Oct. 30, 2025 4:18 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
airs Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Trump Returns to Shutdown PressureAfter reaching several agreements with leaders in Asia earlier this week, President Trump has returned to Washington, where lawmakers have failed to make progress on re-opening the government, and federal food benefit and childhood education programs that serve millions of Americans are set to run out of money. As pressure mounts on to re-open the government, both sides are dug in, raising the qu...
Oct. 24, 2025 2:31 p.m. EDT
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airs Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings)***Trump’s Figurative and Literal Wrecking BallThis week, in a symbolic and brazen display of unchecked power, President Trump used a wrecking ball to demolish the White House’s East Wing in order to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. He’s also tearing through Washington with other controversial moves, such as demanding the Justice Department reimburse him for hundreds of millions of dollars for past investigations and esca...
Oct. 16, 2025 5:27 p.m. EDT
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Airs Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings)Peace & PunishmentFresh off his Middle East victory lap, President Trump is refocusing his peace-making efforts towards ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Mr. Trump spoke at length with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, and he is welcoming Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House on Friday. Here at home, President Trump called for his perceived political enemies to be investigated during an Oval Office ...
Oct. 16, 2025 3:30 p.m. EDT
Watch Live: A special edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic from @D360
Watch a special edition of Washington Week presented as part of the Democracy 360 event hosted by the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia. The event begins at 7 p.m. ET.Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, leads a roundtable discussion focused on national security, examining America’s role in a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape, the challenges to democracy around the world, and what these developments mean for the United States at home and ...
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
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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
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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
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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 ...
