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Eight of the Most Fascinating Biographies to Read
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- Eight of the Most Fascinating Biographies to Read
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- 1:44
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- 5 months ago
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- The author Nicholas Boggs, who wrote a recent biography of James Baldwin, recommends eight biographies that are animated by the author’s love for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can do. Read the full list at the link.
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- Atlantic Reads: How to Be a Dissident with Gal Beckerman
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- 31:21
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- 5 months ago
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- On Wednesday, May 13, the Atlantic staff writer Gal Beckerman will sit down with the Atlantic podcast host Adam Harris to discuss Beckerman’s new book, How to Be a Dissident. Beckerman’s book is part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift. In How to Be a Dissident Beckerman is on a quest to find role models, drawing on the stories of dissidents from around the globe and across time, to help us understand how we push back in a world where political leaders wield fear and intimidation and we slide into authoritarianism. Harris and Beckerman will discuss the defining characteristics that such extraordinary figures share, and they will highlight that dissidence is a human capacity we can all cultivate to help us navigate the pressures of modern tyranny.
How to Be a Dissident is available wherever books are sold.
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- What Happens if the U.S. Defaults? | The David Frum Show
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- 53:36
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- 5 months ago
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- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to recent reporting surrounding the Trump family’s “patriotic,” Trump-branded cellphones. David explains how this is yet another instance of the most powerful sowing doubt about the fairness of American business and destroying confidence in the ideals of American enterprise.
Then, David is joined by Lloyd Blankfein, a former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, for a wide-ranging conversation about the current state of the American economy. They discuss Blankfein’s new memoir, “Streetwise”; the expanding American debt; the American people’s faith in the economy; and the challenges that lie ahead.
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- Trump Is ‘Bored’ With the War He Started
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- 1:32
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- 5 months ago
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- “President Trump is desperate for the war in Iran to end—but Tehran may have other ideas,” Jonathan Lemire says. He reports on why Iran may be willing to let this conflict drag on.
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- What You Can't Do Without Your Smartphone
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- 1:03
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- 5 months ago
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- Kaitlyn Tiffany recently went one month without a smartphone—and learned that much of our culture is organized around our devices. She talks with Charlie Warzel about the things she was literally unable to do without her iPhone:
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- How to Reclaim the Internet
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- 1:08
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- 5 months ago
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- “We can reclaim a lot of the culture that we had before screens on screens,” The Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber tells executive editor Adrienne LaFrance. “It’s really useful to think very specifically and intentionally about 'What did we love about the culture that was?'”
Watch more from their discussion of Garber’s new book, ”Screen People.”
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- The Only Two Choices I’ve Ever Made
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- 0:17
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- 5 months ago
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- In 2022, Honor Jones reflected on how motherhood raised her standard for relationships.
“The usual lament—that the romance of marriage dissipates in the commotion of child-rearing—isn’t what happened to me. Rather, being a parent brought me so much joy,” Jones wrote. “Children are supposed to be the death of freedom. But that hasn’t been my experience exactly. The death of free time, certainly, but not of free thought. It was my marriage that took that from me. I could be myself and be a mother. I got divorced because I could not be myself and a wife.”
“Getting married was expected; all I had to do was say yes. But I’ve come to realize that I’ve really only chosen two things in my life: motherhood and divorce. Children are supposed to make divorce much harder. For me, they made it easier,” Jones continues at the link. “I know that this sounds strange, that it makes people angry. People I know, people I don’t know. Probabl...
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- The Only Thing Worse Than Spirit Airlines
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- 1:32
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- 5 months ago
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- “It may seem strange to be nostalgic about America’s most hated airline,” Saahil Desai says—but Spirit Airlines did much more to transform the airline industry than charge $4.50 for a bottle of water.
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- What We Lose by Ditching Our Devices
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- 0:59
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- 5 months ago
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- Many people are starting to consider smartphones “a hindrance to happiness and functioning”—but it’s also helpful to be able to use online apps such as Google Maps, Kaitlyn Tiffany says. She speaks with Charlie Warzel about the month she spent without her iPhone:
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- How to Help Someone in Mourning
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- 2:17
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- 5 months ago
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- After losing her daughter in 2024, Danielle Crittenden published “Dispatches From Grief,” detailing what happens following a family death. She speaks with her husband, David Frum, about the loneliness of grief and how others can provide comfort to those in mourning.
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- Is It Time to Ditch Your Smartphone?
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- 49:23
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- 5 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel talks with his Atlantic colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany about what our phones are doing to us. Tiffany recently wrote about swapping her iPhone for a flip phone as part of a movement called “Month Offline.” Kaitlyn talks through her personal experience: the joys and inconveniences of a dumbphone and the difficulty of unplugging completely. Warzel and Tiffany talk about the growing smartphone backlash, legal cases against “big tech,” and how, even if many people are convinced that their phones are a problem, the science remains far from conclusive regarding direct harm.
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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- The Tragedy of the Tradwife
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- 0:59
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- 5 months ago
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- “Someone might hate their job, and they might want to stop doing their job, but that doesn’t mean that they want to be subservient to a man,” Caro Claire Burke tells Hanna Rosin. Listen to their discussion of Burke’s best-selling novel, “Yesteryear”:
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- The Tragedy of the Tradwife
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- 31:42
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- 5 months ago
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- The author Caro Claire Burke discusses her debut novel, Yesteryear, about a tradwife influencer suddenly transported back to 1855 and faced with the harsh realities of actual pioneer life. The book is a No. 1 New York Times best seller, and its film rights have already been sold and Anne Hathaway is attached to star.
Seen one way, the tradwife is just a social-media trend, sometimes soothing to watch, sometimes infuriating. But the fantasy that fuels the phenomenon—that women should be subservient to their husbands, staying at home and tending the hearth—reflects views in the real world, where actual policies get made. Burke talks about her novel and her own political evolution.
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- In Praise of ‘Difficult’ Kids
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- 1:17
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- 5 months ago
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- “Many of the adults that I most admire, they were not easy teenagers,” Russell Shaw says. He examines how feisty kids—who made some teachers quietly miserable—may possess a “moral fire” that deserves cultivation:
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- How Can Families Put Themselves Back Together After Loss?
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- 1:37
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- 5 months ago
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- David Frum and Danielle Crittenden lost their daughter in 2024. In this week’s episode, they discuss how a family can put themselves back together after a loved one dies.
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- Atlantic Reads: Screen People with Megan Garber
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- 33:27
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- 5 months ago
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- On Wednesday, May 6, the Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber will sit down with The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, to discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency. Garber offers an eye-opening look at how today’s internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social conditions—loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, cynicism—stem from our demand for diversion. LaFrance and Garber will discuss how we can fight back against this phenomenon.
Screen People is available wherever books are sold.
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- How to Survive Losing a Child | The David Frum Show
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- 1:04:45
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- 5 months ago
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- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” David is joined by his wife, the writer Danielle Crittenden, to discuss her new memoir, “Dispatches From Grief,” and the loss of their daughter Miranda.
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00:00 Introduction
03:36 Danielle Crittenden
07:04 Why Child Loss Is Different
11:18 The Pariah Feeling
14:01 Talking About It in Public
28:31 Survival as a Family
33:34 Guilt
41:54 Survival as a Family
46:50 Grief...
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- Why Dad’s Side of the Family Tends to Miss Out
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- 0:17
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- 5 months ago
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- Many people have stronger bonds with their maternal relatives, Chiara Dello Joio wrote in 2023. Why?
Researchers have identified a so-called matrilineal advantage—the tendency for people “to rate relationships with their mother’s side of the family more favorably,” which is found even though kids are more likely to live near their paternal grandparents.
A key reason may be that women are more likely to fulfill kinkeeping roles, putting them at the center of these familial networks. But the matrilineal advantage ”doesn’t just apply to the women who do the kinkeeping and caregiving—it can extend to their whole side of the family,” Dello Joio wrote. “Mothers tend to do the majority of the child care and housework; one study found that women are more likely to take on the brunt of those duties even when they earn more than their spouse does. They’re also more likely to receive babysitting help from (and simply spend time with) thei...
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- How Some Families Are Buying Back Time
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- 1:53
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- 5 months ago
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- More families who can afford it are hiring a “chief of staff for the home,” Nancy Walecki writes. She spoke with 12 people who have either hired or worked as a house manager to explore the latest way some people are choosing to buy back time:
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- On Losing a Daughter
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- 0:25
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Danielle Crittenden’s eldest daughter, Miranda, died in 2024. “More than two years have passed, but Miranda’s absence never ceases to shock me,” Crittenden writes. “It retains the power to hit me anew each day. Why is she still not here? Haven’t we suffered enough? Don’t we deserve to have her back now?”
“Sometimes I miss the intensity of early grief—it meant I was closer to her in time; I could almost touch her still,” Crittenden writes.
“Maternal grief seizes the body differently from other sorrows. The attachment to our child begins at conception. Fetal cells migrate during pregnancy, taking up residence in the mother’s brain and organs. The child’s cells can remain in the mother for as long as she lives. They can help her fight off illness, recover from surgery. I find this infinitely comforting: Even after death, Miranda remains alive within me, her cells woven through my brain and blood.”
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- What Happens When AI Slop Gets Worse
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Max Spero, a co-founder of an AI-detection firm, predicts that worsening AI slop on the internet will cause a reaction similar to the rise of cybersecurity companies to combat computer viruses: “I think we are in the birth of this adversarial industry.”
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- Trump's Vision of Himself as a Figure for the Ages
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- 0:50
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- 5 months ago
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- For Radio Atlantic, Michael Scherer discusses Trump’s new vision of himself: “He’s behaving like one of these ancient leaders, who is going to literally hold the gladiatorial-combat celebration on the White House lawn this summer when the UFC comes to do a fight.”
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- Why Silicon Valley Is Turning to the Catholic Church
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Silicon Valley and the Vatican may seem like “strange bedfellows,” Elias Wachtel argues, but when it comes to defining the future of AI, each has something to gain from the other.
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- Will AI-Detection Tools Be Able to Keep Up?
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Max Spero, co-founder of an AI-detection company, speaks with Charlie Warzel about the challenges of training machines to differentiate between human and AI writing in a post-ChatGPT world: “I think the very first step, for us, is collecting really clean human-written data from 2026.”
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- Trump’s Face Is All Over Washington, D.C.
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- 1:50
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- 5 months ago
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- The festooning of Donald Trump’s name and likeness across Washington, D.C., is consistent with authoritarian tendencies, Gal Beckerman argues: These are leaders who “like to have their face in your face.”
Read more, and view a collection of images taken across the nation’s capital, at The Atlantic.
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- Did a Human Write This?
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- 49:27
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- What happens when the majority of content on the internet tips over into AI slop? On this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel talks to Max Spero, a co-founder of Pangram, an AI-detection company. They discuss how AI-detection tools work and how effective they can be at identifying what’s made by humans and what comes from a chatbot. They explore the cultural concerns around authenticity in the large-language-model era, and whether detection can keep up as models improve. The pair discuss how the speed of AI development and synthetic content threatens to degrade the quality of human writing and pollute the internet—and what, if anything, can be done to stop it.
This episode of Galaxy Brain was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Dave Grein. 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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- Former Harris Aide: Biden May Have Been Waiting for Second Term to Set Harris Up for Success
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Joe Biden may have been waiting for Kamala Harris’s second term as vice president to set her up for future success, the former Harris aide Jamal Simmons tells David Frum: “I think he had no plan ever to have her run in 2024.”
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- How Trump Could Affect J. D. Vance’s Chance at the Presidency
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Voters’ perception of Donald Trump may affect a potential J. D. Vance presidential candidacy in 2028, Jamal Simmons tells David Frum: If Trump is “viewed as someone who was a wrecking ball to the country and our international standing in the world, I don’t see how J. D. Vance escapes that.”
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- The Democrats and Their Extremist Problem | The David Frum Show
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- 53:34
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. David examines the role of the dinner in an administration that rejects the basic concepts of honesty with and respect toward independent media. During previous administrations, there was some norm of good faith between the White House and the press. But now, as the president systematically misleads the media and is openly hostile to the press, David asks what the point of this night of pretended common purpose is.
Then, David is joined by Jamal Simmons, a host of the “Trailblaze” podcast and a former communications director for Kamala Harris, for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of the Democratic Party. David and Simmons discuss Harris’s profile among her party’s constituents, how much the online left should dictate Democratic policy, what happened in 2024, and what Democrats should do in 2028.
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- How to Think About Safety After the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Attack
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Total security for major public events is a complex challenge—and “the realistic guiding principle is not to eliminate risk but to reduce it as much as possible,” The Atlantic contributing writer Juliette Kayyem argues.
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- A Reporter’s Experience at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Atlantic staff writer Missy Ryan recounts the chaos during an attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—and what it was like to report on a scene she was in the middle of.
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- How Some Internet Clippers Are Making Big Money
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Internet clipping has “become its own ecosystem, its own economy, that only a few people have really figured out. And they have gamed it relentlessly,” the podcaster Ed Elson tells Charlie Warzel. Watch their full discussion on the “clip economy”:
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- It’s Not Gambling, It’s ‘Girl Math’
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket have a dude problem—and they’re trying to woo women through matcha memes and “get ready with me” videos, Nancy Walecki reports:
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- Why Allbirds Is Pivoting to AI
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Allbirds’ hard pivot to AI might initially look like a cynical cash grab, but the shoe company’s AI rebrand could also be an escape hatch, Will Gottsegen argues.
Read the full article from The Atlantic Daily:
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- A Conversation with Ruthie Rogers
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- 9:27
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Michelin-star chef Ruthie Rogers speaks with The Atlantic’s Ellen Cushing about her new book, “Table 4 at the River Cafe”; the origins of her restaurant; what food of today she would want most in 1857.
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- The Rise of the “Clip Economy”
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- “The clips are the content. That’s what people are consuming. That’s where they’re spending their time,” the writer and podcaster Ed Elson tells Charlie Warzel. Watch their full discussion on the “clip economy”:
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- The Aides Keeping the President in the Dark, by David A. Graham
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- “Donald Trump’s aides are keeping him in the dark on important conversations. And that’s not good for democratic accountability,” David A. Graham argues. In The Atlantic Daily, he explores how prior presidents have found the Oval Office confining—and how Richard Nixon provides a troubling historical example of what happens when aides feel the need to cloister the chief executive.
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- The Clip Economy Is Eating Everything
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- 39:48
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel talks with business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and other long-form content have become the dominant unit of online media, not just a promotional tool. Elson explains how figures like Andrew Tate pioneered armies of paid clippers to flood social platforms with content and how the viewership numbers on clips often perform better than the original shows. Warzel and Elson discuss what this means for legacy media organizations, as well as the broader societal costs of phone-driven attention erosion.
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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- Reporting on Kash Patel
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Atlantic’s Sarah Fitzpatrick speaks with Hanna Rosin about her reporting on FBI Director Kash Patel: “The thing that stood out the most to me was the incredibly high levels of alarm that I would describe as bordering on panic for these sources.”
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- Kash Patel's FBI
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- 32:04
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Last week, The Atlantic published a story (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/) about how FBI Director Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they describe as erratic behavior and excessive drinking. Sources told staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick that, on multiple occasions, members of his security detail had trouble waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated.
Patel called the story a “lie” and earlier this week sued The Atlantic for defamation. Fitzpatrick joins Radio Atlantic to talk about her reporting inside the FBI, and how sources she spoke with are concerned about the agency keeping Americans safe during a time of heightened threats. And we talk to our staff writer Quinta Jurecic about the state of Trump’s Justice Department after Pam Bondi’s firing.
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- Trump’s Gerrymandering Blunder by Russell Berman
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Virginia voters approved a lopsided new House map that could hand Democrats an additional four seats in the upcoming midterm elections—marking yet another blow to the GOP's redistricting efforts, Russell Berman reports.
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- What Will the Iran War’s Legacy Be?
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The effects of the Iran war may compel some countries to stockpile huge amounts of energy, and cause some developing countries to distrust the U.S. more broadly, Adam Posen tells David Frum: “It's not a good legacy, even before you get to the foreign policy.”
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- On the Brink of Global Recession | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 59:42
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a discussion of the likelihood that the partisan balance of power will shift from Republicans to Democrats at state-government level.
Then, David is joined by the president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Adam Posen, for a conversation about the state of the global economy. David and Posen discuss the economic effect of the war in Iran, the United States’ reputational hit caused by Trump’s tariffs, and the chance of a global recession.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of “Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed,” by Maureen Callahan, and reflects on why reactions to the abuse of women by men in power seem to have become a partisan issue.
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- Title
- Does Alex Jones Believe What He Says?
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- “I don’t think he cares what the truth is. So I think it frees him up, in some sense,” Josh Owens, a former Infowars employee, tells Charlie Warzel. They discuss where the performance and person begin and end for the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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- Ex-Infowars Employee on Alex Jones, Lies, and Getting Out
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- 54:39
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel speaks with Josh Owens, a videographer and the author of a memoir about his years working for Infowars, the media company of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Owens traces his journey from a film-school student who stumbled onto Jones’s radio show to an insider who spent four years filming, editing, and traveling for the organization. Owens describes how Jones’s conspiracy machine works, as well as how his own moral compass was scrambled by Jones’s manipulative management. The conversation explores radicalization, the conspiratorial media ecosystem Jones helped create, and how Owens was able to pull himself out.
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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- Title
- How Hungary’s Election May Stop the Momentum of Europe's Far Right
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- “I think this election absolutely halted this sense of forward motion that you had from the European far right, as well as the American MAGA movement,” Anne Applebaum tells Hanna Rosin. Listen to the full episode of Radio Atlantic.
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- Donald Trump's Losing Streak
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Donald Trump seems to be on a losing streak—and Republicans are desperate for him to turn it around before the midterm elections, Jonathan Lemire reports.
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- Title
- If Hungary Can Do It
- Runtime
- 27:00
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Whatever happens next in Hungary, Viktor Orbán’s stunning downfall contains obvious warnings for MAGA and Donald Trump: Propaganda has its limits. Concerns about affordability are real. True democracy can reassert itself in a single election. Reality can bend only so far.
The Hungarian journalist Veronika Munk of the news outlet Denník N shares her view from the streets of Budapest. And the Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum, who covers autocracy, democracy, and Europe, explains why the election is a turning point for world politics.
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- The Democratization of Warfare
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- By exercising control over commercial waterways, Iran and other non-major powers are showing how warfare is changing, former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger tells David Frum: “The nature of warfare never changes. But the character of warfare—how wars are fought—changes all the time.”
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- Is Anybody Actually Winning Trump’s Iran War? | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 55:33
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- In this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to the recent election in Hungary and the defeat of Viktor Orbán. David counters Orbán defenders who claim that this loss proves Orbán was never a threat. Antidemocratic leaders often face institutional constraints, and it was those institutional constraints that compelled Orbán to accept a defeat after years of abuse of power.
Then, David is joined by former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger to discuss the current state of President Trump’s war in Iran. David and Pottinger talk about the recent failed negotiations between the two sides in Pakistan, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and what could happen next. They also discuss how the Iran war is viewed in China and how it has been a financial gain for Russia.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of “Labyrinths,” by Jorge Luis Borges.
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