All posts tagged: America’s Future

Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?

Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?

Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here.   Republicans are on the offensive this week against what they say is Democrats’ lack of support for Israel following Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s recent criticism of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that he will invite Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, a move he made without first consulting the Senate leader. This comes after President Joe Biden and Netanyahu spoke for the first time in more than a month, and after Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican presidential nominee, accused Jews who support Democrats of hating Israel and their own religion. Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic; Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The …

Trump 2024: What a Collapse Could Look Like

Trump 2024: What a Collapse Could Look Like

December 30, 2023, 7 AM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here. In this year-end episode, some of the contributors to the The Atlantic’s January/February issue forecast what a second Trump term might look like. For the magazine, 24 Atlantic writers––experts in foreign and domestic policy, economics, and national security––examined Trump’s record and his recent statements, and wrote about what they believe his agenda would be in a theoretical second term. Joining editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Romney: A Reckoning; Franklin Foer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future; Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic; and Clint Smith, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of How the Word …

A Paralyzed House Complicates Biden’s Plans for Israel

A Paralyzed House Complicates Biden’s Plans for Israel

October 21, 2023, 4:40 PM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here. After returning from a trip to Tel Aviv to demonstrate U.S. support for Israel’s war with Hamas, President Joe Biden used Thursday evening’s Oval Office address to make the case for sending wartime aid to Israel and continuing American support for Ukraine. The president’s plan is complicated by events at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Legislating is at a standstill as House Republicans have yet to reach a consensus on who will be their next speaker. Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Dana Bash, the chief political correspondent and anchor of Inside Politics With Dana Bash on CNN; Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle …