The Atlantic Onstage

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The Atlantic Onstage brings you into the room—at Atlantic events across the country—as journalists, policy makers, and thinkers engage in candid conversations about the news and issues shaping the world.

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Salman Rushdie Is Not Your ‘Free-Speech Barbie’

The Atlantic staff writer George Packer sat down with the critically acclaimed novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie to talk about his latest book, The Eleventh Hour, and to reflect on one of the most pivotal moments in his life: when he was attacked at a public event in 2022. This episode features a conversation recorded on March 13, 2026, at the New Orleans Book Festival as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What It Takes to Be CEO of a City

Evan Smith, The Atlantic’s managing director for events, sat down with Helena Moreno, the mayor of New Orleans, to discuss how national challenges take shape at the local level. This episode features a conversation recorded on March 14, 2026, at the New Orleans Book Festival as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

49 min
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America’s Complex and Evolving History

Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg sat down with the best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson, the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, the Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed to discuss the evolution of the American experience as our 250th birthday approaches. This episode features a conversation recorded on March 12, 2026, at the New Orleans Book Festival as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The ‘Jolene Doctrine’ and American Foreign Policy

The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, sat down with General Stanley McChrystal and the Atlantic staff writer George Packer for a wide-ranging conversation about the forces driving today’s most consequential international crises. This episode features a conversation recorded on March 12, 2026, at the New Orleans Book Festival, as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How a War With Iran Could Unfold

In the days following the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, The Atlantic’s Vivian Salama sat down with the fellow staff writers Tom Nichols, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Nancy A. Youssef to discuss the start of the war and its implications for global security. This episode features a conversation recorded virtually on March 4, 2026, as part of our Big Story series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

51 min
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The Washington Post at a Crossroads

Evan Smith, The Atlantic’s managing director for events, sat down with the former Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron to talk about the fallout from recent, sweeping newsroom cuts at the paper and what they signal for journalism’s future. This episode features a conversation recorded on February 12, 2026, at the Knight Media Forum in Miami as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Reporting on the Pentagon, Power, and Politics in the Trump Era

Evan Smith, The Atlantic’s managing director for events, sat down with our staff writers Tom Nichols, Missy Ryan, and Nancy A. Youssef to discuss how press restrictions at the Pentagon have affected their reporting on national security in the second Trump administration. This episode features a conversation recorded on February 12, 2026, at the Knight Media Forum in Miami as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Risks to Press Freedom

Evan Smith, The Atlantic’s managing director for events, sat down with the Minnesota journalist Georgia Fort to discuss the importance of a free press and her recent arrest following her coverage of a protest inside a St. Paul church. This episode features a conversation recorded on February 12, 2026, at the Knight Media Forum in Miami as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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‘What Is Life, and How Special Is It?’

The Atlantic staff writer Caity Weaver sat down with the planetary scientist Nina Lanza and the Atlantic staff writer Ross Andersen to discuss our evolving relationship with the cosmos and the search for life beyond our world. This episode features a conversation recorded on January 28, 2026, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Can We Trust Elections?

The Atlantic staff writer Yvonne Wingett Sanchez sat down with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to discuss the state’s efforts to ensure free and fair elections leading up to the 2026 midterms. This episode features a conversation recorded on January 13, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, as part of our Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

46 min
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America’s Place in a Changing World

Evan Smith, The Atlantic’s managing director for events, sat down with former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and former Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona to discuss America’s place in the world as we enter the second year of a more aggressively isolationist administration. This episode features a conversation recorded on January 13, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, as part of the Atlantic Across America series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Signalgate, One Year Later

The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, sat down with Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss the political fallout after Goldberg published his Signalgate story in 2025. This episode features a conversation recorded virtually on March 10, 2026, as part of our Big Story series. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Plus, you can attend exclusive live events, listen to subscriber-only audio, download stories on The Atlantic app, and more. For more information about The Atlantic’s past and upcoming events, go to TheAtlantic.com/Live.

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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 our culture. Through conversations—and sometimes sharp debates—with the most insightful thinkers and writers on topics of the day, Radio Atlantic will complicate overly simplistic views. It will cut through the noise with clarifying, personal narratives. It will, hopefully, help listeners make up their own mind about certain ideas. The national conversation right now can be chaotic, reckless, and stuck. Radio Atlantic aims to bring some order to our thinking—and encourage listeners to be purposeful about how they unstick their mind.

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Reporting on the sweeping changes unfolding in the United States, and preparing you to think about what might happen next. Subscribe now to The Atlantic to hear all 5 episodes of our latest season available immediately on January 9, 2026.

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Professionally narrated articles from The Atlantic—just for subscribers. For more audio articles, visit theatlantic.com/audio or download The Atlantic app.

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Some call it Hurricane Katrina. Some call it the Federal Flood. Others call it the day the levees broke. On August 29, 2005, the city of New Orleans was submerged. That story of hubris, incompetence, and nature's wrath is now etched into the national consciousness. But the people who lived through the flood and its aftermath have a different story to tell. A story of rumors, betrayal, and one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II. Floodlines has been named an Apple Podcasts Series Essential.

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The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning.

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