Thompson reports on science of creativity for The Atlantic’s November cover story
Mayors from Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Milan, Quito, Helsinki, Manchester, Durban, Kingston among dozens of mayors to participate
The Tech Issue: The Science of Creativity; Inside Google’s Moonshot Factory; and The Surprising Technology Behind Mona Lisa’s Smile
Speakers joining include Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson, Great Place to Work CEO Michael Bush, Theia Washington Smith of the Atlanta Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, MailChimp Chief Culture Officer Marti Wolf
Event to simulcast episode 10, followed by discussion led by The Atlantic’s Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg with Burns, Novick, and authors Tim O’Brien and Mai Elliott
Speakers Include: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin - Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg - Senators Jeff Flake and Mark Warner - Madeleine Albright - CRISPR Co-Inventor Feng Zhang - SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan - Gen. David Petraeus
Eliot Cohen on the Sudden Decline of a Super Power; Jack Goldsmith on Whether American Democracy Will Recover; Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Whitest White House
“Defining Justice” September 20 at the Will Rogers Theatre in Oklahoma City
CityLab to be held October 22-24 // Presented by the Aspen Institute, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg Philanthropies
Stewart will serve as moderator at the upcoming Washington Ideas on September 26-28
In Episode 6, psychologist Jean Twenge discusses the toll smartphones are taking on the post-millenial generation
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Episode 5 of The Atlantic’s flagship podcast available now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher
Featuring full slate of events in DC’s Penn Quarter, including newsmaker conversations, Radio Atlantic live podcast, exclusive screening of “The Vietnam War”
“This is a potential nuclear exchange, and the consequences of that are so unthinkably huge that it’s frightening that we’re even having this conversation.”
Plus: Jean M. Twenge warns that smartphones may have teens on the brink of a mental-health crisis; Emily Yoffe investigates the irrelevance of innocence in the age of the plea bargain; and Olga Khazan looks into why women bully each other at work
Atlantic Media and Bradley to Continue to Run The Atlantic from Washington