Sep. 12, 2025 9:14 p.m. EDT
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Washington Week with The Atlantic
- Charlie Kirk assassinated
- Russia's drone incursion
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Sep. 11, 2025 5:29 p.m. EDTPreview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Culture of Violence The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Trump, has shocked the nation this week, and raised new questions about the country’s escalating political violence. Meanwhile, America’s influence on the global stage is in question after President Trump was blindsided by Israel’s strike in Qatar and Russia’s incursion of ... -
Sep. 05, 2025 8:58 p.m. EDTFull Episode: Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 9/5/25
RFK Jr. was bludgeoned in the Senate for his management of the CDC and for his views on vaccines. And halfway around the world, America’s adversaries gathered in Beijing in a show of force. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times, Leigh Ann Caldwell of Puck, Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch and Vivian Salama of The Atlantic to discuss this and more. -
Sep. 05, 2025 8:48 p.m. EDTClip: Is RFK Jr.'s vaccine fight popular with Trump and his base?
Scientists have endorsed the efficacy of vaccines for quite literally hundreds of years. George Washington himself had his troops vaccinated for smallpox. But Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a day debating vaccination with senators of both parties. The panel discusses how popular the agenda is with President Trump's supporters. -
Sep. 05, 2025 8:47 p.m. EDTClip: U.S. adversaries strengthen their bond and alliance against Trump
America’s adversaries gathered in Beijing in a show of force that highlighted their strengthening alliance and their growing contempt for the United States. -
Sep. 04, 2025 4:37 p.m. EDTNews: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Show of Force While taking questions from a bipartisan Senate committee on Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and leader of agencies responsible for protecting Americans’ health, angrily defended his record as Secretary, the recent firing of the CDC Director, his contradictory statements about the Covid vaccine, and the changes he recently made t... -
Aug. 29, 2025 8:32 p.m. EDTFull Episode: Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 8/29/25
He has been described as “the last of a generation of gold-standard political reporters.” On a special edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg speaks with The Washington Post’s Dan Balz, who is stepping down as a full-time political correspondent with the paper after 47 years on the job. -
Aug. 29, 2025 8:32 p.m. EDTClip: Dan Balz on how politics has evolved
No one in Washington knows national politics like Dan Balz. He is a master of the granular detail, and he is also an early spotter of grand, sweeping trends. He and Jeffrey Goldberg discuss how things have changed — and how they’ve stayed the same — since he first came to Washington in 1972. -
Aug. 29, 2025 8:31 p.m. EDTClip: The best and worst of Washington
Jeffrey Goldberg and Dan Balz discuss how Conservative Democrats and Liberal Republicans in Congress encouraged bipartisanship in the past, and Newt Gingrich's role in the political polarization we see today. -
Aug. 28, 2025 6:01 p.m. EDTNews: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, Aug. 29, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Transition Time On a special edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg will be joined by Dan Balz, The Washington Post’s retiring Chief Correspondent, to discuss his more than five decades covering politics in the nation’s capital. Major funding for “Washington Week with The Atlantic” is provided by Consumer Cellular, the Yuen Foundation, Sandra and ... -
Aug. 22, 2025 8:36 p.m. EDTClip: After a busy week of diplomacy, is Ukraine closer to peace or further away?
It was a startling moment on the tarmac in Alaska when President Trump, catching his first glimpse of Vladimir Putin, started applauding. It’s not impossible to imagine that this was the moment European leaders decided to visit Washington, forming a phalanx around the Ukrainian president. The panel discusses what’s next for Trump as he pursues a settlement in Ukraine, and a Nobel Peace Prize.
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