Sep. 05, 2025 8:48 p.m. EDT
Clip: 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. EDT
Clip: 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.
Aug. 29, 2025 8:32 p.m. EDT
Full 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. EDT
Clip: 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. EDT
Clip: 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. 22, 2025 8:36 p.m. EDT
Clip: 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.
Aug. 22, 2025 8:36 p.m. EDT
Clip: Trump's revenge and retribution against his opponents
At home, President Trump has done Vladimir Putin a favor by firing many of the U.S. intelligence officials whose expertise includes Russian election interference. The panel discusses the administration's revenge and retribution against Trump's opponents and his show of force in Washington.
Aug. 22, 2025 8:36 p.m. EDT
Full Episode: Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 8/22/25
Despite the red carpet, B-2 flyovers, the burst of diplomatic activity, and President Trump’s large promises, there’s actually been no progress in ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Laura Barrón-López of MSNBC, Jonathan Karl of ABC News, Michael Scherer of The Atlantic and Matt Viser of The Washington Post to discuss this and more.
Aug. 15, 2025 9:32 p.m. EDT
Full Episode: Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 8/15/25
It may be President Trump’s biggest gamble yet: an Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin, intended to end the war in Ukraine that Putin himself started. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, David Ignatius of The Washington Post, Zolan Kannan-Youngs of The New York Times, Scott Macfarlane of CBS News and Vivian Salama of The Atlantic to discuss this and more.
Aug. 15, 2025 9:21 p.m. EDT
Clip: Did Trump succeed in Alaska, or is Putin manipulating him?
Presidents Trump and Putin finished their summit in Alaska. At a press conference in which the two leaders took no questions from the press, Trump made it clear that he likes Putin, but he also said, “there’s no deal until there’s a deal.” We don’t know yet what happened in that meeting, but we do know that there’s no ceasefire in Ukraine.
