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...
Jul. 24, 2025 5:59 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, July 25, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Trump’s Defense Mechanisms The Jeffrey Epstein file saga continued to culminate this week after several new developments, including the Justice Department’s meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, which has turned the once-fringe conspiracy theory into a spiraling controversy. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been accused of trying to deflect from the controversy by asking the DOJ t...
Jul. 17, 2025 5:32 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
WASHINGTON WEEK Airs Friday, July 18, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: MAGA Erupts Over Epstein Files President Trump’s best efforts earlier this week to quell growing unrest within his MAGA base over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files have failed. He is now resorting to attacking some of his supporters, calling them “stupid” and “foolish” after coming under fire from prominent right-wing influence...
Jul. 10, 2025 4:58 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, July 11, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Trump’s Texas Visit and Ukraine Policy Shift As the death toll climbs and scores of people remain missing, President Trump will be in Kerr County, Texas on Friday to meet with first responders and those impacted by the devastating July 4th floods. We’ll examine the role of the federal agencies responsible for emergency response and disaster preparedness and how they've been altered...
Jun. 26, 2025 8:49 p.m. EDT
Preview:: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
WASHINGTON WEEK Airs Friday, June 27, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Mission Accomplished? President Trump and key members of his administration are on offense this week, seeking to shape the Israel-Iran war narrative by claiming that U.S. airstrikes “obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear facilities, despite the leak of an initial intelligence report contradicting that assessment. Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is...
Jun. 05, 2025 8:22 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, June 6, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: On a special edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg will be joined by Thomas L. Friedman, a Foreign Affairs Columnist at The New York Times, to unpack President Trump’s efforts to address critical issues in the Middle East. Friedman dives into his own recent trip to Israel, the parallels between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a...
May. 22, 2025 5:11 p.m. EDT
Preview: Coming Up on Washington Week with The Atlantic
Airs Friday, May 22, 2025 at 8PM on PBS (check local listings) Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis and Allegations of a White House Cover-Up On a special edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg will be joined by Jake Tapper, CNN’s Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent and Alex Thompson, Axios’ National Political Correspondent to discuss their revealing new book, Original Sin. Major funding for “Washington Week with T...
