The Atlantic is today announcing new speakers––including former Secretary of State and United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton––appearing at the 15th annual Atlantic Festival, taking place on Thursday, September 28, and Friday, September 29, at The Wharf in Washington, D.C. Clinton will be in conversation with The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, discussing existential threats to democracy. Goldberg will also interview Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Also announced today are an interview with Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra with senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II; and a conversation led by Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder and president of Emerson Collective, with the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III.

The Atlantic is pleased to welcome and announce CBS News as the exclusive broadcast media partner for The Atlantic Festival. CBS News journalists will moderate a number of conversations at the festival, and the network will have a presence throughout the event.

The festival’s two days will feature interviews with the actor, producer, and activist Kerry Washington; Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania; Governor Spencer Cox of Utah; Representative Joaquin Castro; the 2024 Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd; former Representative Gabby Giffords; the chief technology officer of OpenAI, Mira Murati; and the authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lauren Groff, and Jake Tapper. The evening of September 28 will feature the debut of Netflix’s forthcoming docuseries Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul, followed by a conversation featuring the series’s director and renowned documentarian, R. J. Cutler. September 29 will feature a night of live storytelling with the filmmaker Spike Lee, in conversation with the Atlantic contributing writer Jemele Hill.

Additional program announcements include:

Along with Goldberg, Newkirk, and Hill, many of The Atlantic’s journalists will lead and participate in conversation across the festival, including Tim Alberta, Ross Andersen, Julie Beck, Gal Beckerman, Ron Brownstein, McKay Coppins, Caitlin Dickerson, David Frum, Claudine Ebeid, Franklin Foer, Megan Garber, Adam Harris, Sarah Laskow, Helen Lewis, Shirley Li, Mark Leibovich, Annie Lowrey, Tom Nichols, Elaina Plott Calabro, Rebecca Rosen, Hanna Rosin, Clint Smith, Andrea Valdez, and many more.

CBS News’ anchors and correspondents who will moderate festival events are John Dickerson, anchor of CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson; Nancy Cordes, chief White House correspondent; Weijia Jiang, senior White House correspondent; and correspondent Christina Ruffini.

The Big Story: The Future of Major League Baseball (September 28, 4:30–5:30 p.m.)
The Atlantic staff writer Mark Leibovich will be in conversation with Major League Baseball executives Morgan Sword and Raúl Ibañez for a discussion on the league’s recent innovations and the future of America’s pastime.

Radio Atlantic LIVE (September 29, 5:30–6:30 p.m.)
The host of Radio Atlantic, Hanna Rosin, will lead a live podcast taping with the Atlantic staff writers Elaina Plott Calabro and Franklin Foer to talk about their in-depth reporting on the Biden administration and look ahead to the 2024 presidential election.

The Climate Summit (September 28, 2:30–4 p.m.)
This session will address today’s most urgent climate challenges and offer solutions for a more resilient future. Summit participants include David M. Turk, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy; and Rohit Aggarwala, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, and chief climate officer of New York City.

The Small-Business Summit: Scaling Sustainability (September 29, 12:45–2:15 p.m.)
The Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey will moderate this newly announced summit with speakers including Omi Shelly Bell, the founder and CEO of Black Girl Ventures; Emi Reyes, the CEO of the Latino Economic Development Center; Amir Tarighat, a co-founder and the CEO of Agency; Celena Gill, a co-founder and the CEO of Frères Branchiaux; and Ramunda Lark Young, a co-founder and owner of MahoganyBooks.

In Pursuit of Happiness Forum (September 29, 1–3 p.m.)
Cleo Wade and freestyle+ (part of Freestyle Love Supreme) have both been added to the In Pursuit of Happiness forum, which is led by the Atlantic contributing writer Arthur C. Brooks, and which also features the author Cheryl Strayed.

Atlantic Watch: Bad Press (September 29, 2:45–5:30 p.m.)
A screening of the new documentary Bad Press. Out of 574 federally recognized tribes, the Muscogee Nation was one of only five to establish a free and independent press—until the tribe’s legislative branch abruptly repealed the landmark Free Press Act in advance of an election, prompting a rogue reporter to take matters into her own hands. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the co-directors Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler, and Angel Ellis, the journalist at the center of the story.

In a session produced by our underwriter, supermodel, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Karlie Kloss and Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder and the CEO of Inflection AI, will be interviewed by The Atlantic’s CEO, Nicholas Thompson, during “Leaps by Bayer Presents: Mind to Machine.” (September 28, 12:15–1 p.m.)

The 2023 Atlantic Festival is made possible through the generous support of Presenting Level Underwriters Leaps by Bayer, Pfizer, and Southern Company; Supporting Level Underwriter Allstate; and Contributing Level Underwriters AHIP, Barbour, Boston Consulting Group, City of Hope, Eli Lilly and Company, Genentech, Goldman Sachs, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Visit Seattle.

The Atlantic Festival
September 28–29, 2023
The Wharf, D.C., and Virtually
For Passes: https://theatlanticfestival.com