Kevin Townsend
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Radio Atlantic: The First Gene-Edited Babies
A scientist has claimed he used the revolutionary CRISPR gene technology on human embryos, igniting a global controversy.
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Radio Atlantic: What’s Happening With Mueller and Manafort?
Alex Wagner discusses new developments in the Mueller probe with reporter Natasha Bertrand and former White House aide Ron Klain.
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Radio Atlantic: Florida Flashbacks
With votes being retallied in the Sunshine State, Mark McKinnon and Jeremy Bash look back on their time in the 2000 Bush and Gore campaigns.
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Radio Atlantic: What Did We Learn From the Midterms?
Five takeaways from Tuesday’s elections, as interpreted by five Atlantic journalists.
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Radio Atlantic: Midterms in the Wake of Political Violence
Executive Editor Matt Thompson discusses the upcoming midterms with two reporters in the field: Emma Green in Pennsylvania and Adam Serwer in Texas.
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Dotted Yeti / Africa Studio / Ttatty / ... A Supreme Court Impeachment Fight That’s Already Under Way
A decade ago, West Virginia foreshadowed the influence that money and politics have come to have on state judiciaries. Now it may warn of a worrying new trend.
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Radio Atlantic: The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg sits down with Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt to discuss Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman, and the future of Saudi Arabia.
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Radio Atlantic: The Politics of Ancestry
Executive Editor Matt Thompson and the staff writer Sarah Zhang join the Cherokee writer and organizer Rebecca Nagle to discuss DNA tests, Elizabeth Warren, and how we define heritage.
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Radio Atlantic: America's Higher Education Crisis
As a new affirmative action lawsuit heads to federal court, Alia Wong and Adam Harris join Matt Thompson and Gillian White to discuss the challenges in American higher education.
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Radio Atlantic: Remembering Ferguson with DeRay Mckesson
The activist sits down with Matt Thompson and Gillian White at The Atlantic Festival.
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Radio Atlantic: Is the Public Square Gone?
With the speed and volume of news these days—not to mention the myriad business and technological pressures—how does the media serve its role as the fourth estate?
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Radio Atlantic: The Reputations and Reckonings of #MeToo
Alex Wagner, Megan Garber, and Gillian B. White join Matt Thompson to discuss Kavanaugh, Moonves, and the #MeToo movement one year in.
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Radio Atlantic: Is Democracy Dying?
Jeffrey Rosen and Anne Applebaum—scholars of America’s past and Europe’s present—discuss our precarious moment in history and what could come next.
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Radio Atlantic: How Much Longer Can Football Last?
The inside view of America’s two swampiest reality shows: politics and football
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Radio Atlantic: The Endless Devastation of Hurricane Season
A year after Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, we finally know: the hurricane season of 2017 was one of the deadliest in North America in a century. What have we learned in the aftermath?
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Corbis via Getty LBJ’s Wild Ex-President Hair (And the Story Behind It)
Toward the end of his life, the 36th president of the United States grew his hair long—much like the youths who protested his strategy in Vietnam. But why?
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Radio Atlantic: Trump’s Worst Day
What does the guilt of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen mean for President Trump?
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Radio Atlantic: When Does Hollywood’s Diversity Become Real Representation?
Matt Thompson discusses how well movies and shows represent diverse experiences with the senior editor Gillian White and the culture writer Hannah Giorgis.
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Radio Atlantic: Charlottesville, One Year Later
Adam Serwer and Gillian White join Matt and Alex to discuss what’s changed—and what hasn’t—in the year since a violent white supremacist rally in Virginia.
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Radio Atlantic: Keepers of the Year 2018
To commemorate the show’s first anniversary, we lift up above the fog of news and discuss what’s most important to remember at this moment.
