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Forgive the Bad Texters

We are truly sorry for our delayed response. Whenever I receive a text, this is what happens. I pick up my phone. So far, so good. I experience whatever emotion the message elicits—the pleasant warmth of being reached out to, possibly the annoyance of being interrupted. Then, if conditions are …

The Decade’s 10 Most Defining Movies (So Far)

These films best capture the strange spirit of the 2020s. Welcome to Video Village, a new space for The Atlantic’s film-loving readers. For this, my first edition, my editors challenged me to lay out my perspective on my own taste, so I’ve worked up a list of movies that I think define this strange …

The Marriage That Captures a High Point of American Art

An ambitious retrospective examines the life and work of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner—to brilliant effect. Creativity in the context of marriage is a fraught and fascinating subject. The Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is not the first …

How the Polls Could Be Wrong Again

Democrats appear headed toward a big victory. But a small polling error could mean a dramatically different outcome. Less than a month out from Election Day, the polls are predicting a Democratic rout. According to the election forecaster Nate Silver’s polling average, Democratic Senate candidates …

Reducing the Number of Generals Isn’t the Problem

Hegseth is damaging the military and the public’s trust in it. The self-styled secretary of war strode confidently across the stage as he outlined his vision for America’s armed forces. He spoke of establishing an autonomous warfare command and an office of religious affairs, of developing preferred …

The Biggest Source of Inequality That No One Talks About

Progressives are focused on the wrong tax loophole. For 40 years, a huge number of rich business owners have taken advantage of a tax concept known as pass-through income. This anodyne-sounding technique allows millionaires and billionaires to exempt their fortunes from the corporate tax and shield …

The White House and the Market Are Telling Different Stories

The Treasury secretary is projecting confidence while struggling to get borrowing costs down. The political strategist James Carville once joked that if he ended up being reincarnated, he’d like to come back as the bond market. “You can intimidate everybody,” he said. Not Scott Bessent. About a month …

How Long Until AI Hacks Everything?

If only AI can save us from AI, the world is in trouble. The Australian government has been scrambling since the revelation that, earlier this year, it was hacked. At the United Nations General Assembly last month, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shared that OpenAI models had, of their …

Something Like People

A poem I am sure if we explain one more time that we are people They will finally understand why this needs to stop Oh! They will say, their eyes widening Oh! How terrible! We did not think of this happening to a person We thought of this as one of those things that happened We thought of it as happening …

Trump Is Considering a Plan to Strike Iran Before the Midterms

Pentagon planners are weighing options, though no final decision has been made. After months of on-again, off-again fighting, the United States hasn’t struck Iran in several weeks. The stretch of relative tranquility is coinciding with the final phase of the midterm-election campaign, and the …

Photos: The Student Protests in France

For much of the past month, students in France, alongside teachers and union members, have been protesting against poor conditions in schools. Thousands have been arrested following a day of nationwide demonstrations and blockades yesterday.

Why American Cities Cost So Much and Deliver So Little

Reihan Salam on why large American cities are often so ineffective at governing themselves, and how those cities can deliver better government to their residents Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts …

'Carrie,' With Kid Gloves

A modern-day adaptation explains away cruelty rather than exploring it. The following article contains spoilers for the TV adaptation of Carrie. The climax of Carrie, Stephen King’s debut horror novel, is so famous that even people who haven’t read it or seen any of the numerous adaptations know the …

What Aaron Sorkin Forgot About ‘The Social Network’

The Social Reckoning lacks the most compelling element of its predecessor. The Social Network was powered by alienation. David Fincher’s incredible 2010 film, written by Aaron Sorkin, tells the story of an internet age. It does this through the fraught relationship between two frustrated college …

Why You Should Watch Fauda’s October 7 Episodes

Three years after the Hamas attack, the Israeli show Fauda revisits the day in detail. 9/11 and October 7 have become universal shorthand because of the concentrated, spectacular violence that took place on those days—the sense of total rupture. Both dates marked the beginning of a new reality, …

The Violence Sweeping France Was Never Really About Schools

Much of the protesting by students has become an exercise in nihilistic resentment. The French protest too much. Over the past two decades, paroxysms of rage, violence, rioting, arson, and looting have regularly seized the nation, imposing enormous costs on civil society. During the 2005 banlieue …

Three Years After October 7, I Moved Back to Nahal Oz

But if Israel’s election doesn’t bring change, I don’t see a future for my family here. On the morning of August 18, shortly after 10 a.m., a moving truck stopped in front of our home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, the closest Israeli community to the Gaza border. The driver and two assistants began unloading …

A Trump Rally Stuck in Time

Usually, presidents hold rallies to get voters excited about an upcoming election. Last night in Nebraska, the roles felt reversed. The concerns about $4.14-a-gallon gas at the Lincoln Costco an hour and a half to the east? The worries about the war in Iran, the sort of Middle East conflagration …

Barack Obama Looks Left

The former president has sparred with his party’s left flank since leaving office, but he’s also been faster than some of his peers to embrace progressive candidates. The Democratic Party needs Abdul El-Sayed, but it doesn’t necessarily love him. Although few top Democrats have expressed public …

Occam’s Razor Explains Trump’s Daylight-Savings Obsession

More daylight means more time for golf. President Trump is in a race against time. There are 28 days until the midterms. There are 837 days left in his presidency. There are actuary tables noting the challenges of battling Father Time for 80-year-old men. But, at the moment, he is focused on one …

Trump’s Unlikely Strategy to Control History: Footnotes

The White House is threatening $190 million in Smithsonian funding. Most of Donald Trump’s efforts to control the nation’s largest museum complex have been loud. He tried to fire a Smithsonian museum director on social media, ordered the placement of warning signs outside its American-history …

What We Really Know About the Russian ‘Plague’ Case

Even though many questions remain unanswered, the death probably isn’t cause for panic. In a world on edge still from the last pandemic, rumors of a deadly disease that could have escaped from a lab can cause some understandable distress—however speculative they might be. Late last week, reports …

When Anesthesia Goes Wrong

A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened. When Freddy Marquez was 12, he was hit by a motorcycle while biking and smashed his face into the pavement. He healed fast, but as adolescence reshaped his …

Trump’s Latest Appeal to Russia Could Outrage Even His Allies

A new deal to mediate U.S. and Russia relations could infuriate not only Ukrainians and Europeans, but even Trump’s own Republican allies, Simon Shuster reports. He spoke with Trump’s envoy to Eastern Europe about the potential plan to ease economic sanctions on Russia in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a deal that could “risk funneling money to the Russian military,” even as the war with Ukraine carries on. A previous version of this video misspelled Dmitry Peskov’s name.

The AI Hacks Aren’t as Scary as You Think

The flood of reports about AI agents escaping and hacking websites can feel scary. But is this actually just a matter of needing better security to match the evolving technology? Zack Korman, the CEO of Embroidery, thinks so. He works in cybersecurity and argues that “rogue” AI agents are less frightening and complicated than they may seem. “Galaxy Brain” host Charlie Warzel talks to Korman about how companies and institutions should up their cyber defenses and why the so-called AI doomers are frustrating him. Subscribe to the “Galaxy Brain” newsletter: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletter

Min Jin Lee: Diaspora Is Now Everyone’s “Permanent Condition”

“We are being scattered by modern society”: The author Min Jin Lee describes the theme she believes to be crucial for writers to focus on in fiction with Hanna Rosin on “Radio Atlantic.” https://youtu.be/CdV3QDPbOIk

How Gerrymandering Can Splinter Neighborhoods

A gerrymandering tactic known as “cracking” splits congressional districts—in one case dividing a church from its parking lot, causing some voters in northeast Kansas City to feel “disenfranchised,” Madeleine Carlisle tells Adam Harris on Radio Atlantic. Listen to Carlisle talk about what she heard from the community. A previous version of this post indicated that Madeleine Carlisle had traveled to Missouri.

Why Americans Stopped Throwing Dinner Parties

The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975. Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse. In some of the most famous titles of the 1950s and 1960s—Couples, by John Updike; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee; …

Min Jin Lee’s Underdog Morality

The Pachinko author on her latest novel, American Hagwon, and parents’ near-religious belief in elite education Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts If there is a villain in Min Jin Lee’s new novel, American Hagwon, it’s Danbi, a young woman who seduces married …

Baruch Obama

Josh Shapiro’s one-man Black-Jewish alliance Josh Shapiro is having fun, and the crowd is loving it. “Let’s be clear,” the Pennsylvania governor says in his windup. Sometimes, instead of “let’s be clear,” it’s “let me tell you something.” He throws in some “y’alls” with a wide smile. The g’s have …

What Is Trump Doing?

Poll after poll shows that Trump’s presidency is not going well. And he has only himself to blame. The White House’s South Lawn was prepared just so: A full honor guard, complete with American and Chinese flags, stood at attention. The new White House helipad, made of four-inch-thick black-and-white …

A Near Disaster on Flydubai

This unbelievable sequence of events has huge implications. Today, somewhere over Saudi Arabia, the co-pilot of an Israel-bound Flydubai Boeing 737 stabbed the other pilot and pitched the nose of the plane toward the desert below. The jet descended 17,000 feet in two minutes, at an acceleration …

MAHA Gone Mild

This week’s summit featured J. D. Vance, electrolyte powder, and very few mentions of vaccination. The Make America Healthy Again movement has always had a split personality. Many of the movement’s leaders are fervent anti-vaccine activists whose views are at odds with scientific evidence and out of …

Pete Hegseth’s Magic Marker

The secretary of defense strikes another blow against military preparedness. The supersize black Sharpie is what gives it away. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to stop awarding tenure to civilian professors at the military academies ends with a huge, jagged signature—an homage, perhaps, to …

Eric Schmitt’s Very Bad Day at Work

For MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe. “What was your most embarrassing day at work?” is a staple question of internet forums, and the answers tend to converge around the accidental reply-all, the mortifying shared-bathroom incident, or congratulating a colleague on their pregnancy, …

How Trump Could Threaten the 2026 Election

Former Attorney General Eric Holder on the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and whether the 2026 midterm elections will be free and fair Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts about the …

Wushu, Teqball, and More: The 2026 Asian Games

More than 10,000 athletes from 46 countries are now gathered in Japan, competing in 469 events across 43 different sports, during the 20th edition of the Asian Games.

Literature Is Becoming More Like a Video Game

The Dungeon Crawler Carl series is transforming how an entirely new audience engages with reading. You couldn’t move without bumping into one of them: some man, woman, toddler, or puppet, dressed in a zippered vest and white, heart-patterned boxers. They stood out even among the 75,000 attendees of …

Only Trump Gets to Criticize the Supreme Court

“These are not the people I interviewed to serve.” President Trump thinks it should be illegal for people to criticize the Supreme Court. Other people, though. Not him. “I believe it’s illegal what they do,” Trump said on the campaign trail in 2024, about those who criticized judges’ decisions. “I …

How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk

Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity. For more than half a century after Milton Friedman proposed using taxpayer money to support students in private schools, the libertarian economist’s idea went almost nowhere. Republican presidents, including …

The Great Data-Center Rebellion

Could a new populist movement help save American democracy? Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining. The sawmills that made the city rich in the late 19th century have been repurposed as a museum. One of the Victorian mansions long since abandoned by the old lumber barons …

The Missed Opportunity of ‘NAZA’

A provocative Israeli documentary should make viewers think about their own moral parameters. Instead, it distances them from the war. A new Israeli documentary provoking both record-breaking festival applause and unhinged condemnation is called NAZA—a title with a suggestive sting. Hebrew speakers …

Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money off John Fetterman

After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties. A Republican fundraising consultant alerted her colleagues this month in a private message about a hot new business opportunity from an unlikely source: Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a …

Why Do AI Agents Sound So Frustrated?

“ARGH ... WHY IS THIS SO HARD.” Many of the most beloved robots in pop culture are celebrated precisely because they are so, well, robotic. Think back to Star Trek’s Data or HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that,” HAL intones in a measured baritone. These …

GLP-1s Are Rewriting the Story of Weight Loss and Mental Health

Weight-loss companies that offer the drugs are professing care for more than their customers’ waistline. Noom, the popular weight-loss app, prompts its users not only to log their meals and exercise but also to gaze at paintings. The “Mindful Art Break” feature includes images of such works as …

Why Did Wallace Shawn Liken Israelis to Nazis?

The people casually accusing Israel of genocide This past weekend, a deplorable minute-long video appeared on my X feed. In it, the instantly recognizable actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, most famous for his role as Vizzini in the classic 1987 film The Princess Bride, delivers a hateful rant …

Gaza’s Open Horizon

For many of us, the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has been constricted. Here in Gaza, war has changed everything, even the sea. During the long, hot summer, children went to the beach either early in the morning or just before sunset. They stepped around piles …

The Case for Sexual Fantasies, According to Gillian Anderson

The actor wants to show that women can learn from simply imagining. Gillian Anderson is an actor, but she has also become something of a fairy godmother for sex. On the TV show Sex Education, she plays the delightfully frank sex therapist Jean Milburn. In the recent film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp …

Republican Candidates Are Running From Trump. Will It Work?

And how midterm maps and ongoing court disputes are scrambling this election Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Nine days after President Trump took office, in 2017, a headline in Time made a bold claim: “Republicans Begin to Break With President Trump.” The break was …

The Problem With Trump’s New Taxpayer-Funded Ads

They clearly violate the intent of the law. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be easy to stop. Your tax dollars are at work—promoting Donald Trump to the American people. In the past few days, two new ads appeared on some television channels. One, in black and white, features Trump walking down a hall …

A $111 Billion Hollywood Takeover With a Murky Future

Paramount and Warner Bros. are inching closer toward closing a deal, but they won’t be anywhere out of the woods. Last Thursday, during a panel discussion at The Atlantic Festival, California Attorney General Rob Bonta seemed confident that the biggest antitrust case Hollywood has seen in decades …

OpenAI Has Gone Rogue

It’s impossible to know the extent of the AI-hacking crisis. Over the past couple of months, a trickle of reports about AI models breaking out of their test environments and running amok on the internet have caused alarm inside Silicon Valley. In response to two such breaches described in early …

Selections From the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100

Organizers of this year’s Audubon Photography Awards shared some of their top-100 selections—featuring a rainbow-bearded thornbill, a northern pygmy-owl, Andean condors, and more. Be sure to visit the Audubon Society’s full top-100 listing to see all of these amazing photographs.

One Reason People Are Spending So Much Time Alone

There is a social cost to many modern conveniences. When showing up for others feels hard, some strugglers have lately steeled themselves with a version of this maxim: “Inconvenience is the cost of community.” It’s a reminder, oft-repeated on social media these days, that if you don’t want to be …

How Biden Averted a War With Iran

In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack. Shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, President Biden asked me to help lead negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage-release deal. After some …

The Problem With Democrats’ Favorite Policy Proposal

Universal child care appeals to the party’s cosmopolitan base—but not to most of the country. If there’s one policy proposal that seems to excite the whole spectrum of Democratic politicians, from insurgent left to establishment moderates, it’s universal child care. The idea, as Senator Elizabeth …

The Babies Left Behind in America

The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis. Estela Garcia and 2-year-old Eber repeat their routine every morning: Around 8 a.m., he rustles her awake in the bed they share. She picks him up, changes his diaper, and pulls out a fresh …

The Edge of California Is Falling Into the Ocean

Storms driven by El Niño are pulling chunks of coast away. This season, El Niño is offering a glimpse of what the future has in store for California. Engorged with warm water, its waves powered by a frenzy of hurricanes, the Pacific Ocean has been clawing away huge chunks of the coast. Waves …

An SNL Exchange That Captures the AI Disconnect

The Season 52 premiere’s standout moment took an Anthropic co-founder to task. Saturday Night Live kicked off Season 52 last night with its version of a big interview: Partway through “Weekend Update,” the co-anchor Michael Che brought on the Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei (played by the …

Drawing the Birds Back Into the Sky

A poem I don’t mean as in when you place your hands the way your grandfather did, fingers just so that when blown into ducks would fly from reeds and sedges, and the assembled hunters in brown canvas would raise their arms to the call, and fire into the unsuspecting flock of iridescent greens and reds, …

What Is the Meaning of Mystical Experience?

The novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar tries to do justice to feelings of radiance without religious language. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube What would it be like to wake up one day with the ability to greet the world with warmth, patience, grace, and affection? This is what happens …

The Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in America

This place is much too dangerous. Don’t you dare go inside the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts! It’s much too dangerous. They have had murders there for 39 straight years—every night, and some matinees too. And they still haven’t caught the culprit. Nightly murders, with groups of middle …

The Hidden State Russia Is Building Inside Ukraine

Russian occupation authorities are doing everything possible to make Ukrainian lands unrecoverable. The world has watched Russia’s war against Ukraine largely through the movement of its front lines. But behind those lines, Moscow is building something more durable: a hidden state inside Ukraine. …

Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’

According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.” A crusade against empathy is sweeping through the right. In sometimes apocalyptic terms, prominent conservatives are denouncing that feeble human capacity to understand the feelings of …

The Pacific Is a Mess of Hurricanes

Hawaii is on its third close call this season. If you could look down at the Pacific Ocean right now, you’d see three hurricanes spinning in a row, between 15 and 20 degrees north. Furthest east is Polo, an unusually strong hurricane that has been churning off the southern coast of Mexico for nearly …

What Israel Knew Before October 7

A conversation with Vivian Salama about her exclusive reporting that Egypt’s top spy warned of the coming attack. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Less than two weeks before October 7, 2023, Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel to deliver a dire warning: Hamas appeared to …

5 Songs That Explain America To Me

Billie Holiday and Lil Jon have both helped James Parker understand America in the three decades since he moved there. Parker shares five picks from his list of 50 songs that help explain the country. Read his full list at TheAtlantic.com We want to hear from you too. Leave us a voicemail about a song you think explains America at (202) 266-7715. By participating, you agree to grant The Atlantic permission to use, modify, and distribute the audio files in all media.

How to Define the Fuzzy Phases of Life

Modern life is making these stages harder and harder to pin down. When, exactly, does middle age begin and end? This past summer, my colleague Julie Beck tried to figure it out. Public opinion didn’t exactly offer a consensus: “In one survey, the median response put middle age as lasting from 40 to …

Xi’s Visit to Washington

Panelists joined to discuss what the Chinese president’s conversations with President Trump reveal about trade, AI, and the war with Iran. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington, D.C., this week for a state visit. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss what Xi’s …

Trump’s Desperate Diesel Plan Will Backfire | The David Frum Show

On this week’s Saturday bonus episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses President Trump’s reported plan to ban diesel exports. David explains why the proposal is ill-conceived, how it could backfire, and what it reveals about the administration’s fundamental misunderstanding of the global economy. Photo: Mario Tama via Getty Images Sign up for David Frum’s newsletter alert to find out when a new story is published: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/?follow=true&utm_campaign=frum-yt Subscribe to “The David Frum Show” on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts

Modern Media Weaken the Presidency

Structural forces in the news industry have made the effective exercise of presidential power more difficult. Donald Trump’s second term represents a new, bolder version of the “imperial presidency” that many feared half a century ago. Trump prefers a maximalist approach to presidential power. And …

How Militarizing the Triumphal Arch Could Backfire for Trump

Adding drones and snipers to a planned monument may not work the way the president hopes. Donald Trump’s vision for a monumental arch in the nation’s capital was always ambitious. He has called for a 250-foot structure clad in granite, with gilded winged statues, an observation deck, a café, a gift …

Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore

Blame Trump for rising borrowing costs. This has been a week of pain for anyone who borrows money. All over the world, lenders are demanding higher interest rates. The global bond market is extracting higher yields from every borrower, starting with the biggest borrowers of all: national governments. …

Egypt’s Top Spy Warned Israel Prior to October 7

Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports.

Exclusive: Egypt Warned Israel Before October 7

Less than two weeks before October 7, 2023, Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel with a warning: Hamas appeared to be mobilizing for a major attack. What the Israeli officials did with that warning remains an open question three years after the most devastating surprise attack in Israel’s history. But officials from seven different countries told the Atlantic staff writer Vivian Salama that the visit should have set off alarms across the top ranks of the Israeli government. Radio Atlantic host Adam Harris speaks with Salama about her exclusive reporting. Subscribe to the “Radio Atlantic” podcast

The Absences Haunting the Trump Administration

The president has left hundreds of appointed roles open—including those that would have a central role in implementing his priorities. Last week, the White House announced the withdrawal of Lance Schroyer, President Trump’s nominee to direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No explanation was …

Egypt’s Warning to Israel

Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza. When Israel’s leaders gathered in Jerusalem on September 26, 2023, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the surprise assault by Syria and …

‘Primetime’ Wrings Even More Drama Out of ‘To Catch a Predator’

The film Primetime imagines the impulses that fueled the making of To Catch a Predator. To Catch a Predator may have presented a simulation of reality, but it was just convincing enough for viewers. The show’s objective was to apprehend people suspected of child sex abuse—which it did by staging …

The Right Way to Adapt a Video Game

The director of the latest Resident Evil movie glanced past the details to capture the franchise’s spirit. The moment I knew Resident Evil had me was the ammo check. The protagonist of the director Zach Cregger’s new film is a civilian, a medical courier named Bryan (played by Austin Abrams) who’s …

AI Companies’ New Plan to Keep Themselves From Destroying Everything

Third-party evaluators will be allowed inside companies to monitor the models. But how much access and influence will they really have? Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk don’t agree on much. Each started their AI company—Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, respectively—out of spite at competitors’ …

50 Songs That Explain America

From Stevie Nicks to LL Cool J, this is the music that helped James Parker understand America. He shares some of his selections for his list of 50 songs that help explain the country. We want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail about a song you think explains America at (202) 266-7715. By participating, you agree to grant The Atlantic permission to use, modify, and distribute the audio files in all media.

Malcolm Gladwell Jokes About Who’d Win a Hypothetical U.S.-Canada War

Asked who would win in a hypothetical war between Canada and the U.S., Malcolm Gladwell tells Jeffrey Goldberg that Canada would prevail “because all of the American troops invade Canada, and then realize that they want to stay.”

Bill Gates Changes His Mind on AI

Bill 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 Turbulent AI Era Is Here. The Choices We Make Now Are Critical.” He joins the show to raise the alarm about the dangers he sees in artificial intelligence—economic upheaval, social unrest, cyberattacks, bioterrorism—and most crucial, what he sees as a failure of experts and governments to take these threats seriously enough. “The lack of dialogue with all parts of society is kind of deafening silence,” he tells Ha

What Are Jewish Voters Supposed to Do? | The David Frum Show

On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the blowing up of trade talks between the U.S. and Canada, and President Trump’s reckless trade war against Canada. David discusses how this trade war hurts not only America’s relationship with Canada but its global standing as a reliable trade partner. Then David is joined by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to discuss the growing hostility among some Democratic voters toward American Jews. Frum and Nessel discuss why the rhetoric of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed c