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Grok’s ‘Digital Undressing’ Crisis and a Manifesto to Build a Better Internet
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- Grok’s ‘Digital Undressing’ Crisis and a Manifesto to Build a Better Internet
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- 1:13:50
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel discusses the nightmare playing out on Elon Musk’s X: Grok, the platform’s embedded AI chatbot, is being used to generate and spread nonconsensual sexualized images—often through “undressing” prompts that turn harassment into a viral game. Warzel describes how what once lived on the internet’s fringes has been supercharged by X’s distribution machine. He explains how the silence and lack of urgency isn’t just another content-moderation failure; it’s a breakdown of basic human decency, a moment that signals what happens when platforms choose chaos over stewardship.
Then Charlie is joined by Mike Masnick, Alex Komoroske, and Zoe Weinberg to discuss a vision for a positive future of the internet. The trio helped write the “Resonant Computing Manifesto,” a framework for building technology that leaves people feeling nourished rather than hollow. They discuss how to combat engagement-maximizing products...
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- "The Biggest Mistake Any President Has Made in the History of This Country.”
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- 5:48
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Senator Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) on White House threats to use the military to take Greenland.
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- Mark Kelly: Demotion Threat Sends a ‘Chilling Message’
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- “This isn’t just about me anymore,” Mark Kelly tells Hanna Rosin about the Trump administration’s demotion threat. “This is a message to the American people: Shut up or there are consequences. And we cannot let that stand.”
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- Mark Kelly: The U.S. Seizing Greenland Would Embolden our Enemies— Radio Atlantic
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The U.S. seizing Greenland would embolden China and Russia to go after countries they covet, Mark Kelly tells @HannaRosin, adding that it “would probably be the biggest mistake any president has made in the history of this country.”
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- A Threat to Greenland Is a Threat to NATO | The David Frum Show
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- 10:25
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- In December 24th's episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum reacted to the Trump administration’s hostility toward NATO. David discussed why NATO was created, what it does, and why we should care about it. He also analyzed the United State’s global leadership role and why so many bad actors advocate for isolationism.
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- 'Aren't We Supposed to Be the Good Guys Here?'
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- 24:45
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- President Donald Trump likely won’t listen to this podcast, but Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona has a warning for him: Any attempt to take Greenland using military force will probably go down as the biggest mistake made by a president in all of U.S. history.
In this conversation with Kelly, we discuss the impact of the censure letter against him sent by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the legality of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean, the future of the Democratic Party, and his family’s response to political violence.
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- Behind Venezuela’s oil-reserve claims
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- David Frum tells Vivian Salama that Venezuela’s claim of massive oil reserves is likely inflated: “They just made the figure up … Chávez, for his own ego reasons, said: I want the number to be bigger.”
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- Introducing Season 3 of Autocracy in America
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Anne Applebaum hosts a new season of “Autocracy in America,” reporting on the sweeping changes unfolding in our country and preparing you to think about what might happen next.
Listen to the new season this Friday wherever you find your podcasts.
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- Trump’s FAFO Doctrine
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The country that introduced the Truman Doctrine, the Reagan Doctrine, and—Trump’s apparent favorite—the Monroe Doctrine “now embraces the plainest and most ostentatiously bellicose of national-security policies,” Missy Ryan and Ashley Parker report.
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- Trump Has No Plan for Venezuela | The David Frum Show
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- 56:37
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the American seizure of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and President Donald Trump’s deeply flawed thinking about Venezuelan oil. David argues that Trump’s worldview of exploitation and predation is likely to doom his ambitions in Venezuela rather than secure them.
David is then joined by the national-security analyst David Rothkopf to examine the U.S. military operation in Venezuela and the Trump administration’s alarming lack of a coherent plan for what comes next. Rothkopf explores what it means for a president to sideline or altogether ignore the National Security Council before launching a major military action. Together, Rothkopf and Frum speculate about possible outcomes of the Maduro operation that Trump appears not to have considered.
Finally, David closes with his thoughts on Rudyard Kipling’s “Recessional” and the poem’s warning about natio...
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- The David Frum Show: Could Nicolás Maduro be acquitted?
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Maduro’s conviction in a U.S. court isn’t certain, the historian David Rothkopf tells David Frum: “We’ve seen a lot of cases put together by the Trump Justice Department falling apart because they’ve been mishandled from a legal perspective.”
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- Anne Applebaum: The narrative around Venezuelan conflict has been about "the glory" of the U.S.
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The Trump administration's victory narrative around its actions in Venezuela “is for U.S. domestic political consumption rather than to achieve something in Venezuela,” Anne Applebaum tells David Frum.
Watch the full episode now.
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- Is the U.S. Running Venezuela or Not?
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- 30:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- After the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by U.S. forces over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced that America would now “run” Venezuela. Staff writers Vivian Salama and Michael Scherer break down what might happen next (https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/trump-nicolas-maduro-venezuela/685493/) —and what Trump told The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/trump-venezuela-maduro-delcy-rodriguez/685497/) the day after the capture.
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- Even Close Allies Are Asking Why Trump Wants to Run Venezuela
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Even some of Donald Trump’s closest allies are unnerved by his brash approach to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Atlantic staff writers report.
Vivian Salama on the challenges Trump now faces—both in Venezuela and at home. Read more at the link.
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- Bonus Episode: How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela? (With Anne Applebaum) | The David Frum Show
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- 29:26
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- David Frum is joined by The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum to react to the news of the American raid and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in a special episode of The David Frum Show.
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- The Internet’s Role in Shaping Americans’ Political Views
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- “I’m not seeing everyone as just these absolutely passive observers,” Charlie Warzel argues.
Warzel and David Frum discuss how ever more tribal online discourse and algorithms have manipulated the current political environment.
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- Ashley Parker Behind the Byline
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Ashley Parker has dubbed the cowboy boot the perfect work professional shoe. She has worn pairs from her collection to the halls of Congress, to Washington galas, and even to interview the president.
This is “Behind the Byline,” a series from The Atlantic that lets you get to know the people behind our journalism.
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- No Easy Fix | An Update on Evan
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- 21:32
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- In July, we published a series of stories about San Francisco’s attempt to address a crisis unfolding on the city’s streets. We followed Evan, who had been homeless for years, as he sought an escape from the addiction that was threatening his life. Four months later, we check in on how he’s doing.
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- Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism | The David Frum Show x Galaxy Brain
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- 1:00:49
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He examines the many actions President Donald Trump has taken that run counter to the ideals articulated in 1776, and considers how the Founders’ constitutional genius may ultimately be what frustrates Trump’s attempt to consolidate power.
David is then joined by his Atlantic colleague Charlie Warzel, a staff writer and the host of the Galaxy Brain podcast, to discuss the temptations that come with launching a new podcast and the challenge of serving an audience that often rewards extreme content. Together, they talk about the responsibility that comes with hosting a podcast in a media environment that prizes clicks over truth. They also explore how conspiracy theorists have come to function as an alternate reality of “mainstream media,” and why the fight for truth may not yet be lo...
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- The Best TV Shows of 2025
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Many of the years’ biggest TV shows flaunted wealth—but the shows Atlantic critics Sophie Gilbert and Shirley Li loved most this year demonstrated that moving and ingenious narratives still exist on screen.
See all their choices at the link: https://theatln.tc/PoGtyE4s
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- Behind the Byline with David Graham
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- David A. Graham can’t just name a Grateful Dead song after hearing only the first few bars—he can get pretty close to naming the year concert recordings were made.
In “Behind the Byline,” a series from The Atlantic that lets you get to know the people behind our journalism, the lifelong Deadhead talks about the soundtracks he grew up with for long car rides—and why the band he loves is timeless.
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- Eight Plot-Heavy Book Recommendations from M. L. Rio
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The author M. L. Rio recommends eight books for readers who crave intrinsic momentum and a lot of plot, be it a ticking time bomb or a freaky psychodrama.
See the full list here: https://theatln.tc/V8O3b27k
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- The Value of Social-Media Interaction for Older Generations
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- "There is almost always value in interaction and communication," Dr. Ipsit Vahia, the chief of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General's McLean Hospital, tells Charlie Warzel—even if it's communication about AI slop.
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- Are Your Parents Addicted to Their Screens? With Dr. Ipsit Vahia
- Runtime
- 54:39
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Are your parents addicted to their phone? In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel explores how technology is affecting an older generation of adults. Instead of a phone-based childhood, Warzel suggests, we may be witnessing the emergence of a phone-based retirement—one shaped by isolation, algorithmic feeds, and platforms never designed with aging users in mind.
To untangle whether this is a genuine crisis or a misplaced moral panic, Warzel speaks with Ipsit Vahia, chief of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General Brigham’s McLean Hospital in Massachusetts and a leading researcher on technology and aging. Vahia emphasizes that older adults are anything but a single category, and that screen use can be both protective and harmful, depending on context. The key, Vahia argues, is resisting reflexive judgment. Ultimately, this is an issue not of screens versus humans, but of how families navigate connection in a world where attention is mediated by devices in eve...
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- Netflix vs. Paramount
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- 26:47
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- It was a great year for Warner Bros. Discovery: Two of its movies (One Battle After Another and Sinners) are front-runners for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and it had a string of critical hits and box-office successes with Superman, Weapons, and A Minecraft Movie. But despite those wins, the media conglomerate—which also owns HBO and CNN—found itself up for auction with two aggressive bidders: Paramount and Netflix.
The Atlantic movie critic David Sims explains why this deal could be bad for the movies. And our staff writer Frank Foer lays out why this deal could be bad for democracy—especially if President Donald Trump gets involved.
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- The 10 Best Albums of 2025
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The best albums of 2025 came more from cult musicians than from mainstream artists, Spencer Kornhaber argues.
Although some of the biggest pop artists turned out what feel like an forgettable product, Kornhaber says, albums from artists such as Geese, Rosalía, and Clipse stand out for being strange and personal.
But Kornhaber’s top album of the year was a surprise, even to him. Read more at the link.
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- Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing? | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 59:42
- 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 the Trump administration’s hostility toward NATO. David discusses why NATO was created, what it does, and why we should care about it. David also analyzes the United State’s global leadership role and why so many bad actors advocate for isolationism.
Then David is joined by his Atlantic colleague Helen Lewis to talk about the proliferation and importance of right-wing “comedy” podcasts. They discuss why some comedians seem to go right-wing and why a growing audience is drawn to their uninformed rhetoric. Lewis also addresses the complicity comedians and their audience share in the rise of MAGA.
Finally, David closes the podcast with a discussion on Edith Wharton’s Autres Temps and how it speaks to moral panics, social pariahs, and so-called cancel culture.
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- Selecting the Top 25 Photos for 2025
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The towering blaze that engulfed a Hong Kong skyscraper, a view of the Northern Lights from the International Space Station: Alan Taylor on the qualities that make these images some of the most powerful photos in news over the past 12 months. https://theatln.tc/se4HCQRu
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- How the Trump Administration is Politicizing the Epstein Files
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Epstein-files release on Friday appeared to front-load material related to Bill Clinton. Charlie Warzel speaks with Isaac Stanley-Becker and Adrienne LaFrance about how the Trump administration may be politicizing the files.
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- Bonus Episode: Reacting to the Epstein Files’ Release
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- 1:11:38
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel, executive editor Adrienne LaFrance, and staff writer Isaac Stanley-Becker discuss the Department of Justice’s release of the Epstein files.
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- How prediction markets may be targeting young men
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Prediction markets are part of a larger “commercial and political kind of apparatus that is working really hard to separate young guys from their money,” Max Read tells Charlie Warzel.
Listen to the full episode at the link:
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- Prediction Markets and the "Suckerifcation" Crisis With Max Read
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- 52:25
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel explores the burgeoning industry of prediction markets. These platforms let people wager on everything from elections and award shows to the most trivial internet ephemera, framing bets as tradable “shares” that rise and fall like stocks. With billions in weekly trading volume, massive new funding rounds, and even a CNN partnership with the prediction-betting platform, Kalshi, prediction markets are quickly moving from a niche curiosity to a mainstream-media fixture—openly touting ambitions to financialize everything.
Warzel is joined by writer Max Read, who argues that prediction markets sit at the intersection of gambling, finance, and a broader “suckerification” economy aimed at young men. Together they unpack whether the markets actually reflect the “wisdom of crowds” or whether they’re little more than a meta-game of vibes, ideology, and misvalued dumb money. The pair explore the culture of these pl...
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- This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump’s televised speech last night was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” Tom Nichols argues.
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- ISIS Never Really Went Away
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- 28:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- More than a decade after its peak, the Islamic State has changed, but it isn’t defeated. This past weekend, the jihadist group reemerged in connection with two disparate acts of violence thousands of miles apart.
Two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Syria by a man the Pentagon says is affiliated with ISIS. A day later, at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, two men opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 and wounding dozens. The men had homemade ISIS flags in their car, and had recently traveled to an area in the Philippines where ISIS-affiliated groups are known to still be active. Are these incidents connected? And do they point to a group that’s evolving?
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- The dangers of politicians regulating the industries they invest in
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Crypto is big business for the Trump family. David Frum talks with the professor Will Thomas about the dangers of politicians regulating the industries they invest in.
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- How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy | The David Frum Show
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- 1:01:26
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the shooting at Bondi Beach and the rise of anti-Semitic violence globally. He discusses what governments can do to crack down on radicals and prevent future acts of violence.
Then David is joined by Will Thomas, a professor at the Michigan Ross School of Business, to discuss Thomas’s paper “Crypto Kleptocracy.” David and Thomas discuss how the second Trump term has embraced the crypto industry, how cryptocurrencies have enriched the Trump family, and the new channels for corruption that crypto opens.
Finally, David discusses Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” and what the novel can teach us about courage, a discussion relevant after an eyewitness reported that he thought police were slow to act during the terrorist attack on Bondi Beach.
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- Coming Soon: Season 3 of Autocracy in America
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The Trump administration is making radical, unprecedented changes to American institutions. By doing so, it is seeking to transform the American political system as well. To explain Donald Trump’s project, and to talk about where it might be going, The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum is returning to host a new season of Autocracy in America. She’ll introduce listeners to Americans whose lives were changed during the administration’s first year, and will ask historians, analysts, and political scientists how new laws and policies might affect the midterm elections in November.
Coming January 2026.
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- Were humans meant to broadcast?
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- "I feel pretty ominous about the future,“ Derek Thompson tells Charlie Warzel, “and it’s partly because I’m not sure that we’re made to broadcast, as a species.”
In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” they discuss what media-consumption trends reveal about us. Listen to the full episode:
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- The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Some people are becoming reliant on AI to navigate basic aspects of daily life, Lila Shroff reports.
“We’re still in an earlier era of AI where companies haven’t necessarily turned up the volume all the way in terms of making their tools super addictive,” Shroff explains. But “it’s not hard to imagine a near future where companies start doing a lot more to keep us hooked in conversation.”
Read more about the people dependent on AI—and the consequences they’re facing—at the link: https://theatln.tc/mRlywSbX
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- How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV, With Rachel Martin, Ashley Carman, and Derek Thompson
- Runtime
- 1:02:19
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel turns the camera on himself to ask a simple question: Why are you seeing his face?
Using YouTube’s takeover of podcasts as a starting point, he explores how video has devoured audio and turned podcasts into something closer to daytime TV and late-night talk shows. NPR’s Rachel Martin, host of the celebrity-interview show Wild Card, joins to talk about her own shift from intimate, audio-only conversations to highly visible video chats with mega-celebrities. She explains how the visual layer changes everything—from building trust with guests and audiences to deepening parasocial relationships, and why showing your face is necessary in a low-trust media world.
To trace the business and cultural arc of this pivot, Bloomberg reporter Ashley Carman explains the rise and fall of the podcast “gold rush”—from the Serial era to Spotify’s billion-dollar bet, to the collapse of expensive narrative audio and Yo...
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- Indiana GOP Defies Trump Over Redistricting
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Despite heavy-handed influence from the president and his allies, Indiana Republicans rejected a redistricting plan that would have given Republicans all nine seats in the state’s U.S. House delegation.
"This is perhaps the biggest defeat that Trump has suffered from any Republican-led state thus far in his second term," Russell Berman reports from Indiana:
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- He's Undocumented. She's Not.
- Runtime
- 39:13
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- A young Chicago couple—one is an undocumented immigrant from Poland, and the other is a U.S. citizen—face a choice: stay in the place they’ve called home—or give up on the place that doesn’t seem to want them anymore.
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- 65 Essential Children's Books
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The musicality of “Green Eggs and Ham,” the loving energy of “Olivia,” the chaos of “Hippos Go Berserk”—our editors discuss their choices for our list of 65 essential children’s books.
Watch them read from their picks, and find all the titles at the link in our bio:
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- How Trump’s Plan to Steal the 2026 Elections Could Fail | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 52:02
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the absurd Peace Prize awarded to Donald Trump by FIFA. David discusses how the invented prize reflects what FIFA understands about our president—that he’s the kind of leader who can be won over with shiny trinkets and fancy ceremonies.
Then, David is joined by Michael Waldman from the Brennan Center for Justice to discuss how the Trump administration might try to undermine or even outright steal the 2026 elections. David and Michael discuss the possible actions Trump could take, along with the systems in place to stop him and what reforms need to happen to the American electoral system. Michael also discusses the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and what Republicans are doing to undermine it.
Finally, David closes the episode with a discussion of an article titled “How Responsibility Shapes Career Success for Leaders,” and what a lesson in managemen...
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- Representative Jake Auchincloss on how Democrats can close the gender gap
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Representative Jake Auchincloss to Jeffrey Goldberg on how Democrats can win over young male voters: “Don’t patronize them … It’s condescending. You tell them where they’re going and what they’re building. You say, ‘We need you. This country needs you.’”
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- Michael Waldman on How Congress Can Ensure Free and Fair Elections
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- From national efforts against gerrymandering to Supreme Court term limits, Michael Waldman, the president of the Brennan Center, tells David Frum about changes Congress could make to elections in a post-Trump era:
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- How Big a Problem Is “AI Psychosis”?
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Charlie Warzel speaks with author Kashmir Hill about the ever more alarming relationships people build with chatbots, and the consequences of “AI psychosis.” Listen to the episode:
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- Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250
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- 1:08:02
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The Atlantic's November 2025 issue was dedicated to “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project that examines the founding of the United States and brings the nation’s history to bear on its present—and its future.
To celebrate this project, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, and Meghna Chakrabarti, host of On Point, sat down at WBUR's CitySpace in Boston for a conversation about America at 250 and the most urgent, complex and challenging questions the country is facing.
Then, Goldberg interviewed Representative Jake Auchincloss, a rising political star in Massachusetts, to discuss his thoughts on our current political climate, the future of democracy and how the country can collectively move through the next 250 years.
0:00 Welcome remarks to the event
8:00 Jeffrey Goldberg and Meghna Chakrabarti of On Point talk about The Atlantic's history and America at 250
36:25 Jeffrey Goldberg and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in con...
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- When AI Chatbots Break Our Minds, With Kashmir Hill
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- 59:07
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Date posted
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- Description
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