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Crazy/Genius
Big questions about technology, science, and culture, hosted by The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson. On Season 3 (launching May 9): Unbreak the internet.
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Introducing Holy Week
Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusio...
Presenting: The Review, a new podcast from The Atlantic
On The Review, The Atlantic's writers and guests discuss how we entertain ourselves and how that shapes the way we understand the world. Subscribe and...
How To Build A Happy Life: A new podcast from The Atlantic
Hello Crazy/Genius listeners. We'd like to introduce you to a new show!
In this series, host Arthur Brooks digs into research and offers tools...
Introducing: The Experiment
A new podcast from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, The Experiment, tells stories from our unfinished country. On the first episode, host Julia Longoria...
Introducing New Atlantic Podcasts
The Atlantic has launched three new podcasts this year: Social Distance, Floodlines, and The Ticket. Subscribe to keep up with Atlantic journalism.
How Has Netflix Changed Entertainment?
The numbers are staggering: thousands of titles for 160 million subscribers in 190 countries. Netflix has changed where we watch -- that's obvious. Bu...
Should We Be Afraid of AI in the Criminal Justice System?
Algorithms pervade our lives. They determine the news we see and the products we buy. But most Americans don’t understand how they are transforming ev...
Influencers: Frauds or the Future of Online Commerce?
Instagram influencers are beloved by fans and mocked by critics, but is there more to influencing than meets the eye? A look at what a growing industr...
The U.S. and China: A Tale of Two Surveillance States
From Beijing to Brooklyn, facial recognition is on the cutting edge of surveillance technology. But does the threat of this tech outweigh its benefits...
How Did the Far Right Take Over the Web?
From Charlottesville, Virginia, to Christchurch, New Zealand, the last few years have been filled with examples of online hatred spilling over into of...
What Is Pornography Doing to Our Sex Lives?
Young people are having less sex, and access to digital pornography has never been greater. Coincidence? In this episode, we wade into the debate over...
Why Should We Care About Privacy?
Admit it: You have no idea what privacy means anymore. These days, virtually all online activity—searching, shopping, browsing—requires giving away ou...
Season 3 Trailer: Unbreak the Internet
Ten years ago, “Move fast and break things” was the clarion call of the world’s tech giants. Well, they moved fast and broke stuff, alright. Lots of s...
Tech Was Supposed to Be Society’s Great Equalizer. What Happened?
In a special bonus episode, computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard explains how “technochauvinism” derailed the dream of the digita...
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Smarter Than a Human Being?
AI can beat human geniuses at Jeopardy, chess, and complex mathematics. But surely, these machines don’t have anything that even closely resembles hum...
Will We Ever Stop Eating Animal Meat?
Americans eat more meat now than ever. That’s a problem for the planet’s future. Animal farming takes up 30 percent of the earth’s landmass (the equiv...
Can We Extend Human Lifespans to 150?
Some scientists see aging as a disease that can be cured—but what would immortality mean for humanity?
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How Will Self-Driving Cars Change the World?
Over the last 130 years, the automobile shaped the modern world—it redefined the city, filled the suburbs, and revved up pop culture. With autonomous...
Should We Dim the Skies to Save the World?
Climate change could be the most important problem facing humanity. To address it, scientists are thinking seriously about an idea that might sound li...
Season 2 Trailer
Crazy/Genius is back with a new season featuring five ideas to save the world.
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Should We Go to Mars?
It’s our best hope for life after earth—and a freezing, irradiated desert more than 30 million miles away. In our season finale, scientists and writer...
Why Haven’t We Found Aliens?
“Where is everybody?” That’s the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked in 1950. Nearly 70 years later, we’re getting tantalizingly close to solving th...
Who Killed Local News?
Since the Internet exploded journalism’s business revenue, local newsrooms around the country have been in free fall. We speak to The Denver Post's fo...
Is Online Dating Destroying Romance?
Finding love on the Internet can be awkward, annoying, or downright scary. In this episode, two sociologists debate the merits of online dating and di...
Are Smartphones Ruining Our Lives?
Digital devices rob us of our attention, creativity, and, some studies show, our mental health. We ask psychologists and authors if smartphone and soc...
Blockchain: The Next Internet, or the Next Beanie Baby?
Silicon Valley and Wall Street are obsessed with Bitcoin and its underlying technology called blockchain. Boosters say it'll fix everything from elect...
Should We Break Up Amazon?
Amazon might become the first trillion-dollar company in the history of the world. Has the Everything Store become a dangerous monopoly threatening th...
Why Can’t Facebook Tell the Truth?
In the last 18 months, Facebook has gone through one of the worst public relations crises of any major tech company. In this episode, two guests debat...
Introducing Crazy/Genius
On Crazy/Genius, host Derek Thompson asks big questions about everything from online dating to blockchain to space exploration. Is technology moving u...