Susan Rice
08 Aug 2020
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Susan Rice, the former U.N. Ambassador and National Security Advisor for the Obama administration, i...
Donna Shalala
24 Jul 2020
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Florida congresswoman Donna Shalala was one of many first-time candidates in 2018. But unlike other ...
Doug Jones
10 Jul 2020
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The Alabama senator discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with its...
Carly Fiorina
25 Jun 2020
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The 2016 Republican presidential candidate announces her intention to vote for Joe Biden, and the co...
Jumaane Williams
13 Jun 2020
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The second-highest elected official in New York City is a progressive activist who’s worked to cha...
Nan Whaley
29 May 2020
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The mayor of Dayton, Ohio, on how badly America's cities need a bailout—and how painful the impact...
Bill Cassidy
15 May 2020
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Senator (and doctor) Bill Cassidy discusses the coronavirus response, vaccines, and how states like ...
Phil Murphy
01 May 2020
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The governor of one of the hardest-hit states discusses the coronavirus response, how he thinks abou...
Andrew Yang
27 Apr 2020
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The former presidential candidate discusses universal basic income, coronavirus-linked bigotry again...
Stacey Abrams
24 Apr 2020
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Georgia politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams discusses elections in a pandemic, vice ...
Voter Suppression By Pandemic
11 Apr 2020
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Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund discusses Wisconsin’s election debacle and how the...
‘The Woman From Michigan’
03 Apr 2020
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins to discuss Michigan’s coronavirus response and her relationship wi...
Risking Exposure in Congress
28 Mar 2020
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Grace Meng represents New York in Congress. Her Queens district is at the center of the U.S. coronav...
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Pandemic Response
25 Mar 2020
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked everyone to stay home. He's issued PSA videos, with his mini donkey ...
The Coronavirus Response, with Senator Sherrod Brown
20 Mar 2020
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Senator Sherrod Brown discusses the Trump administration's response to the pandemic and what he thin...
This Isn’t Trump’s Katrina (Except When It Is)
13 Mar 2020
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Vann Newkirk joins Isaac Dovere to discuss Floodlines—the new Atlantic podcast about Hurricane Kat...
Beating Donald Trump, with David Plouffe
06 Mar 2020
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The campaign manager behind Obama’s 2008 election breaks down the state of the Democratic party. W...
South Carolina, with Jennifer Palmieri
29 Feb 2020
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Former Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri discusses the South Carolina primary, how 2020 is different th...
The Unlearned Lessons of 2016, with Katy Tur
21 Feb 2020
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As Democrats slugged it out in Nevada this week, the president undermined the Justice Department in ...
A Historic Vote on Equal Rights, and Hopes for Gun Control
14 Feb 2020
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On Thursday, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton presided over debate on a bill to advance the Equal Right...
The New Hampshire Primary, with Chris Pappas
07 Feb 2020
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After the chaos of Iowa, New Hampshire is set to deliver the first clear results of the 2020 preside...
The Iowa Caucuses, with J.D. Scholten
30 Jan 2020
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Isaac Dovere previews the Iowa caucuses with congressional candidate J.D. Scholten. A former basebal...
The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic
28 Jan 2020
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On Thursday, Radio Atlantic is becoming The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic. As the 2020 voting b...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
24 Jan 2020
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The new mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, won all fifty of Chicago’s wards in a landslide last yea...
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Show-Business Politics
16 Jan 2020
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The governator discusses the Republican party, his commitment to the environment, and the Democratic...
"He Doesn't Understand War"
09 Jan 2020
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Ruben Gallego says President Trump doesn’t understand war, but the situation with Iran could soon ...
Will the Trump Presidential Library Have an Impeachment Section?
20 Dec 2019
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On the day President Trump is impeached, Isaac Dovere visits the Nixon Library with Tom Steyer. The ...
Why Impeachment Is Different This Time Around
13 Dec 2019
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Steve Chabot, a House Republican who helped lead his party's impeachment fight against Bill Clinton,...
Britain Votes (Again)
05 Dec 2019
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Donald Trump wasn’t the only election surprise of 2016. Three months before he won the presidency,...
Is Russia Winning the Impeachment Hearings?
22 Nov 2019
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During an impeachment hearing this week, President Trump's former top Russia adviser accused Republi...
How to Stop A Civil War
14 Nov 2019
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The special December issue of The Atlantic focuses on a single theme: “How to Stop a Civil War.”...
Virginia Hates Tyrants
07 Nov 2019
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Senator Tim Kaine discusses Democrats' historic win in Virginia and what it means for 2020. Learn mo...
President Pete?
31 Oct 2019
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg discusses his unlikely presidential run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
Reporting in ‘Forgotten America’
24 Oct 2019
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James Fallows spent decades covering national politics for The Atlantic. For the last four years tho...
Sanders vs. Warren?
18 Oct 2019
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The fourth Democratic debate this week highlighted Elizabeth Warren’s new front-runner status. It ...
How ISIS Returns
11 Oct 2019
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Staff writer Mike Giglio has been reporting on ISIS since before Americans knew what to call it. He ...
Understanding the Whistle-Blower
03 Oct 2019
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As a CIA officer detailed to the White House, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin is one of the few people ...
Amy Klobuchar, Live at The Atlantic Festival
26 Sep 2019
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As impeachment news comes in by the minute, The Atlantic hosts its annual festival in our nation’s...
Steve Bullock's Longshot Case
19 Sep 2019
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The Montana governor talks about his presidential campaign, his personal connection to the gun contr...
The Heir
12 Sep 2019
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Begun with a gold-rush brothel in the Yukon, the Trump empire has long been passed down through gene...
On the Road with Beto
06 Sep 2019
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This week, Beto O'Rourke took a bus out of New York. Not a campaign bus, just a regular old bus. Isa...
The Man Who Couldn't Take It Anymore
29 Aug 2019
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In December, Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned in protest after President Trump announced plan...
Recession Politics
23 Aug 2019
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This week showed increasing signs that a recession could be on the horizon. Manufacturing is shrinki...
Andrew Yang's Campaign Against the Coming Dystopia
15 Aug 2019
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Andrew Yang joins Isaac Dovere on the trail in Iowa. Yang’s campaign started as a long-shot from a...
Cory Booker on White Supremacist Violence
08 Aug 2019
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On Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker gave a speech on gun violence and white nationalism at the Emanuel...
Rebuilding the Blue Wall
01 Aug 2019
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While in Detroit covering the Democratic debates, Isaac Dovere sits down with Dana Nessel, Michigan’...
The Veteran Candidate
26 Jul 2019
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Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman and presidential candidate, joins Isaac Dovere this week...
How to Cover Racist Tweets
19 Jul 2019
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On Sunday, President Trump told four members of Congress to “go back” to the countries “from w...
Trump Diplomacy
11 Jul 2019
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This week, the British ambassador to the United States resigned after private cables leaked with his...
The Other Republican
27 Jun 2019
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Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has experience taking down a Republican president. He began ...
The Fight for Reparations
21 Jun 2019
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On Wednesday—for the first time in a decade—Congress held a hearing on reparations for slavery. ...
The Reelection Battle Begins
13 Jun 2019
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The 2020 race is on. Staff writer Edward-Isaac Dovere, who covers Democratic politics, was in Cedar ...
Partisanship at the Supreme Court
06 Jun 2019
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In the coming days, the Supreme Court will announce its decisions on two cases that ask the same bas...
The Abortion Debate’s New Urgency
30 May 2019
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Recent weeks have seen unprecedented anti-abortion bills pass in states across the country. In Alaba...
Introducing Crazy/Genius Season 3
23 May 2019
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Privacy is now the most important idea on the internet—so what exactly is it? And if we care about...
Trump’s Trade War
16 May 2019
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Trump isn’t like most Republican presidents, but his views on trade have been an unusually firm de...
Liberalism’s Last Stand
09 May 2019
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Franklin Foer joins Isaac Dovere to discuss his story in the June issue of The Atlantic about Hungar...
Is Politics Funny Anymore?
02 May 2019
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Last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the first one in years without a comedian....
To Impeach Or Not To Impeach?
25 Apr 2019
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Atlantic Ideas Editor Yoni Appelbaum and Vox editor-at-large Ezra Klein have both deeply researched ...
The Trauma at the Border
20 Apr 2019
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On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr ordered immigration judges to stop releasing asylum seeker...
Can A Long-Shot Candidate Beat Donald Trump?
12 Apr 2019
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The crowded race for the Democratic nomination includes both frontrunners and long-shots, but how do...
Sex, Gender, and the Democratic Party
04 Apr 2019
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In recent days, three women have accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate contact. O...
Politics After Mueller
28 Mar 2019
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Last week, the special counsel submitted his report to Attorney General Bill Barr. And this week, Ba...
President Trump’s Post-Mueller Corruption Problem
23 Mar 2019
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When elected, most presidents either sell their assets or put them in a blind trust. Isolating a pre...
Paul Manafort and the Problem of White-Collar Crime
14 Mar 2019
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will spend around seven years in federal prison — far...
The Future of the Democratic Party
07 Mar 2019
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The Democratic party is in a battle with itself. After devastating losses in 2016, the party was res...
President Trump's New Legal Nightmare
28 Feb 2019
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On Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen called the president a racist, a co...
State of Emergency
21 Feb 2019
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Last week, President Trump declared a national emergency to get funding for the wall. The move gave ...
Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks
14 Feb 2019
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” ov...
Something Rotten in the State of Virginia
06 Feb 2019
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Recently, news broke that Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both wore blackface ...
Kamala Harris, Progressive Prosecutor?
01 Feb 2019
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Senator Kamala Harris has drawn criticism for beginning her 2020 campaign by pitching herself as a ‘...
The Art of the Shutdown Deal
24 Jan 2019
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The government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history, but President Trump seems no closer to a...
Is the President a Russian Asset?
17 Jan 2019
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On Friday, the New York Times published a startling story: In 2017, days after Trump fired FBI Direc...
How to Fix Social Media
10 Jan 2019
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Social media platforms once promised to connect the world. Today’s digital communities, though, of...
What Happened to the GOP?
20 Dec 2018
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Observing antidemocratic ‘power grabs’ by state Republicans, Atlantic staff writer George Packer...
Does the NRA Connect Trump to Russia?
14 Dec 2018
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On Thursday, Maria Butina became the first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence the 20...
The First Gene-Edited Babies
06 Dec 2018
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A Chinese researcher recently touched off a global controversy when he announced the birth of the wo...
What’s Happening With Mueller and Manafort?
29 Nov 2018
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Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Mueller probe has collapsed. In a Monday filing, the special ...
Florida Flashbacks
16 Nov 2018
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The midterms were over a week ago, but a number of races have yet to be called. In Florida, the sena...
What Did We Learn From the Midterms?
09 Nov 2018
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Executive Editor Matt Thompson interviews Atlantic reporters on what lessons they drew from the midt...
Midterms in the Wake of Political Violence
02 Nov 2018
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The upcoming midterms mark the first nationwide referendum on the Trump presidency and the GOP-led C...
The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
26 Oct 2018
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On October 2nd, Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate i...
The Politics of Ancestry
19 Oct 2018
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Senator Elizabeth Warren recently shared results of a genetic analysis to back up her family’s sto...
America's Higher Education Crisis
12 Oct 2018
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A college education has become a key asset towards success in the American economy, but for many Ame...
Remembering Ferguson with DeRay Mckesson
05 Oct 2018
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Four years ago, after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, protestors took to the streets...
Is the Public Square Gone?
28 Sep 2018
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After a news week that’s felt more like a news month, Matt Thompson sits down with two experienced...
The Reputations and Reckonings of #MeToo
21 Sep 2018
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As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces assault allegations, the #MeToo movement reaches its ...
Is Democracy Dying?
14 Sep 2018
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With authoritarianism and populism on the rise around the world, The Atlantic examines the fate of d...
How Much Longer Can Football Last?
07 Sep 2018
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Mark Leibovich has a day job covering the reality show of politics as the New York Times Magazine’...
The Endless Devastation of Hurricane Season
31 Aug 2018
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This week, the most rigorous estimate yet of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria was published, marking...
Trump’s Worst Day
23 Aug 2018
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Matt and Gillian discuss Paul Manafort’s guilty verdict and Michael Cohen’s guilty plea with Fra...
When Does Hollywood’s Diversity Become Real Representation?
17 Aug 2018
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With movies like Crazy Rich Asians, BlacKkKlansman, and Sorry To Bother You out in theaters, Hollywo...
Charlottesville: One Year Later
10 Aug 2018
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It’s been a year since the violence of the “Unite the Right” rally and the political turmoil o...
Keepers of the Year 2018
20 Jul 2018
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The first anniversary of Radio Atlantic this week coincides with one of the newsiest weeks of 2018. ...
The Future of Europe
13 Jul 2018
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As President Trump meets with other western leaders in Europe, the spirit of democratic cooperation ...
Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
06 Jul 2018
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“Humanity is now in the midst of its fastest-ever period of change,” writes Ed Yong in the July/...
The View from the Border
21 Jun 2018
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Outrage over families separated at the border has reached a fever pitch. Social media is awash with ...
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
15 Jun 2018
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Nationwide, black Americans live three years less than white Americans. In places with a history of ...
The North Korea Summit
08 Jun 2018
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Two of the world’s most volatile heads of state—Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump—have moved in the...
A White House Troll ‘Owning the Libs’
01 Jun 2018
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A new generation of political activists have grown up more interested in provoking outrage from thei...