Radio Atlantic

By The Atlantic

The Atlantic has long been known as an ideas-driven magazine. Now we’re bringing that same ethos to audio. Like the magazine, the show will “road test” the big ideas that both drive the news and shape... more

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The podcast currently has 286 episodes available.

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March 06, 2025 The Mind Readers
How far would a parent go to understand their child? How much might a parent believe?
A popular new podcast claims that some nonspeaking kids with autism can read people’s minds. But is it real? Or does it just come from a deep desire to connect?
Read Dan Engber’s story at The Atlantic here.
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41min
February 28, 2025 What Does a Robot With a Soul Sound Like?
The sound designer Randy Thom was faced with a challenge: What does a robot sound like? And what if that robot learns to love?
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22min
February 27, 2025 The Five Eyes Have Noticed
We talk with staff writer Anne Applebaum about what she calls the “end of the post–World War II order.” We also talk with staff writer Shane Harris, who covers national security, about how intelligence agencies are responding to changing positions under the Trump administration. Allies that routinely share intelligence with the U.S. are reassessing how much to trust the U.S.
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36min
February 20, 2025 Americans Are Stuck. Who's to Blame?
Americans used to move all the time to better their lives. Then they stopped. Why?
Read Yoni Appelbaum’s cover story on The Atlantic here.
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36min
February 13, 2025 The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case
In a new memoir, the singer-songwriter Neko Case recounts a childhood of poverty and neglect: a mother who left her and a father who was barely there. But there was also music. And when there was nothing else, that was, perhaps, enough.
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35min
February 06, 2025 Purge Now, Pay Later
Parts of the federal government are being dismantled. But although the decisions from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are unusual—perhaps even unprecedented—are they constitutional? The Atlantic staff writers Jonathan Chait and Shane Harris break down the administration’s latest moves and who might really end up paying for them later.
Read more from Chait and Harris about this story on The Atlantic here and here.
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37min
January 30, 2025 The War for Your Attention
Our attention is finite and valuable. And it’s nearing its breaking point. In a new book, MSNBC host Chris Hayes explains how everything—from politics to media to technology—has come to revolve around the pursuit of it and how we’ve lost control of where we actually want our attention to go.
Read more about Hayes’ book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource at The Atlantic here.
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39min
January 23, 2025 The Chaos of Blanket Pardons
In a matter of hours after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump delivered on a promise in a way that even high-level Republicans didn’t see coming. Trump granted sweeping pardons for more than 1,500 January 6 defendants.
In this episode of Radio Atlantic, Hanna encounters Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes, who is walking free after a commutation from Trump, and she talks with the families of two men who were convicted of crimes for their actions on January 6, and are now newly freed.
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20min
January 16, 2025 January 6 and the Case for Oblivion
As Donald Trump prepares to take office again, the country is still coming to terms with what happened on January 6, 2021. But perhaps the best way to move forward is to neither forgive nor forget the past—but obliterate it.
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35min
January 09, 2025 Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Starts to Fracture
The MAGA alliance that helped elect Donald Trump is starting to show signs of fracturing. It recently came to a head after an important argument broke out over H-1B visas between Silicon Valley and the nativist wing. We talk with Atlantic staff writer Ali Breland, who writes about the internet, technology, and politics, about the public infighting, and staff writer Rogé Karma takes us beyond the politics by discussing what the research shows about the relationship between immigrant labor and the American worker.

Extra listening: Rogé Karma on Good on Paper.

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37min

FAQs about Radio Atlantic:

How many episodes does Radio Atlantic have?

The podcast currently has 286 episodes available.