Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her lab’s funding. The administration’s attacks on medicine, culture, and education—which include funding cuts and verbal threats—are about more than just budgeting and bravado. Our host, Anne Ap ... Show More
Feb 2026
American Democracy Under Occupation
When heavily armed agents of the federal government arrived in Minneapolis, the people of the Twin Cities responded with surprising strength. In this episode, residents describe what drove them to act, and host Anne Applebaum speaks with Atlantic contributing writer Robert Worth ... Show More
27m 47s
Oct 2025
Weaponizing the Justice Department
President Donald Trump is using the Department of Justice to try to punish his political enemies. How much can the president bend the DOJ, an institution built on norms and ethics, to his will before it breaks? In this episode, we talk to the Atlantic staff writer Quinta Jurecic, ... Show More
40m 32s
Jul 2023
American Rot: SCOTUS' War on the American People
Alyson and Breht discuss the recent rulings by the Supreme Court, a wildly anti-democratic, thoroughly corrupt, and staunchly reactionary institution that the American right has spent years and billions of dollars capturing in order to impose its minoritarian rule on an American ... Show More
1h 11m
Sep 2025
Fragments of a Fragile Order: Phasing Out Free Speech
<p>In this episode of the <i>Art of Citizenry Podcast</i>, host Manpreet Kaur Kalra and producer Aly Honoré take a step back from the headlines to explore what they reveal about the state of American democracy, culture, and free speech. </p><p>From the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel ... Show More
23m 59s
<p>Plus, a quiet crisis for America’s jurors. </p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/trump-washington-dc-police.html" target="_blank"><strong>Trump Takes Control of D.C. Police, Citing ‘Bloodthirsty Criminals.’ Bu ... Show More