Oct. 02, 2025 5:59 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Washington Week with The Atlantic Airs Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 at 8PM on PBS(check local listings) Democrats’ Risky Strategy After months of being sidelined by President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress, Democrats are using their party’s leverage in the federal funding process to confront them. But for the Senate and House minority leaders, shutting down the government is a risky strategy, and one that may not pay off as they face the White House's threats of mass federal layoffs and...
Sep. 25, 2025 6:08 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week With the Atlantic
Airs Friday, Sept. 26, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Trump’s Tumultuous Views In a stunning reversal, President Trump criticized President Putin this week by implying that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, questioning the Kremlin's military strength, and going so far as to say that Ukraine could win back all of its lost territory. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has ordered government agencies to prepare for mass firings if ...
Sep. 19, 2025 9:08 a.m. EDT
News: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Fear & Furor over Free Speech Concerns are on the rise that President Trump and his allies are retaliating against his critics, and a fierce debate over free speech is underway after ABC abruptly suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show this week. Kimmel’s suspension was announced shortly after Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, took the come...
Sep. 11, 2025 5:29 p.m. EDT
Preview: 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. 04, 2025 4:37 p.m. EDT
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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. 28, 2025 6:01 p.m. EDT
News: 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. 21, 2025 9:13 p.m. EDT
News: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Elusive Ceasefire and Intelligence Staffers Slashed Despite the flurry of diplomatic activity, there’s still no ceasefire or agreement on how to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. Meanwhile, President Trump has continued his purge of the country’s top intelligence agency, raising new concerns about the state of America’s security. Joining editor in chief of The Atlantic and modera...
Aug. 14, 2025 5:56 p.m. EDT
News: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: High Stakes Summit and Trump’s DC Takeover All eyes are on Anchorage, Alaska as President Trump hosts his first one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin since returning to the White House. The high stakes summit comes after Trump threatened Russia with “very severe consequences” if a ceasefire deal in Ukraine is not reached. Meanwhile, residents in the nation’s cap...
Aug. 07, 2025 9:15 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Reality Check President Trump continued to advance his agenda to reshape the country, and the world, in his image, this week by imposing additional global tariffs, potentially obscuring future job number reports, and proposing a redesign of the actual White House. One notable exception to that growing list is ending the war in Ukraine. He hopes to change that next week during his fir...
Jul. 31, 2025 9:22 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
WASHINGTON WEEK Airs Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Under Pressure This week, President Donald Trump, broke publicly with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his downplaying of the starvation in Gaza, and a fissure was exposed within the Republican Party after some lawmakers questioned Israel’s military strategy and expressed concern over the handling of the worsening humanitarian situation. Joining guest m...
