All posts tagged: Jeffrey Goldberg

Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?

Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?

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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 …

The Atlantic publishes “The Great American Novels”

The Atlantic publishes “The Great American Novels”

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The list launches with events at the New Orleans Book Festival and on April 3 at the Strand, in New York Illustration by Sarah Schulte March 14, 2024, 7:17 AM ET Today The Atlantic launches “The Great American Novels,” an ambitious new project that brings together the most consequential novels of the past 100 years. Focusing on 1924 to 2023––a period that began as literary modernism was cresting and includes all manner of literary possibility, including the experimentations of postmodernism and the narrative satisfactions of genre fiction––the 136 novels on the list include 45 debut novels, nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and three children’s books. Twelve were published before the introduction of the mass-market paperback to America, and 24 after the release of the Kindle. At least 60 have been banned by schools or libraries. In an introduction to the list, The Atlantic’s editors write that, together, the books selected represent the best of what novels can do: “challenge us, delight us, pull us in and then release us, a little smarter …

The End of Political Centrism

The End of Political Centrism

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Watch the full episode of Washington Week With The Atlantic, March 8, 2024 Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic March 9, 2024, 4:33 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.   Between the Super Tuesday results and the president’s State of the Union address, a Joe Biden–Donald Trump face-off—the first presidential rematch since the 1950s—has become all but certain. The end of political centrism continues to be a prevailing theme. This week, Trump secured an endorsement from the Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, who had previously denounced the former president after the January 6 insurrection. Additionally, the decision of independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to not seek reelection signals further bipartisanship decline and likely increased polarization in the Senate. Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent …

The Leader of Today’s Republican Party

The Leader of Today’s Republican Party

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“McConnell was the final backstop against the complete Trumpification of the Senate.” Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic March 2, 2024, 10:36 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.   The race to become the Senate’s top Republican is already under way. Mitch McConnell made the surprise announcement this week that he will step down from his role as Senate minority leader in November—ending his tenure as the longest-serving Senate leader in U.S. history and solidifying former President Donald Trump as the leader of today’s Republican Party. Meanwhile, both President Joe Biden and Trump won their respective primaries on Tuesday, but the results underscored vulnerabilities in their 2024 bids for the White House. Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Adam Harris, a staff writer for The Atlantic; Leigh Ann Caldwell, a co-author of …

Trump’s contempt for military service

Trump’s contempt for military service

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The presumptive Republican nominee showed yet again this weekend how little he thinks of America’s men and women in uniform. First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic: A Pattern of Disdain Donald Trump made news over the weekend by saying that he would invite Russian aggression against NATO members. I wrote on Saturday that these statements were far more dangerous than his usual disconnected blustering. But in the midst of this appalling business, Trump also reminded Americans how little he values the service of American military personnel. At a campaign stop in Conway, South Carolina, on Saturday, Trump tried to zing his only remaining GOP primary rival, his own United Nations ambassador (and a former Palmetto State governor) Nikki Haley, by asking why her husband was not on the campaign trail with her. Army Major Michael Haley, …

Trump Gets One Step Closer

Trump Gets One Step Closer

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January 27, 2024, 12:25 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.   The 2024 race is coming into focus this week after Republican front runner Donald Trump’s victory in New Hampshire brought him one step closer to the GOP’s presidential nomination. But his final primary opponent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, has rejected calls to drop out of the race and continued to campaign in her home state. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have also ramped up their campaign, making reproductive rights a central theme of their reelection efforts. Meanwhile, the fate of a bipartisan border-security deal, which Republican lawmakers had insisted upon before considering additional funding for Ukraine and Israel, has been complicated by Trump’s opposition to the deal. Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more are Laura Barrón-López, a White House correspondent …

The Candidates Running for Vice President

The Candidates Running for Vice President

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Watch the full episode of Washington Week With The Atlantic, January 19, 2024 Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic January 20, 2024, 11:53 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. With just days until New Hampshire’s presidential primary election, tension is growing between Republican rivals former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Trump, fresh off his win in Iowa and leading in the polls, is weighing possible vice-presidential running mates, including Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Meanwhile, concerns about the war in Gaza expanding into a wider regional conflict are mounting after Iran’s recent strikes in Iraq and Pakistan. And in the Red Sea, Iranian-backed Houthi-rebel attacks on international shipping show no signs of stopping, despite the U.S. and its allies continuing to strike sites in Yemen. Joining the …

What Comes After January 6

What Comes After January 6

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January 6, 2024, 10:10 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. On Friday, the day before the third anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, President Joe Biden delivered his first speech of the new year at Valley Forge in battleground Pennsylvania, and warned voters about what’s at stake this November. His likely Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is meanwhile hitting the campaign trail in Iowa to cement his lead before the caucuses, while juggling several legal cases against him. And, while Democrats are attempting to motivate voters over access to abortion, Republicans are seizing on-campus speech and DEI initiatives as the next front of the culture war—Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard on Tuesday was only one recent flare-up. Joining the moderator and editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Peter Baker, the chief White House …

Trump 2024: What a Collapse Could Look Like

Trump 2024: What a Collapse Could Look Like

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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 Tumultuous Year in Politics

A Tumultuous Year in Politics

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December 23, 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. On Tuesday, Colorado’s Supreme Court disqualified Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot after determining that his actions on January 6, 2021, made him ineligible under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause. The Colorado court’s actions come on the precipice of another tumultuous year in politics, one featuring a general election and a likely rematch of the 2020 race between the former and present U.S. presidents. Joining editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to look back at 2023 and discuss what to expect in 2024 are Lisa Desjardins, correspondent at PBS NewsHour; Adam Harris, staff writer at The Atlantic; Zolan Kanno-Youngs, White House correspondent at The New York Times; and Susan Page, Washington bureau chief at USA Today. Read the full transcript here. Source link