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“My party is infiltrated by these people”: Karl Rove at #TAF26 on Republicans who traffic in conspiracies and bigotry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HB...

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Speaking about modern tech leaders, Kara Swisher says, “There’s no guardrails on these people, ever.” “There’s never been a moment where the people do not get a say, and these people get to make decisions for the rest of us that are really problematic,” she tells @adriennelaf.bsky.social at #TAF26.

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“My party is infiltrated by these people”: Karl Rove at #TAF26 on Republicans who traffic in conspiracies and bigotry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HB...

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theatlantic.com @theatlantic.com · 20/09/2026

Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush, does an impression of Donald Trump at #TAF26, in response to the president calling him a “stone cold loser.”

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Asked who would win in a hypothetical war between Canada and the U.S., Malcolm Gladwell tells @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social that Canada would prevail “because all of the American troops invade Canada, and then realize that they want to stay.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfK... #TAF26

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theatlantic.com @theatlantic.com · 20/09/2026

“My party is infiltrated by these people”: Karl Rove at #TAF26 on Republicans who traffic in conspiracies and bigotry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HB...

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theatlantic.com @theatlantic.com · 20/09/2026

“The answer is I might,” Senator Mark Kelly tells @markleibovich.bsky.social when asked if he plans to run for president in 2028, adding that he’s “not going to decide” until after the midterms. #TAF26: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9n...

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At The Atlantic Festival, the historian Timothy W. Ryback spoke with the Atlantic editor @stossel.bsky.social about contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise. #TAF26

Hitler Could Have Been Stopped

Timothy W. Ryback explains the contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise.

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At The Atlantic Festival, @evanasmith.bsky.social spoke with @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, The Atlantic’s editor in chief; Amna Nawaz, co-anchor of PBS News Hour; and Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, about the state of independent media. #TAF26

The Goal of Contemporary Journalism

Jeffrey Goldberg, Amna Nawaz, and Joe Kahn discussed how to sustain a free press in an era of public distrust, social-media punditry, and a hostile federal government.

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Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush, does an impression of Donald Trump at #TAF26, in response to the president calling him a “stone cold loser.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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“The answer is I might,” Senator Mark Kelly tells @markleibovich.bsky.social when asked if he plans to run for president in 2028, adding that he’s “not going to decide” until after the midterms. #TAF26: theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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The House impeached Trump after the January 6 insurrection but the Senate didn’t convict. Meanwhile Trump had "the audacity to release convicted felons who assaulted police officers out of prison,” Senator Mark Kelly says at #TAF26.

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Speaking about John Steinbeck’s character Cathy Ames in “East of Eden,” Zoe Kazan says, “I think that if we think of the people who do terrible things as being inherently evil and therefore different from us, we don’t learn anything about ourselves.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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“I do think there’s something really empowering about seeing a woman scream in the face of her destiny,” Florence Pugh says at #TAF26. “And to be able to get to do that in my lifetime, acting it, just in case I don’t do that in my actual lifetime, is also really cool.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card on 9/11: “The most used word that day from people who were victims of the attack was ‘love’ … and that alone drives me to make sure I keep my promise and tell people what happened on 9/11.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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The new series “East of Eden” doesn’t try to make the character Cathy Ames “a monster,” Florence Pugh says. It was “my job to try and get you guys to sympathize and maybe fall in love with her a little bit,” Pugh adds. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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At The Atlantic Festival, @evanasmith.bsky.social spoke with @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, The Atlantic’s editor in chief; Amna Nawaz, co-anchor of PBS News Hour; and Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, about the state of independent media. #TAF26

The Goal of Contemporary Journalism

Jeffrey Goldberg, Amna Nawaz, and Joe Kahn discussed how to sustain a free press in an era of public distrust, social-media punditry, and a hostile federal government.

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Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush, does an impression of Donald Trump at #TAF26, in response to the president calling him a “stone cold loser.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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“Humans with superhuman intelligence are going to do bad things,” @karaswisher.bsky.social says about AI's potential economic dangers. “Technology can be a tool—but it is always a weapon.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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“The answer is I might,” Senator Mark Kelly tells Mark Leibovich when asked if he plans to run for president in 2028, adding that he’s “not going to decide” until after the midterms. #TAF26:

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Asked about how Silicon Valley has changed, @karaswisher.bsky.social tells @adriennelaf.bsky.social, “I don’t know if there is a culture there anymore.” “The very wealthy people have insulated themselves,” she adds. “It’s sort of like cashmere prisons.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Asked about whether tech leaders are worried about AI’s capabilities, Kara Swisher says, “I think they’re genuinely concerned. But why now?” “What I think is, they’re scared of is liability,” she tells Adrienne LaFrance at #TAF26. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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At The Atlantic Festival, the historian Timothy W. Ryback spoke with the Atlantic editor @stossel.bsky.social about contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise. #TAF26

Hitler Could Have Been Stopped

Timothy W. Ryback explains the contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise.

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“Trump is terrified over the midterms,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows tells Toluse Olorunnipa of the president’s mail-in ballot proposal. “He’s terrified he’s going to lose, and lose hugely. But he can’t change the election laws.” #TAF26

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Asked whether Trump’s involvement in the midterms helps the GOP, Chip Roy says, “The president has been brushed aside and ignored multiple times,” but he’s “been very effective, repeatedly.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Asked about the Democrats’ chance to take back the House in the midterms, Chip Roy says, “If I have to go to Vegas … we need people to turn out to make it more like a 50–50 flip.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Asked about the state of checks and balances on the executive branch, Chip Roy says, “It’s not where I want it to be.” “We’ve stopped a lot of things from moving forward, but at the end of the day, there are things that I wish we had a greater say in,” he adds. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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It’s the job of journalists to, every day, “find out something that’s true, contextualize it, treat it fairly, and write it accurately,” Jeffrey Goldberg tells Amna Nawaz and Joe Kahn at #TAF26. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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“Original reporting is still by far the most valuable thing—and it still breaks through,” New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn tells Amna Nawaz and Jeffrey Goldberg at #TAF26. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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Asked about Trump’s treatment of female journalists in the press corps, Amna Nawaz says, “I know the only thing they’re thinking about in that moment is the next question ... That’s what they show up to do.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Quality journalism “is not going to be suppressed,” Joe Kahn tells Amna Nawaz and Jeffrey Goldberg at #TAF26. “This is a country that wants free speech, that’s going to protect free speech, and Donald Trump or any other president isn’t going to shut that down.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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Asked whether OpenAI should face legal ramifications for the Hugging Face incident, Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social, “It seems that this was not just an outlier incident … There is a very real question around intent and when that should actually attach.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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In a conversation about education, Rahm Emanuel cites a policy he passed in Chicago requiring high-school seniors to demonstrate where they were going after graduation. "In a school system of 84 percent poverty, we had 98 percent compliance," he tells Ashley Parker. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Politics would be improved by more in-person interactions, Pete Buttigieg tells Jeffrey Goldberg: “Most people in an actual, kind of 3-D interaction aren’t assholes, right? Very different from how it is online.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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The most elegant feature of the constitution is its ability to be amended, Pete Buttigieg tells Jeffrey Goldberg. “This idea that it’s somehow beyond our power to use [it] … is a complete failure of ambition and imagination,” Pete Buttigieg tells Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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“What I tell young people in their 20s and 30s is that everything takes longer than you think it's going to,” Padma Lakshmi says about finding success in the entertainment industry. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Colin Kaepernick says some fellow NFL players “wanted to be out there protesting and wanted to be supportive,” yet feared retaliation from their organizations. “This isn't a one-player or one-team thing. This was across the NFL,” he tells Jemele Hill. #TAF26

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Colin Kaepernick recounts how he decided to take a knee. “In many ways, that became such a turning point that kicked off the next 10 years and everything that followed,” he tells Jemele Hill. #TAF26

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Asked who would win in a hypothetical war between Canada and the U.S., Malcolm Gladwell tells Jeffrey Goldberg that Canada would prevail “because all of the American troops invade Canada, and then realize that they want to stay.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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The entertainment industry is no longer the “Wild West" it was a decade ago, Padma Lakshmi tells Sophie Gilbert. New media is making it easier for the next generation to get their material out, Lakshmi says: theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Democrats need to prove to the country that they “know how to fight for America, not just fight Donald Trump,” Rahm Emanuel tells @ashleyrparker.bsky.social at #TAF26. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz

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“The first eight letters of ‘progressive’ spells ‘progress’—and you can’t make progress without a majority,” Rahm Emanuel tells Ashley Parker. “You can sit there and hold a press conference otherwise. I want the gavel.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Rahm Emanuel tells @ashleyrparker.bsky.social that if Democrats want to pass policy, they need to focus on flipping red districts. “I’m not impressed taking a blue district and making it midnight blue,” he says. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social that AI leaders are warning of their products’ potentially catastrophic effects while preparing to take their companies public. If that behavior were applied “to every other industry, we would think that was ludicrous,” she says. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #taf26

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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan sat down with Tim Alberta to discuss Donald Trump’s presidency and the future of the Republican Party at The Atlantic Festival. #TAF26

‘The Best Thing That Happened to Him Was Losing in 2020’

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain how the four years between Donald Trump’s first and second terms changed the presidency.

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AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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“What I tell young people in their 20s and 30s is that everything takes longer than you think it's going to,” Padma Lakshmi says about finding success in the entertainment industry. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

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