Crazy/Genius

Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King J... more

On The Review, The Atlantic's writers and guests discuss how we entertain ourselves and ho... more

Hello Crazy/Genius listeners. We'd like to introduce you to a new show! In this series, h... more

A new podcast from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, The Experiment, tells stories from our u... more

The Atlantic has launched three new podcasts this year: Social Distance, Floodlines, and T... more

The numbers are staggering: thousands of titles for 160 million subscribers in 190 countri... more

Algorithms pervade our lives. They determine the news we see and the products we buy. But ... more

Instagram influencers are beloved by fans and mocked by critics, but is there more to infl... more

From Beijing to Brooklyn, facial recognition is on the cutting edge of surveillance techno... more

From Charlottesville, Virginia, to Christchurch, New Zealand, the last few years have been... more

Young people are having less sex, and access to digital pornography has never been greater... more

Admit it: You have no idea what privacy means anymore. These days, virtually all online ac... more

Ten years ago, “Move fast and break things” was the clarion call of the world’s tech giant... more

In a special bonus episode, computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard expl... more

AI can beat human geniuses at Jeopardy, chess, and complex mathematics. But surely, these ... more

Americans eat more meat now than ever. That’s a problem for the planet’s future. Animal fa... more

Some scientists see aging as a disease that can be cured—but what would immortality mean f... more

Over the last 130 years, the automobile shaped the modern world—it redefined the city, fil... more

Climate change could be the most important problem facing humanity. To address it, scienti... more

Crazy/Genius is back with a new season featuring five ideas to save the world. Learn more ... more

It’s our best hope for life after earth—and a freezing, irradiated desert more than 30 mil... more

“Where is everybody?” That’s the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked in 1950. Nearly 70 ... more

Since the Internet exploded journalism’s business revenue, local newsrooms around the coun... more

Finding love on the Internet can be awkward, annoying, or downright scary. In this episode... more

Digital devices rob us of our attention, creativity, and, some studies show, our mental he... more

Silicon Valley and Wall Street are obsessed with Bitcoin and its underlying technology cal... more

Amazon might become the first trillion-dollar company in the history of the world. Has the... more

In the last 18 months, Facebook has gone through one of the worst public relations crises ... more

On Crazy/Genius, host Derek Thompson asks big questions about everything from online datin... more