The Atlantic Festival 2018
Dispatches from The Atlantic's 10th-annual live event in Washington, D.C.
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The Atlantic Naloxone Retail Dispensing Is Up 70 Percent
An awareness campaign by the U.S. Surgeon General has led to a surge in demand for the overdose-reversal drug.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP ‘We’re Still Under Attack’
Russia experts argue that the U.S. government isn’t doing nearly enough to combat Russian aggression and promote democracy.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Why Chef José Andrés Set Up a Kitchen in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
The chef’s massive effort to cook food for the island’s residents and relief workers was driven by an urgent sense of empathy.
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Kris Tripplaar / The Atlantic Festival Lindsey Graham to Trump: Make North Korea Choose Between ‘Death or Condos’
A hardline adviser speaks out against the president's lovey-dovey diplomacy with Kim Jong Un.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Stephen Breyer Is Reading Aeschylus While the Supreme Court Burns Around Him
The justice stayed far away from the Brett Kavanaugh controversy in an interview on Thursday.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump’s Real Endgame With China
There’s more at stake than trade.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters How Lindsey Graham Tries to Keep Trump Hawkish
The South Carolina Republican lobbies to keep American boots on the ground in foreign conflicts—but neglects some of the attendant costs.
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Kris Tripplaar / The Atlantic Festival James Winnefeld Jr.’s Vow to Combat the Opioid Crisis
The retired admiral lost his son to the opioid crisis. His new nonprofit aims to help families struggling with addiction.
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Mary Calvert / Reuters The Federal Reserve Chair Is Ignoring President Trump
Jerome Powell foresees the economy continuing to grow and isn’t concerned about what politicians say.
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Tom Williams / AP Kamala Harris Might Have Just Previewed Her 2020 Message to Trump
In an interview on Wednesday, the California Democrat, who’s widely rumored as a presidential candidate, urged him to “stop being mean.”
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Kris Tripplaar / The Atlantic Festival John Kerry Is Pushing Back Against Trump
The former secretary of state couldn’t resist baiting the president in a tweet defending the Iran nuclear deal.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Live TV Is All But Dead
Scripted television “really has moved into the consumer actually controlling their experience,” says Hulu CEO Randy Freer.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Lindsey Graham ‘Didn’t Particularly Like’ Trump’s Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford
In a combative interview Wednesday, the South Carolina senator strongly defended Brett Kavanaugh, and argued that his fiery rhetoric is sincere.
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Kris Tripplaar / The Atlantic Festival Free Speech Will Survive This Moment
Optimists and pessimists offered competing visions for the future of the First Amendment at The Atlantic Festival.
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Hillary Clinton (Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters) Read Hillary Clinton’s Remarks on Brett Kavanaugh
The former secretary of state talked with The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg about the Supreme Court, Russian interference in the 2016 election, and President Trump.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump’s Record on Women
The presidential aide says that her boss doesn’t get as much credit as he deserves because of excessive politicization in the country.
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Kris Tripplaar / The Atlantic Festival Hillary Clinton Laughs at Kavanaugh’s Left-Wing-Conspiracy Claim
In her first public comments on the Supreme Court nominee’s testimony, she swatted away his remark about “the Clintons” and criticized his temperament.
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Alex Brandon / AP Nancy Pelosi Wants Democrats to Stop Getting Distracted by the News
The House minority leader is pushing a disciplined message amid drama over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the president who chose him.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Jeff Flake: ‘We Can’t Have That on the Court’
The Arizona senator called Brett Kavanaugh’s interactions with lawmakers at a hearing last week “sharp and partisan.”
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Wikimedia Commons Tech Was Supposed to Be Society’s Great Equalizer. What Happened?
In a special bonus episode of the podcast Crazy/Genius, the computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard explains how “technochauvinism” derailed the dream of the digital revolution.
