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October 20, 2026 3.8x its usual first day Why Trump Is Making Deals With Putin The video opened at a pace of 69,372 views a day, 3.8 times a normal first day on this channel (18,060).

This week on the channel +1.4M views this week

A 'neutron bomb for education': Jonathan Haidt and David Brooks at the Atlantic Festival

The newest episode of The Permanent Questions, made with Yale and taped before a live audience, looks back on 40 years of studying human na…

Channel: The Atlantic · Story of October 5, 2026

Video taking off 16x its usual first day

Reagan's 1980 question, asked again: David Frum on wages, prices and tariffs

The short Saturday episode of The David Frum Show ran far ahead of everything else The Atlantic posted that day, and its comments read like…

Channel: The Atlantic · Story of October 4, 2026

Video taking off 35x its usual first day

Eric Holder and David Frum on the midterms pass 100,000 views in thirteen hours

The former attorney general's conversation about voting rights and gerrymandering is moving far faster than anything else The Atlantic post…

Channel: The Atlantic · Story of October 1, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Tech Leaders Have Escape Plans. What About Everybody Else?

Video published

October 23, 2026

Video views so far

9,303

Video views, pace per day

12,748

Views in its first 13 hours

9,303

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

1.5% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.4% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Watch This Video While You Still Can	October 23, 2026	1:39 short	2,610	6,577	2,610 (6 hours)	175	10
Maria Bamford on Her Experience With Intrusive Thoughts	October 23, 2026	1:31 short	520	922	520 (9 hours)	27	1
Tech Leaders Have Escape Plans. What About Everybody Else?	October 23, 2026	49:06	9,303	12,748	9,303 (13 hours)	176	28
Battle of the Galactic Overlords	October 23, 2026	2:14 short	2,745	1,863	2,500	114	4
The New Season of Autocracy in America, Hosted by Anne Appl…	October 22, 2026	0:57 short	6,127	1,400	5,408	126	7
Maria Bamford Is Tough as Nails	October 22, 2026	31:28	4,338	749	3,834	23	4
Kara Swisher on How Tech Leaders Have Characterized the AI …	October 21, 2026	1:17 short	3,278	356	2,658	95	2
Will the Tech Oligarchs Turn on Trump? (With Kara Swisher) …	October 21, 2026	59:55	63,056	8,231	44,125	1,422	354
What Trump’s Shift Toward Russia Could Mean for Ukraine	October 21, 2026	1:17 short	4,832	464	3,803	103	11
A New Season of ‘Autocracy in America’ With Anne Applebaum	October 20, 2026	0:57 short	22,853	1,881	15,474	482	23
Why Trump Is Making Deals With Putin	October 19, 2026	23:01	115,640	2,160	77,394	2,451	428
Readers’ Songs That Explain America	October 19, 2026	1:37 short	1,350	272	696	19	1
The Costs of Turning Politics Into Religion	October 18, 2026	1:23 short	6,833	1,050	2,796	129	31
How “Grand Theft Auto VI” Could Upset Nearly Everyone	October 18, 2026	1:01 short	4,944	146	2,633	46	12
“No American Is My Enemy”: Jeffrey Goldberg on How to Get O…	October 18, 2026	42:15	96,997	2,798	59,182	1,510	287

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

20.0 in the category: 19.8

comments per 1,000 views

3.5 in the category: 1.8

a video's usual first day on this channel

4,634 views

short vs long

10 short (up to 3 minutes), 5 long
average views per short video: 5,609
average views per long video: 57,866

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 20, 2026Video taking offWhy Trump Is Making Deals With Putin The video opened at a pace of 69,372 views a day, 3.8 times a normal first day on this channel (18,060).
2. October 19, 2026Video taking off“No American Is My Enemy”: Jeffrey Goldberg on Ho… The video opened at a pace of 61,090 views a day, 3.5 times a normal first day on this channel (17,254).
3. October 18, 2026Video taking offWho Profited From Trump’s Plans? | The David Frum… The video opened at a pace of 81,994 views a day, 4.8 times a normal first day on this channel (17,254).
4. October 17, 2026Video surgingBooks Are Becoming More Like Video Games The video ran that day at 21,916 views a day, 7.3 times its usual pace (3,011).
5. October 15, 2026Video taking offHow Trump Is Selling Out Ukraine | The David Frum… The video opened at a pace of 92,202 views a day, 4.9 times a normal first day on this channel (18,865).
6. October 11, 2026Video taking offDid Marco Rubio Just Start His 2028 Campaign? | T… The video opened at a pace of 127,539 views a day, 7.1 times a normal first day on this channel (18,060).
7. October 4, 2026Video taking offTrump’s Economy Is Making You Poorer | The David … The video opened at a pace of 50,756 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (3,161).Read the story
8. October 1, 2026Video taking offHow Trump Could Threaten the 2026 Elections (With… The video opened at a pace of 145,665 views a day, 35 times a normal first day on this channel (4,214).Read the story
9. September 27, 2026Video taking offTrump’s Desperate Diesel Plan Will Backfire | The… The video opened at a pace of 622,615 views a day, 274 times a normal first day on this channel (2,275).