The Chaos of AI Voice Cloning
What happens when voices can be copied so well they can fool friends, family… and voters? Staff writer Charlie Warzel has followed the explosion of AI technology with a mix of fascination and fear. D...
9 Maj 202433min
If Plants Could Talk
Staff writer Zoë Schlanger is the proud owner of a petunia that glows in the dark. But she doesn’t just appreciate the novelty houseplant as work of science. Zoë sees its glow as a way to help us appr...
2 Maj 202429min
In Search of America on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
Writer Gary Shteyngart set sail on the inaugural voyage of the biggest cruise ship ever built—the Icon of the Seas—in search of the "real" America. (And maybe to throw a great suite party along the wa...
25 Apr 202424min
Trump’s Courtroom Campaign
The Stormy Daniels case may have a less serious fact pattern. But it might turn out to be the one chance to hold Donald Trump accountable for election interference. Atlantic staff writer David Graham ...
18 Apr 202428min
Money Can Buy You Everything, Except Maybe a Birkin Bag
Is having a Birkin bag ... a right? Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action lawsuit against the French luxury design company Hermès. Their grievance was that although they cou...
11 Apr 202425min
During the Eclipse, Don't Just Look Up
Where were you for the 2017 total eclipse? Where will you be this year? And where will you be for the next one in 2045? Hanna talks to Atlantic staff writer Marina Koren about the eclipse as a peculia...
4 Apr 202419min
Do Trump Supporters Mind When He Mocks Biden’s Stutter?
Atlantic political reporter John Hendrickson has had a stutter since he was a kid. Recently he heard Donald Trump make fun of Joe Biden’s stutter, and he noticed that the audience laughed. Hendrickson...
28 Mars 202426min
The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right
Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they've argued the most about: being on their phone. Then, Hanna sits down with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his new book, The Anxious Generati...
21 Mars 202429min
