.
A whole lot of American adults are withdrawing from romance—not just young people, writes Atlantic staff writer Faith Hill. But the trend seems to be especially pronounced for Gen Z.
“Of course, you can grow into a perfectly mature and healthy adult without ever having had a romantic relationship; some research even suggests you might be better off that way,” Hill writes.
https://theatln.tc/Zg29kRSt
“You can flirt; you can kiss; you can dance. You can have a crush so big it takes up all the space in your brain; you can care about someone deeply; you can get hurt—badly. Plenty of young people, then, could be having transformative romantic encou...
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- How to Fuel Up
- Runtime
- 37:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Food trends are constantly changing, so can people commit to a long-term nutrition practice? Kera Nyemb-Diop says yes. She is a nutrition scientist focused on breaking down the “rules” of what people think they should eat and focusing instead on being responsive to how our needs change over the course of a life. Co-hosts Yasmin Tayag and Natalie Brennan reconsider their own food habits and which practices are worth hanging on to for the long haul.
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- Sarah McBride Is Used to the Hate
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- 34:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Sarah McBride made models of the White House when she was 6. Her childhood dream, as a Delawarean, was to meet Joe Biden.
Then last November, one of her ambitions came true when was elected to the House of Representatives. She became the first openly trans member of Congress, a historic achievement that also happened to coincide with a rise in anti-trans sentiment and the election of Donald Trump.
We talk with McBride about how she navigates Congress, personally and politically, and how she thinks Democrats can make it through the minefield of the culture wars.
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- Doug Ford and Trump’s Bad Poker Hand | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 38:03
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- In this episode of The David Frum Show, David discusses how the Trump administration is in for a stark reality check due to its trade policies. David also debunks the claims of a painless economic transition promised by President Donald Trump and makes the point that the administration is not only bluffing and mismanaging fiscal and trade policies, but also misleading the public with promises of easy success.
Then, David is joined by the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, to discuss Canadian reactions to the sudden economic and rhetorical attacks from their once-trusted American neighbors.
After the interview, David answers listener questions about the Trump base, the media techniques of fascists, and the hidden gift of Trumpism.
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- Ontario Premier Doug Ford: Canadians ‘Are At a Fever Pitch Right Now.’
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- “Canadians—40 millions Canadians—are at a fever pitch right now.”
On “The David Frum Show,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford discusses Canadian reactions to the sudden economic and rhetorical attacks from their American neighbor. Subscribe now for tomorrow’s episode: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&si=zrYSeQNPQWb8QLz6
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- Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?
- Runtime
- 51:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- States are cracking down on online porn—but is it working? The researcher Zeve Sanderson explains how age-verification laws backfire, why teens outsmart them, and what that means for the future of internet regulation.
Further reading:
“Do Age-Verification Bills Change Search Behavior? A Pre-Registered Synthetic Control Multiverse, (https://csmapnyu.org/research/academic-research/do-age-verification-bills-change-search-behavior-a-pre-registered-synthetic-control-multiverse) ” by David Lang, Zeve Sanderson, et al.
“The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/supreme-court-online-pornography/681397/) ,” by Marc Novicoff
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- How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35
- Runtime
- 39:51
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- We don’t often talk about the benefits of aging. Dr.Karen Adams has a different perspective. From new beginnings to menopausal zest, the director of the Stanford Program in Menopause & Healthy Aging discusses what women can look forward to as they age up.
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- How to Prepare for a Recession
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The U.S. economic outlook is bleak, Atlantic assistant editor Marc Novicoff writes—but just how bad is it going to get? Novicoff breaks down what Americans can do if a recession really is around the corner:
https://theatln.tc/WIvBnTE6
“How to prepare for a recession depends on how well you were doing before Liberation Day,” Marc Novicoff writes. “Should tariffs rise to the degree that Trump promised, many Americans will find themselves saving as well as deferring their purchases.”
“Eventually, enough people hunkering down sends a signal that gets picked up, if not by politicians, then at least by central bankers at the Federal Reserve and its equivalents around the world, who will cut interest rates to spur businesses and consumers to spend once again,” Novicoff continues. This is when the stock market and the economy tend to turn around, the economist David Blanchflower told Novicoff. But government spending is usually part of the e...
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- Bonus: Goldberg on Signalgate
- Runtime
- 30:07
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Anne Applebaum speaks with The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg about the consequences of the Signal breach. This conversation was recorded live from The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.
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- Title
- Tariffs Are Paused. Uncertainty Isn't.
- Runtime
- 23:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The stock market has been tanking since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs a week ago. Then Wednesday mid-afternoon—after Trump reversed course on global tariffs—the market experienced one of its biggest single-day jumps ever. So … what exactly happened? And if the U.S. economy continues to be this unpredictable, what does that mean for the future?
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- David Frum Show Episode 1
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- “The president is not only destroying America’s hard power, its soft power, but the credibility of the American brand,” Ambassador Rahm Emanuel tells David Frum.
Watch their full discussion on the premiere episode of “The David Frum Show”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTfVTeHbvxI&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=2
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- Rahm Emanuel and Trump’s Tariff Chaos | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 51:57
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- In the premiere episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum lays out his case for a new kind of political conversation—one that rejects the radicalized rhetoric dominating major podcasts.
He then details why Donald Trump’s tariffs wrecked world financial markets. David takes apart the excuses offered by tariff defenders, and tries to explain the shock and betrayal felt by America’s allies.
Then, David is joined by the former ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel shares the lessons he learned as White House chief of staff during the 2008–09 financial crises—and his assessment of how Democrats went wrong in 2024 and where they can advance from here.
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- Title
- How Baby-Led Weaning Almost Ruined My Life
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A method called “baby-led weaning” has recently caught on among many parents, Olga Khazan writes. Its proponents claim that infants don’t need to be spoon-fed baby food—in fact, they don’t need to be spoon-fed anything.
But as Khazan spoke with baby-feeding experts—and tried baby-led weaning with her then-six-month-old son—she learned that the method has less evidence behind it than its supporters claim. “Like many newfangled, internet-supercharged baby trends, it has the effect of encouraging parents to make raising children way too hard for themselves,” Khazan writes.
“Granted, mine is the only baby I’ve ever interacted with at length, but I’ve come to the conclusion that he should not be leading his own weaning,” Khazan continues. “He should not, frankly, be leading anything, because he is—and I say this with all the love in my heart—not that smart.”
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- Title
- Did Busing Turn Kids Into Democrats?
- Runtime
- 53:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- In the summer of 1975, white schoolchildren at some Louisville, Kentucky, public schools were faced with a choice: stay in the school system and undergo busing to integrate the schools, or leave the system entirely. A remarkable new study by the economist Ethan Kaplan shows that for students who stayed, busing had lasting effects on their political identities, making them more likely to identify as Democrats, support unions, and say that the world is not inherently fair.
Further reading:
“A Different World: Enduring Effects of School Desegregation on Ideology and Attitudes (https://www.nber.org/papers/w33365) ,” by Ethan Kaplan, Jorg L. Spenkuch, and Cody Tuttle
The Nature of Prejudice (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/gordon-w-allport/the-nature-of-prejudice-25th-anniversary-edition/9780201001792/?lens=basic-books) , by Gordon ...
- Title
- How to Defy Death
- Runtime
- 42:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Humans have always tried to prolong life and battle mortality, but what do the current influx of biohackers reveal about this era of individual responsibility?
Timothy Caulfield, a professor and the research director at the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, studies how health and science are represented in the public sphere. The lines between wellness culture, longevity, and biohacking are beginning to blur, and Caulfield offers advice about how to dodge misinformation and unproven theories while still pursuing a long and meaningful life.
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- Trump’s Tariffs Are Designed to Backfire
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Instead of leading to reduced trade barriers, the new global tariff plan is all but guaranteed to raise them, Rogé Karma writes: https://theatln.tc/t906MiAH
The idea behind Donald Trump’s new “reciprocal tariffs” is that other countries have unfairly advantaged their own industries at the expense of America’s, Karma continues. To purportedly solve the problem, the U.S. will now tax imports from nearly every country on the planet, supposedly in proportion to the barriers that those countries place on American goods. The goal, according to senior administration officials, is to pressure other countries into removing their trade barriers, at which point the U.S. will drop its own.
But the logical consistency of this theory, such as it is, is only internal. For one, “the tariffs don’t appear to be based on actual trade barriers, which undermines their entire justification,” Karma writes. “The theoretically reciprocal tariffs are not, in fact, reci...
- Title
- Introducing: The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 0:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic's debut video podcast launches April 9. Join the weekly conversation with David Frum and his guests as they explore—with urgency and clarity—American democracy, trade, alliances, and more on "The David Frum Show."
Subscribe to The Atlantic on YouTube: http://bit.ly/subAtlanticYT
- Title
- Why Trump Wants to Control Universities
- Runtime
- 33:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- If the Trump administration’s actions and rhetoric against universities sound vaguely familiar, that may be because they’ve already happened elsewhere. Over the years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has dismantled his country’s higher-education system; cracked down on diversity, dissent, and critical thinking; and cast academic institutions as dangerous.
So what does that mean for the future of higher ed in America?
Further reading:
Ian Bogost on “The End of College Life” (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/end-of-college-life/682241/)
Anne Applebaum on “America’s Future Is Hungary” (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/)
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- Title
- Introducing: The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- To preserve democracy, one has to believe in it. To believe in democracy, one has to understand it. Where it came from. How it works. What’s true. What’s not. What others did before you. How it could be better. How to make a difference.
Each week, The David Frum Show digs deep into the big questions people have about our politics and our society, explains the progress Americans have made together, and reminds us that the American idea is worth defending.
The first episode of The David Frum Show will air on April 9, 2025.
Subscribe to The David Frum Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-frum-show/id1305908387
Subscribe to The David Frum Show on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/79CBHEDdEbdykveVgbpWs7
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- Title
- In Search of 100-Year-Old Paper Trails
- Runtime
- 53:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Researchers have suggested that lifestyle choices explain the remarkably high number of very old people living healthy lives in regions of the world known as “blue zones.” That research has spawned cookbooks, docuseries, and diets and turned blue zones into a household name. Today’s episode is a conversation with Dr. Saul Newman, who has upended the field by questioning the underlying data and research methods that hold up the now-controversial theory.
Further reading:
“Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3) ,” by Saul Newman
“The Science Behind Blue Zones: Demographers Debunk the Critics (https://danbuettner.com/the-science-behind-blue-zones/) ”—an open letter signed by scientists and demographers supporting the “blue zones”...
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- Atlantic journalists discuss politics and media after the Signal breach | New Orleans Book Festival
- Runtime
- 28:14
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Watch Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum, in conversation with Atlantic staff writers McKay Coppins, Elaina Plott-Calabro, and Adam Serwer on the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival. Our journalists take the stage at Tulane University to explore themes including the threat to free press, the future of journalism, and the intersections of politics, media, and American identity.
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- Title
- Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum discuss the Signal group chat | New Orleans Book Festival
- Runtime
- 27:48
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic kicks off opening night at the NOLA Book Festival with a dynamic conversation reflecting on the Signal breach and weighing its national-security implications. Featuring editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, this special event brings him into conversation with Anne Applebaum as they survey the landscape of democracy.
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- Title
- Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- On Monday, The Atlantic published a story detailing how editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been inadvertently added to a Signal group chat of Trump-administration officials discussing attack plans on Houthi targets in Yemen. After the story’s publication, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on the messaging app.
https://theatln.tc/1tU63rzu
“Nobody was texting war plans,” he answered. “And that’s all I have to say about that.”
Other Trump-administration figures have since downplayed the texts shared with Goldberg. President Donald Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the matter, said, “It wasn’t classified information.”
But the statements by Trump-administration figures have led The Atlantic to believe that people should see the texts to reach their own conclusions. “There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that...
- Title
- Classified, or Not Classified?
- Runtime
- 22:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, and staff writer Shane Harris published more details (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/) from a Signal chat between President Donald Trump’s top advisers that included sensitive details (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/) about a military strike in Yemen. In screenshots published by The Atlantic, the defense secretary messaged information about strike targets and times of attack. Top Trump officials have denied both to reporters and in congressional hearings that the information in the chat was classified.
Claudine Ebeid talks to Shane Harris, who covers national security, about how he would characterize the messages and what kind of reverberations to expect from this breach.
Get...
- Title
- The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.
The editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason he knew this is that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had messaged the details at 11:44 a.m. in a group chat, which Goldberg had been accidentally added to days before. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
At the link, read how Goldberg had been included in a group chat among Trump officials planning the strike.
https://theatln.tc/JPLz2D6M
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- Title
- Politicians Think Voters Are Dumb. Are They Right?
- Runtime
- 1:02:17
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- What do politicians really think of their voters? A new study looking at 11 different democracies finds that politicians hold an unflattering view of their constituents, while voters view themselves as thoughtful, policy-oriented decision makers. The political scientist Jack Lucas explains why politicians think voters are dumb and why they might be wrong.
Further reading:
“Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/politicians-theories-of-voting-behavior/E73E1B173B30EC11DFB413FA3E3160D1) ,” by Jack Lucas, et al.
“Are politicians democratic realists? (https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6765.12657) ,” by Jack Lucas, Lior Sheffer, and Peter John Loewen
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (https://press.princeton.edu/books/ha...
- Title
- The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Our Editor Their War Plans
- Runtime
- 27:20
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, received a connection request on Signal from a “Michael Waltz,” which is the name of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Two days later, he was added to a group text with top administration officials created for the purpose of coordinating high-level national-security conversations about the Houthis in Yemen. (Read his story here (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/) .)
We talk with Goldberg and Shane Harris, an Atlantic national-security reporter, about what it means that this absurd and admittedly relatable thing happened in such a high-stakes situation.
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- The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. Over the past decade, he’s noticed a change among his students: They’ve become overwhelmed by the reading. One first-year student shared with him that, at her public high school, she had never been asked to read a single book cover to cover. “My jaw dropped,” Dames told Rose Horowitch.
Though no comprehensive data exist on this trend, the majority of the 33 professors that Horowitch spoke with relayed a similar experience: Students are shutting down when confronted with ideas they don’t understand; they struggle to get through challenging texts like they used to; they can’t stay focused on even a sonnet. “It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading,” Horowitch writes, “it’s that they don’t know how.”
One explanation is that middle- and high-school students are encountering fewer and fewer books in the classroom. But ...
- Title
- The Case for Brain Rot
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Strange online turns of phrase—“He’s so me for this,” “No because what do you mean,” “If you even care”—have seeped into daily life.
One theory about the cause of brain-rot language is that people have gotten stupider. But the people Kaitlyn Tiffany knows who speak this way “are not dumb,” she writes. “They’re amusing, perceptive, have a broad range of reference, and think critically about the things they’re talking about in such a doofy way. They are also, like me, being a bit lazy and noncommittal when speaking casually. There are worse things to be.”
Read the full story at theAtlantic.com
#brainrot #memes #language #internet
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