Podcasts

It’s been a year since the violence of the “Unite the Right” rally and the political turmoil of its aftermath. How did Charlottesville change the country? Has the alt-right withered under the new scrutiny or grown amidst the new visibility? And what responsibility do tech platforms have to stop the spread of hateful ideologies?

Links

- "The White Nationalists Are Winning" (Adam Serwer, August 10, 2018)
- “White threat in a browning America” (Ezra Klein, Vox,  July 30, 2018)
- “The Hate Report: The alt-right is down, but not out” (Will Carless and Aaron Sankin, Reveal, June 1, 2018)
- “The Defense That Failed White Nationalists” (Adam Serwer, May 10, 2018)
- “The Lost Boys” (Angela Nagle, December 2017 Issue)
- “The Hoods Are Off” (Matt Thompson, August 12, 2017)

It’s our best hope for life after earth—and a freezing, irradiated desert more than 30 million miles away. In our season finale, scientists and writers debate whether colonizing Mars is the most important mission in the history of the human race, or an absurd daydream.

Today, we bring you the second episode of our new show Crazy/Genius, hosted by Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson. In this episode, Derek asks if Amazon –  which may soon be the first trillion-dollar company in the history of the world – has become a dangerous monopoly threatening the U.S. economy.