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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

President Donald Trump said Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from covering the White House. Why did he do this? Here's what Alayna Treene, White House correspondent for CNN, told @elizlanders.bsky.social.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why is President Donald Trump taking an unpopular stance on data centers? "I think it has to do with how he views AI technologically as being a race with China," Asma Khalid of BBC News tells @elizlanders.bsky.social

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The House of Representatives left Washington on Wednesday, and members don't plan to return until after the midterm elections. So where does that leave the debate over AI regulation? Here's what @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social is hearing on Capitol Hill.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The stock market is absolutely hitched to this AI boom right now," says @eamonjavers.bsky.social. "If the AI bubble bursts, you're going to see huge collateral damage throughout the financial markets, and a lot of Americans are going to feel that."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TONIGHT: @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social, @eamonjavers.bsky.social, Asma Khalid and Alayna Treene join guest moderator @elizlanders.bsky.social to discuss President Trump’s summit next week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tech executives warn of the threat posed by AI. Watch at 8/7c on @pbs.org.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Almost 3,000 innocent people were murdered that day, and as far as I'm concerned, we can never talk about them enough," @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social says of the 9/11 attacks. "Their memory should be a blessing for all of us."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

TONIGHT: Ann Compton, @jonlemire.bsky.social, @gcaw.bsky.social and @sallyjenx.bsky.social join moderator @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social to discuss the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the continued fallout from one of America's darkest days. Watch at 8/7c on @pbs.org

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

TONIGHT: Josh Tyrangiel (@tyrangiel.bsky.social) joins moderator Jeffrey Goldberg (@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social) to discuss Americans’ growing anxiety about AI and why Washington has failed to regulate the technology. Watch at 8/7c on @pbs.org

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"The way the president speaks about this, he does not seem to treat this like it is an urgent concern," the AP's Michelle Price (@michellelprice.bsky.social) says of the national debt hitting $40 trillion.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Liz Landers (@elizlanders.bsky.social) has been reporting on the situation aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, where reports describe appalling conditions and declining mental health. She shares how sailors' families have reacted to the president's comments about the ship.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

On Iran, the Trump administration "has continuously tried to project confidence over the last six months, even as it's been quite clear that their control, or lack thereof, is the central factor in this," says Adam Harris (@adamhsays.com).

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jeffrey Goldberg (@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social): What's the larger meaning of the president's secret flight from Turkey last month? Elisabeth Bumiller: "The way the civilians on the plane were potential sacrificial lambs and that they were so unaware of it."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Even though the White House said President Trump was aboard Air Force One as he left the NATO summit last month, the president took a secret flight amid a threat from Iran. Dan Lamothe (@danlamothe.bsky.social) broke that story. He explains what happened.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

TONIGHT: Elisabeth Bumiller, @adamhsays.com, @danlamothe.bsky.social and @elizlanders.bsky.social join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says could be America's indefinite blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Join us at 8/7c on @pbs.org.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"There's a real fight on Capitol Hill about how much to fund the war. Some of this among Republicans themselves, like how to fund it," said Carl Hulse.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"I've counted seven times [President Trump has] done this — seven times since the start of the war — where he has threatened to escalate majorly and then backed off, claiming progress on peace talks," said @jonathankarl.bsky.social.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The one thing that rings true in [Trump's] tweet is that there is an effort to replenish these stockpiles, but what I'd like to talk about a little bit is the fact that this is a problem actually decades in the making, and it's going to take years to solve it," said Missy Ryan.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The reporting shows that [President Trump] sees [the Iran war] just as a headache, a political liability. He's searching for ways to get out of a war that he started and that has gone on far longer than he initially, at least, said that it would go on for," said Zolan Kanno-Youngs.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

.@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: "Only a small number of politicians seem capable of leveling with their fellow Americans. ... Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me, but I do believe that we used to hold public servants to a higher standard."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"When members of Congress are asked to fund billions and billions of dollars when their constituents are the ones who are being put on the line for this, patience obviously wears quite thin. But I will say it is not manifesting in a rebuke to the president," said @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"On top of the typical cost that we would associate with [the Iran war] ... the deaths to troops, the deaths to civilians who are caught in the crossfire, you have this economic shock that Americans are starting to experience in a more granular way right now," said @adamhsays.com.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"[President Trump] is looking at possibly ordering a level of attacks similar to what we saw at the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury, maybe even more so. What I can't figure out at this point is what the objective is," said @jonathankarl.bsky.social.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What is the U.S. strategy for Iran going forward? "It's really hard to say at this point, ... because if you don't have much of a strategy going in. It's hard to develop one in the middle of a war," said @sangernyt.bsky.social.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Democrats wanted to support [Jay Clayton] and move him along quickly because they want to replace the acting director in there, but that hurt him. That hearing hurt him with Democrats, and he's not going to get the Democratic votes that he would have before," said Carl Hulse.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"The speech itself wasn't the main thing last night. ... I think it was all about what's to come, and I think it sets up what we could see from this president going forward," said Stephen Hayes.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades actually, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and actually the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them," said @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"President Trump — for him, this was about personal vindication. This was about him trying to again just convince the public that his lie about the 2020 election being stolen is true," said ‪@lbarronlopez.bsky.social

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

With Graham Platner’s exit from the Maine Senate race, @adamhsays.com told Jeffrey Goldberg that part of the issue is that Democrats were “learning the wrong lesson from 2020 and 2024,” looking for the “prototypical candidate” who could win back isolated white male voters ...

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"For the previous 15 years, just the mere thought of the United States striking Iran, even in a single bout of airstrikes, was considered to be one of the major debates that engaged foreign policy over and over again," said @sbg1.bsky.social.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Graham Platner was found by these political operatives, young political operatives, who did very little vetting, and he was connected with an agency that focuses on these progressive candidates," said @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social. "But how he gained so much support is he is charismatic."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"It's a sign of where politics is today, right? We are willing to accept all kinds of things on our side, because we don't like the other side so much. And where do you draw that line?" said @peterbakernyt.bsky.social.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“America … has made lots of mistakes over its period, but the fact that it pretended to care about democracy, and sometimes did, mattered a lot,” Idrees Kahloon said.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“We are living through this epistemological crisis right now and it is … really, really dangerous,” Tim Alberta said. Referring to Americans outside of Washington, D.C., Alberta added, “These are people who have reached the conclusion that no one is looking out for them.”

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"We are the most erratic and unstable force in the globe because of our disproportionate, both economic and military, power," @sbg1.bsky.social said. “The entire world is dependent upon a kind of uncertainty and a kind of superpower crisis of conscience that they don’t get a vote in.”

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“The way that the founders built the structures of the United States and its government were to constrain its powers,” said Stephen Hayes. “It’s those structures at its core that have allowed us to have the success that we’ve had.”

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

What does Trump understand about the American people that elites don't? "This sense of grievance. ... People feel like no one is looking out for them, and he is going to take that grievance and channel it and sort of cast himself as the martyr on their behalf," ‪@ashleyrparker.bsky.social said.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Peter, small question for you: Is the post-World War II international liberal order created and maintained by the United States over?" Jeffrey Goldberg asked @peterbakernyt.bsky.social. "Yes," Baker said. "Our understanding of what we thought the world order was for the last 80 years is over."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How has Iran used its control of the Strait of Hormuz as leverage, even after its preliminary agreement with the U.S. to end the war?

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall has a new role these days, according to moderator Jeffrey Goldberg. He called it the place "where metaphor goes to die" because President Donald Trump's renovation of the pool "turned it into an actual swamp in desperate need of draining."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Compared to other issues, such as the economy, energy prices, housing, war in the Middle East and U.S. relations with Europe, President Donald Trump's efforts to remake Washington, D.C., don't matter all that much.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"[Iran] brought the strait into the war," said ‪@nancyayoussef.bsky.social. "The U.S. then was unable to make the regime fall, but what the regime learned was that by using that leverage, it gave itself a strategic advantage in not only the war but then subsequently the talks."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"The president decided an hour before he was supposed to sign [the bipartisan housing bill] that he is not going to sign it. The reason is because of the SAVE America Act," @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social said. "He has really paralyzed Washington over this."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"[Trump] is a hobbyist who happens to be president," @michaelscherer.bsky.social told @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. "He's getting to do his hobby with public taxpayer dollars to whatever extent he wants. Part of this is also that he conflates national greatness with what he can do."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

On President Donald Trump's recent "obsession" with the Reflecting Pool, "I think the president wanted to boast about what he's done to clean up Washington," Stephen Hayes said.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Are America's issues terminal or recoverable? Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch told moderator Jeffrey Goldberg that the nation has endured "hard moments" in the past. At this moment, he said, he "wouldn't pronounce the country dead."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If you could travel back in time and speak with America's founders, what warning would you offer them about the nation's future? That was the question Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg posed to the panel during the show's "America: The Next 250" special.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

What does Trump understand about the American people that 'elites' don't? "This sense of grievance,” said @ashleyrparker.bsky.social "That people feel like no one is looking out for them, and he is going to take that grievance and channel it and sort of cast himself as the martyr on their behalf."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"We are the most erratic and unstable force in the globe because of our disproportionate, both economic and military, power," @sbg1.bsky.social said. "The uncertainty that we have ourselves ... is a source of global instability."

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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"Peter, small question for you: Is the post-World War II international liberal order created and maintained by the United States over?" Jeffrey Goldberg asked ‪@peterbakernyt.bsky.social. "Yes," Baker said. "Our understanding of what we thought the world order was for the last 80 years is over."

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