The Atlantic Out Loud

If reelected, he could use the powers of the presidency to evade justice and punish his enemies. By Barton Gellman. From the January/February 2024 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about yo...

Donald Trump and his allies have promised to restore their draconian zero-tolerance immigration policy. By Caitlin Dickerson. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

In a second Trump term, there would be no adults in the room. By McKay Coppins. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America survived the first Trump term, though not without sustaining serious damage. A second term, if there is one, will be much worse. By Jeffrey Goldberg. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more abou...

If Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’d bring a better understanding of the system’s vulnerabilities, more willing enablers, and a more focused agenda of retaliation against his adversaries. By David Frum. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold A...

Maybe in 2030? By Annie Lowery. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting. By Sarah Sloat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The most powerful companies in the world are shaping what artificial intelligence will become—but they’ll never get it right without the ethos and values of university scientists. By Fei-Fei Li. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even if plastic pollution stopped tomorrow, turtles would be dealing with the repercussions for centuries—at least. By Katherine J. Wu. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

A new book by Robert Sapolsky argues that we’re not in control of or responsible for the decisions we make. By Kieran Setiya. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

The kids are not all right, and frustratingly, we don’t really know how to help them. By Olga Khazan. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified? By Drew Gilpin Faust. From The Atlantic's December 2023 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold...

How Reconstruction created American public education. By Adam Harris. From The Atlantic's December 2023 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation. By Vann Newkirk II. From The Atlantic's December 2023 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag a...

James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why? By Eric Foner. From The Atlantic's December 2023 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

The federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, but Black people didn’t give up on the moment’s promise. By Peniel E. Joseph. From The Atlantic's December 2023 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonu...

How John F. Kennedy fell for the lost cause and the grandmother who wouldn’t let him get away with it. By Jordan Virtue. From The Atlantic's December 2023 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more...

No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals. By Lonnie G. Bunch III. From the December 2023 issue. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

You’re bound to come across the “Dark Triad” type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite. By Arthur Brooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color—and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one seems to think Kamala Harris is ready to be president. Here’s what they’re missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The artist is always one step ahead—and has a unique power to scandalize each generation anew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The question has never been harder to answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A novelist transforms the physicist John von Neumann into a scientific demon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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