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TAF25: Annette Gordon-Reed on the American Revolution
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- TAF25: Annette Gordon-Reed on the American Revolution
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- 0:54
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- 1 month ago
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- In a conversation at last year’s Atlantic Festival, Jeffrey Goldberg asked the historian Annette Gordon-Reed if the American Revolution had worked.
The Founders “understood that republics are fragile and you have to work at it,” she said. Revisit the full conversation: http://bit.ly/46AaAoO
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- American History as Rorschach Test
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- 38:08
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- 1 month ago
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- The Florida Department of Education recently announced an alternative to the Advanced Placement history course that it described in a press release as “free from ideological bias or indoctrination.” For its new curriculum, Florida recommends one textbook: Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, by Wilfred McClay. As American patriotism plummets, McClay partly blames history class, which he thinks isn’t teaching students a “love of country.”
Ahead of July 4 and America’s 250th, Hanna talks with McClay about whether teaching should background or foreground the sins of a country—and what might be lost or gained.
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- Will America Undergo Another Post-Watergate Reform Era?
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Watergate was followed by an era of reform—but the forces that spurred it are no longer functioning in America, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, tells David Frum.
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- What We Learned Filming "The American Revolution"
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Asked what the Founding Fathers would make of the political moment in America in 2025, the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, that, in drafting the Constitution, they were “reverse engineering against a tyrant … the balance of powers, the three-legislative stuff. They’re always worried about somebody.”
Read more from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt about how the PBS series “The American Revolution,” which tells the nation’s founding story, was made: https://theatln.tc/vyC1zmUD
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- The American Experiment Is Worth Believing In | The David Frum Show
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- 54:53
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- 1 month ago
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- In this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. David discusses how he hopes Americans can find a future where we rediscover how much there is to be proud of in the American experience and offers a comparison to another turbulent time in American history: the Compromise of 1850.
Then, David is joined by The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss the impending celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of independence and whether the ideas in that document still ring true in the Trump era.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of “City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism” by Abram Van Engen and the origins of the phrase “a shining city on a hill.”
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- How the Birthright Decision Could Affect Trump’s Immigration Agenda
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The Supreme Court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship is a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda, the law professor Amanda Frost tells Hanna Rosin: “He was trying to change our nation’s understanding of who belongs.”
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- Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Trump’s Immigration Agenda
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- 12:41
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- In one of its final moves of the term, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. Radio Atlantic host Hanna Rosin sits down with University of Virginia law professor Amanda Frost to discuss the ruling, the dissents, and what it all means for Trump’s immigration agenda.
Frost is also the author of “You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping From Dred Scott to the Dreamers.”
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- What Abraham Lincoln Can Teach Us About The American Revolution
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- To Abraham Lincoln, the American Revolution was “a living legacy to which we are bound,” one that Lincoln used to build a popular antislavery politics, our staff writer Jake Lundberg said last year.
As part of our special issue marking 250 years since the nation’s founding, Lundberg explored 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.”
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- How Social Media Could Reveal the Perils of Being Too Informed
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Using social media to figure out what’s happening can feel productive—but being informed only goes so far, the writer John Paul Brammer tells Charlie Warzel: “It can start to make you feel like the world is this terrible place.”
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- Why Trump's Attempts to Change Washington, D.C., Could Backfire
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Trump's attempts to change Washington, D.C., without seeking permission or funding grate on many people, David A. Graham argues. “But the other problem is he does it poorly,” he tells Adam Harris.
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- Why the Reflecting Pool Matters
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- 17:15
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The drama around the algal bloom in the Reflecting Pool may seem like a shallow issue. But it’s part of a much broader pattern as President Trump tries to “beautify” Washington, D.C., and cement his legacy. Host Adam Harris talks to the Atlantic staff writer David Graham about Trump’s attempts to remake the city physically, culturally, and politically.
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- The Key to Building Good Reading Habits
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- If there is a book out there calling to you, you just need to go grab it, the writer John Paul Brammer tells Charlie Warzel: “You just need to get accustomed to scratching the itch when it shows up.”
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- Tom Hanks on the enduring message of The American Revolution
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- 1:34
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- 1 month ago
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- “I don’t think there’s anything that I have found, in the course of human storytelling, that is more profound than an individual not giving into fear and then holding on through the entire endeavor,” Tom Hanks said on a panel in 2025 following a screening of Ken Burns’s PBS documentary series “The American Revolution.”
Revisit the full conversation at the link: http://bit.ly/46AaAoO
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- What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos, by Helen Lewis
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- On the Galápagos Islands, Helen Lewis spotted a lizard polycule, learned what penguins are really capable of—and explored the surprising reality of Charles Darwin’s adventure.
Read more about her journey at the link: https://theatln.tc/W7NmyDEb
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- Vanilla Ice Knows When America Was Great
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Lots of musicians dropped out of America’s 250th-anniversary celebration—but Vanilla Ice stayed in. Spencer Kornhaber visited the rapper at his home in Florida to understand why.
Read the full story: https://theatln.tc/QdPgoKMK
📷: Ysa Pérez. YouTube / Vanilla Ice / SBK Records.
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- Smaller Nations Find Their Footing in the World Cup
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Formerly colonized nations have been “able to play at a much higher level than anybody anticipated because they’ve leveraged their diasporas,” Franklin Foer argues. He discusses how smaller countries have surprised audiences in the World Cup.
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- Why You Can’t Read Anymore (And How to Start)
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- 43:28
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- 1 month ago
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- Do you wish you could read more books? You’re not alone. These days, fewer people are reading for pleasure, and even those who do tend to struggle with distractions. Is this a literacy crisis, or has our attention just been warped? And what can we do?
In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” John Paul Brammer joins Charlie Warzel to talk about how he managed to ditch the allure of his screens and social media and rewild his attention. This is a conversation about how to reignite your curiosity, what deep reading does to your mind, and how anyone can learn to love to read again.
This episode of “Galaxy Brain” was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal. Our theme is by Rob Smierciak. Hadley Robinson is our senior supervising producer. Claudine Ebeid is the executive producer of Atlantic audio, and Andrea Valdez is our managing editor.
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- Atlantic Reads: The Housewives Underground with Kaitlyn Tiffany
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- 33:11
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- 1 month ago
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- On Thursday, June 25, the Atlantic staff writer Kaitlyn Tiffany will sit down with The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss Tiffany’s new book, The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery. Tiffany tells the story of three women—Maggie Field, Shirley Martin, and Sylvia Meagher—whose skepticism of the Warren Commission report on the assassination led them to conduct their own investigations into the president's death. Tiffany and Goldberg will discuss how these amateur investigators challenged the official narrative of the tragedy, and how their work helped shape national memory.
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- How the World Cup Explains the World
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- 34:41
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- In his classic book How Soccer Explains the World, the Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer theorized that the sport was a mirror of the world, particularly in its shift from tribalism to interdependence. More than two decades after the book came out, the world is different in many ways, but he says the title still holds true.
Foer joins to discuss the World Cup. Who he’s excited to watch. How the global game has changed over the years. And how this year’s World Cup offers global audiences a gentler form of nationalism—one that we may not be used to lately, and may indeed learn from.
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- What Gulf Allies Are Saying About Potential Iran Peace Terms
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Gulf allies insisted that they did not want to participate in the Iran war or contribute to a fund for Iran’s reconstruction that is outlined in the possible peace agreement, Vivian Salama tells David Frum.
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- Did Trump Surrender to Iran? | The David Frum Show
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- 54:25
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on why American progressives have seemingly abandoned the fight against climate change. He wonders if, after Trumpism is defeated, Americans can go back to solving issues that really matter.
Then, David is joined by his Atlantic colleague Vivian Salama to discuss the negotiations between Iran and the United States. David and Vivian talk about the fallout from the now-signed memorandum of understanding between the two countries, both in the United States and across the Middle East.
Finally, David ends the show with a discussion of Ann Patchett’s novel “Bel Canto.”
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- Title
- What One Message to My Kids Was Really Saying
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Russell Shaw noticed that he texted the same phrase to his kids 133 times. In hindsight, he sees profound meaning in it, and a lesson for other parents.
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- 10 Years Later - Brexit is a Catastrophe
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- 9:23
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- 1 month ago
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- In June 10th's episode of The David Frum Show, David Frum looked back on 10 years of Brexit and explained why he believes the vote has been a political and economic catastrophe for Britain.
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- What Would a Post-Birthright-Citizenship Country Look Like?
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Implementing Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship would be “total chaos,” the Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer tells Adam Harris. “After this, every baby born in the United States has to prove that it’s a citizen of the United States.”
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- What Could Happen if the AI Bubble Pops?
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The AI bubble needs to pop—and there is a choice between two paths that can be taken to recover from the potential financial fallout, the author Cory Doctorow tells Charlie Warzel.
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- An Announcement from Radio Atlantic
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- 0:38
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Radio Atlantic is now on video. Watch new episodes every Monday, wherever you watch your podcasts—and keep tuning in every Monday and Thursday to listen to episodes co-hosted by Hanna Rosin and Adam Harris.
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- What Will Happen to Birthright Citizenship?
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- 20:47
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The Supreme Court will soon decide whether the Trump administration’s executive order limiting who can be born an American is constitutional, and whether “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”—save for those who are here under unique circumstances, such as children of foreign dignitaries—are citizens of the union. This week on Radio Atlantic, Adam Harris is joined by Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer to explore birthright citizenship and what it means to be an American.
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- What the Birthright-Citizenship Case Is Really About
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- 18:19
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The Supreme Court will soon decide whether the Trump administration’s executive order limiting who can be born an American is constitutional, and whether “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”—save for those who are here under unique circumstances, such as children of foreign dignitaries—are citizens of the union. This week on Radio Atlantic, Adam Harris is joined by Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer to explore birthright citizenship and what it means to be an American.
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- Ken Burns on the many readings of the American Revolution
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The American Revolution was at once an argument, a bloody civil war, and a world war, Ken Burns told David Frum in 2025.
As America prepares to mark 250 years of independence, revisit their conversation on the “The David Frum Show”:
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- The Bad Beer That’s an Incredible Beverage
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- 0:17
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Miller Lite “is a beer for people who appreciate the sweetness in simplicity,” Tyler Austin Harper writes. “Who need exactly six beers and have between $7 and $11. Whose fathers were, regrettably, right.”
Read more: https://theatln.tc/FnqNFgRN
🎨: Jonelle Afurong / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.
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- AI Was Never About Helping You | Cory Doctorow
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- 44:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Cory Doctorow has a refrain: “The most important thing about a gadget isn’t what it does; it’s who it does it for and what it does it to.” In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” he sits down with Charlie Warzel to talk about the AI boom, making the case that the hype, vision, and dreams of endless growth are unsustainable. Doctorow expands on his viral “enshittification” thesis: a critique of AI based around power and whether we are using AI tools or being used by them.
This episode of "Galaxy Brain" was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal. Our theme is by Rob Smierciak. Hadley Robinson is our senior supervising producer. Claudine Ebeid is the executive producer of Atlantic audio, and Andrea Valdez is our managing editor.
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- Nancy Pelosi on Democrats Entering the Gerrymandering War
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Democrats have previously tried to end partisan gerrymandering, Nancy Pelosi told Hanna Rosin earlier this month, but if Republicans are “gonna try to take five seats in Texas, we’ll take five seats in California.” https://theatln.tc/zd9MZyfj
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- Live: Nancy Pelosi on the Midterms
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- 25:18
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Throughout her career, Nancy Pelosi has known how to get things done: whipping up votes, negotiating bills, and, in what is probably her crowning achievement, pushing through the Affordable Care Act as speaker of the House. At the end of her current term, she plans to retire, after nearly 40 years in Congress.
Hanna Rosin recently sat down with Pelosi at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, in Seattle, to talk about the midterms, if Democrats could take back Congress, and what exactly she was thinking when she ripped up a speech at the State of the Union.
Also, a special announcement about Radio Atlantic.
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- What Color Is the Reflecting Pool? Matt Viser Investigates.
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- President Trump wanted the Reflecting Pool to be an American-flag blue—“instead, he’s gotten a swamp,” Matt Viser says. He reports from Washington, D.C., on the foiled project that cost taxpayers at least $16.4 million:
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- How Trump’s Immigration Policies Could Backfire Among Florida Cubans
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The Trump administration’s immigration policies affecting Cubans may hurt the president in Florida, the CNN international correspondent Patrick Oppmann tells David Frum.
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- Will Americans Ever Lose Their Grip on the Handshake?
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The handshake has been America’s default greeting for more than a century. Tom Bartlett explored the Atlantic archives to learn how it survived both decades of germ anxiety and pandemic-era distancing:
https://theatln.tc/T40MKDV5
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- Cuba Is Collapsing. Will Trump Invade? | The David Frum Show
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- 1:05:13
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on Trump’s new Iran deal and how it affects the future of the Republican Party and J. D. Vance’s presidential aspirations. David discusses the predicament that Vance finds himself in as the administration’s most vocal Iran War skeptic.
Then, David is joined by CNN’s Patrick Oppmann, who has been reporting from Cuba since 2012. Patrick and David discuss the current state of the country, the pressure that the Trump administration is putting on the ruling regime, and whether or not America will invade Cuba.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of Shakespeare’s “Othello” and how ancient plays can emancipate readers from some of their modern prejudices.
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- Are MLB's Changes Making the Game Better?
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- MLB’s changes have sought to make the game faster and more accessible, Jimmy O’ Brien, the founder of Jomboy Media, tells Charlie Warzel: “It took a lot of courage to do that, especially a sport that’s so old and stuck in its times.”
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- How 'Masculinism' Could Be Shaping American Politics
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- “Masculinism” is turbocharging an argument that sees feminism as the root of declining birth rates, Helen Lewis argues. “So feminism is to them—and this sounds hyperbolic, but it’s the argument that’s essentially being made—destroying the world.”
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- The Unglamorous Truth About the Average Tradwife by Faith Hill
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The tradwife ideal has come to signal the values of conservative politics, and become a wedge in America’s culture war. But the housewife of popular imagination does not “easily map onto a real-life category of person,” Faith Hill says.
Read the full article here: https://theatln.tc/yFiqVBzA
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- Terry Pratchett Is England’s Funniest Writer
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Who is the funniest writer in the English language? Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis’s nomination is Terry Pratchett, the author of more than 40 satirical books. Through his work, Lewis says, “I’ve learned so much both about character writing” and “writing about social issues without beating people over their head.”
Read more about Pratchett’s work—and why he’s in danger of being lost to history: https://theatln.tc/TIJLiUBT
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- How Brexit May Have Trapped British Voters
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Brexit has been a permanent tax on British growth—and some British voters “can’t quite admit that they locked themselves into it,” David Frum argues.
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- Read These Books by the Time You Graduate
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- “I believe that the best way to find inspiration is to look to writers who don’t offer advice or edicts but give examples you might want to emulate,” Anna Holmes says.
She recommends seven books for people in their 20s: https://theatln.tc/wPI0PNzt
See the full list at the link.
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- The Ordinary Miracle of Existing
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- 0:21
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- It’s easy to take for granted being alive, Alan Lightman writes. He explores the miracle that is existing—and the importance of acknowledging it.
Read more: https://theatln.tc/pIA9VOQm
🎨: Will Matsuda
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- How the MLB May Have Turned Balls and Strikes Into a Spectacle
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The ABS pitch-tracking system (also known as “robot umpires”) in Major League Baseball has become an entertainment spectacle, Jimmy O’ Brien, the founder of Jomboy Media, tells Charlie Warzel: “There’s just so many elements of drama that it’s given us.”
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- Jomboy on Robot Umps, Viral Breakdowns, and Baseball’s Future
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- 34:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- “Baseball” has never been synonymous with “change.” But in recent years, Major League Baseball has transformed radically, and this season it has embraced technology via the ABS pitch-tracking system (also known as “robot umpires”). Has the experiment worked? Can baseball evolve in the 21st century without losing a piece of itself? Does the tech make the game less human? On this week’s “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel brings on Jimmy O’Brien, founder of Jomboy Media, to talk about baseball’s overhaul, how to become a lip-reading legend on YouTube, and why Americans love slow sports.
This episode of "Galaxy Brain" was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal. Our theme is by Rob Smierciak. Claudine Ebeid is the executive producer of Atlantic audio, and Andrea Valdez is our managing editor.
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- When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other
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- 24:57
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The MAGA movement has fully embraced masculinism, which The Atlantic’s staff writer Helen Lewis defines in her cover story (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/james-talarico-senate-paxton/687436/) this month as “a movement to fight back against the advances of feminism and reassert the primacy of men.” Democrats have a more complicated relationship with it. After the last presidential election, when Donald Trump made inroads with young men, even those of color, some Democrats began wondering whether their party did indeed have a man problem (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/democrats-man-problem/682029/) .
This campaign season, one Democrat who seems to have answered that call is Graham Platner, who won the primary in Maine this week and may be key to the party’s chances of winning the Senate. But several women described “toxic” relationships with Platner, including one who said he “could be rough with her.” Platner...
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- How the Voting Rights Act Could Be a Resource in the Future
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- “If anybody didn’t believe in revolutions and counterrevolutions and cycles of history, they’re certainly getting a lesson in it now,” Professor David W. Blight tells David Frum about the Supreme Court’s decisions to weaken the Voting Rights Act.
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- The Blueprint for Ending American Democracy | The David Frum Show
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- 59:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the Brexit vote, which was cast 10 years ago this month. David explains why Brexit has not only been a failure but has led to years of political instability in the U.K. in the decade following the British vote to leave the European Union.
Then, David is joined by professor David W. Blight to discuss the blood-soaked aftermath of the Civil War and the stumbling project to bring freedom to the former slaves of the South through the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments. David and Blight discuss Trump’s project to gut the Fourteenth Amendment to say that some people born on American soil will no longer be Americans.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of “1873” by Liaquat Ahamed. David reflects on the financial crisis of that year and the long price depression that followed.
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- Creating Online Content May Help a Political Candidate Succeed
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Political candidates who can make content and are more native to social-media platforms may run more successful campaigns, Rob Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, tells Charlie Warzel.
