The Atlantic
The Democratization of Warfare
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- The Democratization of Warfare
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- 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
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- 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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- The Message for MAGA in Viktor Orbán’s Defeat by Isaac Stanley-Becker
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Viktor Orbán’s transformation of Hungary has been, in many ways, the proof of concept for today’s MAGA movement—and this model of governance was “rejected soundly” by voters in Hungary’s election, Isaac Stanley-Becker reports.
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- Caity Weaver’s Quest to Find America’s Best Free Restaurant Bread
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Which restaurant serves the best free bread in America? Caity Weaver embarked on a quest to find out. https://theatln.tc/KBBmZcno
Weaver surveyed more than 500 people; traveled more than 13,000 miles; drank more Diet Coke than she thought possible; scoured the country—from a three-Michelin-starred fine-dining destination in Las Vegas to a lodge in the backwoods of Tennessee—all to find the best free bread.
In The Atlantic’s May cover story, read about Weaver’s quest—and find her pick for the best loaf in America.
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- Will people stop caring if images are real or AI?
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Social-media users are getting “so exhausted at having to parse what’s real and what’s fake that a lot of them are just saying, like, ‘If it makes me feel a certain way, that’s all I care about,’” Tiffany Hsu tells Charlie Warzel. They discuss how the flood of AI content online could be wearing people down:
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- What Donald Trump’s Social-Media Posts Say About His Views on Religion
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social posts say a lot about where his presidency is, but they also indicate how he views religion, David A. Graham argues: “For Trump, religion is still something that is a tool for him, not a constraint.”
Read more at The Atlantic.
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- Hungarians Cheer Orbán’s Loss
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- See supporters of Hungary’s Tisza party and its lead candidate, Péter Magyar, celebrating in the streets of Budapest after soundly defeating Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party in a general election.
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- If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Tech gear is about to get more expensive due to a worldwide shortage of a basic electronics part—“and you can thank the AI boom,” Hana Kiros reports. She breaks down what RAMageddon could mean for tech prices.
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- AI Influencers Are Here. Can You Spot Them?
- Runtime
- 44:07
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s “Galaxy Brain” episode, Charlie Warzel is joined by New York Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu to discuss the rise of AI influencers—synthetic avatars, often indistinguishable from real people, that are flooding social-media feeds to sell supplements and promote brands. Hsu unpacks her reporting on the combination of forces converging around it, including the wellness industry, a historically fertile ground for scammers. The pair discuss how the volume of synthetic content online is producing a new kind of epistemic exhaustion: a fatigue so deep that many people have simply stopped caring whether what they're seeing is real. So is authenticity already beside the point? And is an audience’s emotional response—rather than the truth behind the image—the only currency that matters?
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 produce...
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- Fareed Zakaria on how the American promise has changed
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The journalist Fareed Zakaria tells David Frum how there’s “a kind of mean-spiritedness and an anger” that he didn’t see in the America he first came to, but “not so much that it makes me lose faith in the country itself.”
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- Trump Is Wishcasting Victory in Iran
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- 29:54
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Last weekend, on Easter Sunday, President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!”
On Tuesday, he posted again: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
Hours later—after ongoing talks, and condemnation by world leaders and American lawmakers from both parties—the United States agreed to a two-week cease-fire with Iran.
The Atlantic’s Adam Harris talks to the staff writers Tom Nichols and Nancy Youssef about where the two countries can go from here and what happens when genocidal threats become political policy.
Further reading: “Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?” (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-truthsocial-destruction-iran/686716/) by Tom Nichols
“Trump Made a Deal That ...
- Title
- Exploring Some of Artemis II’s Most Stunning Images
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The Artemis II Mission has produced some stunning images of our planet from afar and of the moon up close. Ross Andersen shares his favorites:
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- What It Means to Be American | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 1:00:52
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the nearly two decades of economic turmoil that has caused younger generations to lose faith in American institutions and led to the rise of populism in the United States. David argues that as the country stands on the precipice of a Donald Trump–manufactured economic crisis, perhaps we will learn to appreciate the basic ideas that led to prosperity in the 1980s and ’90s.
Then David is joined by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to reflect on the American ideals that captivated David and Fareed when they first immigrated to the U.S. and whether they still ring true today. As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, David and Fareed discuss whether this country remains the same one they moved to many years ago and whether America has strayed from its foundational principles.
Finally, David concludes the episode with an examination of Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel, “I...
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- Fareed Zakaria: The U.S. is behaving like a rogue superpower
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The U.S. is behaving like a rogue superpower in the Iran war—and Donald Trump seems to be making a point of demonstrating that he is rejecting rules-based order, the journalist Fareed Zakaria tells David Frum.
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- The Dangers of Outsourcing Critical Tasks to AI
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- “An LLM which, however amazing you might find it to be, is trained on yesterday, is at some point going to run into problems inventing tomorrow.” Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale discuss how AI agents are winding their way through the workforce—but can’t replace creative humans.
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- The Manosphere Turns on Trump
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Manosphere podcasters believed that Trump was the president “who was going to end the endless wars,” Elaine Godfrey reports. “They feel so bewildered and baffled by this turn of events.”
Read more on the portion of Trump's base that may be giving up on him at The Atlantic.
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- Ruthie Rogers on the Value of Restaurants
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- “There is something magical about somebody being able to taste something and then come up and say, ’How did you cook this?’”
The Michelin-star chef Ruthie Rogers speaks with The Atlantic’s Ellen Cushing about the role of restaurants in a takeout-driven culture.
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- What Las Vegas Taught McKay Coppins About Gambling
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- When McKay Coppins set out to report on the explosive growth of the sports-betting industry, his editors thought he should experience the phenomenon firsthand—so he spent an NFL season as an online gambler.
His reporting took him to Las Vegas, where he wanted to see how betting online compared with gambling the old-fashioned way. Coppins needed a guide to show him around the casino. Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols stepped in.
Read more about their time in Vegas, and find Coppins’s April cover story: https://theatln.tc/VNQqCHIj
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- The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics
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- 0:11
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- In 2024, McKay Coppins was asked to verify a “massive story”: A Mexican man claimed he was forced to compete for his life in a sports tournament run by the cartels.
Coppins’s investigation raised questions not only about the account, but about who—and what—we are conditioned to believe.
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- What AI Is Actually Doing to the Workforce
- Runtime
- 48:45
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- How is AI changing the way we work?
This week on “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel is joined by Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale, two experts in management and leadership training. They discuss how chatbots and AI agents are winding their way through the workforce, offering a firsthand view of how companies are (and aren’t) adopting AI tools. The conversation covers the gap between AI hype and what’s actually happening in offices. It also touches on how overreliance on AI tools may be making bosses worse at their jobs, and how work may be one of the last bastions of sustained social connection in a period of cultural alienation and isolation.
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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- Maybe Trump should not have given this speech by Tom Nichols
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump gave a prime-time address to the nation about the war with Iran, but if Americans were hoping for a clear explanation of why he went to war or when the fighting might end, “they heard nothing,” Tom Nichols says.
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- The Manosphere Feels Betrayed
- Runtime
- 23:18
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The manosphere helped Donald Trump win the 2024 election. Now that he’s started a war with Iran and failed to keep some core campaign promises, the coalition cemented by podcast bros and Austin-area commentators is starting to crack. The Atlantic staff writer Elaine Godfrey has been tracking the political shifts among a small but influential group of manosphere podcasters.
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- Watching War From the Strait of Hormuz | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 52:29
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the strange lack of information about the current war in Iran. He wonders why, despite the publicized tactical success of the United States’ campaign in Iran, the war seems to be progressing in an unfavorable way for the U.S.
Then David is joined by his colleague at The Atlantic Graeme Wood to discuss Graeme’s recent reporting from the Persian Gulf. David and Graeme talk about Graeme’s experiences being bombed in Dubai and snorkeling in the Strait of Hormuz. They also discuss what happens next in Iran, Trump’s failure in political messaging on the war, and the state of the global energy market.
David concludes with a discussion of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” which was published 250 years ago this year.
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- Graeme Wood: Trump’s Unclear Iran Messaging Leave U.S. Vulnerable to Propaganda
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The Trump administration’s unclear political messaging around the Iran war has left Americans vulnerable to Iranian propaganda, Graeme Wood tells David Frum.
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- Ruthie Rogers on Her New Book and How Food Tells Stories
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- With the release of her new book, “Table 4 at The River Cafe,” the chef and owner of The River Cafe, Ruthie Rogers, speaks with The Atlantic’s Ellen Cushing about the power of food and storytelling.
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- Ruthie Rogers on Hostility in High-End Dining
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “There’s absolutely no reason to have that bullying. This isn’t what you need to create good food.”
The Michelin-star chef Ruthie Rogers speaks with The Atlantic’s Ellen Cushing about the hostile environments in some high-end-restaurant kitchens.
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- Title
- What Will the Legacy of Twitter Be?
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “I still believe in the ideological ideas that underpinned the beginning of Twitter ... which is that the internet should be used as a medium of self-expression,” the former Twitter executive Jason Goldman tells Charlie Warzel. “And yet, what we actually have built—and what has actually been produced—is a platform that has created tremendous harm.”
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- Visiting One of the World’s Largest Weapons Manufacturers
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- One of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers is stepping up its production of expensive munitions at a time when cheap drones are dominating the battlefield, Simon Shuster reports. He visited Rheinmetall’s newest factory to learn more.
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- Title
- How Twitter Broke the World
- Runtime
- 55:32
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- What is Twitter’s legacy? In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel traces how Twitter, now called X, evolved from a status-update tool to one of the most culturally and politically influential—and contentious—platforms of the modern internet. Charlie is joined by early Twitter executive Jason Goldman. They explore how Twitter’s core features—many invented by users—reshaped media and politics while also enabling new forms of harassment, misinformation, and attention hijacking. Goldman reflects candidly on the company’s key inflection points—from early free-speech-maximalist decisions and underinvestment in trust and safety to Twitter’s role in events like the Arab Spring and the election of Donald Trump. The discussion culminates in Twitter’s Elon Musk era, where its logic of attention has been weaponized more explicitly. The episode reckons with what Goldman and others ultimately built: a tool with outsize cultural influence that’s broken brains and a...
- Title
- How ICE May, and May Not, Change Under New Leadership
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “I think that we are moving into a second-year, midterm political strategy that seeks to produce high numbers of deportations,” Nick Miroff argues, "but no longer is as geared to satisfying the president’s base."
Miroff and Hanna Rosin discuss whether the appointment of Markwayne Mullin will lead to changes in ICE’s current strategies:
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- The Department of Homeland Security Theater
- Runtime
- 27:11
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- ICE at airports. TSA lines out the door. And a new boss at DHS amid its funding shutdown.
After the deaths on the streets of Minneapolis, after the theatrics of Greg Bovino, after the drama of Kristi Noem, ICE may be entering a new era. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed as the new DHS head, having struck a softer tone than his predecessor during hearings. He told senators that he would stop the practice of agents entering people’s houses without judicial warrants. But what will this new era look like?
Our guest is the Atlantic staff writer Nick Miroff, who covers immigration.
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- Title
- Why Some Right-Wing Podcasters Are Vilifying Winston Churchill
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Some right-wing podcasters are attacking Winston Churchill’s legacy and defending subjects such as the Third Reich for “shock value”—because “the more shocking you are, the more likely you are to appeal to the lowest form of human nature,” the historian Andrew Roberts tells David Frum.
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- The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 54:06
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on President Trump’s recent comments that appear to show a desire to back away from his war in Iran. David argues that Trump is comfortable as a “wartime” president as long as the enemy is American Democrats, and then he compares the president’s rhetoric about Iran with his rhetoric about his fellow Americans.
Then, David is joined by the historian and journalist Lord Andrew Roberts to discuss why right-wing podcasters seem so fixated on insisting that Winston Churchill was the villain of the Second World War. Frum and Lord Roberts discuss the origins of pseudo-historians and why they appeal so much to the American right.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of the novel “Burr,” by Gore Vidal, and the relationship between art and morality.
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- Concerns over AI and autonomous weapons in the military
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “The idea that these systems would misidentify a noncombatant and take their life is a huge concern,” Will Knight tells Charlie Warzel. They discuss the use of AI and self-driving vehicles by the military:
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- How We Got to an Aviation System on the Verge of Collapse
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The U.S. commercial-aviation system used to be a modern marvel—but years of disinvestment capped by political dysfunction have left it quietly eroding from within, David A. Graham argues.
Read the full article at the link: https://theatln.tc/hYEnCF9g
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- Title
- The Skin-Care Industry Is Coming for Toddlers
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "Millennials created the wellness economy, and now it wants their children as customers," Nancy Walecki reports on the rise of Gen Alpha–focused skin-care brands.
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- The Matcha Problem
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The explosive rise in demand for matcha around the globe has transformed a deliberately slow-moving Japanese ceremonial tradition into a trendy crash-free caffeine hit—and things have gotten weird for the matcha market as a result, Ellen Cushing writes.
She explores the consequences of the matcha shortage and what it reflects about our “context-collapsed, free-associative, flavormaxxed culinary era” of food trends.
Read her full article at the link: https://theatln.tc/SCpMfWj0
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- Could Closing the Strait of Hormuz Lead to a Recession?
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “The difference between now and the 1970s is that we could—in theory, at least—end this whenever we wanted to,” Rogé Karma says. “The Strait of Hormuz does not need to be closed.”
Karma talks with Hanna Rosin on whether rising oil prices could trigger a recession, like the one America experienced in the 1970s. Listen to more at “Radio Atlantic.”
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- Anthropic, the Pentagon, and AI Use in the Military
- Runtime
- 36:11
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Just how are powerful AI models being used in warfare overseas? In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel sits down with Wired senior writer Will Knight to discuss the rise of autonomous weapons. From the origins of Project Maven to the recent falling-out between Anthropic and the Department of Defense, they trace what’s happening as artificial intelligence moves from summarizing documents to informing decisions on the battlefield.
How do these weapons work? What are the safeguards? Who decides what values get baked into these models? As autonomous systems become harder to avoid, where exactly is the line between human judgment and machine decision making? Warzel and Knight help explain how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are more entangled than ever and where warfare goes from here.
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 Atl...
- Title
- The Drive to Demand More From Weather Apps
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- We’ve never had access to more meteorological data, yet people often lament that their weather apps don't get it right. Adam Grossman, a co-creator of Dark Sky, tells Charlie Warzel how weather-tracking technology is actually getting more accurate—and why users are still demanding more:
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- Trump Is Kicking the Economy While It’s Down
- Runtime
- 29:04
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Iran is blocking oil tankers from passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Consumers around the world are already seeing higher gas prices as a result, but the global oil supply affects so much more than just prices at the pump. Soon, shoppers could see higher prices on food, clothes, e-commerce, and everything in between. The Atlantic staff writer Rogé Karma explains that a healthy economy could probably weather an oil shock like this. A weaker economy, however, such as the one the United States has now, could slip into a recession.
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- Title
- Why Allies Aren't Helping Trump in the Strait of Hormuz
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- NATO members know that Donald Trump would not value their contribution if they became involved in the Strait of Hormuz, Anne Applebaum argues: “What you’re hearing from America’s European allies is not cowardice. It’s a calculation.”
Read the full article here: https://theatln.tc/ZiMMAUlR
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- Title
- Why Britain Didn't Join The U.S.'s Intervention in Iran
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Keir Starmer is pushing back on U.S. intervention in Iran even knowing that there will be a "political cost" for his relationship with Donald Trump, Alastair Campbell, a co-host of the podcast "The Rest Is Politics," tells David Frum.
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- Mitski’s Bookshelf: Five Horror Novels
- Runtime
- 4:02
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “What I love about horror is that it’s this little release valve for anxieties.”
The musician @mitskileaks recommends five of her favorite horror books for readers who may crave something that feels just a bit too real.
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- Why Britain Is Saying No to Trump’s Iran War | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 1:06:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on President Trump’s dangerous disregarding of Congress’s powers of war-making and peacemaking. David argues that though Republicans have enabled the President’s dark impulses, Democrats in congress also seem happy to turn a blind eye to the Trump administration’s actions in Iran. This, David argues, jeopardizes the restraints put on the president in a constitutional government.
Then, David is joined by Alastair Campbell, a writer and co-host of “The Rest Is Politics,” to discuss how President Trump has poisoned the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain. Frum and Campbell analyze how Trump’s impulsive war in Iran has put further strain on the alliance and how Trump’s relationship with Prime Minister Starmer differs from President Bush’s relationship with Tony Blair at the outset of the war in Iraq.
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- Traveling Through a Closed Strait of Hormuz with Graeme Wood
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The Strait of Hormuz is a crucial crossing for the world’s oil supply—and Iran’s closure of the passage amid U.S. and Israeli strikes has snarled shipping traffic. Graeme Wood chartered a boat to see the unusually quiet strait first-hand:
📸: AFP / Getty; Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty; Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP; Alex Wong / Getty; Abeer Khan / Bloomberg / Getty; Gallo / Orbital Horizon / Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025.
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- America at 250 at the New Orleans Book Festival
- Runtime
- 59:02
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- In partnership with The Atlantic, the New Orleans Book Festival hosted a special keynote evening honoring the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, moderated a conversation between bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson, acclaimed filmmaker and storyteller Ken Burns, The Atlantic staff writer and bestselling author Clint Smith, and Annette Gordon-Reed, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Together, they examined the evolution of the American experience—our ideals, our challenges and our shared pursuit of progress—while reflecting on the enduring power of storytelling, history and journalism to define who we are and where we are headed.
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- Title
- General Stanley McChrystal on 'The Jolene Doctrine'
- Runtime
- 31:31
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, spoke with Atlantic staff writer George Packer and General Stanley McChrystal at the New Orleans Book Festival about recent global events, including the war in Iran, national security under the Trump administration, and an approach to foreign policy that the retired four-star general referred to as "the Jolene Doctrine."
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- Title
- The Jolene Doctrine
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- At the New Orleans Book Festival, the retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal tells Jeffrey Goldberg that Trump’s foreign policy reminds him of the Dolly Parton song “Jolene”: “I think we might be in a period where we think what we can do we should do, because we can.”
- Title
- What the most popular Netflix shows tell us about the streamer’s algorithm
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- What are Netflix’s most popular shows? As part of a discussion on the streamer and its impact on the film industry, Charlie Warzel and David Sims review the list—and what it says about how Netflix used the algorithm to grow into a streaming colossus.
