Top tier journalism. I loved listening to Episode 1, looking forward to 2 & 3. More of this, please! :)

Radio Atlantic never disappoints, and its new “No Easy Fix” series raises the bar for hands-dirty journalism with a compelling narrative. Thank you!

Since when do we call the killing of children "useless?" It's a crime against humanity. An atrocity. A genocide.

I have really been enjoying this podcast but was disappointed in the most recent episode about pro-natalists. Both Hanna and her guest missed two of the most obvious reasons people aren’t having children; they cannot afford it financially and they worry about raising their child in a world which environmentally is declining.

What a regressive piece of propaganda. As if just having babies means that one of those in there somewhere will solve world hunger. We have enough people now that we can’t take care of. The fastest growing segment of the US population continues to be the oldest old, those 80 years and older. We continue to have troubling rates of infant mortality in low income babies. Birth rates used to be higher because we didn’t understand fertility and when we did, women were banned from using contraceptives. Finally women get some control over their bodies and the GOP and white Christian Nationalists want to strip us of that right. They want more babies so they can feed the machine of greed in the name of productivity. We will need less people as automation and AI continue to do the jobs once done by people. When women are educated and have the financial means to take care of themselves then the family thrives. When families thrive communities thrive and so on. This podcast got in wrong on so many levels. Shame

Just read about a piece on dark money group foment regime change in Iran, and here we are, selling regime change with a straight face. The Atlantic really lives up to its reputation.

The writers we should be reading, ethical journalism stringently practiced here.

Thank you for broadcasting truth and rationality to the world. Needed now more than ever

Good thing these two interviewers are writers because they are incredibly inarticulate and shed no light on their meeting with t-rump. So what don’t we know already?

disgusting! trump is a monster and i was and am very disappointed with these 2 gullible reporters trying ti turn hitler into eagle scout of the year! trump is abducting and sending people to a prison w/o due process! wake up! I will never watch the Friday night atlantic week roundup on pbs ever again. Very disappointed with jeffrey golberg just as much falling into trump’s quicksand trap voluntarily as well. adding that i couldn’t even finish listening to this epi it was that disturbing hearing the 3 of you gushing over trump who has done so much harm to individuals, the country/our democracy/the rule of law, other countries and their world leaders like the 3 of you had lost your minds. It was so very disturbing.

I’m listening to today’s podcast feeling quite disturbed by the ways the Atlantic journalists are humanizing Trump. They sound so excited about their experience interviewing him, as if they, too, believe this is all a transactional game. He has successfully manipulated them, as he has so many others!! No one, especially journalists, should lose sight of the dangerous monster Trump truly is!! He has hurt millions of people through his sadistic policies and bullying, and should NEVER be treated as an amusing, interesting character, worthy of one iota of validation!!!!

Excellent questions, Hanna. Excellent clarity Justin. Please: come back you two for more!

He took top secret documents to Florida and lied about taking them and refused to return them. Seems you forgot about this re: sharing intelligence.

While I recognize that all sides have a perspective and The Atlantic is striving to highlight that in this episode I lasted approximately four minutes before I had to turn it off. MAGA gets away with every wrong and illegal decision they make every single time and I have no sympathy for a man who made a choice on January 6th to do what he did. His wife touting her Christian and Trumpian faith that he would be exonerated—-my mental health can’t take it. This lifestyle of “the rules don’t apply to us” permeates every facet of society at this point and it is definitely not “Making America Great Again.” I don’t need to be enraged at those people any more than I already am. Moving on.

Excellent show. Just want to say to the woman with five kids who lost her husband for a year to his conviction of conspiracy for the attack on the capital…. Too bad! We feel for your kids having a loser dad but he chose to leave his family and riot. We don’t feel pity for you or him in any way. Know this. He’s a traitor to this country. Signed a progressive from NY.

Cue: Lee Greenwood

Both the interviewee Zoe Schlanger was sloppy as well as the editor, but there were some clear errors in the material presented. Firstly, both women were remiss in not explaining what PFAs are. That was a shame. How many of the listeners know what PFAs actually are? Secondly, Ms Schlanger never explained that PFAs are excreted. They are forever chemicals but not stored in our bodies forever. PFAs are literally everywhere, so focusing on what sort of stove, InstantPot, toaster oven people should buy is both simplistic and unfair, given that most of us cannot rewire our homes so we can buy a electric stove. SMH. Why do this to the listeners? She could have really been informative instead of being yet another alarmist. She should have mentioned one of many notable women researchers who have actually done the work, like Arlene Blum and her research in the 1970’s which had, as a direct response, the FDAs ban of flame retardants in children’s pajamas…winner of several awards for her science and policy work for which she was recognized by one of fifty Forbes Sustainability Leaders. Really, the material presented was so basic as to be incorrect, as I have pointed out. Can y’all sharpen up? Your readers can handle it. And Ms. Rosin, you should stop chuckling over “oh these ignorant people” when discussing questions from the audience.

Excellent podcast and spot-on. I agree with papakila that some of the examples could have been stronger (Jared Loughner/Gabby Gifford, for example), but I think papa missed the point due to the fact that his thesis (that assassins have always beeen a bit wack) is generally the same as Tom’s. Generally. This absurd pedestalizing of Trump for surviving a poor shot (rushed?) by a really sad, travic, lost kid is laughable. Great podcast.

I like the show generally but this episode is complete bunk. I think the host and guest both realize it too from the get-go. The thesis is that present day assassins are different from those in the past in that they are less strictly political and more about mentally unstable people getting attention/recognition (narcissism). It begins by establishing a baseline that assumes assassins of the past to have a political agenda, but then uses as an example Gerald Ford’s, except they are immediately forced to admit that one of his assassins was clearly just nuts (Squeaky Frome) and that the “political agenda” of the other was incredibly irrational. Well, so was Ryan Routh’s. War Room Tom thinks Trump’s assassins were more like today’s mass shooters, which is a thought, but then uses the most absurd example (the Las Vegas shooter) instead of someone like Dylann Roof or the Pennsylvania synagogue shooter both of whom had clear political agendas. Mass shooters do also sometimes have clear political agendas. They even publish manifestos! And go back to the guy who shot Garfield. His “political agenda” was insane. The truth is clearly that this is not a new thing at all; that assassins from John Hinckley to Sirhan Sirhan almost always have some political agenda and some level of mental illness as well, like narcissistic personality disorder. It is a spectrum and always has been. Truly political assassins are rare. Entirely crazy people don’t go after politicians. It’s too hard and complicated. So when the next one appears, except a confused and confusing mix of both.

Hanna Rosen is an amazing journalist that asks the right questions to excellent guests. The topics are timely and well researched. Again, OUTSTANDING!!

Stimulants are life changing & already so many people are worried about using them & stigma surrounds them, to frame one person’s story as a critique of this whole class of drugs is highly problematic & irresponsible. Further, another drug he used was Benzos, a drug class well known to cause many many issues for people, yet your reporting said nothing about that at all. His story was compelling & worthy of telling, but the journalist interpretation of it was uninformed & further contributed to false narratives about this class of drugs. Where was the data? The presentation of a most nuanced & complex picture? Highly disappointing to me as a mental health professional & family member to multiple people with ADHD.

This show has been great from the beginning but the ‘Scripts’ series is stellar. Ethan Brooks has done a fantastic job.

Discussion by Frank and Elaina was very disappointing. Picking at Kamala Harris in a way they would never have picked at a male counterpart. Why? Can’t we just give Kamala the benefit of the doubt on non-catastrophic shortcomings?? Do we really need to dissect her supposed stage fright on such an historic evening when we could be pondering much larger questions. It felt demeaning and small minded.

Remarkably uninspired considering the strength of the magazine and its editorship. Mostly disappointing.

I just listened to your podcast about remote work, a conversation between two very impressive women who were unfortunately self-sabotaging with language. I became so distracted by the number of times “sort of” and “like” were uttered, that I went back and did a casual count. I counted 68 “sort of”s, 96 “like”s, and quite a few instances of ”kind of”, “I mean” and “you know”. I only bring this to your attention because it causes you to sound less scholarly than you actually are. I hope you go back and listen because you both have a right to be taken seriously.

An entire show on grocery prices that doesn’t talk in depth about the centralization of food stores, food deserts, poverty, or Big Ag. There’s a lot of these episodes that seem willfully blind. The one on remote work seems to draw definitive conclusions from a small number of studies gee-whiz agreement-style interviewing with no pushback. This show needs to work on its blind spots.

So Hunter Rosen’s partner is an f-bombing big mouth bully- cool urban hipster self-centered nonsense passing as current validity for poor (me, me, me) manners. Seems an old fashioned punch in the face is in order!

Does subscribing to this podcast somehow benefit the magazine that publishes the phrase “legally killed child” with no self reflection whatsoever? Who knows. Are there lots of other podcasts unconnected to magazines that parse the moral nuance of ethnic cleansing? Let’s go see. Life’s too short.

As a longtime reader of The Atlantic, I appreciate the topics and depth of presentation by Hanna and her crew. I find these topics interesting (even if I wasn’t hooked by the title initially). This is the goal of solid authorship. I read The Atlantic cover-to-cover every month just for that. As one of my favorite authors I thoroughly enjoy listening to Hanna and her guests!

Thank you for your bringing us the news.

Hana Rosin is one of the best podcast hosts around. Her voice and attitude and intelligence are perfect for the format. It matters much less than this is in Atlantic podcast and much more that she is the host.

Hard to believe that this episode was produced by people who work at the Atlantic. Simplistic, shallow, not even entertaining! It’s nothing more than an advertisement for the company even though the journalists pretend it isn’t. What was the point of the episode?

I love this show because the content is unique and interesting and the host is warm and engaging. Thank you for producing it!

I found the article on the origin and impact if the barcode interesting and trivial. The big problem I had was in listening to the narrator. It sounded like every sentence was a question or a begging for affirmation? When did it become normal to end every statement as a question? It’s so annoying that I had to stop listening to the podcast and read the transcript instead? Someone please teach these kids how to speak with confidence? Thank you?

Good content generally but maybe? Prescreen your guests? For too much upspeak? Seriously? Don't book the ones who cannot stop speaking? ...like this? Mades it so hard to listen for more than 5 minutes.

I enjoy this podcast but could not get through the barcode episode because Saahil Desai must have said “like” a hundred times during the first half of the show. Turned it off and switched to “Stuff You Should Know.”

Please please please minimize the likes. The magazine is excellent. The podcast should be as good. Your host and guests say “like” every other word, completely undermining what they are actually saying.

Their recent episode “Why are good economy feels like a bad one” the host, Hanna Rosin, in the third sentence says the public is suffering from a “collective delusion” that the economy is not doing well. When you account for price increases in rent, food and car prices, the economy is performing poorly. That is a fact to say otherwise is being intellectually dishonest at best and most likely done by Ms. Rosin to manipulate the audience to please her bosses. This episode is on a propaganda level of something created by North Korean state media. Years ago this was once a better than average podcast but now is little more than a source of political manipulation and lies.

Buy a book…

The atlantic is a great magazine, and a companion podcast makes perfect sense, but they need a different host. Hanna Rosin is just too grating to put up with.

I am an avid podcast listener and also a subscriber to The Atlantic. I like the podcasts here, the one star is because there is some technical glitch on this podcast, it keeps showing that I have already listened to episodes that not only I haven’t listened to, but never even downloaded. It is also showing that I have not listened to episodes that I have listened to. Very frustrating.

.. uncritically recite garbage statistics about obesity being the “cause” of a laundry list health outcomes of which it is actually /correlate/. If you are going to do an episode that acknowledges the cultural (and subsequently, corporate) shifts in weight loss and fat-related rhetoric, maybe opt to interview an actual fat person. Or at least an expert in this field who has some familiarity with the fat liberation movement, (which is where thin and midsize people can send their thank you cards for the “body positivity” movement). The statistics you continue to cite are easily debunked with minimal effort. Start with the supposedly massive rise in the percentage of “obese” Americans: when did we start calculating obesity? By what metric? What year did the standard for who is considered obese change? These are critical questions.

Hanna’s curious, compassionate, and clever mind draw me into the podcast. I hope she’ll continue to shine a light on how we can all learn new things - and change our minds along the way.

I love new iteration of this show! Hanna Rosin is as quick and clever in podcast form as she was as a writer. Great topics and guests. Have definitely recommended to friends. Keep em coming!

Equally as insightful and enlarging as everything you see and read in the publication.

So for whatever reason, laziness, incompetence, ignorance of the pace of Podcasts, their stories are usually about subjects that have already been covered, in depth and days before on a litany of other better podcasts. So just stop, really.

I like to talk with like an upwards inflection or whatever and am like frustrated no one like takes me seriously or whatever.

This podcast consistently amazes and fascinates me. And they’re usually about the right length of time to wash dishes and do a chore or two. I love ve it!

Not a fan… get rid of it.

Loved the episode with Tom Nichols, This is Not Your Parent's Cold War