Radio Atlantic
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The Jensen Huang Crisis for AI
The Jensen Huang Crisis for AI
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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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- The Jensen Huang Crisis for AI · 37 min · Epizoda 231This episode of Radio Atlantic taped before Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation. The AI race between the United States and China heated up in a different way this week: Nvidia…
- The Secretary of Defensiveness · 27 min · Epizoda 230Last week’s midterms were clear: American voters are not happy with the war in Iran. Less clear, though, is what President Trump can or will do now. After elevating his…
- Did Democrats Win—Or Did Trump Lose? · 33 min · Epizoda 229In a resounding rebuke to President Trump, voters this week gave Democrats control over both the House and Senate. Call it a blue wave or a blue tsunami. The power has suddenly…
- The Anger Election’s Final Twist · 25 min · Epizoda 228The midterms elections are finally here—but not without some last-minute drama. In Michigan, Democratic Representative Haley Stevens changed her mind about her primary opponent…
- How to Lose Texas · 30 min · Epizoda 227The Rio Grande Valley in Texas was a Democratic stronghold for decades before it went for Donald Trump in 2024. Now polls show it swinging to Democrats again. The Atlantic staff…
- How the Campaign War Chests Are Being Spent · 26 min · Epizoda 226Gas prices, an unpopular Iran war, and a bizarre Alaska lawsuit about the two Dan Sullivans on the ballot collide as the midterm elections enter their final week. “Radio…
- Maria Bamford Is Tough as Nails · 31 min · Epizoda 225Hanna Rosin interviews the comedian Maria Bamford, the subject of the new documentary “Paralyzed by Hope,” directed by Judd Apatow and Neil Berkeley. Bamford explains the…
- Why Trump Is Making Deals With Putin · 25 min · Epizoda 224President Trump is striking deals again—this time with the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. On Friday, he exempted Russia from a sanctions bill that Congress had passed and he…
- Have We Reached Peak Testosterone? · 40 min · Epizoda 223Politics has seemed obsessed recently with performing masculinity. If there’s one factor that animated Donald Trump’s reelection and continues to animate the political right in…
- Musk, Bezos, and the New Space Race · 25 min · Epizoda 222Who really controls America’s next era in space: NASA or two billionaire rivals? It might be some combination of the three. On this episode of Radio Atlantic, Adam Harris talks…
- How Far Is Kash Patel Willing to Go for Trump? · 30 min · Epizoda 221The Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick discusses her recent story, “Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?” She explains what agents and other…
- The 2026 Midterms Must-Watch List · 31 min · Epizoda 220During this nail-biting midterm season, tight Congressional races are popping up all over the map. Most immediate, what happens in November could shift the balance of power in…
- Min Jin Lee’s Underdog Morality · 39 min · Epizoda 219The world has waited almost a decade for a new novel by Min Jin Lee. In 2017, she published the best-selling historical epic “Pachinko,” which became a National Book Award…
- Republicans Are Running From Trump. Will It Work? · 29 min · Epizoda 218As some Republicans back away from President Trump over Iran, diesel prices, and affordability, something unusual is happening: Trump is not getting mad at them. Is this what his…
- Egypt Warned Israel Before October 7 · 12 min · Epizoda 217Less than two weeks before the October 7 attack, Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel with a warning about Gaza. In this special episode of Radio Atlantic, host Adam Harris talks to…
- What the 'Godfather of AI' Thinks Humanity Should Do · 31 min · Epizoda 216Since he left Google in 2023, Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate commonly known as the “Godfather of AI,” pops up in the press now and again to issue dire warnings, for example…
- Trump Battles Against an Economy of His Making · 31 min · Epizoda 215Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to Washington this week amid a rapidly shifting global order. Entrenched wars, raging oil markets, and AI regulation will hang over the…
- The Dark Side of Meditation · 35 min · Epizoda 214A psychologist wanted to conduct a study showing the benefits of meditation. But the results—and some of her own unsettling experiences—turned everything she thought she knew…
- ‘The Canadians Have Had Enough of This Nonsense’ · 26 min · Epizoda 213President Trump insisted last week that Canada is “dying to make a deal” on tariffs with the United States. But dealmaking hasn’t been working out well for him lately. And even…
- Sarah Longwell's Playbook for Defeating MAGA · 32 min · Epizoda 212Despite his message at the first-ever Republican midterm convention this week, President Trump’s brand is weak. His approval rating is hanging at about 35 percent, and even…
- How the Government Wastes Our Time · 30 min · Epizoda 211Long DMV lines, endless tax forms, and paperwork-heavy safety-net programs aren’t just annoyances—they’re “time taxes,” the administrative burdens that waste people’s time and…
- Creating the Perfect Female Monster · 26 min · Epizoda 210The breakout crime drama “Furious,” which had its series finale this week, centers around a female serial killer who is exacting revenge on the men who abused her. We talk with…
- Trump’s Economy Goes to the Polls · 29 min · Epizoda 209Midterm elections are almost always referendums on the policies of the party in power; President Trump is hoping that Republicans steer into the skid. Last week, my colleagues…
- Bill Gates on the Dangers of AI · 35 min · Epizoda 208Bill Gates has generally been an AI optimist. Three years ago, he wrote that AI had downsides, but the risks were “manageable.” This week, Gates wrote a new memo, headlined: “The…
- Where Do America’s Colleges Go From Here? · 30 min · Epizoda 207This back-to-school season, higher education finds itself at a crossroads. Amid rising costs, pressures from the Trump administration over admissions and ideological diversity…
- Secrets of a Jeopardy Champion · 25 min · Epizoda 206What does it take to win Jeopardy? Drew Goins—an Atlantic staff writer, a Jeopardy champion, and the creator of The Atlantic’s new trivia game, Rabbithole—shares his secrets on…
- The Trump Administration Wanted Her Expertise, Just Not Her · 38 min · Epizoda 205In 2013, Julia Curlee became the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep serving the agency.She felt more effective at her job living as the person she always believed…
- Longing for a Time Before Smartphones · 39 min · Epizoda 204Gen Z has romanticized the technology of the ’90s—or the era’s lack of it. Young long for a time when people were looking at each other instead of their phones. But could that…
- Never Trump, Still a Republican · 18 min · Epizoda 203Radio Atlantic host Adam Harris speaks with former Republican U.S. Senator and former U.S. Ambassador Jeff Flake about his recent endorsement of Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff in…
- The Death of Romance · 30 min · Epizoda 202We’ve entered the era of the great romance slump. Fewer people are moving in together and getting married, and a shrinking number of young adults say they have experience in a…
- What ‘America First’ Means for Global Health · 25 min · Epizoda 201Ebola is ravaging the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in what may soon become the worst outbreak of the disease ever recorded. This particularly deadly…
- The Town That Wants a Data Center Next Door · 39 min · Epizoda 200Opposition to data-center construction is the bipartisan issue of the moment—70 percent of Americans are against construction in their communities. Recently, New York passed the…
- Can a Progressive Win a Purple State? · 25 min · Epizoda 199Nationwide attention and endorsements are flooding into Michigan as voters get ready to pick their Senate candidates Aug. 4. Why is everybody from President Trump to Bernie…
- Is the Age of Reading Over? · 30 min · Epizoda 198People may be reading now more than ever (emails, texts, social-media posts). But fewer and fewer people are reading actual books. The Atlantic’s staff writer Rose Horowitch, who…
- What We Know About the Recent ICE Killings · 23 min · Epizoda 197The fatal shootings of two men in Texas and Maine by immigration officers have put the Department of Homeland Security back under renewed scrutiny. Host Hanna Rosin is joined by…
- The Election Deniers Are in Charge Now · 50 min · Epizoda 196Today’s episode is a dispatch from Georgia, where election skeptics run elections. Lately, the president has gone into an election frenzy, trying to spread the idea that…
- The War Trump Can't Control · 24 min · Epizoda 195Though President Trump has said he would not enter any “forever wars,” America seems to find itself headed toward one. With the latest cease-fire “over,” is there a way out of…
- Another Fatal ICE Shooting · 35 min · Epizoda 194This week saw the first fatal ICE shooting since Minnesota. In Houston, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. It’s been six months since the deaths of Renee…
- The Black Patriots Pushing for a Better American Future · 28 min · Epizoda 193The military has historically been a powerful force for integration in America—even as its top ranks have been slow to reflect the racial makeup of the country. Host Adam Harris…
- American History as Rorschach Test · 38 min · Epizoda 192The Florida Department of Education recently announced an alternative to the Advanced Placement history course that it described in a press release as “free from ideological bias…
- Trump’s Battle for Washington · 20 min · Epizoda 191The drama around the algal bloom in the Reflecting Pool may seem like a shallow issue. But it’s part of a much broader pattern as President Trump tries to “beautify” Washington…
- How the World Cup Explains the World · 35 min · Epizoda 190In his classic book How Soccer Explains the World, the Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer theorized that the sport was a mirror of the world, particularly in its shift from…
- What Will Happen to Birthright Citizenship? · 21 min · Epizoda 189The Supreme Court will soon decide whether the Trump administration’s executive order limiting who can be born an American is constitutional, and whether “all persons born or…
- Live: Nancy Pelosi on the Midterms · 25 min · Epizoda 188Throughout her career, Nancy Pelosi has known how to get things done: whipping up votes, negotiating bills, and, in what is probably her crowning achievement, pushing through the…
- When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other · 26 min · Epizoda 187The MAGA movement has fully embraced masculinism, which The Atlantic’s staff writer Helen Lewis defines in her cover story this month as “a movement to fight back against the…
- Is the GOP Starting to Defy Trump? · 28 min · Epizoda 186For most of his second term, Donald Trump has successfully conveyed the message that defiance is not an option. Republicans who ignored that message generally wound up out of…
- Is Cuba Next? · 37 min · Epizoda 185Not long after U.S. commandos swiftly extracted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him to the United States, Donald Trump set his sights on the next target: Cuba. Some…
- Higher Education’s Identity Crisis · 32 min · Epizoda 184Universities tried to be all things to all people. That model may not be working anymore. Adam Harris is joined by Ian Bogost, Atlantic contributing writer and a professor at…
- The Gerrymandering Wars · 36 min · Epizoda 183There is an ongoing battle for House seats. And it’s playing out not so much in elections but in congressional maps. The Atlantic staff writers Russell Berman, who’s been…
- The Tragedy of the Tradwife · 32 min · Epizoda 182The author Caro Claire Burke discusses her debut novel, Yesteryear, about a tradwife influencer suddenly transported back to 1855 and faced with the harsh realities of actual…
