Tag: The Atlantic

  • Nation & World

    Why Soviet playbook isn’t working in Ukraine

    Pulitzer-winning journalist Anne Applebaum says Russians misjudged resistance, their troops lack sense of mission, leading to “nihilism” of wider, more random destruction.

    5 minutes
    Anne Applebaum
  • Nation & World

    Can this union be saved?

    In a country more fractured than ever, Harvard Professor Danielle Allen, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, and writer Adam Serwer discuss what it will take to bring our democracy back together.

    4 minutes
    University Professor Danielle Allen onstage at the Kennedy School forum.
  • Nation & World

    Probing the roots and rise of white supremacy

    Adam Serwer, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Shorenstein fellow, discusses the lasting appeal of white supremacist ideology in light of an avowed white supremacist’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people and injured dozens more.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A price too high

    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg talks about how the Islamic State has fundamentally changed the nature of Middle East war coverage.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A master at his craft

    Author and Harvard graduate Tracy Kidder is the first writer in residence at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. For the fall semester, he is sharing his insights about the art of writing with the Harvard community.

    5 minutes