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Yahoo
6 days ago
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- Yahoo
Profit and Power
Editor's Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. Donald Trump's willingness to mix public office with personal benefit is facing scrutiny, as are his latest pardons. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss how the president may be using his power to profit, and more. Meanwhile, Trump's battle with Harvard continued this week. Panelists considered how that fight is being received by voters and Republican lawmakers—and whether the president's continued crackdown on higher education could have political consequences. For Republicans, Trump's action against Harvard is 'not something that they want to break with the president on,' Leigh Ann Caldwell said last night. 'This is not an issue that they're willing to stand in front of him on, like most issues.' Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck; and Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch. Watch the full episode here. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
6 days ago
- Politics
- Atlantic
Profit and Power
Donald Trump's willingness to mix public office with personal benefit is facing scrutiny, as are his latest pardons. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss how the president may be using his power to profit, and more. Meanwhile, Trump's battle with Harvard continued this week. Panelists considered how that fight is being received by voters and Republican lawmakers—and whether the president's continued crackdown on higher education could have political consequences. For Republicans, Trump's action against Harvard is 'not something that they want to break with the president on,' Leigh Ann Caldwell said last night. 'This is not an issue that they're willing to stand in front of him on, like most issues.' Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck; and Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch. Watch the full episode here.
Atlantic
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Atlantic
Trump's Transactional Foreign Policy
This week, Donald Trump returned from the first major foreign trip of his second term. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss what the president's visit to the Middle East reveals about America's place in the world. The time Trump spent abroad has reinforced an approach to foreign policy that is 'malleable' and 'not always predictable,' Peter Baker said last night. 'He went to the Middle East to re-alter the dynamics by recognizing Syria's new government, announcing that he's going to lift sanctions, and effectively moving closer towards a deal with Iran that sounds an awful lot like the deal he threw out in his first term.' This, Baker continued, 'is a different dynamic than we saw even just a week ago.' Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch; David Ignatius, a columnist at The Washington Post; Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington and foreign-affairs correspondent for NBC News. Watch the full episode here.
Atlantic
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Atlantic
Trump Travels to the Middle East
President Donald Trump is about to begin the first major foreign trip of his second term, traveling next week to Saudi Arabia, while also making stops in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, nations which play a key role in mediating conflicts in the region. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss. Trump's Middle East visit comes at a critical time, as America's role and influence in the world under his leadership are being tested by the escalating conflict between India and Pakistan, the Israeli government's controversial moves in Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine remains elusive. Joining editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, are Susan Glasser, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Asma Khalid, White House Correspondent, NPR and Political Contributor, ABC News; David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times; and Nancy Youssef, National Security Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. Watch the full episode here.
Atlantic
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Atlantic
The Judiciary Pushback Against Trump's Agenda
Donald Trump is shaking up his Cabinet, while his immigration agenda faces mounting pushback from the courts. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss. A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas has called the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act 'unlawful'—and was among other judges from across the country who have ruled against the president. 'The defining fact of the first three months of this second term of Trump is that so many of the institutions that so successfully opposed him in the first term have been absent or in retreat,' Michael Scherer, an Atlantic staff writer, said last night. 'The one exception to that is the legal process.' Although judges 'operate at a different tempo than politicians or executive orders,' he added, 'you have seen in the last few weeks a really dramatic move by the judiciary to step in.' Joining the guest moderator and White House correspondent at PBS News Hour, Laura Barrón-López, to discuss this and more: Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck; Michael Scherer, a staff writer at The Atlantic; Ali Vitali, the host of Way Too Early on MSNBC; Alexander Ward, a national-security reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Watch the full episode here.
