Radio Atlantic

Radio Atlantic: Remembering Ferguson with DeRay Mckesson

The activist sits down with Matt Thompson and Gillian White at The Atlantic Festival.

Kevin Townsend
October 5, 2018

Radio Atlantic: Is the Public Square Gone?

With the speed and volume of news these days—not to mention the myriad business and technological pressures—how does the media serve its role as the fourth estate?

Kevin Townsend
September 28, 2018

Radio Atlantic: The Reputations and Reckonings of #MeToo

Alex Wagner, Megan Garber, and Gillian B. White join Matt Thompson to discuss Kavanaugh, Moonves, and the #MeToo movement one year in.

Kevin Townsend
September 21, 2018

Radio Atlantic: Is Democracy Dying?

Jeffrey Rosen and Anne Applebaum—scholars of America’s past and Europe’s present—discuss our precarious moment in history and what could come next.

Kevin Townsend
September 14, 2018

Radio Atlantic: How Much Longer Can Football Last?

The inside view of America’s two swampiest reality shows: politics and football

Kevin Townsend
September 7, 2018

Radio Atlantic: The Endless Devastation of Hurricane Season

A year after Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, we finally know: the hurricane season of 2017 was one of the deadliest in North America in a century. What have we learned in the aftermath?

Kevin Townsend
August 31, 2018

Radio Atlantic: Trump’s Worst Day

What does the guilt of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen mean for President Trump?

Kevin Townsend
August 23, 2018

Radio Atlantic: When Does Hollywood’s Diversity Become Real Representation?

Matt Thompson discusses how well movies and shows represent diverse experiences with the senior editor Gillian White and the culture writer Hannah Giorgis.

Kevin Townsend
August 17, 2018

Radio Atlantic: Charlottesville, One Year Later

Adam Serwer and Gillian White join Matt and Alex to discuss what’s changed—and what hasn’t—in the year since a violent white supremacist rally in Virginia.

Kevin Townsend
August 10, 2018

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.

Matt Thompson and Kevin Townsend
July 20, 2018

Radio Atlantic: The Future of Europe

This week’s NATO Summit in Brussels comes as Trump and other leaders express unprecedented levels of doubt about decades of western cooperation.

Kevin Townsend
July 13, 2018

Radio Atlantic: Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?

A century ago, the 1918 flu pandemic killed five percent of humanity—have we become safer in the hundred years since or actually grown more vulnerable?

Kevin Townsend
July 6, 2018

Radio Atlantic: The View from the Border

Outrage over families separated at the border has reached a fever pitch. Jeremy Raff and Priscilla Alvarez join to share how the issue’s developing along the border and in Washington.

Kevin Townsend
June 21, 2018

Radio Atlantic: Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Why do black Americans die earlier than white Americans? Staff writers Olga Khazan and Vann Newkirk join Matt and Alex to discuss how poverty and prejudice shorten African-American lifespans.