From The Atlantic. Staff writer Zoë Schlanger is the proud owner of a petunia that glows in the dark. But she doesn’t just appreciate the novelty houseplant as work of science. Zoë sees its glow as a way to help us appreciate plants as more alive, more vital, and more complex than we humans typically…

From The Atlantic. Hear a conversation about navigating the rise of political polarization, the future of gun safety, the high stakes for higher education, the social impact of this election, and the role of journalism and technology during these unprecedented times, featuring Atlantic journalists Elaina Plott Calabro, Adam Harris, and Ron Brownstein, and contributor Evan…

From The Atlantic. As we enter an election cycle unlike anything we’ve ever witnessed, keeping elections free and fair is more important than ever. Hear Sec. Francisco Aguilar discuss electoral integrity, poll workers, and keeping the ballot process democratic, with Jon Ralston, founder and CEO of The Nevada Independent. Subscribe to The Atlantic on YouTube:…

From The Atlantic. Reforms enacted in the county around Houston more than three years ago have stabilized recidivism rates, and the number of people charged with low-level crimes continues to decline. But some politicians still argue that they endanger public safety. What does the future hold? The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein will interview Texas Jail Project’s…

From The Atlantic. Writer Gary Shteyngart set sail on the inaugural voyage of the biggest cruise ship ever built—the Icon of the Seas—in search of the "real" America. (And maybe to throw a great suite party along the way.) What he found instead, like many a great novelist before him, was a far more isolating…

From The Atlantic. This episode was published on April 18, 2024. The Stormy Daniels case may have a less serious fact pattern. But it might turn out to be the one chance to hold Donald Trump accountable for election interference. Atlantic staff writer David Graham explains the importance of the case and how Trump might…

From The Atlantic. Is having a Birkin bag … a right? Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action lawsuit against the French luxury design company Hermès. Their grievance was that although they could afford a coveted Birkin bag made by the company, they could not buy one. We talk to Atlantic staff writer…

From The Atlantic. What is “real life,” now that the internet and AI are integrated into so much that we do? In the new season of The Atlantic’s popular "How To" series, co-hosts Megan Garber and Andrea Valdez explore deepfakes, illusions, and misinformation, and how to make sense of where things are really happening. "How…

From The Atlantic. This episode was published April 4, 2024. Where were you for the 2017 total eclipse? Where will you be this year? And where will you be for the next one in 2045? Hanna talks to Atlantic staff writer Marina Koren about the eclipse as a peculiar event: a beautiful if not slightly…

From The Atlantic. Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they’ve argued the most about: being on their phone. Then, Hanna sits down with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Haidt argues there is a…

From The Atlantic. Go behind the scenes of our ambitious project establishing a list of the most significant novels published in the U.S. over the last hundred years, recognizing those classics that stand the test of time, but also making the case for the overlooked, the unexpected, the unfairly forgotten, and the recently published works…

From The Atlantic. Intellectual freedom and free expression are ever more precarious in America and around the world. Jesmyn Ward, author and professor at Tulane University, speaks about how to protect the freedom to read, learn, and create—and keeping minds open in the face of challenges. Subscribe to The Atlantic on YouTube: http://bit.ly/subAtlanticYT

From The Atlantic. Author and New Orleans Book Festival Co-Chair Walter Isaacson joins The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg for an interview. Watch this freewheeling conversation between two intellectual heavyweights in the Big Easy. Subscribe to The Atlantic on YouTube: http://bit.ly/subAtlanticYT

From The Atlantic. Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the course of her career as a maternal-fetal medicine doctor that some patients are comfortable with the option, and others would never consider it. Osmundson is a physician in Tennessee, a state with one of the strictest abortion bans in the…

From The Atlantic. We talk to Oscar-nominated sound designer Johnnie Burn about how he created the soundscape of horrors for The Zone of Interest. Burn explains how he collected real sounds from the streets of Europe and mixed them into a soundscape of cruelty happening just out of view. We also do a close analysis…