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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty How to Spark Panic and Confusion in Three Tweets
Do impulsive Twitter messages from the president count as formal policy action?
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic* A Year of Miseducation
From Lauryn Hill to Cameron Post to Tara Westover, 2018 repeatedly asked the question, What does it mean to teach a person to surrender?
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Jim Bourg / Reuters This Was Never About Finding Out the Truth
Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate was a lesson in power—who wields it, and at whose expense.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters If Trump Said the N Word
What happens next would reveal little about the president, and much about American society.
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Paul Natkin / Getty Before and After Aretha
The artist was unrivaled in her ability to shape her own work and image without bending to constraints.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Black Box at the Heart of American Foreign Policy
What did Trump tell Putin in Helsinki? The answer doesn’t matter all that much.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Helsinki From All Angles
Here are the Trump-Putin takes you probably haven’t read.
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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.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP A Journalist’s Guide to Presidential Lying
Atlantic writers and editors discuss when to call out the president.
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VichanChairat / Getty Images What If a Robot Wrote This Article?
Google’s new AI communicates like a human. Why does that matter?
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Radio Atlantic: Is Politics Ruining Pop Culture?
Entertainment has always been political. But what happens when the entertainment we consume feels like a litmus test for our beliefs?
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Leah Millis / Reuters How Could Congress Address Facebook?
Plus, what the platform reveals about the ingenuity of American racism.
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Radio Atlantic News Update: Who Could Tame Facebook?
After CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony, are U.S. legislators prepared to regulate the social network? Should they?
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Radio Atlantic: Trumpocracy
David Frum joins Matt, Jeff, and Kathy Gilsinan to discuss how American democracy has fared under President Trump.
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Radio Atlantic: King Remembered
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed, and then America created a version of him that it could love.
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Radio Atlantic: The Family Unit in a Divided Era
In a society riven by party, class, and generational divides, do families stand a chance? Rebecca Rosen and Adrienne LaFrance join our hosts.
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Radio Atlantic: Does America Have a Monopoly Problem?
With industries concentrating and corporate influence growing, Derek Thompson joins us to debate the promise and perils of big business.
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Radio Atlantic: If We Could Learn From History
The power grab in China, the Iraq War fifteen years later, and the art of anticipating history, with James Fallows and Kathy Gilsinan.
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Radio Atlantic: Goodbye Black History Month, Hello Black Future
Black Panther, Janelle Monáe, Tomi Adeyemi, and the Afrofuturist explosion, with Adam Serwer and Vann Newkirk
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Radio Atlantic: From 'I, Tonya' to 'Cat Person,' Is 'Based On a True Story' Better?
David Sims and Megan Garber join to discuss recent pop culture aimed at recasting reality.
