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- Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall outBeware of ‘
- Sarah Hanson-Young on the debate around free speech on social media – podcastGuardian Australia’s political editor
- Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcastOrganising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength. By Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
- White House correspondents dinner: is there still space for humour?The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner returns this Saturday for a night of comedy ‘roasting’ – where the great and the good are ruthlessly mocked in celebration of the freedom of the press.
- The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses - podcastPolice have arrested dozens of students across US universities this week after a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests on campuses. Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan report from New York
- Newsroom edition: can governments control big tech? – podcastAs the Australian government faces off with Elon Musk and his social media platform X, a global battle to better regulate the world’s biggest social platforms is kicking off.
- Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra<a href="https://twitter.com/maxrushden">Max Rushden</a> is joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/bglendenning">Barry Glendenning</a>, Jonathan Liew and <a href="https://twitter.com/robyniocowen">Robyn Cowen</a> as Liverpool lose the Merseyside derby … and maybe more</p><strong>Rate, review, share on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/football-weekly-the-guardian/id188674007?mt=2">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="https://audioboom.com/channel/football-weekly">Audioboom</a>, <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly/">Mixcloud</a>, <a href="https://www.acast.com/footballweekly">Acast</a> and <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/guardianuk/football-weekly">Stitcher</a>, and join the conversation on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GuardianPodcasts/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/guardianaudio">Twitter</a> and <a href="mailto:footballweekly@theguardian.com">email</a>.</strong></p>On the podcast today: Everton sink Liverpool in a Merseyside derby that could be the end of the Reds’ title hopes, and which may well be enough to secure the Toffees’ Premier League status.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/apr/25/have-everton-dashed-liverpool-title-dreams-football-weekly-extra-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
- Sicknote culture wars and Angela Rayner – Politics Weekly UKRishi Sunak has said it is his ‘moral mission’ to end Britain’s sicknote culture. The Guardian’s John Harris speaks to the disability campaigner Hannah Deakin and the New Economics Foundation’s head of social policy, Tom Pollard, about why the current system is failing people. Plus, the political correspondent Kiran Stacey runs us through the latest from Westminster
- From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcastAs bird flu is confirmed in 33 cattle herds across eight US states, Ian Sample talks to virologist Dr Ed Hutchinson of Glasgow University about why this development has taken scientists by surprise, and how prepared we are for the possibility it might start spreading among humans
- What Ukraine needs to change the course of the war – podcastUkraine has been granted a multibillion-dollar lifeline in military aid. But it will need more than that to prevail in the conflict with Russia. Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv and Shaun Walker report
- Is Elon Musk above Australian law? – podcastAnthony Albanese has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church.
- Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly<a href="https://twitter.com/maxrushden">Max Rushden</a> is joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/bglendenning">Barry Glendenning</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/benfisherj">Ben Fisher</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Sanny_Rudra">Sanny Rudravajhala</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeElek">George Elek</a> as Arsenal beat Chelsea 5-0 and to run through the EFL as those divisions reach a conclusion in the coming weeks</p><strong>Rate, review, share on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/football-weekly-the-guardian/id188674007?mt=2">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="https://audioboom.com/channel/football-weekly">Audioboom</a>, <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly/">Mixcloud</a>, <a href="https://www.acast.com/footballweekly">Acast</a> and <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/guardianuk/football-weekly">Stitcher</a>, and join the conversation on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GuardianPodcasts/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/guardianaudio">Twitter</a> and <a href="mailto:footballweekly@theguardian.com">email</a>.</strong></p>On the podcast today; Arsenal keep pace at the top of the Premier League – were they brilliant or are Chelsea inexcusably bad? It’s probably a touch of both.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/apr/24/arsenal-thrash-chelsea-and-a-football-league-update-football-weekly">Continue reading...</a>
- Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner? – podcastKeir Starmer’s deputy is facing questions over the sale of her former home. But do voters care? Gaby Hinsliff reports
- Essential report: is Labor being honest about how hard the energy transition will be? – Australian Politics podcastGuardian Australia’s chief political correspondent,
- From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart – podcastWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.
- Why weren't the Bondi stabbings declared a terrorist act? – podcastIn the aftermath of the Bondi Junction and Wakeley stabbing attacks, Guardian Australia political editor
- An episode from Women’s Football Weekly – Fifpro exclusive interview<a href="https://twitter.com/FayeCarruthers">Faye Carruthers</a> is joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyWrack">Suzanne Wrack</a> for an exclusive interview with <a href="https://www.fifpro.org/">Fifpro</a> representatives <a href="https://twitter.com/sarah_grego">Sarah Gregorius</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/alexculvin">Alex Culvin</a>, plus Dutch International player, <a href="https://twitter.com/merelvd">Merel van Dongen</a>, to discuss how the number of games elite athletes are playing is impacting them on and off the pitch. Also, <a href="https://twitter.com/GirlsontheBall">Sophie Downey</a> joins to round up all the weekend’s action in the Champion’s League and WSL</p>From our sister pod today; the panel brings you an exclusive interview with representatives from the global players’ union – Fifpro – who, alongside Netherlands defender Merel van Dongen, share their views on how the number of games elite athletes are playing is impacting them on and off the pitch.</p>The panel also discusses Chelsea’s inspired Champions League win, Manchester City retaking the lead in the WSL, Arsenal securing European football, Palace on the brink of lifting the Championship and Lewes’s relegation …<br><br>If you haven’t already, make sure to subscribe to Women’s Football Weekly to keep informed about the biggest stories in the global game.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/apr/23/an-episode-from-womens-football-weekly-fifpro-exclusive-interview">Continue reading...</a>
- Fifpro exclusive interview and Chelsea stifle Barça – Women’s Football Weekly<a href="https://twitter.com/FayeCarruthers">Faye Carruthers</a> is joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/SuzyWrack">Suzanne Wrack</a> for an interview with <a href="https://www.fifpro.org/">Fifpro</a> representatives, <a href="https://twitter.com/sarah_grego">Sarah Gregorius</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/alexculvin">Alex Culvin</a>, plus Dutch international, <a href="https://twitter.com/merelvd">Merel van Dongen</a>, to discuss how footballers are being affected by the packed schedule. Also, <a href="https://twitter.com/GirlsontheBall">Sophie Downey</a> rounds up the weekend action in the Champion’s League and WSL</p>Today’s pod features an exclusive interview with representatives from the global players’ union, Fifpro, who, alongside the Netherlands defender Merel van Dongen, share their views on how footballers are being affected by the packed schedule.</p>The panel also discuss Chelsea's inspired Champions League win against Barcelona, Manchester City retaking the WSL lead, Arsenal securing European football, Palace's Championship title charge and relegation for Lewes …</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/apr/23/fifpro-exclusive-interview-womens-football-weekly">Continue reading...</a>
- Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? – podcastLabradors are known for being greedy dogs, and now scientists have come up with a theory about the genetic factors that might be behind their behaviour. Science correspondent and flat-coated retriever owner Nicola Davis visits Cambridge University to meet Dr Eleanor Raffan and Prof Giles Yeo to find out how understanding this pathway could help us treat the obesity crisis in humans
- Sudan’s forgotten war - podcastWhile conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine have captured global attention, the civil war in Sudan has been largely ignored. That can’t be allowed to continue, says the Guardian’s Nesrine Malik
- Introducing ‘The Interview’: Anne Hathaway Is Done Trying to PleaseOn the debut of ’The Interview,' the actress talks to David Marchese about learning to let go of other people’s opinions. For more on the show, please visit nytimes.com/theinterview.
- Harvey Weinstein Conviction Thrown OutWhen the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sex crimes four years ago, it was celebrated as a watershed moment for the #MeToo movement. Yesterday, New York’s highest court of appeals overturned that conviction.
- The Crackdown on Student ProtestersColumbia University has become the epicenter of a growing showdown between student protesters, college administrators and Congress over the war in Gaza and the limits of free speech.
- Is $60 Billion Enough to Save Ukraine?Lawmakers approved a giant new tranche of support for Ukraine late last night after a tortured passage through the U.S. Congress, where it was nearly derailed by right-wing resistance in the House.
- A Salacious Conspiracy or Just 34 Pieces of Paper?The prosecution and the defense both opened their cases on Monday in the first criminal trial of Donald Trump.
- The Evolving Danger of the New Bird FluThe outbreak of bird flu currently tearing through the nation’s poultry is the worst in U.S. history. Scientists say it is now spreading beyond farms into places and species it has never been before.
- Sunday Special: 'Modern Love'The chef Samin Nosrat lives by the idea that food is love. Her Netflix series, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” and the James Beard Award-winning cookbook that inspired it, were about using food to build community and forge connections. Since then, all of her creative projects and collaborations have focused on inspiring people to cook, and eat, with their friends and loved ones. After the recent loss of her father, Samin has gained an even deeper understanding of what it means to savor a meal — or even an hour — with loved ones. This week, she reads an essay about exactly that: “You May Want to Marry My Husband” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. It’s one of the most-read Modern Love essays ever.
- The Supreme Court Takes Up HomelessnessDebates over homeless encampments in the United States have intensified as their number has surged. To tackle the problem, some cities have enforced bans on public camping.
- The Opening Days of Trump’s First Criminal TrialPolitical and legal history are being made in a Lower Manhattan courtroom as Donald J. Trump becomes the first former U.S. president to undergo a criminal trial.
- Are ‘Forever Chemicals’ a Forever Problem?The Environmental Protection Agency has begun for the first time to regulate a class of synthetic chemicals known as “forever chemicals” in America’s drinking water.
- A.I.’s Original SinA Times investigation shows how the country’s biggest technology companies, as they raced to build powerful new artificial intelligence systems, bent and broke the rules from the start.
- Iran’s Unprecedented Attack on IsraelOvernight on Saturday, Iran launched its first direct attack on Israeli soil, shooting hundreds of missiles and drones at multiple targets.
- The Sunday Read: ‘What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump’s Rise’At the center of the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan is the accusation that Trump took part in a scheme to turn The National Enquirer and its sister publications into an arm of his 2016 presidential campaign. The documents detailed three “hush money” payments made to a series of individuals to guarantee their silence about potentially damaging stories in the months before the election. Because this was done with the goal of helping his election chances, the case implied, these payments amounted to a form of illegal, undisclosed campaign spending. And because Trump created paperwork to make the payments seem like regular legal expenses, that amounted to a criminal effort at a coverup, argued Alvin Bragg, the district attorney of Manhattan. Trump has denied the charges against him.
- How One Family Lost $900,000 in a Timeshare Scam<i>Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.</i></p>A massive scam targeting older Americans who own timeshare properties has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars sent to Mexico.</p>Maria Abi-Habib, an investigative correspondent for The Times, tells the story of a victim who lost everything, and of the criminal group making the scam calls — Jalisco New Generation, one of Mexico’s most violent cartels.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/maria-abi-habib?smid=pc-thedaily">Maria Abi-Habib</a>, an investigative correspondent for The New York Times based in Mexico City.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>How a brutal Mexican drug cartel came to target <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/world/americas/mexico-timeshare-fraud-cartel.html">seniors and their timeshares</a>.</li></ul>
- The Staggering Success of Trump’s Trial Delay TacticsFor former President Donald J. Trump, 2024 was supposed to be dominated by criminal trials. Instead, he’s found ways to delay almost all of them.
- Trump's Abortion DilemmaBy the time his first term was over, Donald J. Trump had cemented his place as the most anti-abortion president in U.S. history. Now, facing political blowback, he’s trying to change that reputation.
- How Tesla Planted the Seeds for Its Own Potential DownfallWhen Elon Musk set up Tesla’s factory in China, he made a bet that brought him cheap parts and capable workers — a bet that made him ultrarich and saved his company.
- The Eclipse ChaserToday, millions of Americans will have the opportunity to see a rare total solar eclipse.
- The Sunday Read: ‘What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living’Chris Kerr was 12 when he first observed a deathbed vision. His memory of that summer in 1974 is blurred, but not the sense of mystery he felt at the bedside of his dying father. Throughout Kerr’s childhood in Toronto, his father, a surgeon, was too busy to spend much time with his son, except for an annual fishing trip they took, just the two of them, to the Canadian wilderness. Gaunt and weakened by cancer at 42, his father reached for the buttons on Kerr’s shirt, fiddled with them and said something about getting ready to catch the plane to their cabin in the woods. “I knew intuitively, I knew wherever he was, must be a good place because we were going fishing,” Kerr told me.
- An Engineering Experiment to Cool the EarthDecades of efforts to cut carbon emissions have failed to significantly slow the rate of global warming, so scientists are now turning to bolder approaches.
- Israel’s Deadly Airstrike on the World Central KitchenThe Israeli airstrike that killed seven workers delivering food in Gaza has touched off global outrage and condemnation.
- The Accidental Tax Cutter in ChiefIn his campaign for re-election, President Biden has said that raising taxes on the wealthy and on big corporations is at the heart of his agenda. But under his watch, overall net taxes have decreased.
- Kids Are Missing School at an Alarming RateLong after schools have fully reopened after the pandemic, one concerning metric suggests that children and their parents have changed the way they think about being in class.
- Ronna McDaniel, TV News and the Trump ProblemRonna McDaniel’s time at NBC was short. The former Republican National Committee chairwoman was hired as an on-air political commentator but released just days later after an on-air revolt by the network’s leading stars.
- From Serial: Season 4 - GuantánamoMaybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.
- Hamas Took Her, and Still Has Her Husband<i>Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.</i></p>It’s been nearly six months since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, when militants took more than 200 hostages into Gaza.</p>In a village called Nir Oz, near the border, one quarter of residents were either killed or taken hostage. Yocheved Lifshitz and her husband, Oded Lifshitz, were among those taken.</p>Today, Yocheved and her daughter Sharone tell their story.</p>Guest: </p><ul><li>Yocheved Lifshitz, a former hostage.</li><li>Sharone Lifschitz, daughter of Yocheved and Oded Lifshitz.</li></ul>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Yocheved Lifshitz<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hostages.html"> was beaten and held in tunnels</a> built by Hamas for 17 days.</li></ul>
- The Newest Tech Start-Up Billionaire? Donald TrumpOver the past few years, Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, has been dismissed as a money-losing boondoggle.
- Democrats’ Plan to Save the Republican House SpeakerAgainst all odds and expectations, Speaker Mike Johnson keeps managing to fund the government, inflame the far right of his party — and hold on to his job.
- The United States vs. the iPhoneLast week, the Justice Department took aim at Apple, accusing the company of violating competition laws with practices intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones.
- A Terrorist Attack in Russia<i>Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.</i></p>More than a hundred people died and scores more were wounded on Friday night in a terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow — the deadliest such attack in Russia in decades.</p>Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The Times, discusses the uncomfortable question the assault raises for Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin: Has his focus on the war in Ukraine left his country more vulnerable to other threats?</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/anton-troianovski">Anton Troianovski</a>, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>In Russia,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/world/europe/russia-moscow-concert-hall-attack.html"> fingers point anywhere but at ISIS</a> for the concert hall attack.</li><li>The<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/world/europe/putin-russia-moscow-attack.html"> attack shatters Mr. Putin’s security promise</a> to Russians.</li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog ‘Hotels.’ I Tagged Along.’By the time Sam Apple pulled up with his goldendoodle, Steve, to their resting place, he was tired from the long drive and already second-guessing his plan. He felt a little better when they stepped inside the Dogwood Acres Pet Retreat. The lobby, with its elegant tiled entrance, might have passed for the lobby of any small countryside hotel, at least one that strongly favored dog-themed decor. But this illusion was broken when the receptionist reviewed their reservation — which, in addition to their luxury suite, included cuddle time, group play, a nature walk and a “belly rub tuck-in.”
- Chuck Schumer on His Campaign to Oust Israel’s LeaderIn a pointed speech from the Senate floor this month, the majority leader, Chuck Schumer, called for Israel to hold a new election and for voters to oust the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
- The Caitlin Clark PhenomenonThis year, the star of college basketball is Caitlin Clark, a woman who is changing everything about the game — from the way it’s played, to its economics, to who is watching.
- The Bombshell Case That Will Transform the Housing MarketFor decades, an invisible hand has been guiding and controlling the American real estate industry, dictating how much buyers and sellers pay to their agents and how homes are sold. A few days ago, after a stunning legal settlement, that control — wielded by the National Association of Realtors — collapsed.
- Trump’s Plan to Take Away Biden’s Biggest AdvantageOver the past week, Donald J. Trump has burned down and rebuilt the Republican National Committee, gutting the leadership and much of the staff.
- Your Car May Be Spying on You<i>Warning: this episode contains a discussion about domestic abuse</i>.<br /><br />As cars become ever more sophisticated pieces of technology, they’ve begun sharing information about their drivers, sometimes with unnerving consequences.</p>Kashmir Hill, a features writer for The Times, explains what information cars can log and what that can mean for their owners.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kashmir-hill">Kashmir Hill</a>, a features writer on the business desk at The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Automakers are<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html"> sharing consumers’ driving behavior</a> with insurance companies.</li><li>If your car is tracking you,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/technology/car-trackers-gps-abuse.html"> abusive partners may be, too</a>.</li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?’In October 2022, amid a flurry of media appearances promoting their film “Tàr,” the director Todd Field and the star Cate Blanchett made time to visit a cramped closet in Manhattan. This closet, which has become a sacred space for movie buffs, was once a disused bathroom at the headquarters of the Criterion Collection, a 40-year-old company dedicated to “gathering the greatest films from around the world” and making high-quality editions available to the public on DVD and Blu-ray and, more recently, through its streaming service, the Criterion Channel. Today Criterion uses the closet as its stockroom, housing films by some 600 directors from more than 50 countries — a catalog so synonymous with cinematic achievement that it has come to function as a kind of film Hall of Fame. Through a combination of luck, obsession and good taste, this 55-person company has become the arbiter of what makes a great movie, more so than any Hollywood studio or awards ceremony.
- A Journey Through Putin’s RussiaRussians go to the polls today in the first presidential election since their country invaded Ukraine two years ago.
- It Sucks to Be 33Jeanna Smialek, who covers the U.S. economy for The Times, will be 33 in a few weeks; she is part of a cohort born in 1990 and 1991 that makes up the peak of America’s population.
- The Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain<i>Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence and self harm.</i></p>Last fall, an Army reservist killed 18 people at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, before turning the gun on himself.</p>Dave Philipps, who covers military affairs for The Times, had already been investigating the idea that soldiers could be injured just by firing their own weapons. Analyzing the case of the gunman in Lewiston, Dave explains, could change our understanding of the effects of modern warfare on the human brain.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/dave-philipps">Dave Philipps</a>, who covers war, the military and veterans for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Profound damage was<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/maine-shooting-brain-injury.html"> found in the Lewiston gunman’s brain</a>, possibly from explosions.</li><li>The<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/lewiston-mass-shooting-robert-card.html"> finding has broad implications</a> for treatment strategies in veterans and for criminal justice.</li></ul>
- Oregon Decriminalized Drugs. Voters Now Regret It.In 2020, motivated to try a different way to combat drug use, Oregon voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs including fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine.
- The Billionaires’ Secret Plan to Solve California’s Housing CrisisFor years, a mysterious company has been buying farmland on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, eventually putting together a plot twice the size of San Francisco.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?’That people will travel to Mars, and soon, is a widely accepted conviction within NASA. Rachel McCauley, until recently the acting deputy director of NASA’s Mars campaign, had, as of July, a punch list of 800 problems that must be solved before the first human mission launches. Many of these concern the mechanical difficulties of transporting people to a planet that is never closer than 33.9 million miles away; keeping them alive on poisonous soil in unbreathable air, bombarded by solar radiation and galactic cosmic rays, without access to immediate communication; and returning them safely to Earth, more than a year and half later. But McCauley does not doubt that NASA will overcome these challenges. What NASA does not yet know — what nobody can know — is whether humanity can overcome the psychological torment of Martian life.
- The State of the UnionPresident Biden used his State of the Union address last night to push for re-election and to go on the attack against Donald J. Trump, his likely adversary in November.
- The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.When Google released Gemini, a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, it quickly faced a backlash — and unleashed a fierce debate about whether A.I. should be guided by social values, and if so, whose values they should be.
- The Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the ElectionMillions of voters in states across the country cast their ballots in the presidential primary on Super Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the November election will be a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump.
- A Deadly Aid Delivery and Growing Threat of Famine in GazaLate last week, an effort to get food into northern Gaza turned deadly, as thousands of desperate Gazans descended on aid trucks, and Israeli troops tasked with guarding those trucks opened fire.
- An F.B.I. Informant, a Bombshell Claim, and an Impeachment Built on a LieA single piece of unverified intelligence became the centerpiece of a Republican attempt to impeach President Biden.
- The Sunday Read: ‘How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America’At the end of a quiet, leafy street in the Valley in Los Angeles, the reality TV star Tom Sandoval has outfitted his home with landscaping lights that rotate in a spectrum of colors, mimicking the dance floor of a nightclub. The property is both his private residence and an occasional TV set for the Bravo reality show “Vanderpump Rules.” After a series of events that came to be known as “Scandoval,” paparazzi had been camped outside, but by the new year it was just one or two guys, and now they have mostly gone, too.
- Biden, Trump and a Split Screen at the Texas BorderPresident Biden and Donald J. Trump both made appearances at the southern border on Thursday as they addressed an issue that is shaping up to be one of the most important in the 2024 election: immigration.
- How Poisoned Applesauce Found Its Way to KidsA Times investigation has revealed how applesauce laced with high levels of lead sailed through a food safety system meant to protect American consumers, and poisoned hundreds of children across the U.S.
- An Arms Race Quietly Unfolds in SpaceU.S. officials have acknowledged a growing fear that Russia may be trying to put a nuclear weapon into orbit.
- The Voters Willing to Abandon Biden Over GazaIn the past few weeks, activists in Michigan have begun calling voters in the state, asking them to protest President Biden’s support for the Israeli military campaign in Gaza by not voting for him in the Democratic primary.
- The Alabama Ruling That Could Stop Families From Having Kids A surprise ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court has halted fertility treatments across the state and sent a shock wave through the world of reproductive health.
- The Sunday Read: ‘How Do You Make a Weed Empire? Sell It Like Streetwear.’The closest thing to a bat signal for stoners is the blue lettering of the Cookies logo. When a new storefront comes to a strip mall or a downtown shopping district, fans flock to grand-opening parties, drawn by a love of the brand — one based on more than its reputation for selling extremely potent weed.
- Trump’s Cash CrunchLast week, when a civil court judge in New York ruled against Donald J. Trump, he imposed a set of penalties so severe that they could temporarily sever the former president from his real-estate empire and wipe out all of his cash.
- Putin’s Opposition Ponders a Future Without Aleksei NavalnyLast week, the Russian authorities announced that Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and an unflinching critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, had died in a remote Arctic prison at the age of 47.
- What Happens if America Turns Its Back on Its Allies in EuropeOver the past few weeks, a growing sense of alarm across Europe over the future of the continent’s security has turned into outright panic.
- Stranded in Rafah as an Israeli Invasion Looms<i>This episode contains strong language and descriptions of war.</i></p>After months of telling residents in the Gaza Strip to move south for safety, Israel now says it plans to invade Rafah, the territory’s southernmost city. More than a million people are effectively trapped there without any clear idea of where to go.</p>Two Gazans describe what it is like to live in Rafah right now.</p>Guest: Ghada al-Kurd and Hussein Owda, who are among more than a million people sheltering in Rafah.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Israel’s allies and others have<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/world/middleeast/rafah-israel-offensive.html"> warned against an offensive</a>, saying that the safety of the civilians who have sought shelter in the far south of Gaza is paramount.</li><li>Palestinians in Rafah described<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/world/middleeast/rafah-bombing-hostage-rescue-gaza.html"> a “night full of horror”</a> as Israeli strikes pummeled the area during an Israeli hostage rescue operation.</li></ul>
- The Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ TonguesA Times investigation has found that dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new mothers struggling to breastfeed, generating huge profits while often harming patients.
- Sunday Special: Un-Marry Me!Today we’re sharing the latest episode of Modern Love, a podcast about the complicated love lives of real people, from The New York Times.
- An Explosive Hearing in Trump’s Georgia Election CaseIn tense proceedings in Georgia, a judge will decide whether Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, and her office should be disqualified from their prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump.
- How China Broke One Man’s DreamsA crisis of confidence is brewing inside China, where the government is turning believers in the Chinese dream into skeptics willing to flee the country.
- The Biden Problem Democrats Can No Longer IgnoreQuestions about President Biden’s age sharpened again recently after a special counsel report about his handling of classified information described him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
- Why the Race to Replace George Santos Is So CloseVoters in New York are choosing the successor to George Santos, the disgraced Republican who was expelled from Congress in December.
- Why Boeing’s Top Airplanes Keep FailingWhen a piece of an Alaska Airlines flight blew out into the sky in January, concern and scrutiny focused once more on the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Unthinkable Mental Health Crisis That Shook a New England College’The first death happened before the academic year began. In July 2021, an undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute was reported dead. The administration sent a notice out over email, with the familiar, thoroughly vetted phrasing and appended resources. Katherine Foo, an assistant professor in the department of integrative and global studies, felt especially crushed by the news. She taught this student. He was Chinese, and she felt connected to the particular set of pressures he faced. She read through old, anonymous course evaluations, looking for any sign she might have missed. But she was unsure where to put her personal feelings about a loss suffered in this professional context.
- Kick Trump Off the Ballot? Even Liberal Justices Are SkepticalIn December, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a bombshell ruling that said Donald Trump was ineligible to be on the state’s ballot for the Republican presidential primary, saying he was disqualified under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution because he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6.
- A Guilty Verdict For a Mass Shooter’s Mother<i>Warning: this episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.</i></p>A few days ago, for the first time, an American jury convicted a parent for a mass shooting carried out by their child.</p>Lisa Miller, who has been following the case since its beginning, explains what the historic verdict really means.</p>Guest: Lisa Miller, a domestic correspondent for The New York Times</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>From New York Magazine:<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/oxford-school-shooting-ethan-crumbley-parents.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> Will James and Jennifer Crumbley be Found Guilty for Their Son’s Mass Shooting?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/jennifer-crumbley-michigan-shooting-verdict.html?smid=pc-thedaily">Mother of Michigan Gunman Found Guilty of Manslaughter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/jennifer-crumbley-mass-shooting-parents.html?smid=pc-thedaily">A Mom’s Conviction Offers Prosecutors a New Tactic in Mass Shooting Cases</a></li></ul>
- El Salvador Decimated Gangs. But at What Cost?El Salvador has experienced a remarkable transformation. What had once been one of the most violent countries in the world has become incredibly safe.
- The U.N. Scandal Threatening Crucial Aid to GazaLate last month, an explosive allegation that workers from a crucial U.N. relief agency in Gaza had taken part in the Oct. 7 attacks stunned the world and prompted major donors, including the United States, to suspend funding.
- The 1948 Economic Moment That Might Explain Our OwnPresident Biden has struggled to sell Americans on the positive signs in the economy under his watch, despite figures that look good on paper. That could have important ramifications for his re-election hopes.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century’Of all the dozens of suspected thieves questioned by the detectives of the Train Burglary Task Force at the Los Angeles Police Department during the months they spent investigating the rise in theft from the city’s freight trains, one man stood out. What made him memorable wasn’t his criminality so much as his giddy enthusiasm for trespassing. That man, Victor Llamas, was a self-taught expert of the supply chain, a connoisseur of shipping containers. Even in custody, as the detectives interrogated him numerous times, after multiple arrests, in a windowless room in a police station in spring 2022, a kind of nostalgia would sweep over the man. “He said that was the best feeling he’d ever had, jumping on the train while it was moving,” Joe Chavez, who supervised the task force’s detectives, said. “It was euphoric for him.”
- On the Ballot in South Carolina: Biden’s Pitch to Black VotersThe Democratic presidential nomination process begins tomorrow in South Carolina, and President Biden is running largely uncontested. But his campaign is expending significant resources in the race to try to reach a crucial part of his base: Black voters.
- Secure the Border, Say Republicans. So Why Are They Killing a Plan to Do That?For the past few weeks, Democrats and Republicans were closing in on a game-changing deal to secure the U.S.-Mexico border: a bipartisan compromise that’s unheard-of in contemporary Washington.
- Is the Future of Medicine Hidden in Ancient DNA?In a major advance in science, DNA from Bronze Age skeletons is providing clues to modern medical mysteries.
- Trump’s Voters vs. Haley’s DonorsInside the Republican Party, a class war is playing out between the pro-Trump base, which is ready for the nomination fight to be over, and the anti-Trump donor class, which thinks it’s just getting started.
- The Failed Promise of Police Body Cameras<i>This episode contains strong language and audio excerpts of violence.</i></p>About a decade ago, police departments across the United States began equipping their officers with body cameras. The technology was meant to serve as a window into potential police misconduct, but that transparency has often remained elusive.</p>Eric Umansky, an editor at large at ProPublica, explains why body cameras haven’t been the fix that many hoped they would be.</p>Guest: Eric Umansky, an editor at large at ProPublica.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/magazine/police-body-cameras-miguel-richards.html">The Failed Promise of Police Body Cameras</a></li><li>From ProPublica: 21 Bodycam Videos Caught the NYPD Wrongly Arresting Black Kids on Halloween.<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/police-body-worn-cameras-no-transparency"> Why Can’t the Public See the Footage?</a></li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Whale Who Went AWOL’On April 26, 2019, a beluga whale appeared near Tufjord, a village in northern Norway, immediately alarming fishermen in the area. Belugas in that part of the world typically inhabit the remote Arctic and are rarely spotted as far south as the Norwegian mainland. Although they occasionally travel solo, they tend to live and move in groups. This particular whale was entirely alone and unusually comfortable around humans, trailing boats and opening his mouth as though expecting to be fed.
- The Mother Who Changed: A Story of DementiaAcross the United States, millions of families are confronting a seemingly impossible question: When dementia changes a relative, how much should they accommodate their new personality and desires?
- The Hybrid Worker MalaiseThe era of hybrid work has spawned a new kind of office culture — one that has left many workers less connected and less happy than they have ever been.
- Why the G.O.P. Nomination Fight Is Now (All But) OverOn Tuesday, Donald J. Trump beat Nikki Haley in New Hampshire. His win accelerated a push for the party to coalesce behind him and deepened questions about the path forward for Ms. Haley, his lone remaining rival.
- The Shadowy Story of Oppenheimer and CongressNominations for the Oscars are announced on Tuesday and “Oppenheimer,” a film about the father of the atomic bomb, is expected to be among the front-runners.
- The Rules of War In the International Court of Justice, South Africa is accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Podcasters Took Up Her Sister’s Murder Investigation. Then They Turned on Her’Liz Flatt drove to Austin, Texas, mostly out of desperation. She had tried talking with the police. She had tried working with a former F.B.I. profiler who ran a nonprofit dedicated to solving unsolved murders. She had been interviewed by journalists and at least one podcaster. She had been featured on a Netflix documentary series about a man who falsely confessed to hundreds of killings.
- The Fishermen Who Could End Federal Regulation as We Know ItOn its surface, the case before the Supreme Court — a dispute brought by fishing crews objecting to a government fee — appears to be routine.
- What the Houthis Really WantAttacks by Houthi militants on shipping in the Red Sea, a crucial global trade route, once seemed like a dangerous sideshow to the war in Gaza. But as the attacks have continued, the sideshow has turned into a full-blown crisis.
- The Messy Fight Over the SATConcerned about the effect on diversity, many colleges have stopped requiring standardized tests. New research suggests that might be a mistake.
- Trump’s Domination and the Battle for No. 2 in IowaAt the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday night, Donald J. Trump secured a runaway victory. The only real drama was the fight for second place.
- The Sunday Read: ‘How an Ordinary Football Game Turns Into the Most Spectacular Thing on TV’Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.’s defending champions, is a very loud place. During a 2014 game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a jet’s taking off, earning a Guinness World Record for “Loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium.”
- In Iowa, Two Friends Debate DeSantis vs. TrumpOn Monday, Iowa holds the first contest in the Republican presidential nominating process and nobody will have more on the line than Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor staked his candidacy on a victory in Iowa, a victory that now seems increasingly remote.
- The Threat of a Wider War in the Middle EastA recent string of attacks across the Middle East has raised concerns that the war between Hamas and Israel is spreading, and might put pressure on other countries like Iran and the United States to get more involved.
- Trump’s Case for Total ImmunityDonald Trump has consistently argued that as a former president, he is immune from being charged with a crime for things he did while he was in office.
- The Afterlife of a GunAcross the United States, hundreds of towns and cities are trying to get guns off the streets by turning them over to businesses that offer to destroy them.
- The Wild World of Money in College FootballTonight, millions of Americans are expected to tune in to watch one of the biggest sports events of the year, college football’s national championship game. On the field, the game will be determined by the skill of the players and coaches, but behind the scenes, secretive groups of donors are wielding enormous influence over what fans will see.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Ghosts on the Glacier’Fifty years ago, eight Americans set off for South America to climb Aconcagua, one of the world’s mightiest mountains. Things quickly went wrong. Two climbers died. Their bodies were left behind.
- A Confusing New World for College ApplicantsIn a landmark ruling last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and banned the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
- Why Are So Many More Pedestrians Dying in the U.S.?A puzzling new pattern has taken hold on American roads: pedestrian traffic deaths, which had been on the decline for years, have skyrocketed.
- Biden’s 2024 PlaybookYesterday, we went inside Donald Trump’s campaign for president, to understand how he’s trying to turn a mountain of legal trouble into a political advantage. Today, we turn to the re-election campaign of President Biden.
- Trump's 2024 PlaybookAs former President Donald J. Trump enters an election year leading his Republican rivals by wide margins in the polls, multiple court cases are taking up an increasing amount of his campaign schedule. They have been integrated into his messaging and fund-raising efforts, and his campaign staff has been
- Baseball’s Plan To Save Itself From Boredom: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p>Major League Baseball is putting in effect some of the biggest changes in the sport’s history in an effort to speed up the game and inject more activity.</p>As the 2023 season opens, Michael Schmidt, a Times reporter, explains the extraordinary plan to save baseball from the tyranny of the home run.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-s-schmidt?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank"><strong>Michael S. Schmidt</strong></a>, a national security correspondent for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Listen to the original version of the episode <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/podcasts/the-daily/mlb-new-rules-home-run.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</li><li>With <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/sports/baseball/rob-manfred-mlb-new-rules.html" target="_blank">three major rule changes</a> this season, Major League Baseball will try to reinvent itself while looking to the game’s past for inspiration.</li><li>Here’s a look at the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/24/sports/baseball/mlb-rule-changes.html" target="_blank">new rules</a>.</li></ul>
- A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly Journey: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p>With mountains, intense mud, fast-running rivers and thick rainforest, the Darién Gap, a strip of terrain connecting South and Central America, is one of the most dangerous places on the planet.</p>Over the past few years, there has been an enormous increase in the number of migrants passing through the perilous zone in the hopes of getting to the United States.</p>Today, we hear the story of one family that’s risking everything to make it across.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/julie-turkewitz" target="_blank"><strong>Julie Turkewitz</strong></a>, the Andes bureau chief for The New York Times</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Listen to the original version of the episode <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/podcasts/the-daily/darien-gap-migrants-us-border.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</li><li>The pandemic, climate change and growing conflict are forcing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/world/americas/migrants-darien-gap.html" target="_blank">a seismic shift in global migration</a>.</li><li>Two crises are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/world/americas/venezuelan-migrants-us-border.html" target="_blank">converging at the Darién Gap</a>: an economic and humanitarian disaster underway in South America and the bitter fight over immigration policy in Washington.</li></ul>
- Inside Russia’s Crackdown on Dissent: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p>Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin made it a crime to oppose the war in public. Since then, it has waged a relentless campaign of repression, putting Russian citizens in jail for offenses as small as holding a poster or sharing a news article on social media.</p>Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The Times, tells the story of Olesya Krivtsova, a 19-year-old student who faces up to 10 years in prison after posting on social media, and explains why the Russian government is so determined to silence those like her.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/valerie-hopkins" target="_blank"><strong>Valerie Hopkins</strong></a>, an international correspondent for The New York Times, covering Russia and the war in Ukraine.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Listen to the original version of the episode <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/russia-ukraine-dissent-social-media.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</li><li>Oleysa’s story has underlined the perils of using social media to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/world/europe/russia-ukraine-social-media-crackdown.html?searchResultPosition=9" target="_blank">criticize the war in Ukraine</a>.</li><li>The authorities are determining who will take custody of a 13-year-old girl whose single father has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/world/europe/custody-russian-girl-anti-war-ukraine-drawing.html" target="_blank">sentenced for “discrediting” the Russian Army</a>.</li></ul>
- How A Paradise Became A Death Trap: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since.</i></p><i>Warning: This episode contains descriptions of death.</i></p>When fires swept West Maui, Hawaii, many residents fled for their lives — but soon discovered they had nowhere to go. Thousands of structures, mostly homes, had been reduced to rubble. Husks of incinerated cars lined the historic Front Street in Lahaina, while search crews nearby made their way painstakingly from house to house, looking for human remains.</p>Ydriss Nouara, a resident of Lahaina, recounts his experience fleeing the inferno, and Mike Baker, the Seattle bureau chief for The Times, explains how an extraordinary set of circumstances turned the city into a death trap.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-baker" target="_blank"><strong>Mike Baker</strong></a>, the Seattle bureau chief for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Listen to the original version of the episode <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/podcasts/the-daily/hawaii-deaths.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</li><li>Nearly a week after the fires started, relatives received little information as search and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/hawaii-missing-answers.html?searchResultPosition=2" target="_blank">identification efforts moved slowly.</a></li><li>How the fires turned Lahaina <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/hawaii-maui-lahaina-fire.html" target="_blank">into a death trap</a>.</li></ul>
- Biden Supports Israel. Does the Rest of America?A
- The New State of the War in GazaThe accidental killing of three hostages by Israel’s military has shocked Israelis and is raising new questions about the way Israel is conducting its war against Hamas. Afterward, Israel’s defense minister appeared to announce a shift in strategy, giving the clearest indication to date that Israel may slow down its military operation in Gaza after weeks of pressure.
- Why a Colorado Court Just Knocked Trump Off the BallotThe Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald J. Trump is barred from holding office under the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies those who engage in insurrection, and directed Mr. Trump’s name to be excluded from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot.
- Football’s Young Victims<i>Warning: this episode contains mentions of suicide.</i></p>A recently released study from researchers at Boston University examined the brains of 152 contact-sport athletes who died before turning 30. They found that more than 40 percent of them had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease associated with repeated hits to the head. Most of those athletes played football, and most played no higher than the high school or college level. John Branch, domestic correspondent for The New York Times, spoke to the families of five of these athletes.</p>Background reading:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/16/us/cte-youth-football.html">C.T.E. Study Finds That Young Football Players Are Getting the Disease</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/sports/ncaafootball/football-concussions-cte.html">After the Loss of a Son, a Football Coach Confronts a Terrible Truth</a></li></ul>
- The Man Who Counts Every Shooting in America<i>Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence</i></p>In 2023, the unrelenting epidemic of gun violence in the United States has claimed the lives of more than 41,000 people. Throughout the year, each and every one of those shootings was chronicled by a website that has become the most authoritative and widely-cited source of data about gun deaths in the country: the Gun Violence Archive.</p>Mark Bryant, the founder of the database, explains why he has dedicated so much of his life to painstakingly recording a problem with no end in sight.</p>Guest: Mark Bryant, the founder of the Gun Violence Archive.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Mr. Bryant’s website, the<a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org"> Gun Violence Archive</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/us/mass-shootings-this-year-maine.html">Here is how</a> The New York Times tallies mass shootings.</li><li>From July, a partial list of<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/mass-shootings-2023.html"> U.S. mass shootings in 2023</a>.</li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘Bariatric Surgery at 16’Last fall, Alexandra Duarte, who is
- The Year of Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift grabbed many headlines in 2023. Her widely popular Eras Tour, which proved too much for Ticketmaster to handle, has been both a business and a cultural juggernaut. And Time magazine named her as its person of the year.
- The Woman Who Fought the Texas Abortion BanA major case in Texas this week drew attention to the question of who can get exempted from an abortion ban. Most states that have banned the procedure allow for rare exceptions, but while that might seem clear on paper, in practice, it’s far more ambiguous.
- Antisemitism and Free Speech Collide on Campuses<i>Warning: this episode contains strong language.</i></p>Universities across the country strained under pressure to take a public position on the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.</p>Nicholas Confessore, a political and investigative reporter for The Times, explains the story behind a congressional hearing that ended the career of one university president, jeopardized the jobs of two others, and kicked off an emotional debate about antisemitism and free speech on college campuses.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/nicholas-confessore?smid=pc-thedaily">Nicholas Confessore</a>, a political and investigative reporter for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Harvard’s governing body said it<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/us/harvard-president-claudine-gay.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> stood firmly behind Claudine Gay as the university’s president</a>, a stance both praised and condemned by students, faculty and alumni.</li><li>As fury erupts over campus antisemitism,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/universities-antisemitism-conservatives-liberals.html"> conservatives have seized the moment</a>.</li></ul>
- Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Fizzled. U.S. Funding May Be Next.Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is making a rare trip to Washington this week, pleading his case for American military aid, something which has long been a lifeline for his country but is now increasingly in doubt.
- Can an ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President Save Argentina’s Economy?<i>Warning: this episode contains strong language.</i></p>With Argentina again in the midst of an economic crisis, Argentine voters turned to Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian who has drawn comparisons to Donald J. Trump.</p>Jack Nicas, who covers South America for The New York Times, discusses Argentina’s incoming president, and his radical plan to remake the country’s economy.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jack-nicas?smid=pc-thedaily">Jack Nicas</a>, the Brazil bureau chief for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/world/americas/argentina-election-javier-milei.html?smid=pc-thedaily">Argentina’s incoming president</a> is a libertarian economist whose brash style and embrace of conspiracy theories has parallels with those of Donald J. Trump.</li><li>Argentina braces itself for an<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/world/americas/javier-milei-argentina-trump.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> “anarcho-capitalist” in charge</a>.</li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life’As an incubator of life, Earth has a lot going for it, something we often fail to appreciate fully from within its nurturing bounds. Merely sending probes and rovers to the moon and Mars won’t do. For various reasons — adventure! apocalypse! commerce! — we insist upon taking our corporeal selves off-world too. Multiple private companies have announced plans to put hotels in space soon. NASA is aiming to 3-D-print lunar neighborhoods within a couple of decades. And while it will probably take longer than that to build and populate an outpost on Mars, preparations
- Biden Is Trying to Rein In Israel. Is It Working?As the cease-fire in Gaza has ended and the fierce fighting there has resumed, the United States has issued sharper warnings to Israel’s leaders that they have a responsibility to avoid civilian casualties.
- Nikki Haley’s MomentOver the last few months, Nikki Haley has gained enough in the polls to suggest she is on the verge of surpassing Ron DeSantis as the main threat to Donald J. Trump in the race to become the Republican candidate for 2024.
- Opioid Victims Have a Settlement. Will the Supreme Court Undo It?The opioid epidemic has been one of the biggest public health disasters in generations. The drug company at the heart of the crisis, Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, agreed to a multibillion-dollar deal to settle thousands of claims against it — but that agreement would also grant the family behind the company, the Sacklers, immunity from additional civil lawsuits.
- The Blurry Line Between Rap Star and Crime BossAs a racketeering trial begins in Atlanta, much of the focus is on the high-profile defendant, the best-selling rapper Young Thug.
- The Oct. 7 Warning That Israel Ignored In the weeks since Hamas carried out its devastating terrorist attack in southern Israel, Times journalists have been trying to work out why the Israeli security services failed to prevent such a huge and deadly assault.
- Sunday Special: Elon Musk at 'DealBook'Tech billionaire Elon Musk has come to define innovation, but he can also be a lightning rod for controversy; he recently endorsed antisemitic remarks on X, formerly known as Twitter, which prompted companies to pull their advertising. In an interview recorded live at the DealBook Summit in New York with Times business reporter and columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Musk discusses his emotional state and why he has “no problem being hated.”
- Should You Rent or Buy? The New Math.For many millennials, buying a home has become almost entirely out of reach. Average 30-year mortgage rates are
- The Bad Vibes Around a Good EconomyThe American economy, by many measures, is doing better than it has done in years. But for many Americans, that is not how it feels. Their feelings point to an enduring mystery: Why do Americans feel so bad when the economy is so good?
- Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t.From the moment that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the question was just how much the change would reduce abortions across the United States. Now, more than a year later, the numbers are in.
- Israel and Hamas’s Fragile Cease-FireHostages are at the heart of the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth day. As of Monday night, 50 Israeli hostages had been released, as had 150 Palestinian prisoners. More releases were expected on Tuesday, under what Qatari mediators said was a deal to extend the cease-fire by two days.
- Botox, Hermès and OnlyFans: Why This May Be George Santos’s Last Week in CongressOnly five members of the U.S. House of Representatives have ever been expelled from the institution. This week, Representative George Santos, Republican of New York, could become the sixth.
- 'Hard Fork': An Interview With Sam AltmanIt was a head-spinning week in the tech world with the abrupt firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman.
- Thanksgiving With 'The Run-Up': Are Black Voters Leaving Democrats Behind?Polls suggest that they are – and that Black voters’ support for former President Donald J. Trump, especially among men, is rising. Astead W. Herndon, host of "The Run-Up," convened a special Thanksgiving focus group to explore what might be behind those numbers. He spoke with family, friends and parishioners from his father’s church, community members and people he grew up with. It’s a lively conversation with real implications for what might happen if the 2024 presidential race is a Biden-Trump rematch. Because where better to talk politics than over turkey and an ample dessert spread?
- Inside the Coup at OpenAIThe board of OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot and one of the world’s highest-profile artificial intelligence companies, reversed course late last night and brought back Sam Altman as chief executive.
- A Reporter’s Journey Into GazaAs the war against Hamas enters a seventh week, Israel finds itself under intense pressure to justify its actions in Gaza, including the raid of Al-Shifa Hospital, which it says is a center of Hamas activity. Hamas and hospital officials deny the accusation.
- The New Speaker Avoided a Shutdown. Can He Avoid Being Ousted?By working with Democrats to avert a government shutdown this past week, Speaker Mike Johnson seemed to put himself on the same path that doomed his predecessor. Or did he?
- The Sunday Read: ‘What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do?’The Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. military, was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2019. The initiative had been shaped within the armed forces and Congress over the previous 25 years, based on the premise that as satellite and space technologies evolved, America’s military organizations had to change as well.
- Two Superpowers Walk Into a GardenOne of the most highly anticipated diplomatic events of the year took place this week in a mansion outside San Francisco. President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, met to repair their countries’ relations, which had sunk to one of their lowest points in decades.
- Biden’s Electric Car ProblemA little over a year ago, at President Biden’s urging, congressional democrats passed a sweeping plan to supercharge the production and sale of electric vehicles.
- A Strategy to Treat Big Tech Like Big TobaccoA historic set of new lawsuits, filed by more than three dozen states, accuses Meta, the country’s largest social media company, of illegally luring children onto its platforms and hooking them on its products.
- Hamas’s Bloody ArithmeticTo much of the outside world, Hamas’s decision to murder hundreds of Israelis and trigger a war that has since killed many thousands of its own people looks like a historic miscalculation — one that could soon result in the destruction of Hamas itself.
- The Doctors of Gaza<i>Warning: This episode contains descriptions of injuries and death.</i></p>As Israel’s war on Hamas enters its sixth week, hospitals in Gaza have found themselves on the front lines. Hospitals have become a refuge for the growing number of civilians fleeing the violence, but one that has become increasingly dangerous as Israel’s military targets what it says are Hamas fighters hiding inside and beneath them.</p>Today, three doctors working in the Gaza Strip describe what the war looks like from inside their hospitals and what they are doing to keep up with the flood of patients.</p>Guests: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Dr. Suhaib Alhamss and Dr. Ebraheem Matar, three doctors working in the Gaza Strip.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Gazans under bombardment have described <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/world/middleeast/voices-airstrikes-jabaliya-hospital.html?smid=pc-thedaily">a surge of severely injured children entering hospitals</a>, doctors operating without anesthesia and morgues overflowing with bodies.</li><li>Israeli officials <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/world/middleeast/gaza-hospitals-shifa.html?smid=pc-thedaily">say that Hamas has built a complex</a> under Al Shifa, a major Gaza hospital. Hamas denies that it is operating from beneath the hospital, whose patients face dire conditions amid power cuts.</li></ul>
- From Serial: ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’In April 2016, 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, were arrested in Rutherford County, Tenn. The reason? They didn’t stop a fight between some other kids.
- What Adidas Knew About Kanye<i>Warning: this episode contains some explicit language.</i></p>When Adidas terminated its multibillion-dollar partnership with Kanye West over his antisemitic and other offensive public remarks, it seemed like a straightforward story of a celebrity’s suddenly imploding. But a New York Times examination has found that, behind the scenes, the collaboration was fraught from the start.</p>Megan Twohey, an investigative reporter for The Times, talks about what she discovered when she delved into the meltdown.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/megan-twohey?smid=pc-thedaily">Megan Twohey</a>, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/kanye-west-adidas-yeezy.html"> investigation into Kanye and Adidas</a>: a story of money, misconduct and the price of appeasement.</li><li>Inside the uneasy relationship: Here are<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/adidas-kanye-west-yeezy-takeaways.html"> seven takeaways</a>.</li></ul>
- The Supreme Court Tests Its Own Limits on GunsA critical gun case was argued before the Supreme Court this week. But instead of opening further freedoms for gun owners — as the court, with its conservative supermajority, did in a blockbuster decision last year — justices seemed ready to rule that the government may disarm people under restraining orders for domestic violence.
- The Trumps Take the StandOf all the legal cases that former President Donald J. Trump is facing, perhaps the most personal is playing out in a courtroom in Manhattan: a civil fraud trial that could result in him losing control of his best-known buildings and paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.
- The Growing Republican Battle Over War FundingIt’s been one month since the attack on Israel, but Washington has yet to deliver an aid package to its closest ally. The reason has to do with a different ally, in a different war: Speaker Mike Johnson has opposed continued funding for Ukraine, and wants the issue separated from aid to Israel, setting up a clash between the House and Senate.
- Swing State Voters Are Souring on BidenIn a major new campaign poll from The New York Times and Siena College, former President Donald J. Trump leads President Biden in five of the six battleground states likeliest to decide the 2024 presidential race. Widespread discontent with the state of the country and growing doubts about Biden’s ability to perform his job as president threaten to unravel the diverse coalition that elected him in 2020.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer’The beginning of the story was strangely familiar, like the opening scene in a shopworn police procedural: A woman runs screaming down a street in Oak Beach, a secluded gated community on Long Island’s South Shore, only to vanish, it seems, into thin air. It was almost dawn on May 1, 2010. Hours earlier, Shannan Gilbert traveled from New Jersey to see a man who had hired her as an escort from a Craigslist ad. By the time the police arrived, she was gone. They talked to the neighbors, the john and her driver and came up with nothing. A few days later, they ordered a flyover of the area and, again, saw no sign of her. Then they essentially threw up their hands. She went into the ocean, they decided, either hysterical or on drugs.
- 1948As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters its darkest chapter in decades, both sides are evoking the same foundational moment in their past: the events of 1948.
- The Many Missed Warnings Before Maine’s Mass ShootingThe mass shooting in Maine last week, which killed 18 people, was the country’s deadliest of the year. It may have also been one of the most avoidable.
- Lessons From an Unending ConflictIn late September, one of the world’s most intractable conflicts ended suddenly and brutally when Azerbaijan seized the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians fled their homes.
- A Historic Strike (And Win) For Auto WorkersA wave of strikes that has paralyzed the auto industry came to an end on Monday, when the last of the three big car manufacturers, General Motors, reached a deal with the United Automobile Workers union.
- Israel's Invasion BeginsOver the weekend, the Israeli military appears to have begun an invasion of the Gaza Strip, with tanks rolling into the enclave and Israeli soldiers fighting Hamas inside. But the operation remains shrouded in secrecy, and Israel is revealing little about its actions.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Who Hired the Hitmen to Silence Zitácuaro?’On Oct. 19, 2021, Armando Linares López was writing up notes from an interview when his cellphone buzzed with an unknown number. Linares, 49 and stocky with black hair that was just starting to show gray streaks, ran an online news site in a small Mexican city called Zitácuaro. He knew his beat so intimately that calls from unfamiliar phone numbers were rare.
- A New Threat: Surprise HurricanesHurricane Otis, which killed more than two dozen people in southern Mexico this week, exemplified a phenomenon that meteorologists fear will become more and more common: a severe hurricane that arrives with little warning or time to prepare.
- Introducing ‘The War Briefing’As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, fears are growing that the conflict could spread beyond Gaza. And with an expected Israeli ground invasion, the coming days are likely to have enormous consequences. To meet this moment, The Times has started a daily afternoon report, hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
- The House Finally Has a Speaker<i>Warning: this episode contains strong language.</i></p>After 21 days without a leader, and after cycling through four nominees, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. They chose Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a hard-right conservative best known for leading congressional efforts to overturn the 2020 election.</p>Luke Broadwater, a congressional reporter for The Times, was at the capitol when it happened.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/luke-broadwater?smid=pc-thedaily">Luke Broadwater</a>, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/house-republicans-speaker-vote-johnson.html?smid=pc-thedaily">The House elected Mike Johnson as speaker</a>, embracing a hard-right conservative.</li><li>Speaker Johnson previously<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/mike-johnson-2020-election-overturn.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> played a leading role</a> in the effort to overturn the 2020 election results.</li></ul>
- Why Israel Is Delaying the Ground InvasionAlmost immediately after Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, it began preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza, drafting hundreds of thousands of its citizens and amassing forces along its southern border.
- The Lawyers Now Turning on TrumpOver the past few days, two of the lawyers who tried to help former President Donald J. Trump stay in power after losing the 2020 election pleaded guilty in a Georgia racketeering case and have agreed to cooperate with prosecutors against him.
- The Problem With a $2 Trillion DeficitOver a year, the federal deficit — the gap between what the U.S. government spends and what it earns — has doubled, to nearly $2 trillion.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets’Kihekah Avenue cuts through the town of Pawhuska, Okla., roughly north to south, forming the only corridor you might call a “business district” in the town of 2,900. Standing in the middle is a small TV-and-appliance store called Hometown, which occupies a two-story brick building and hasn’t changed much in decades. Boards cover its second-story windows, and part of the sign above its awning is broken, leaving half the lettering intact, spelling “Home.”
- Hamas Took Her Son<i>Warning: This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.</i></p>When Hamas attacked Israel, they took two hundred hostages back with them into the Gaza Strip, including grandparents and children as young as nine months old. It was one of the largest mass abductions in recent history.</p>Now, the fate of those hostages is at the center of a deepening crisis in the Middle East, and a looming ground invasion of Gaza. Today, we hear from the mother of one of these hostages.</p>Guest: Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who is currently being held hostage by Hamas.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/world/middleeast/us-hostages-qatar-israel-hamas.html?smid=pc-thedaily">Hamas is believed to hold at least 199 people in Gaza</a>, a dense territory descending into a chaotic crisis, where many officials believe a military rescue would be dangerous for soldiers and hostages alike.</li><li>Relatives of those captured or missing express despair at the lack of information,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/world/asia/israel-hostages-families-hamas-gaza.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> and they are terrified of what an expected Israeli invasion of Gaza may mean for their loved ones.</a></li></ul>
- A Texas Town Wanted Tougher Border Security. Now It’s Having Regrets.When the governor of Texas announced an extraordinary plan to use local law enforcement to try to deter migrants from crossing from the border with Mexico, few communities were more receptive than the city of Eagle Pass, where residents had become fed up with the federal government’s approach.
- The Diplomatic Scramble to Contain the Israel-Hamas WarA devastating blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday killed hundreds and ignited protests across the broader Middle East, deepening the crisis in the region.
- The Arm-Twisting, Back-Stabbing Battle for House SpeakerThe House of Representatives still has no speaker, crippling a vital branch of the government. And the Republican who seems to be in the strongest position to take the role, Jim Jordan of Ohio, was once called a “legislative terrorist” by a former speaker of his own party.
- Voices from Gaza<i>Warning: This episode contains descriptions of death.</i></p>As the conflict continues, Israel has blocked food, water and electricity from entering Gaza and has bombarded the area with airstrikes that have killed more than 2,600 Palestinians.</p>Late last week, Israel ordered people in the north of Gaza, nearly half the enclave’s population, to evacuate to the south ahead of an expected Israeli ground invasion. Many in Gaza now fear that this mass expulsion will become permanent.</p>Last week we told the story of a father of four whose kibbutz was attacked by Hamas. Today, we hear from the Gaza residents Abdallah Hasaneen and Wafa Elsaka about what they’ve experienced so far and what they expect will come next.</p>Guest: Abdallah Hasaneen, from the town Rafah in southern Gaza. Wafa Elsaka, a Palestinian-American and one of those who have fled from the north of Gaza over the past few days.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>“Civilians of Gaza City, evacuate south for your own safety and the safety of your families,”<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/12/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas?searchResultPosition=4#he-was-trying-to-escape-he-was-just-petrified-soldiers-are-still-discovering-bodies-near-the-gaza-border?smid=pc-thedaily"> the Israeli military told the people in northern Gaza</a>.</li><li>As a widely anticipated ground invasion loomed,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/world/middleeast/gaza-hospital-evacuation-israel.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> hospitals in Gaza City said they had no way to evacuate thousands of sick and injured patients</a>.</li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘Is Måneskin the Last Rock Band?’The triumphant return to Rome of Måneskin — arguably the only rock stars of their generation, and almost certainly the biggest Italian rock band of all time — coincided with a heat wave across Southern Europe. On a Thursday morning in July, the band’s vast management team was officially concerned that the night’s sold-out performance at the Stadio Olimpico would be delayed. When Måneskin finally took the stage around 9:30 p.m., it was still well into the 90s — which was too bad, because there would be pyro.
- Golan’s Story<i>Warning: this episode contains descriptions of death.</i></p>In the week since Israel suffered the deadliest day in its modern history, fresh accounts have emerged in village after village of just how extreme and widespread the violence was.</p>Today we hear the story of one man at the epicenter of that violence: Golan Abitbul, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, where more than 100 civilians were killed.</p>Guest: Golan Abitbul, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, in southern Israel.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Video:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000009124371/israel-gaza-missing-mother-zeigan-silver.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> a son’s conversation with his mother</a> as gunmen attacked her kibbutz.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/11/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-attack-timeline.html?smid=pc-thdaily">The long wait for help</a> as massacres unfolded in Israel.</li><li>Follow<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/13/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas?smid=pc-thedaily"> the latest updates on the Israel-Hamas war</a>.</li></ul>
- The Spoiler Threat of R.F.K. Jr.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was once dismissed as a fringe figure in the 2024 presidential race. But this week, as he announces an independent run for the White House, he’s striking fear within both the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Israel’s Plan to Destroy HamasFor years, Israel’s leaders believed that they could coexist with Hamas. After this weekend’s massacre, that belief is over.
- The New Supreme Court Cases to WatchLast week, the Supreme Court began its new term, picking up where it left off on the most contentious issues of the day, with cases connected to government power, gun rights and abortion.
- War in Israel<i>Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence.</i></p>Over the weekend, Palestinian militants with Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, mounted a stunning and highly coordinated invasion of Israel, rampaging through Israeli towns, killing people in their homes and on the streets, and taking hostages.</p>Isabel Kershner, who covers Israeli and Palestinian politics and society for The Times, talks about the attack and the all-out war that it has now prompted.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/isabel-kershner">Isabel Kershner</a>, a correspondent in Jerusalem for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-netanyahu-gaza.html">Israel and Hamas battled around Gaza</a> on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a “long and difficult war.”</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-attack.html">Here is what to know about the surprise attack on Israel.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/09/world/israel-gaza-attack-hamas-news">Follow live updates on the war.</a></li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row’The first time Tony Ford played Dungeons & Dragons, he was a wiry Black kid who had never seen the inside of a prison. His mother, a police officer in Detroit, had quit the force and moved the family to West Texas. To Ford, it seemed like a different world. Strangers talked funny, and El Paso was half desert. But he could skateboard in all that open space, and he eventually befriended a nerdy white kid with a passion for Dungeons & Dragons. Ford fell in love with the role-playing game right away; it was complex and cerebral, a saga you could lose yourself in. And in the 1980s, everyone seemed to be playing it.
- Chaos or Conscience? A Republican Explains His Vote to Oust McCarthy.The ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a few days ago demonstrated how powerful a small group of hard-right House Republicans have become and how deep their grievances run.
- The Mosquitoes Are WinningFor decades, the world seemed to be winning the war against mosquitoes and tamping down the deadly diseases they carried. But in the past few years, progress has not only stalled, it has reversed.
- The Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthyThe vote on Tuesday to remove Representative Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representative has left the chamber mired in chaos.
- Sam Bankman-Fried Goes on TrialSam Bankman-Fried, the fallen golden boy of crypto, is going on trial for what prosecutors are calling the largest financial fraud in recent history.
- Amazon’s Most Beloved Features May Turn Out to Be IllegalThe U.S. government has filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, pointing to a set of familiar features that have made, the internet retail giant so beloved by consumers.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Art of Telling Forbidden Stories in China’As China strove for a larger role on the international stage at the turn of the century, the arrival of the internet and a relatively relaxed political environment spurred a boom in self-expression. Many writers tested the boundaries of Chinese literary culture, experimenting with subjects that were quotidian but taboo on the page: corruption, sexual desire and evolving gender roles.
- Why the Government is About to Shut DownA showdown between House Republicans and their leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, is heading toward a government shutdown.
- The Presidential Politics of the Autoworkers’ StrikeAlthough one major strike, against Hollywood studios, was finally resolved this past week, another, against U.S. vehicle makers, is expanding. The plight of the autoworkers has now become a major point of contention in the presidential race.
- Did Hollywood Writers Get Their Happy Ending?After 148 days on strike, writers of movies and television are returning to work on Wednesday
- Gold Bars, Wads of Cash and a Senator’s IndictmentIn one of the most serious political corruption cases in recent history, federal prosecutors have accused a senior U.S. senator of trading the power of his position for cash, gifts and gold.
- An Unexpected Battle Over Banning Caste DiscriminationCalifornia is poised to become the first state to outlaw discrimination based on a person’s caste. The system of social stratification, which dates back thousands of years, has been outlawed in India and Nepal for decades.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapped Child Who Became a Poet’“The weird thing about growing up kidnapped,”
- He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder.<i>Warning: This episode contains descriptions of rape, sexual abuse and death.</i></p>As an epidemic of fentanyl use continues in America, causing tens of thousands of deaths each year, lawmakers and law enforcement agencies are holding one group increasingly responsible: drug users themselves.</p>Eli Saslow, a writer for The Times, tells the story of a man whose friendship ended in tragedy and a set of laws that say he is the one to blame.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/eli-saslow">Eli Saslow,</a> a writer at large for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/fentanyl-murder-charge.html?smid=pc-thedaily">Two friends</a> bought $30 worth of fentanyl before making it into rehab. One overdosed. The other was charged in his death.</li><li>Harsh<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/health/fentanyl-overdose-crisis.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> fentanyl laws</a> ignite a fierce debate. Critics say, the approach could undermine public health goals and advances in addiction treatment.</li></ul>
- Canada Confronts India Over Alleged Assassination<i>Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence.</i></p>The relationship between two democratic allies fell to its lowest point in history this week, after Canada accused India of assassinating a Sikh community leader in British Columbia in June.</p>Mujib Mashal, The Times’s South Asia bureau chief, explains this stunning accusation — and what India’s reaction to it tells us about the era of its leader, Narendra Modi.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/mujib-mashal">Mujib Mashal</a>, The New York Times’s bureau chief for South Asia.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/world/canada/canada-india-sikh-killing.html?smid=pc-thedaily">said agents of India</a> had assassinated a Sikh community leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was fatally shot in British Columbia in June.</li><li>Mr. Nijar was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/world/canada/who-is-hardeep-singh-nijjar-india.html?smid=pc-thedaily">a prominent advocate</a> of the creation of an independent Sikh nation that would include parts of India’s Punjab State.</li><li>The charge, which the Indian government has strongly rejected, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/world/canada/hardeep-singh-nijjar-killed.html?smid=pc-thedaily">may fuel a rift</a> between Canada’s Sikhs and Hindus.</li></ul>
- Is College Worth It?New research and polling show that more and more Americans now doubt a previously unquestioned fact of U.S. life — that going to college is worth it.
- Inside Ukraine’s Drone Attacks on RussiaAs Ukraine’s counteroffensive grinds on, it’s increasingly turning to a secret drone program that is hitting targets deep inside Russian territory. At least three different Ukrainian-made drones have been used in attacks inside Russia, including on Moscow, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
- The Ozempic Era of Weight LossDrugs like Ozempic are revolutionizing the treatment of obesity. The medications, originally used to treat diabetes, keep gaining attention as celebrities and other influencers describe taking them to lose weight quickly.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty’Twenty years ago, a glamorous platinum-blond widow arrived at the Paris law office of Claude Dumont Beghi in tears. Someone was trying to take her horses — her “babies” — away, and she needed a lawyer to stop them.
- The Republican Attempt to Impeach President BidenSpeaker Kevin McCarthy has ordered an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, putting into motion the third formal attempt by Congress to remove a president in the past four years.
- An Armored Train and a Dangerous New AllianceIn a rare move, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, traveled outside his country this week to meet with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
- A New Covid Shot for a New Covid EraOn Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. government recommended that almost every American begin taking a new annual vaccine for Covid, a milestone in the nation’s three-year battle against the virus.
- A Breaking Point for the U.S. Auto IndustryLater this week, as many as 150,000 U.S. autoworkers may walk out in a historic strike against the three Detroit automakers, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The United Auto Workers union and the Big Three are still far apart in talks, and have only two days left to negotiate a new labor contract before the deadline.
- U.S. v. GoogleFor years, the government has been trying to rein in Big Tech, pursuing some of the largest and most powerful companies on the internet. This week, the government takes on Google in the first monopoly trial of the modern internet era.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth’In early 2021, a Wikipedia editor peered into the future and saw what looked like a funnel cloud on the horizon: the rise of GPT-3, a precursor to the new chatbots from OpenAI. When this editor — a prolific Wikipedian who goes by the handle Barkeep49 on the site — gave the new technology a try, he could see that it was untrustworthy. The bot would readily mix fictional elements (a false name, a false academic citation) into otherwise factual and coherent answers. But he had no doubts about its potential. “I think A.I.’s day of writing a high-quality encyclopedia is coming sooner rather than later,” he wrote in “Death of Wikipedia,” an essay that he posted under his handle on Wikipedia itself. He speculated that a computerized model could, in time, displace his beloved website and its human editors, just as Wikipedia had supplanted the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which in 2012 announced it was discontinuing its print publication.
- A Tragic Fire and Broken Promises in South Africa<i>This episode contains descriptions of severe injuries. </i></p>Last week, a devastating fire swept through a derelict building in Johannesburg that housed desperate families who had no place else to go. The authorities had been repeatedly warned that it was a potential firetrap. Nothing was done, and at least 76 people died.</p>Lynsey Chutel, who covers southern Africa for The Times, explains how Johannesburg, once a symbol of the hope of post-apartheid South Africa, became an emblem of just how bad the country’s breakdown has become.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/lynsey-chutel">Lynsey Chutel</a>, a southern Africa correspondent for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>An extensive paper trail revealed that the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/world/africa/south-africa-fire-cause.html"> authorities in Johannesburg were warned repeatedly about the dangers</a> in the building that burned down.</li><li>Johannesburg, with a severe shortage of affordable housing, has hundreds of illegally occupied derelict buildings that<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/world/africa/johannesburg-fire-derelict-building.html"> officials and housing advocates say have become firetraps.</a></li></ul>
- Why One Drug Company Held Back a Better DrugFor decades, drugmakers have argued that patents are critical to bringing new drugs to the market. But in 2004, when a promising H.I.V. treatment emerged, Gilead Sciences decided to slow-walk its release to maximize profit on the company’s existing patents.
- How 100,000 Migrants Became a Political Crisis in New YorkIn New York, the arrival of more than 100,000 migrants seeking asylum over the past year has become a crisis for the city’s shelter system, schools and budget.
- Passenger Planes Nearly Collide Far More Than You KnowA Times investigation found that U.S. passenger planes come dangerously close to crashing into each other far more frequently than the public knows.
- Arizona’s Pipe DreamA Times investigation revealed that in much of the United States, communities and farms are pumping out groundwater at alarming rates. Aquifers are shrinking nationwide, threatening supplies of drinking water and the country’s status as a food superpower.
- A Major Overhaul of Prescription Drug PricesA year ago, Congress overhauled the way drugs for older Americans get paid for, by giving Medicare the power to bargain with drug makers over prices in the biggest change to health care for more than a decade. This week, the Biden administration began its implementation.
- A Breakout Moment for Vivek RamaswamyIn the Republican presidential race, the battle for second place has been jolted by the sudden rise of a political newcomer whose popularity has already eclipsed that of far more seasoned candidates — Vivek Ramaswamy.
- A Marriage, a Secret and a Crackdown in ChinaOver the past decade, China has placed more and more restrictions on the lives of its citizens — tightening its hold over what people can do, read and say.
- A New Race to the MoonLast week, India landed its spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, becoming the first country to land such a craft near the south pole, where scientists believe vital reserves of water could be found frozen. The landing also revealed just how much the international space race has changed.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Fight for the Right to Trespass’The signs on the gate
- A Plane Crash, 10 Dead People and a Question: Was This Putin’s Revenge?The mysterious crash of a private jet outside Moscow is believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of the Wagner militia who led an armed rebellion against Moscow in June.
- A Fiery First Republican Debate — Without TrumpLast night, Republicans held their first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle without the party’s dominant candidate onstage: Donald J. Trump.
- Ready or Not, Driverless Cars Are HereAfter a closely watched vote, driverless cars, once a Silicon Valley fantasy, have become a 24-hour-a-day reality in San Francisco. Are autonomous vehicles an interesting and safe transportation alternative? Or are they a nuisance and a traffic-blocking disaster waiting to happen?
- Why the Coral Reef Crisis in Florida Is a Problem for All of UsA marine heat wave is warming the waters off the coast of Florida, pushing temperature readings as high as 101 Fahrenheit and endangering a critical part of sea life: the coral reef.
- Inside the Sputtering Campaign of Ron DeSantisGov. Ron DeSantis of Florida began the race for the Republican nomination with high expectations and a clear argument: that he was a political fighter with a solid record of conservative achievements in his state. Now, he appears to be in a downward spiral.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin’Where did it come from? More than three years into the pandemic with untold millions of people dead, that question about the origin of Covid-19 remains widely disputed and fraught, with facts sparkling amid a tangle of analyses and hypotheticals like Christmas lights strung on a dark, thorny tree. One school of thought holds that the virus, known to science as SARS-CoV-2, spread to humans from a nonhuman animal, probably in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, an emporium brimming with fish, meats and wildlife on sale as food in Wuhan, China.
- How a Paradise Became a Death Trap<i>Warning: This episode contains descriptions of death.</i></p>When fires swept West Maui, Hawaii, many residents fled for their lives — but soon discovered they had nowhere to go. Thousands of structures, mostly homes, have been reduced to rubble. Husks of incinerated cars line the historic Front Street in Lahaina, while search crews nearby make their way painstakingly from house to house, looking for human remains.</p>Ydriss Nouara, a resident of Lahaina, recounts his experience fleeing the inferno and Mike Baker, the Seattle bureau chief for The Times, explains how an extraordinary set of circumstances turned the city into a death trap.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-baker">Mike Baker</a>, the Seattle bureau chief for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Nearly a week after the fires started, relatives are receiving little information as search and<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/hawaii-missing-answers.html?searchResultPosition=2"> identification efforts move slowly.</a></li><li>How the fires turned Lahaina<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/hawaii-maui-lahaina-fire.html"> into a death trap</a>.</li></ul>
- Hunter Biden’s Legal Problems Keep Getting WorseA plea deal struck between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden was supposed to bring his years of legal troubles to an end. Instead, that deal has unraveled and a special counsel has been named to take over the case.
- Why a Coup in Niger Has the World’s AttentionIn a region of Africa where authoritarianism has been rising, Niger seemed to be on a different path of democracy and partnership with the United States.
- A Law Used Against the Mafia — and Now TrumpOn Monday, former President Donald J. Trump and 18 others were indicted by an Atlanta grand jury, with Mr. Trump and some of his former top aides accused of orchestrating a “criminal enterprise” to reverse the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
- What Lahaina Lost in Hawaii’s WildfiresLast week, wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui that became the deadliest in the United States in over a century. The town of Lahaina, once the royal capital of the kingdom of Hawaii, was one of the places hit hardest — its historic center was decimated, including Waiola Church, the oldest on the island and a cherished meeting place.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Silicon Blockade’Last October, the United States Bureau of Industry and Security issued a document that, underneath its 139 pages of dense bureaucratic jargon and minute technical detail, amounted to a declaration of economic war on China. The magnitude of the act was made all the more remarkable by the relative obscurity of its source.
- The End of An Era for U.S. Women’s SoccerA few days ago, when the U.S. team was eliminated from the FIFA Women’s World Cup, it marked the end of a history-making run.
- Lives, Livelihoods, and the High Cost of HeatThis summer, unrelenting heat waves have taken a devastating toll in many parts of the world, putting this year on track to be the hottest ever recorded.
- Elon Musk’s Quest to Own the StarsSatellites owned by Elon Musk’s Starlink orbit the earth and beam an internet connection to almost anywhere. In 2019, the company sent its first 60 or so satellites into orbit — today, it has some 4,500 circling the planet, with around 1.5 million customers across about 50 countries and territories.
- The Legal Strategy Behind the Latest Trump IndictmentTo win a conviction against former President Donald J. Trump for trying to subvert the results of the 2020 election, Jack Smith, the special counsel, is applying laws in ways that have never been used before.
- The Economy is on an Upswing. Should Biden Get Credit for It?The latest economic figures are some of the best of President Biden’s tenure so far. It appears increasingly likely that the United States has managed to tame high inflation without causing a recession.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Vanishing Family: Life in the Shadow of a Cruel Genetic Mutation’When Barb’s father all but left, her mother turned inward, sitting quietly in front of the television, always smoking, often with a cocktail. Something had overtaken her, though it wasn’t clear what.
- Fighting Canada’s Unending FiresThe wildfires sweeping Canada have become the largest in its modern history. Across the country, 30 million acres of forest have burned — three times as much land as in the worst American fire in the past 50 years.
- 43% vs. 43%: Why Trump and Biden Are Tied in Our New PollWith Donald Trump facing charges in three different criminal cases, the biggest questions in American politics are whether that creates an opening for his Republican rivals in the presidential race — and whether it disqualifies him in the eyes of general election voters.
- The Charges Against Trump for Conspiring to Overturn the ElectionOn Tuesday afternoon, the special counsel Jack Smith filed criminal charges against former President Donald Trump over his wide-ranging attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.
- The Secret History of Gun RightsHow did the National Rifle Association, America’s most influential gun-rights group, amass its power?
- Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Charts a Path for the Far RightLast year, Giorgia Meloni, an Italian far-right politician, became prime minister on an agenda that many feared would mark a radical turn for the country. Now, her visit to the White House last week has bolstered her credentials on the international stage.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The America That Americans Forget’On the weekends, when Roy Gamboa was a little boy, his grandfather would wake him before dawn. He would pour some coffee into a bowl of rice, and that would be the boy’s breakfast. Roy knew better than to question anything; he sat quietly in his grandfather’s truck as they rumbled down the big hill from their village, Hågat, to Big Navy, as the U.S. Naval Base in Guam is known. They passed through the military gates, along a dirt road and onto the shore of a little cove, next to one of America’s deepest harbors, where skipjacks flipped out of the aquamarine water. The boy noodled with seashells as his grandfather cast. When his grandfather caught a fish, he would unhook it and throw it on the ground, and Roy would snatch it up and quickly stuff it, still wriggling, in the bag. If the fish weren’t biting at one spot, they packed up and moved to another. No one from the Navy ever stopped the old man and the young boy.
- Menopause Is Having a MomentSome of the worst symptoms of menopause — including hot flashes, sleeplessness and pain during sex — have an established treatment. Why aren’t more women offered it?
- Affirmative Action for the 1 PercentA major
- Hunter Biden’s Day in CourtOn Wednesday morning, Hunter Biden was scheduled to a guilty plea in a Delaware courtroom, marking the end of a yearslong federal investigation that many Republicans believed would put the president’s son in prison, and put an end to the Biden presidency.
- Russia’s Newest Target: The Global Food SupplyWhen Russia invaded Ukraine, it put the global food supply at risk — until the two countries struck an unusual deal to keep shipments flowing.
- A One-Man Blockade Against the U.S. MilitaryFor the past few months, a single senator — Tommy Tuberville — has blocked hundreds of promotions in the U.S. military.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Trillion- Gallon Question’On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, two electricians were working on a warning siren near the spillway of Oroville Dam, 60 miles north of Sacramento, when they heard an explosion. As they watched, a giant plume of water rose over their heads, and chunks of concrete began flying down the hillside toward the Feather River. The dam’s spillway, a concrete channel capable of moving millions of gallons of water out of the reservoir in seconds, was disintegrating in front of them. If it had to be taken out of service, a serious rainstorm, like the one that had been falling on Northern California for days, could cause the dam — the tallest in the United States — to fail.
- Can Barbie Be Rebranded as a Feminist Icon?“Barbie” is premiering this weekend and is trying to pull off a seemingly impossible task: taking a doll best known for reinforcing conventional stereotypes of women and rebranding it as a symbol of feminism, all without coming off as a shameless ad for the doll’s maker, Mattel. Willa Paskin, a journalist and host of Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast, recounts her conversation with the film’s director, Greta Gerwig, about how she approached the challenge.
- The Man Trying to Save Phoenix From Historic HeatAs a historic heat wave grips much of the world and the United States, no city has become more emblematic of the crisis than Phoenix, where temperatures have exceeded 110 degrees for the past three weeks.
- How the Birth Control Pill Got Over the CounterLast week, for the first time in U.S. history, federal regulators approved the sale of a birth control pill without a prescription.
- The Writers’ Revolt Against A.I. CompaniesTo refine their popular technology, new artificial intelligence platforms like Chat-GPT are gobbling up the work of authors, poets, comedians and actors — without their consent.
- China’s Economic Rebound Hits a WallWhen China suddenly dismantled its lockdowns and other Covid precautions last December, officials in Beijing and many investors expected the economy to spring back to life. It hasn’t worked out that way.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors’Some years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide. Such deaths were distressingly common, she discovered. The suicide rate among doctors appeared to be even higher than the rate among active military members, a notion that startled Dean, who was then working as an administrator at a U.S. Army medical research center in Maryland. Dean started asking the physicians she knew how they felt about their jobs, and many of them confided that they were struggling. Some complained that they didn’t have enough time to talk to their patients because they were too busy filling out electronic medical records. Others bemoaned having to fight with insurers about whether a person with a serious illness would be preapproved for medication.
- How Clarence Thomas Came to Reject Affirmative ActionSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the second Black justice to sit on the court after Thurgood Marshall, has spent years opposing affirmative action. When the high court struck down the policy last month, Justice Thomas was one of the most influential figures behind the ruling.
- How Affirmative Action Changed Their LivesTwo weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful.
- The Great Resignation is Over Tens of millions of Americans changed jobs over the past two years, a rare moment of worker power as employees demanded higher pay, and as employers, short on staff, often gave it to them.
- Many Countries Banned Cluster Munitions. The U.S. Is Sending Them to Ukraine Anyway.For months, President Biden has been wrestling with one of the most vexing questions in the war in Ukraine: whether to risk letting Ukrainian forces run out of the artillery rounds they desperately need to fight Russia, or agree to ship them cluster munitions — widely banned weapons known to cause grievous injury to civilians, especially children. On Friday, the Biden administration announced that it would send the weapons, which have been outlawed by many of Washington's closest allies.
- Will Threads Kill Twitter? Last week, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, released Threads, a social media platform to compete with Twitter. In just 16 hours, Threads was downloaded more than 30 million times.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Spy Who Called Me’The wave of scandals that would engulf Spain began with a police raid on a wooded property outside Madrid. It was Nov. 3, 2017, and the target was José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, a former government spy. Villarejo’s name had been circulating in the Spanish press for years. He was rumored to have had powerful friends and to have kept dirt on them all. The impressive variety of allegations against him — forgery, bribery, extortion, influence peddling — had earned him the nickname “king of the sewers.”
- The Complicated Future of Student LoansLast week, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s sweeping plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt.
- Russia After the RebellionLast month, a rebellion inside Russia left lingering questions about what really happened and about what the ramifications would be for President Vladimir V. Putin.
- How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTubeJimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has become a sensation on YouTube for ostentatious and sometimes absurd acts of altruism.
- From Serial: ‘The Retrievals’The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full of expectation and hope. Then a surgical procedure called egg retrieval caused them excruciating pain.
- A Clash Between Religious Faith and Gay RightsThe Supreme Court delivered another major decision this past week, ruling in favor of a web designer who said she had a First Amendment right to refuse to create wedding websites for same-sex couples.
- The Sunday Read: ‘A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom’HF0, or Hacker Fellowship Zero, is a start-up accelerator that provides 12-week residencies for batches of fellows from 10 different start-ups. Their experience, which culminates in a demonstration day, is supposed to be the most productive three months of the fellows’ lives. Dave Fontenot, one of HF0’s founders, was inspired by the two years he spent living in monasteries in his 20s: While monastery life was materially ascetic, he found that it was luxurious in the freedom it gave residents to focus on the things that really mattered. And this year at the Archbishop’s Mansion in San Francisco, the home of the fellows, almost everyone has been monastically focused on what has become the city’s newest religion: artificial intelligence.
- The Supreme Court Ends Affirmative ActionOn Thursday, the Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent by striking down affirmative action and declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful.
- Is Washington Finally Ready to Take On Big Tech?In a San Francisco courtroom, federal regulators are fighting to block one of the biggest deals in the history of Silicon Valley.
- Suspicion, Cheating and Bans: A.I. Hits America’s SchoolsSince its introduction less than a year ago, ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence platform that can write essays, solve math problems and write computer code, has sparked an anguished debate in the world of education. Is it a useful research tool or an irresistible license to cheat?
- Speaker McCarthy Has Lost Control of His HouseEarlier this month, a group of hard-right Republicans hijacked the floor of the House of Representatives in protest against Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The mutiny, staged by nearly a dozen members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, raised questions about whether the speaker could continue to govern his slim and fractious majority.
- A 36-Hour Rebellion in RussiaAn armed rebellion in Russia over the weekend stunned the world and amounted to the single biggest challenge to President Vladimir V. Putin’s rule since he came to power 23 years ago.
- Understanding Ukraine’s CounteroffensiveFor months, much of the world has been watching and waiting as Ukraine prepares for a major counteroffensive in its war with Russia. That battle is now underway, and it’s not what was expected.
- Lost 2 Miles Below the OceanA few days ago, when passengers set off on a deep sea expedition in the Atlantic Ocean, they were aboard a vessel that many experts had already concluded was dangerously designed.
- The Re-Militarization of GermanyIn the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately underinvested in its military. But that’s about to change.
- Inflation Is Way Down. Is It by Design or Just Luck?Rapid inflation has been a problem in the United States for more than two years, but the tide appears to be turning. Annual inflation is now less than half of what it was last summer.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The High-Risk Feat of Bringing ‘American Born Chinese’ to TV’Almost everyone who reads “American Born Chinese,” Gene Luen Yang’s groundbreaking graphic novel, is a little afraid of Chin-Kee.
- The Kids Take the Climate Change Fight to CourtThis week, a historic case has landed in a Montana courtroom. A group of young environmentalists is suing the state, arguing that its embrace of fossil fuels is destroying pristine environments, upending cultural traditions and robbing young residents of a healthy future.
- How Saudi Arabia Took on Pro Golf — and WonLast week, golf’s premier circuit, the PGA Tour, announced it was partnering with its rival circuit LIV Golf, an upstart league backed by Saudi Arabia, giving the country a powerful new seat at the table of international sports.
- Arraigned, Again: Trump’s Federal Court Hearing in MiamiDonald Trump was arraigned in Miami yesterday on 37 criminal counts covering seven different violations of federal law, including the handling of classified documents.
- A Forced Reckoning in the Restaurant IndustryWhen the #MeToo movement gained momentum in exposing abuses at the highest levels of power, the restaurant industry was exposed as a chief offender. In 2020, the James Beard Awards, the food world’s main kingmaker, announced that there would be no winners in either 2020 or 2021 after allegations against several top chefs.
- Nuclear Secrets and Taped Conversations: A Look at the Evidence Against Trump.Last week, Donald Trump was charged with federal violations relating to his handling of classified material after leaving office.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Most Dangerous Person in the World Is Randi Weingarten’When the former secretary of state and C.I.A. director Mike Pompeo, a man who had dealt firsthand with autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, described Randi Weingarten as “the most dangerous person in the world” last November, it seemed as though he couldn’t possibly be serious.
- Special Episode: A Second Trump IndictmentThe seven new criminal charges against Donald Trump relate to his handling of classified material upon leaving office and then obstructing the government’s efforts to reclaim them.
- There’s No Escaping Wildfire SmokeSmoke from wildfires in Canada has created a crisis in the American Northeast and beyond, with air pollution in New York reaching its worst level in modern history.
- A Guide to the Suddenly Crowded Republican PrimaryCandidates for the Republican presidential nomination keep entering the field, despite the fact that Donald Trump polls consistently as the front-runner and Ron DeSantis has emerged as the clear No. 2. Why do so many lesser-tier Republicans think they have a real shot?
- Turned Away and Left at SeaA few weeks ago, footage showing asylum seekers, including young children, being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard was sent to The New York Times.
- The Fight Over PhonicsAbout 50 years ago, the educator Lucy Calkins pioneered a technique called balanced literacy, which de-emphasized the use of phonics to teach reading. It was widely adopted in the United States, including in New York, the country’s largest public school system.
- The New Afghanistan, Through the Eyes of Three Women<i>This episode contains descriptions of violence.</i></p>In the two years since the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, the Taliban has shut women and girls out of public life.</p>Christina Goldbaum, a correspondent in the Kabul bureau for The New York Times, traveled across Afghanistan to talk to women about how they’re managing the changes. What she found was not what she had expected.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/christina-goldbaum">Christina Goldbaum</a>, a correspondent in the Times bureau in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The Taliban’s takeover ended decades of war. But their restrictions, and the economic fallout, have thrown many women into<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/08/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-women.html"> a new era of diminished hopes</a>.</li><li>In an uncommon display of consensus, the U.N. Security Council has<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/world/asia/un-security-council-condemns-taliban.html?searchResultPosition=3"> called for the Taliban to end their prohibitions on women</a> working and attending school after sixth grade.</li></ul>
- Special Episode: A Crash Course in Dembow, a Misunderstood Pantry Staple and Simple Tips to Keep Calm and Carry OnThis weekend, we’re bringing dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They’re all part of a new series called “NYT Shorts,” available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It’s home to podcasts, narrated articles from our newsroom and other publishers, and exclusive new shows. Find out more at
- America’s Big City Brain DrainIn recent years, well-paid and college-educated Americans have shed major cities like New York, San Francisco and Washington for places like Philadelphia or Birmingham, Ala.
- How the G.O.P. Picked Trans Kids as a Rallying CryWith stunning speed, the status of trans youth has become the rallying cry of the Republican Party, from state legislatures to presidential campaigns.
- Republicans Impeach One of Their OwnSince 2016, the cardinal rule of Republican politics has been to defend Donald J. Trump and his allies at all costs, no matter the allegation. That appeared to change last week, when Texas lawmakers issued 20 articles of impeachment against their state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, a powerful Trump supporter.
- The Godfather of A.I. Has Some RegretsAs the world begins to experiment with the power of artificial intelligence, a debate has begun about how to contain its risks. One of the sharpest and most urgent warnings has come from a man who helped invent the technology.
- Special Episode: An Interplanetary Jazz Legend, a Cosmic Vegetable and a Psychic ProdigyThis weekend, we’re bringing dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They’re all part of a new series called “NYT Shorts,” available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It’s home to podcasts, narrated articles from our newsroom and other publishers, and exclusive new shows. Find out more at
- The Ticking Clock of a U.S. Debt DefaultTop White House officials and Republican lawmakers are racing to reach an agreement as the date when the United States is projected to default on its debt approaches.
- The Headlines: May 26Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for.
- Millions of Dollars, Thousands of Robocalls and 1 Legal LoopholeA New York Times investigation has found that a group of Republican operatives used robocalls to raise $89 million on behalf of veterans, police officers and firefighters.
- The Headlines: May 25Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for.
- Ukraine Lost in Bakhmut. But It Has Much Bigger Plans.After almost a year of deadly battle, Russia has claimed victory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. But what happens now is uncertain.
- The Headlines: May 24Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for.
- The Supreme Court vs. Andy WarholA few days ago, the Supreme Court tried to answer a question that has long bedeviled the world of art: When is borrowing from an earlier artist an act of inspiration, and when is it theft?
- The Headlines: May 23Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for.
- Is Trump's Nomination Now Inevitable?Voters in the 2022 midterms seemed to send a clear message — a rejection of Trumpism and extremism. And yet it appears increasingly likely that he will win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
- Introducing The Headlines: May 22Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for.
- Special Episode: Classic TV, New Music and a Side of PastaThis weekend, we’re bringing you something a little different: dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They’re all part of a new series called “NYT Shorts,” and they’re available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It’s home to podcasts, narrated articles from our newsroom and other publishers, and exclusive new shows. Find out more at
- When the Culture Wars Came for NASAThe James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever made, has revolutionized the way we see the universe. The name was chosen for James E. Webb, a NASA administrator during the 1960s. But when doubts about his background emerged, the telescope’s name turned into a fight over homophobia.
- An Anonymous #MeToo Source Goes Public<i>This episode contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. </i></p>It’s been more than five years since the #MeToo movement, driven by reporting at publications like The New York Times, toppled powerful and abusive men. Behind that essential journalism were sources, many anonymous, who took enormous risks to expose harassment and sexual violence.</p>Today, Rachel Abrams, a producer and reporter at The Times, speaks to Ali Diercks, a lawyer who provided crucial information for a major #MeToo story. Ms. Diercks has waived her anonymity to discuss the costs of her coming forward and what she thinks about her decision years later.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/rachel-abrams">Rachel Abrams</a>, a senior producer and reporter for “The New York Times Presents” documentary series. </p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Ms. Diercks provided anonymous information to The Times about the misconduct of Mr. Moonves, former chairman and chief executive of CBS.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/business/les-moonves-cbs-report-takeaways.html"> Read the reporting from 2018 here</a>.</li></ul>
- Turkey’s President Fights for Political SurvivalFor two decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has loomed large over Turkish politics. But skyrocketing inflation and a devastating earthquake have eroded his power and, in a presidential election over the weekend, he was forced into a runoff.
- The Day Title 42 EndedFor weeks, officials have feared that the end of Title 42 would create a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that would strain and possibly cripple America’s immigration system.
- The U.S. Banned Spyware — and Then Kept Trying to Use ItA little over a decade ago, a small Israeli company created what would become the world’s most powerful and notorious hacking tool.
- The Lifesaving Power of … Paperwork?In the final days of Marleny Mesa’s pregnancy, she could not shake the feeling that something was wrong. She could barely breathe, for one thing. For another, her anxiety and physical discomfort were approaching what felt like an unbearable peak. A week or so later, she delivered a tiny, squirming boy with jet black hair and soft, curious eyes. She and her husband, Andrés Noscue, named him Eliad. Marleny thought he was perfect, but her mother, a retired midwife, insisted that the placenta contained a hint of trouble. It was far too big, she said, and Eliad was too small, probably because he did not have enough room in her womb to grow. His grandmother thought he might need an incubator. Marleny thought he was fine, but when the baby was a few days old, she and Andrés traveled from the Jerusalén-San Luis Alto Picudito Indigenous reservation in Putumayo, Colombia, to take him to Villagarzón for a checkup, just to be safe.
- Biden’s Radical Option to End the Debt FightIn a high-stakes showdown this week, President Biden and the leaders of congress met face to face in an effort to avoid the United States defaulting on its debt for the first time in history.
- Even More Trouble for George SantosLast year, Times reporting revealed the many lies that the freshman Republican congressman George Santos had told about his life and career. Now he is facing legal consequences.
- Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse<i>This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault.</i></p>A jury in Manhattan has found former President Donald J. Trump legally liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.</p>Ben Weiser, who covers the Manhattan federal courts for The Times, tells the story of how a nearly 30-year-old case reached this moment.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/benjamin-weiser">Benjamin Weiser</a>, a correspondent for The New York Times covering the Manhattan federal courts.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>More than a dozen women have accused Mr. Trump of sexual misconduct,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/nyregion/trump-carroll-trial-sexual-abuse-defamation.html"> </a>but this civil case is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/nyregion/trump-carroll-trial-sexual-abuse-defamation.html">the only one to have been tested before a jury</a>.</li><li>The former president’s new campaign is<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/nyregion/trump-carroll-rape-case-election.html"> rolling forward unimpeded</a>. In quiet courtrooms, he faces more serious threats.</li></ul>
- A Big Policy Change at the BorderFor the past three years, the United States has relied on Title 42, a pandemic restriction that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border. But by the end of the week, that rule will expire.
- A Crisis of Ethics at the Supreme CourtDebate about ethical standards for Supreme Court justices has intensified after a series of revelations about undisclosed gifts, luxury travel and property deals.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The School Where the Pandemic Never Ended’Lakishia Fell-Davis is aware that at this point, in 2023, most people are treating the coronavirus pandemic as a thing of the past. For her, though, Covid still poses a real threat: Fell-Davis has Type I diabetes, putting her at higher risk of hospitalization and long-term complications from illness. As such, her experience during the pandemic has shaped how she thinks about her daily life, especially at Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary School, where she has worked on and off for more than a decade as a substitute teacher and teaching assistant.
- How Streaming Hurt Hollywood WritersThis week, thousands of writers went on strike against Hollywood studios over what they say is an existential threat to their livelihoods.
- What if You Could Save Someone From an Overdose?In the face of an escalating opioid epidemic, the F.D.A. recently approved over-the-counter sales for Narcan — a lifesaving nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose.
- The Democrats’ Dianne Feinstein ProblemFor the past few months, a single lawmaker has prevented Democrats from carrying out their agenda in Congress. For now, there is no simple solution in sight.
- A Third Bank Implodes. Now What?On Monday morning, the federal government took over a third failing bank — this time, First Republic.
- Kevin McCarthy’s Debt Ceiling DilemmaLast week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy persuaded Republicans to narrowly pass a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, setting up high-stakes negotiations with the Biden administration.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents’In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge. She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to give herself all of 2022 to expand the small catering business she had always dreamed about. This would be the year she bet on herself. Then, that month, she received the news that medics were pulling her father out of his car.
- The Ballad of ‘Deepfake Drake’This month, an anonymous producer jolted the music industry by using artificial intelligence to impersonate the singers Drake and the Weeknd, creating a fake track, “Heart on My Sleeve,” that quickly went viral.
- Can India Become the Next Global Superpower?This month, India reached a notable milestone. The country’s population surpassed that of China, which had held the No. 1 position for at least three centuries.
- Voters Are Wary of Biden. Here’s Why He Might Win AnywayPresident Biden has announced that he will seek another term in the Oval Office, despite the fact that he will be 81 on Election Day 2024.
- Fox News Fires Its Biggest StarLess than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle the Dominion lawsuit, the network has abruptly fired Tucker Carlson — an anchor at the center of the case.
- How Two Generals Led Sudan to the Brink of Civil WarSudan was supposed to be moving away from military rule and toward democracy. But over the past week, the country has been thrown into violent chaos as two factions battle for control.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Why Are These Italians Massacring Each Other With Oranges?’One Sunday in February, in a northern Italian town called Ivrea, the facades of historic buildings were covered with plastic sheeting and nets. And in several different piazzas, hundreds of wooden crates had appeared. Inside them were oranges. Oranges, the fruit.
- Why Low-Ranking Soldiers Have Access to Top Secret DocumentsLast week, a 21-year old airman from Massachusetts, Jack Teixeira, was arrested under the Espionage Act and charged with violating federal laws by sharing top secret military documents with an online gaming group.
- The Blockbuster Fox Defamation Trial That Wasn’tAt the very last minute, both Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News decided to settle their closely watched defamation lawsuit, rather than make their cases at trial.
- Abortion Goes to the Supreme Court (Again)In overturning Roe v. Wade last year, the Supreme Court’s message was that it was done with the issue of abortion. Now, dueling rulings on abortion pills will send the issue back to the highest court in the country.
- How the I.R.S. Became a Political BoogeymanEarlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service unveiled an $80 billion plan to transform itself into a “digital first” tax collector focused on customer service and cracking down on wealthy tax evaders.
- China and Taiwan: A Torrid BackstoryThe posturing between the United States and China has been intensifying in recent weeks — China responded with condemnations and military drills after Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets’In March 2017, an engineer at G.E. Aviation in Cincinnati received a request on LinkedIn. The engineer, Hua, is in his 40s, tall and athletic, with a boyish face that makes him look a decade younger. He moved to the United States from China in 2003 for graduate studies in structural engineering.
- Broadway’s Longest-Running Musical Turns Out the Lights“The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show in the history of Broadway, will close its doors on Sunday after more than three decades.
- What We’re Learning From the Leaked Military DocumentsA week ago, the world discovered that dozens of classified documents from the American government had been leaked online, including highly sensitive information about Russia’s war in Ukraine and damaging revelations on American spying abroad.
- How Strong (or Not) Is New York’s Case Against Trump?In the week since Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony charges, debate about the strength of the case against him has only intensified.
- Inside Russia’s Crackdown on DissentDays after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin made it a crime to oppose the war in public. Since then, it has waged a relentless campaign of repression, putting Russian citizens in jail for offenses as small as holding a poster or sharing a news article on social media.
- An Extraordinary Act of Political Retribution in TennesseeLast week, Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House expelled two of its members — both young Black Democrats.
- ‘The Run-Up’: The Republican Party Sorts Through Its MessThe Times reporter Astead W. Herndon and the team are back for a new season of “The Run-Up” and they’re looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election, which in many ways has already begun.
- The Outsourcing of America’s Border Problem<i>This episode contains descriptions of severe injuries.</i></p>Tough new border policies introduced by the Biden administration have sharply reduced the number of migrants crossing into the United States. But the measures have also created a combustible bottleneck along the southern border. That situation exploded last week when a deadly fire broke out at a detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.</p>Simon Romero, a national correspondent for The Times, explains how the United States has leaned more heavily on Mexico to help handle its immigration dilemma, bringing cities like Juárez to a breaking point.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/simon-romero">Simon Romero</a>, a national correspondent for The New York Times covering the Southwest.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Mexican officials have announced that they are investigating the fire<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/world/americas/fire-mexico-migrants.html"> as a homicide case</a>.</li><li>There has been a<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/mexico-border-migrants-shelters.html"> relentless buildup of migrants in Mexico</a>, where shelters are overwhelmed and the authorities have a checkered record on human rights.</li></ul>
- America Has a Problem in Africa: ChinaVice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Africa last week was designed to send a simple message to its governments and people — China is not your friend. The United States is.
- What It Was Like at Donald Trump’s ArraignmentThe line for reporters seeking to be in the courtroom for Donald J. Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan started forming at 2 p.m. on Monday, more than a day before the former president was scheduled to face a judge in a case centered on hush-money payments.
- The Election That Could Reshape Wisconsin, and the CountryWisconsin will hold an election for a seat on its Supreme Court today, and it is no exaggeration to say that the result could end up reshaping U.S. politics for years to come.
- Fear and Bravado: Inside Trump’s Reaction to the IndictmentAfter Donald J. Trump was indicted over his role in paying hush money to a porn star during the 2016 presidential campaign, he called the move an act of political persecution.
- The Sunday Read: ‘A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis'Joe Faillace, 69, has been running the sandwich shop Old Station Subs alongside his wife, Debbie, for the last four decades. But as an epidemic of unsheltered homelessness began to overwhelm Phoenix, and many other major American downtowns, the Faillaces have been met with hundreds of people sleeping within a few blocks of Old Station. Many of them were suffering from mental illness or substance abuse, resulting in incidents such as pilfered goods and public masturbation.
- The Indictment of Donald TrumpA Manhattan grand jury has indicted Donald J. Trump for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case against him has kicked off a historic moment in American politics.
- The Plan to Save Baseball From BoredomMajor League Baseball is putting in effect some of the biggest changes in the sport’s history in an effort to speed up the game and inject more activity.
- Israel’s Far Right Government Backs DownFor months in Israel, the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing a highly contentious plan to fundamentally change the country’s Supreme Court, setting off some of the largest demonstrations in Israel’s history.
- The Fight Over ‘Cop City’<i>This episode contains descriptions of violence</i></p>In a patch of woods southwest of Atlanta, protesters have been clashing with the police over a huge police training facility that the city wants to build there. This month, that fight came to a head when hundreds of activists breached the site, burning police and construction vehicles.</p>Sean Keenan, an Atlanta-based reporter, explains how what opponents call “Cop City,” and the woods surrounding it, have become an unlikely battleground in the nation’s debate over policing.</p>Guest: Sean Keenan, a freelance reporter for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>This month, protesters damaged property at the site of a<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/atlanta-cop-city-protests.html"> planned police center</a> in Atlanta in a disturbance that grew out of a demonstration among activists in a forest being developed into a training center.</li><li>How a forest near Atlanta became<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/cop-city-atlanta-police-training.html"> a new front line</a> in the debate over policing.</li></ul>
- A Sweeping Plan to Protect Kids From Social MediaA few days ago, Utah became the first state to pass a law prohibiting social media services from allowing users under 18 to have accounts without the explicit consent of a parent or guardian. The move, by Republican officials, is intended to address what they describe as a mental health crisis among American teenagers as well as to protect younger users from bullying and child sexual exploitation.The technology reporter Natasha Singer explains the measure, and why it could be a sign of where the country is headed.
- The Sunday Read: ‘How Danhausen Became Professional Wrestling’s Strangest Star’Like a lot of people who get into professional wrestling, Donovan Danhausen had a vision of a different version of himself. Ten years ago, at age 21, he was living in Detroit, working as a nursing assistant at a hospital, watching a lot of “Adult Swim” and accumulating a collection of horror- and comedy-themed tattoos.
- Should The Government Pay for Your Bad Climate Decisions?A few days ago, the Biden administration released a report warning that a warming planet posed severe economic challenges for the United States, which would require the federal government to reassess its spending priorities and how it influenced behavior.
- Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the MoviesA.O. Scott started as a film critic at The New York Times in January of 2000. Next month he will move to the Book Review as a critic at large.
- Barney Frank on His Role in the Banking CrisisBarney Frank was one of the people most responsible for overhauling financial regulation after the 2008 economic crisis. After retiring from Congress, he supported a change to his own law that would benefit midsize banks, and joined the board of such a bank.
- China, Russia and the Risk of a New Cold WarAs Xi Jinping, China’s leader, meets with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow this week, Chinese officials have been presenting his trip as a mission of peace. But American and European officials are watching for something else altogether — whether Mr. Xi will add fuel to the full-scale war that Mr. Putin began more than a year ago.
- How TikTok Became a Matter of National SecurityTikTok, the app known for short videos of lip syncing, dancing and bread baking, is one of the most popular platforms in the country, used by one out of every three Americans.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land’As an American, Sam Anderson knows what it feels like to arrive at a theme park. “The totalizing consumerist embrace,” he writes. “The blunt-force, world-warping, escapist delight.” He has known theme parks with entrances like “international borders” and ticket prices like “mortgage payments.” Mr. Anderson has been to Disney World, which he describes as “an alternate reality that basically occupies its own tax zone.”
- Why the Banking Crisis Isn’t Over YetIn the past week, as spooked customers frantically withdrew $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S. government stepped in to craft a rescue operation for the failed lender.
- France’s Battle Over Retirement<i>This episode contains strong language</i></p>Millions of people have taken to the streets in France to protest a government effort to raise the retirement age to 64, from 62, bringing the country more in line with its European neighbors.</p>Today, as Parliament holds a key vote on the proposal, we look into why the issue has hit such a nerve in French society.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/roger-cohen?smid=pc-thedaily">Roger Cohen</a>, the Paris bureau chief for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>After large protests, all eyes were on the French Parliament on Thursday as it prepared to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/world/europe/france-pension-vote.html"> vote on the measure</a> to increase the retirement age by two years.</li><li>Here are some of the reasons so many people in France<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/france-pension-strikes-macron-explainer.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article"> are protesting the proposals</a>.</li></ul>
- What to Know About the Covid Lab Leak TheoryThree years after the start of Covid, the central mystery of the pandemic — how exactly it began — remains unsolved. But recently, the debate about the source of the coronavirus has re-emerged, this time in Congress.
- The Implosion of Silicon Valley BankWith federal regulators planning to take over the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, a 40-year-old institution based in California, nearly $175 billion in customer deposits will be placed under the authorities’ control.
- What Is E.S.G., and Why Are Republicans So Mad About It?The principle behind E.S.G. is that investors should look beyond just whether a company can make a profit and take into account other factors, such as its environmental impact and action on social issues.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Can Germany Be a Great Military Power Again?’After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany told Parliament that the attack was a Zeitenwende — a historic “turning point” for Europe and Germany. The risk of a large land war in Europe had previously been considered far-fetched, but recent years of Russian aggression have inspired fear in Germany and a 100-billion-euro fund to bolster its military.
- Protests and the Future of Democracy in IsraelAlmost immediately after taking power in December, Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition in Isreal proposed a highly contentious overhaul of the Supreme Court.
- A New Child Labor Crisis in AmericaSlaughterhouses, construction sites, factories. A Times investigation has found that migrant children have been thrust into jobs in some of the most demanding workplaces in the United States.
- Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines?The sabotage in September of the Nord Stream pipelines carrying Russian gas to Europe has become one of the central mysteries of the war in Ukraine, prompting months of finger-pointing and guesswork.
- Ron DeSantis’s Rise From Unknown to Heir ApparentAs the race to be the Republican Party’s presidential candidate gets underway, one figure has emerged as a particularly powerful rival to Donald J. Trump.
- How a Derailed Train Galvanized an Ohio Town, and CongressOn Feb. 3, a nearly two-mile long freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed near East Palestine, Ohio, a town of about 4,700 people.
- Sunday Special: An Episode of ‘The Coldest Case in Laramie’Today, we’re taking some time out of our regularly scheduled programming to share the first episode of “The Coldest Case in Laramie.” In the new series from The Times and Serial, Kim Barker, a Times investigative reporter, digs into the 1985 murder of Shelli Wiley, a young woman who was a few years older than Kim when they both lived in Laramie, Wyoming.
- Why Russia Is Taking Thousands of Ukrainian ChildrenAs Russian troops pushed into Ukraine, children who were fleeing newly occupied territories were swept up. Many became part of a Russian effort to portray itself as a charitable savior.
- Will the Supreme Court Let Biden Cancel Student Debt?In August, President Biden announced a loan cancellation plan that would erase an astonishing $400 billion in student debt — one of the most ambitious and expensive executive actions ever.
- A Threat to Abortion Pills. Plus, the U.S. Shares SecretsIn 2000, the F.D.A. approved the medication abortion drug mifepristone. Now a federal judge in Texas is set to rule on a case filed by anti-abortion groups urging the agency to revoke its approval of mifepristone and the other main drug used for medication abortion in the United States. Abortion via medication has become increasingly common and now accounts for more than half of the nation’s abortions.
- Why So Many Buildings Collapsed in TurkeyThe 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 left more than 50,000 people dead. The sight of rescuers combing the rubble has prompted questions about why so many buildings seemed so inadequate to resist the shaking earth.
- Why Election Denialism Might Cost Fox News $1.6 BillionAfter the 2020 election, wild theories ran rampant on the right of an election stolen from Donald Trump through a coordinated conspiracy. The news channel Fox News became one of the loudest voices amplifying these false claims into millions of U.S. households.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction’In February, the first lawsuit against Tesla for a crash involving its driver-assistance system, Autopilot, will go to trial. The slew of trials set to follow will be a costly fight that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, has vowed to take on in court. When Tesla released its Autopilot feature in October 2015, Musk touted the feature as “probably better” than a human driver. The reality, however, has proved different: On average, there is at least one Autopilot-related crash in the United States every day.
- A Year of War in UkraineThe war has already done untold damage. By some estimates, tens of thousands have died, and the country has sustained tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage that has left cities flattened. But Ukraine has also largely stopped the offensives of its much larger and better-armed neighbor and has regained some captured land.
- A Ruling That Could End the Internet as We Know ItSince 1996, the modern internet has been defined by a sweeping law that prevents tech companies such as Facebook and Google from being held responsible for the content posted on their sites.
- The Veterans Fighting to Legalize PsychedelicsIn a major shift that would modify laws set half a decade ago, states and cities around the United States are moving to legalize psychedelics for use as a medical treatment.
- Why ‘Made in China’ Is Becoming ‘Made in Mexico’The great supply chain disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic scrambled the shipping system across the Pacific.
- Sunday Special: An Episode of ‘Hard Fork’Times tech columnist Kevin Roose stopped by The Daily twice this week to chronicle the debut of Bing’s new chatbot — and the creepy things that transpired. Today, we’re bringing you the latest episode of Kevin’s podcast, Hard Fork. Kevin, along with his co-host Casey Newton, expand the discussion about why Microsoft’s A.I. search tool appears more powerful — and more unsettling — than they initially believed. Plus: a conversation about Elon Musk’s quest to be the most popular user on Twitter, and why online ads have gotten so much worse (like, much worse).
- The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast.Microsoft recently released a new version of its search engine Bing that is powered by artificial intelligence software from OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT.
- A Crisis Within a Crisis in SyriaWhen a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Turkey last week, it killed thousands and created a crisis within a crisis.
- The Online Search WarsMicrosoft recently released a new version of Bing, its search engine that has long been kind of a punchline in the tech world.
- Why the U.S. Keeps Shooting Objects Out of the SkyLast week, after the Air Force shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon, examination of its wreckage revealed that it could not only take images, but also scoop up radio and cellphone communications.
- The Navy’s Very Expensive MistakeAmid growing threats from rivals like China, the United States military is determined to invest in new forms of defense and abandon those that no longer meet its needs.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Women Have Been Misled About Menopause’Menopausal hormone therapy was once the most commonly prescribed treatment in the United States. In the late 1990s, some 15 million women a year were receiving a prescription for it. But in 2002, a single study, its design imperfect, found links between hormone therapy and elevated health risks for women of all ages. Panic set in; in one year, the number of prescriptions plummeted.
- How Sports Betting Hit the Mainstream in AmericaThis weekend, one of the most watched sporting events of the year, the Super Bowl, will draw an estimated $16 billion in bets from Americans, more than double last year’s total.
- The Most Empty Downtown in AmericaFor the past decade, San Francisco has worked hard to turn its downtown into a vibrant hub, providing a model that other cities in the United States looked to emulate.
- The Police Unit That Was Supposed to Keep Memphis Safe<i>This episode contains descriptions of violence. </i></p>The death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, at the hands of officers in Memphis last month has intensified calls for fundamental reform in policing. Those calls were echoed yesterday by President Biden, who hosted Mr. Nichols’s parents at the State of the Union address.</p>Today, we hear about a Times investigation into the special team of officers, known as the Scorpion unit, that is accused of killing Mr. Nichols.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-baker?smid=pc-thedaily">Mike Baker</a>, the Seattle bureau chief and a national correspondent for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>For 14 months, officers from the high-profile Scorpion unit<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/memphis-police-scorpion.html"> patrolled Memphis with an air of menace</a>.</li><li>City leaders had praised the Scorpion unit as a key strategy for fighting crime. Now they are trying to assess<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/memphis-police-scorpions.html"> whether it was flawed from the start</a>.</li><li>The unit has been disbanded, but Memphis<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/us/police-teams-memphis-scorpion-unit.html"> wasn’t the only city to turn to specialized police teams</a>.</li></ul>
- The Deadly Earthquake in Turkey and SyriaOn Monday, a giant 7.8-magnitude earthquake and an aftershock almost as big shook the earth in southern Turkey. The quakes sent ripples through neighboring countries, but the area along the Syrian-Turkish border was hit particularly hard.
- A Chinese Balloon and a Diplomatic ShowdownOn Wednesday, residents in Montana saw a mysterious object — a balloon — hovering and bobbing around in the skies. The enigma brought Americans out to squint at the heavens, caused a diplomatic visit to be canceled and opened a political debate.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World’Going out to dinner with Juan Tamariz in Madrid is a little like accompanying a cartoon character on a journey to the real world. As Shuja Haider, the author of today’s Sunday Read, walked with him on side streets off the city center’s main drag, the Calle Gran Vía, heads turned left and right.
- The End of the Pandemic Emergency in the U.S.The Biden administration said this week that it would end the public health emergency for Covid, a sign that federal officials believe that the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase.
- A Revolution in How Democrats Pick a PresidentFor the past 50 years, the race to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee has been shaped by the where the contest begins: Iowa.
- The State of the U.S. Economy in 4 NumbersThe typical sales price of an existing family home in the United States in December: 372,700. The number of layoffs in the tech sector since the beginning of the year: 76,000. The number by which consumer spending fell in December: 0.2 percent. The increase in the cost of the same kind of carton of eggs bought by an editor on “The Daily” a year apart: 251 percent.
- 7 States, 1 River and an Agonizing ChoiceIn the United States, 40 million people in seven states depend on water provided by the Colorado River.
- The Death of Tyre Nichols<i>This episode contains descriptions of violence and strong language.</i></p>Tyre Nichols was a 29-year-old Black man who lived in Memphis. His mother described him as living a simple and pleasant life. He worked for FedEx, loved to skateboard, was an amateur photographer and had a 4-year-old son.</p>On the evening of Jan. 7, after a traffic stop, Mr. Nichols was violently beaten by the police, sustaining severe injuries. He died on Jan. 10.</p>For weeks, what exactly had happened was unclear. This weekend, videos of the encounter were released.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/rick-rojas?smid=pc-thedaily">Rick Rojas</a>, the Southern bureau chief for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The five officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols are also Black,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/us/police-tyre-nichols-beating-race.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> complicating the anguish and efforts to change the police</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/us/tyre-nichols-video-reaction-protests.html?smid=pc-thedaily">Recently released video footage</a> included critical moments in which police officers kicked, punched and pepper-sprayed Mr. Nichols while he screamed.</li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘Has the Amazon Reached Its “Tipping Point”?’In the past half-century, 17 percent of the Amazon — an area larger than Texas — has been converted to croplands or cattle pasture. Less forest means less recycled rain, less vapor to cool the air, less of a canopy to shield against sunlight. Under drier, hotter conditions, even the lushest of Amazonian trees will shed leaves to save water, inhibiting photosynthesis — a feedback loop that is only exacerbated by global warming.
- Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up<i>This episode contains descriptions of violence and injury. </i></p>In September, protests began in Iran over the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the government. The demonstrations have since intensified, as has the government’s response, with thousands arrested and a terrifying campaign of public executions underway.</p>Today, Iranians who have taken part in the demonstrations tell us — in their own words — why they are willing to brave such severe punishments to help bring about change.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/cora-engelbrecht?smid=pc-thedaily">Cora Engelbrecht</a>, an international reporter for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The protests in Iran have escalated amid<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/world/middleeast/iran-protests.html"> anger over religious rules and a rock-bottom economy</a>.</li><li>A look at the Iranians<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/iran-protests-death-sentences-executions.html"> who have been hanged, and those on death row</a>, as the government tries to crush the monthslong uprising.</li></ul>
- An Aggressive New Approach to Childhood ObesityRecent advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended a bold approach to treating the millions of children in the United States who are affected by obesity. Counseling, drug treatment and even surgery should be considered, the group says.
- How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over PatientsNonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor.
- What Biden Miscalculated About His Classified DocumentsOver the weekend, F.B.I. agents found classified documents at President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., after conducting a 13-hour search.
- The Debt Ceiling Showdown, ExplainedIn the past decade or more, votes over increasing the U.S. debt ceiling have increasingly been used as a political tool. That has led to intense showdowns in 2011, 2013 and, now, 2023.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Could I Survive the “Quietest Place on Earth”?’In a room in a modest concrete building in a leafy Minneapolis neighborhood is silence exceeding the bounds of human perception. Technically an “anechoic chamber,” the room is the quietest place on the planet — according to some.
- A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly JourneyWith mountains, intense mud, fast-running rivers and thick rainforest, the Darién Gap, a strip of terrain connecting South and Central America, is one of the most dangerous places on the planet.
- Why the U.S. Is Sending More Powerful Weapons to UkraineSince the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the United States and allies have held back from sending Kyiv their most potent arms.
- The ‘Enemies List’ at Madison Square GardenWith little warning or regulation, companies are increasingly using facial recognition technology on their customers — as a security measure, they say.
- China’s Abrupt Reversal of ‘Zero Covid’For nearly three years, China had one of the lowest coronavirus death rates in the world, thanks to its strict yet effective “zero Covid” approach.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Risking Everything to Offer Abortion Access Across State Lines’In states where abortion is severely limited or illegal, clinicians face imminent prosecution if they continue to provide abortions. What is much less clear is what happens if providers in blue states offer telemedicine abortions to women in states where that’s against the law. These clinicians, too, could be arrested or sued or lose their medical licenses. To protect themselves, they may have to give up traveling to certain parts of the country — and it’s still no guarantee.
- The Presidents and the Classified DocumentsThe Justice Department is scrutinizing how both former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden came to have classified records after they left office.
- The California FloodsFor weeks, a string of major storms have hit California, causing extreme flooding. While it might seem as if rain should have a silver lining for a state stuck in a historic drought, the reality is far more complicated.
- A Jan. 6 Moment for BrazilAfter Jair Bolsonaro lost October’s Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many believed that the threat of violence from the defeated leader’s supporters would recede. They were wrong.
- The Southwest Airlines MeltdownAir travel was a mess over the holidays — in the last 10 days of December, 30,000 flights were canceled.
- Speaker McCarthy. But at What Cost?Representative Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker of the House turned into a rolling disaster last week, played out over five long days and 15 rounds of voting.
- The Sunday Read: ‘She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away’On Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Diller, then 17, and her mother boarded a flight in Lima, Peru. She was headed for Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three years she had lived, on and off, with her mother, Maria, and her father, Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, both zoologists.
- Consider the Burying Beetle. (Or Else.)The current level of biodiversity loss is extraordinary in human history: The global rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years.
- The Life and Lies of George SantosGeorge Santos, the Republican representative-elect from New York, ran for office and won his seat in part on an inspiring personal story.
- Inside Russia’s Military Catastrophe<i>This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.</i><br />When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s army would quickly crush the Ukrainian forces. Instead, Russian military failures have defined the war.</p>Today, we hear from Russian soldiers, and explore why a military superpower keeps making the same mistakes and why, despite it all, its soldiers keep going back to fight.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-schwirtz?smid=pc-thedaily">Michael Schwirtz</a>, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and interviews with Russian soldiers explain<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html"> how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia</a>.</li></ul>
- A Crisis of Kevin McCarthy’s Own Making<i>This episode contains strong language. </i><br />Republicans are set to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four years. The transition is shaping up to be chaotic. </p>Today, the 118th Congress will gather for the first time in the Capitol, yet there is still a question mark over who is going to be the Republican speaker of the House. </p>Why is there still a fight over leadership?</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/catie-edmondson">Catie Edmondson</a>, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Representative Kevin McCarthy is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/us/politics/mccarthy-speaker.html?smid=pc-thedaily">struggling to break through a wall of entrenched opposition</a> to his speakership from hard-right lawmakers even after agreeing to weaken his leadership power.</li><li>Mr. McCarthy has so far faced no viable challenger. But if he is unable to secure the votes, an alternative could quickly emerge. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/us/politics/mccarthy-speaker-alternatives.html?smid=pc-thedaily">Here are the Republicans to watch</a>. </li></ul>
- One Man Flees Putin’s Draft: An UpdateThis week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.
- A Post-Roe America: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since.</i></p>In May, the United States was stunned by the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that previewed the end of Roe v. Wade. After, we spoke to people on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/podcasts/the-daily/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-anti-abortion.html" target="_blank">both</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/podcasts/the-daily/roe-v-wade-abortion-providers.html" target="_blank">sides</a> of the abortion issue. Today, we revisit conversations with two women, an anti-abortion activist and an abortion provider, and discuss how their lives have changed since the end of the constitutional right to abortion.</p>Guests: </p><ul><li><strong>Anja Baker</strong>, an anti-abortion activist in Mississippi who works for Her PLAN, a project of the Susan B. Anthony List Education Fund.</li><li><strong>Dr. Jessica Rubino</strong>, a family medicine physician who was previously an abortion provider at Austin Women’s Health Center.</li></ul>Background reading:</p><ul><li>The Times has been tracking the status of abortion laws in each state. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html" target="_blank">Here are the latest updates</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/28/us/abortion-costs-funds.html" target="_blank">What does it cost to get an abortion now</a>? With the procedure banned in many states, patients face added expenses for travel, lodging and child care. More of them are turning to charities for help.</li></ul>
- A View of the Beginning of Time: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p>In July, NASA released new images captured from a point in space one million miles from Earth. Ancient galaxies carpeting the sky like jewels on black velvet. Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust.</p>Today, we return to our episode about the moment when the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space observatory ever built, sent its first images back to Earth — and explore what the telescope has discovered since then in its long journey across the universe. </p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kenneth-chang" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Chang</strong></a>, a science reporter for The New York Times.</p><strong>Background reading</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/12/science/webb-telescope-images-nasa" target="_blank">Here are more scenes</a> of the universe captured by the Webb telescope.</li></ul>
- How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p>This year, we explored the story of Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York City, who had embarked on an improbable attempt to create the company’s first union and succeeded.</p>Today, we return to their story and learn about the current state of their organizing effort.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jodi-kantor" target="_blank"><strong>Jodi Kantor</strong></a>, an investigative reporter for The New York Times; and <strong>Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer</strong>, warehouse workers who led the first successful unionization attempt at Amazon.</p><strong>Background reading</strong></p><ul><li>Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer won the first successful unionization effort at any Amazon warehouse in the United States, one of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/business/amazon-union-christian-smalls.html" target="_blank">most significant labor victories in a generation</a>.</li></ul>
- On the Road With Ukraine’s Refugees: An Update<i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p><i>This episode contains strong language.</i></p>This year, in response to Russia’s increasingly brutal campaign against Ukrainian towns and cities, millions of people — most of them women and children — fled Ukraine. It was the fastest displacement of people in Europe since World War II.</p>Today, we return to the beginning of the invasion and reporting from our host Sabrina Tavernise, who traveled alongside some of those fleeing the conflict.</p><strong>Background reading</strong></p><ul><li>With most men legally prohibited from leaving Ukraine, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-poland-families-separation.html" target="_blank">the international border gates serve as a painful filter</a>, splitting families as women and children move on.</li><li>Spared direct attacks so far, Lviv, a city in Ukraine’s west, has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/world/europe/lviv-ukraine-war-russia.html" target="_blank">become a transit point for thousands of refugees</a> and for men and supplies headed to the front lines.</li></ul>
- A Restaurant Critic (Ours) On the Year That Changed Him ForeverDuring his time as a restaurant critic for The Times, Pete Wells has become both feared and revered in the world of dining — crowning those at the top and dethroning those whose time has passed.
- A Crisis in Peru Signals Trouble for South AmericaA few weeks ago, when President Pedro Castillo of Peru attempted an illegal power grab and ended up in jail, the response was unexpected: Thousands of protesters took to the streets to support him, and some died.
- The Lives They Lived<i>This episode contains descriptions of violence. </i></p>At the end of every year, The New York Times Magazine devotes an issue to remembering those who have died in the past year.</p>This year’s focus is gun violence, which is now the leading cause of death for American children, and the short lives that ended far too soon because of it.</p>Today, we remember three of them: Lavonte’e Williams, Elijah Gomez and Shiway Barry.</p>On today’s episode: The voices of Cheese, Shiway Barry's best friend; Crystal Cathcart, Elijah Gomez’s aunt, and his mother, Jennifer Cathcart; and Lavonte’e Williams’s mother, Miracle Jones, and Michael Jones and Tanika Jones, his grandparents.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>A boy just baptized. A girl who just had her Sweet 16.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/magazine/gun-violence-america-child-deaths.html"> These are the stories of 12 children killed by guns this year</a>.</li></ul>
- A Congressional Call to Prosecute TrumpEvery step of the way, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has been groundbreaking.
- How This World Cup Changed SoccerFor weeks, much of the globe has been riveted by the highs and lows of the World Cup in Qatar. On Sunday, the soccer tournament culminated in a win for Argentina and its star, Lionel Messi, against France.
- The Sunday Read: ‘He Had a Dark Secret. It Changed His Best Friend’s Life.’“On his first night at the Brooklyn homeless shelter, Tin Chin met his best friend.”
- Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart?<i>This episode contains strong language.</i><br />In the past few weeks, a major breakthrough in the world of artificial intelligence — ChatGPT — has put extraordinary powers in the hands of anyone with access to the internet.</p>Released by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company, ChatGPT can write essays, come up with scripts for TV shows, answer math questions and even write code.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kevin-roose">Kevin Roose</a>, a technology columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times podcast “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork">Hard Fork</a>.”</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>ChatGPT has<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/technology/chatgpt-ai-twitter.html"> inspired awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails</a>.</li><li>The chatbot is suddenly everywhere. Who should decide how it’s built? What could go wrong? And what could go right?<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/podcasts/can-chatgpt-make-this-podcast.html"> The hosts of the “Hard Fork” discuss</a>.</li></ul>
- Scenes from a Russian Draft OfficeThis fall, as Russia’s losses mounted in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin announced a draft. Almost immediately, hundreds of thousands of men fled the country, though many more stayed.
- The Unexpected Ways the Left is Winning in the Abortion FightWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this year, it appeared to be an unvarnished victory for the anti-abortion movement.
- The Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Germany’s GovernmentThree thousand security officers fanned out across Germany this past week, raiding 150 homes, arresting 25 people and putting more than 50 others under investigation for plotting to overthrow the national government in Berlin.
- How Layoff News Is Hiding a Hot Job Market Companies like Meta and Twitter have said that they will be cutting jobs. Google and Amazon have announced that they are putting a freeze on any new hiring.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline’Shortly after the war in Ukraine began, terrified civilians from across the country made their way to their cities’ main train stations.
- A Court Case That Could Transform ElectionsOn one level, the case brought before the Supreme Court is about gerrymandering. But on a broader level, it’s about a theory that would completely reorient the relationship between the federal and state governments and upset the ordinary checks and balances.
- Why Haiti Asked for an Intervention<i>This episode contains descriptions of distressing scenes. </i></p>Haiti is unraveling. Gangs control much of the capital, thousands have been displaced and hundreds more are dead.</p>In recent weeks, the government has taken the extraordinary step of asking for an armed intervention from abroad.</p>What is it like on the ground, and what does the request mean for Haitians?</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/natalie-kitroeff">Natalie Kitroeff</a>, the bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for The New York Times. </p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>With unchecked gang violence rocking its capital and a cholera outbreak spreading, Haiti’s government has called for an<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/world/americas/haiti-international-intervention-violence.html"> international armed intervention to stabilize the country</a>.</li><li>Fearing a mass exodus, some Biden administration officials have<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/world/americas/haiti-gangs-foreign-intervention.html"> pressed for a multinational force</a>, but they don’t want to send U.S. troops and haven’t been able to persuade other countries to take the lead.</li></ul>
- When Book Bans Came to Small Town New Jersey<i>This episode contains strong language. </i><br />In the contentious debate over who controls what happens in America’s schools, a new battleground has emerged: library books.</p>This is the story of what happened when parents in one town in New Jersey tried to remove a handful of books that they said were explicit and sexually inappropriate — and the battle that ensued.</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/alexandra-alter?smid=pc-thedaily">Alexandra Alter</a>, a reporter covering publishing and the literary world for The New York Times. </p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>As highly visible and politicized book bans have exploded across the United States, librarians — accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities — have<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/books/book-ban-librarians.html"> found themselves on the front lines of an acrimonious culture war</a>, with their careers and their personal reputations at risk.</li></ul>
- The Last Senate SeatGeorgia voters are heading to the polls for the final battle of the 2022 midterms — the runoff election between Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, Herschel Walker.
- Life in Ukraine as Russia Weaponizes WinterFor months, the war in Ukraine was about territory as both sides fought to control areas in the country’s south and east.
- The Sunday Read: ‘How Noah Baumbach Made “White Noise” a Disaster Movie for Our Moment’Jon Mooallem met with the director Noah Baumbach to discuss his latest film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise.”
- Who Pays the Bill for Climate Change?Last month at COP27, the U.N. climate change conference, a yearslong campaign ended in an agreement. The rich nations of the world — the ones primarily responsible for the emissions that have caused climate change — agreed to pay into a fund to help poorer nations that bear the brunt of its effects.
- A Landmark Jan. 6 VerdictIn a landmark verdict, a jury convicted Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia, of sedition for his role in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
- What It’s Like Inside One of China’s ProtestsOver the weekend, protests against China’s strict coronavirus restrictions ricocheted across the country in a rare case of nationwide civil unrest. It was the most extensive series of protests since the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
- A Secret Campaign to Influence the Supreme CourtFor the past few months, Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker, investigative reporters for The New York Times, have looked into a secretive, yearslong effort by an anti-abortion activist to influence the justices of the Supreme Court.
- Qatar’s Big Bet on the World CupThe World Cup, the biggest single sporting event on the planet, began earlier this month. By the time the tournament finishes, half the global population is expected to have watched.
- Talking Turkey: A Holiday Special EditionBeing tasked with the turkey on Thanksgiving can be a high-pressure, high-stakes job. Two Times writers share what they’ve learned.
- The ‘Tripledemic’ ExplainedThis winter, three major respiratory viruses — respiratory syncytial virus or R.S.V., the flu and the coronavirus — are poised to collide in the United States in what some health officials are calling a “tripledemic.”
- Trump Faces a New Special CounselDonald J. Trump is running for president again. Donald J. Trump is back on Twitter again. And now a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate Donald J. Trump again.
- The Sunday Read: ‘What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay’Across the world, developed nations have locked themselves into unsustainable, energy-intensive lifestyles. As environmental collapse threatens, the journalist Noah Gallagher Shannon explores the lessons in sustainability that can be learned from looking “at smaller, perhaps even less prosperous nations” such as Uruguay.
- 'The Run-Up': The Post-MortemThe midterm elections have left both parties in a moment of reflection. For Republicans, it’s time to make a choice about Trumpism, but one that may no longer be theirs to make. For Democrats, it’s about how much of their future is inherently tied to the G.O.P.
- The Man Who Was Supposed to Save CryptoEarlier this year, much of the crypto industry imploded, taking with it billions of dollars. From that crash, one company and its charismatic founder emerged as the industry’s savior.
- The Far Right Rises in IsraelThis week, Israel swore in a new Parliament, paving the way back to power for former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as he is on trial for corruption. Now, the country is on the cusp of its most right-wing government in history.
- A Republican HouseDivided government appears poised to return to Washington. In the midterm elections, the Republicans seem likely to manage to eke out a majority in the House, but they will have a historically small margin of control.
- Another Trump CampaignDays after voters rejected his vision for the country in the midterms, former President Donald J. Trump is expected to announce a third run for president.
- The Nation’s ‘Report Card’ on Remote LearningOn the first nationwide test of American students since the pandemic, scores plummeted to levels not seen in 20 years. The results show how challenging it was to keep students on track during the pandemic.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Young and Homeless in Rural America’Sandra Plantz, an administrator at Gallia County Local Schools for more than 20 years, oversees areas as diverse as Title I reading remediation and federal grants for all seven of the district’s schools. In recent years, though, she has leaned in hard on a role that is overlooked in many districts: homeless liaison.
- How Democrats Defied the OddsThis week’s elections have been startlingly close. Control of both chambers of Congress remain up in the air.
- The Republican Wave That Wasn’tIn the early hours of Wednesday, control of both the House and Senate remained uncertain.
- How Democracy Itself Ended Up on the Ballot in WisconsinOver the last decade, Wisconsin has become an extreme experiment in single-party rule. Republican officials have redrawn the state’s election districts and rewritten laws to ensure their domination of the state’s legislature.
- John Fetterman and the Fight for White Working-Class VotersFor the Democrats to hold on to power in Washington, they have to do what President Biden did in Pennsylvania two years ago: Break the Republican Party’s grip on the white working-class vote, once the core of the Democratic base.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Taken Under Fascism, Spain’s “Stolen Babies” Are Learning the Truth’The phenomenon of babies stolen from hospitals in Spain, once shrouded in secrecy, is now being spoken about.
- ‘The Run-Up': The Grass Roots, Part 2This moment in politics will be defined by shifts at the grass-roots level. It wasn’t long ago that Democrats used to brag about the coalition they had built — full of young people, minority voters and college-educated women. Today, we talk to members of the Democratic base, many of whom no longer see a clear path forward for the party.
- Can Abortion Still Save the Democrats?With an unpopular president and soaring inflation, Democrats knew they had an uphill battle in the midterms.
- Why the Supreme Court Might End Affirmative ActionFor decades, many universities have used race as a factor when deciding which students to admit. In the past, the Supreme Court has backed that practice, called affirmative action, in the interest of creating a diverse student body.
- The Man Who Tried to Kidnap Nancy PelosiEarly on Friday, an intruder broke into the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi and bludgeoned Ms. Pelosi’s husband, Paul, with a hammer.
- Twitter in the Time of Elon MuskIt was long awaited, and some doubted that it would ever come to pass, but last week, the tech billionaire Elon Musk officially took over Twitter.
- Xi Jinping Opens a New Chapter for ChinaFour years ago, Xi Jinping set himself up to become China’s leader indefinitely.
- The Sunday Read: ‘Why We Take Animal Voyages’For Sam Anderson, a staff writer, traveling with animals can lead to enlightening experience. In this essay for The New York Times Magazine, Mr. Anderson explores what he has learned from a lifetime of voyaging with animals, and what it means to connect with another creature: bridging spiritual, physical and even temporal distances, and reaching into “something like evolutionary time.”
- 'The Run-Up': The Grass Roots, Part 1This moment in politics will be defined by shifts at the grass-roots level. Today, we talk to conservative voters about the forces animating the midterm elections for them — and what Washington can learn from the people.
- Two Futures Face Off in BrazilVoters in Brazil on Sunday will choose between two larger-than-life, populist candidates in a presidential race that is widely seen as the nation’s — and Latin America’s — most important election in decades.
- Is New York (of All Places) About to Go Red?As Democratic Party leaders assessed their vulnerabilities in this year’s midterm elections, the one state they did not worry about was New York. That — it turns out — was a mistake.
- The Trump SubpoenaA few days ago, when the House committee investigating Jan. 6 issued a subpoena to former President Donald J. Trump, it raised a legal question: Can Congress compel a former president to testify?
- How Europe’s Energy Crisis Exposed Old Fault Lines and New AnxietiesIn the early days of its war on Ukraine, Russia cut off gas supplied to most of Europe, plunging the continent into the most severe energy crisis in decades.
- Running an Election in the Heart of Election Denialism<i>This episode contains strong language. </i></p>Hundreds of candidates on the ballot in November still deny that President Biden won in 2020 — a level of denialism that is fueling harassment and threats toward election workers. </p>Few have experienced those attacks as viscerally as election workers in Arizona. Today, we speak with the top election official in the state’s largest county. </p>Guest: Stephen Richer, the recorder of Maricopa County in Arizona. </p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Election officials are on alert as voting begins for midterm elections,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/us/politics/midterm-elections-challenges.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> the biggest test of the American election system</a> since former President Donald J. Trump’s lies about the 2020 results launched an assault on the democratic process.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/13/us/politics/republican-candidates-2020-election-misinformation.html?smid=pc-thedaily">Over 370 Republican candidates</a> have cast doubt on the 2020 election despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, according to a New York Times investigation.</li></ul>
- The Sunday Read: ‘How Yiyun Li Became a Beacon for Readers in Mourning’Yiyun Li has garnered legions of fans with her unsparing prose, writing extensively about her own struggles with depression and suicidality.
- 'The Run-Up': What 12 Years of Gerrymandering Has Done to WisconsinHow a 12-year project to lock in political power in Wisconsin could culminate in this year’s midterms – and provide a glimpse into where the rest of the country is headed.
- The Rapid Downfall of Liz TrussPrime Minister Liz Truss of Britain has resigned after only 44 days in office. Hers is the shortest premiership in the country’s history.
- Why Republicans Are Winning Swing VotersAfter a summer of news that favored Democrats and with just two weeks until the midterms, a major new poll from The Times has found that swing voters are suddenly turning to the Republicans.
- Race, Power and the Leaked Recording in Los Angeles<i>This episode contains strong language.</i><br />A leaked audio recording of Latino lawmakers in Los Angeles making racist comments has created a political firestorm and brought demands for resignations.</p>But not only has the uproar forced the authorities to reckon with what officials say behind closed doors, it has also raised a sharp issue: Why is a city with so many Latino constituents represented by so few of them?</p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/shawn-hubler?smid=pc-thedaily">Shawn Hubler</a>, a California correspondent for The New York Times.</p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The recording of the private conversation between three council members and a labor leader has already led to two resignations.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/us/los-angeles-city-council-what-to-know.html"> Here’s what to know about the controversy</a>.</li><li>The disparaging remarks highlighted<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/us/latino-racism-oaxacan.html"> a history of racism</a> within the Latino community.</li></ul>
- Did Hurricane Ian Bust Florida’s Housing Boom?Since Hurricane Ian devastated southwestern Florida last month, residents have filed a record number of insurance claims for the damage caused by the storm.
- The Personal and Political Saga of Herschel WalkerHerschel Walker, the former football star who is running for the Senate, is, according to the Times political reporter Maya King, a “demigod in Georgia sports and in Georgia culture.”
- The Sunday Read: ‘Daring to Speak Up About Race in a Divided School District’In July 2020, Stephanie Long, the school superintendent in Leland, Mich., wrote a heartfelt letter to her students and their families after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers. Haunted by the images she’d seen in the media, she wrote: “Why be in a position of leadership,” she asked herself, “and not lead?”
- 'The Run-Up': The Stacey Abrams PlaybookWhen Georgia flipped blue in the 2020 election, it gave Democrats new hope for the future. Credit for that success goes to Stacey Abrams and the playbook she developed for the state. It cemented her role as a national celebrity, in politics and pop culture. But, unsurprisingly, that celebrity has also made her a target of Republicans, who say she’s a losing candidate. On today’s episode: the Stacey Abrams playbook, and why the Georgia governor’s race means more to Democrats than a single elected office.
- The Fear Facer: An UpdateIn 2019, Julia Longoria, then a Daily producer, traveled to Nashville to speak with Ella Maners and her mother, Katie Maners.
- 'The Decision of My Life': Part 3<i>This episode contains mention of suicide.</i></p>A year ago, Lynsea Garrison, a senior producer on The Daily, started telling the story of N, a teenager in Afghanistan.</p>N’s family tried to force her to marry a member of the Taliban, but she resisted. When she tried to escape to the U.S., however, her case was rejected, so she had to remain in Kabul, fearful and in hiding.</p>Here’s what happened next.</p><i>If you are having thoughts of suicide, and you live in the United States, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK). You can find a list of additional resources at</i><a href="http://speakingofsuicide.com/resources"><i> SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources</i></a><i>. Additional resources in other countries</i><a href="https://www.therapyroute.com/article/helplines-suicide-hotlines-and-crisis-lines-from-around-the-world"><i> can be found here</i></a><i>.</i></p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Listen to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/podcasts/the-daily/afghan-girls-taliban.html"> Part 1</a> and<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/podcasts/the-daily/afghanistan-taliban-girls.html"> Part 2</a> of N’s story, which we first began to follow after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/world/asia/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-women.html">A single year of extremist rule</a> has turned life upside down for Afghans, especially women.</li></ul>
- A Bridge, a Bomb and Putin’s RevengeJust before the sun came up on Saturday on the Kerch Strait Bridge, a strategically and symbolically important link between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, a bomb detonated, creating a giant fireball.
- The Rise of the Single-Family HomeTo tackle its critical shortage of affordable housing, California has taken aim at a central tenet of the American dream: the single-family home.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting’The search for intelligence beyond Earth has long entranced humans. According to Jon Gertner, a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, this search has been defined “by an assumption that extraterrestrials would have developed radio technologies akin to what humans have created.”
- 'The Run-Up': The BlueprintHow the Republican grass roots got years ahead of a changing country, and whether the Democrats can catch up.
- What Are Tactical Nuclear Weapons, and What if Russia Uses Them?If President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia follows through on his threats to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, he is likely to turn to a specific type.
- Why Is It So Hard to Hit the Brakes on Inflation?In the struggle to control inflation, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates five times already this year.
- Pakistan, Under WaterA few weeks into this year’s monsoon season in Pakistan, it became clear that the rains were unlike anything the country had experienced in a long time.
- Another Momentous Term for the Supreme CourtThe last Supreme Court term was a blockbuster. The justices made a number of landmark rulings, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
- The Latino Voters Who Could Decide the MidtermsLatino voters have never seemed more electorally important than in the coming midterm elections: the first real referendum on the Biden era of government.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Safe Space That Became a Viral Nightmare’In September 2021, a group of female minority students at Arizona State University confronted two white male students who were studying in the library’s multicultural center.
- 'The Run-Up': The GuardrailsWhy we can’t understand this moment in politics without first understanding the transformation of American evangelicalism.
- Florida After Hurricane IanAs the sun came up over Florida yesterday, a fuller picture began to emerge of the destruction that Hurricane Ian had inflicted on the state and its residents.
- One Man Flees Putin’s DraftKirill, 24, works at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow region. He does not support the policies of President Vladimir V. Putin and is vehemently against the invasion of Ukraine.
- An Iranian Uprising Led By WomenMahsa Amini, 22, traveled from her hometown in the province of Kurdistan to the Iranian capital, Tehran, this month. Emerging from the subway, she was arrested for failing to cover her hair modestly enough. Three days later, she was dead.
- The Great Pandemic TheftDuring the pandemic, an enormous amount of money — about $5 trillion in total — was spent to help support the newly unemployed and to prop up the U.S. economy while it was forced into suspension.
- Why Fewer American Children Are Living in PovertyThe high poverty rate among children was long seen as an enduring fact of American life. But a recent analysis has shown that the number of young people growing up poor has fallen dramatically in the past few decades.
- The Sunday Read: ‘The Quest by Circadian Medicine to Make the Most of Our Body Clocks’The concept of having a “body clock” is a familiar one, but less widespread is the awareness that our body contains several biological clocks. Understanding their whims and functions may help us optimize our lives and lead to better overall health, according to scientists.
- 'The Run-Up': The RepublicIn kicking off the midterms, Joe Biden talked about American democracy as a shared value, enshrined in the country’s founding — a value that both Democrats and Republicans should join together in defending. But there is another possible view of this moment. One that is shared by two very different groups: the voters who propelled Biden to the presidency … and the conservative activists who are rejecting democracy altogether.
- The Pastors Being Driven Out by TrumpismEvangelicals make up about a quarter of the population in the United States and are part of the nation’s largest religious group. But lately the movement is in crisis.
- Putin’s Escalation of the War in UkraineIn a speech on Wednesday, President Vladimir V. Putin said that he would require hundreds of thousands more Russians to fight in Ukraine — and alarmed the West by once again raising the specter of nuclear force.
- How Border Politics Landed in Martha’s VineyardLast week, nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants showed up, without warning, on the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard.
- Why Adnan Syed Was Released From PrisonAdnan Syed was accused of the 1999 killing of his classmate and ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, whose body was found buried in a car park in Baltimore.
- Can the U.K. Remain United Without the Queen?The funeral of Queen Elizabeth today will be one of the most extraordinary public spectacles of the last several decades in Britain, accompanied by an outpouring of sadness, reverence and respect.
- The Sunday Read: “Why Do We Love TikTok Audio Memes? Call it ‘Brainfeel.’”“Nobody’s gonna know. They’re gonna know.”
- 'The Run-Up': The AutopsyIt’s March 2013. The G.O.P., in tatters, issues a scathing report blaming its electoral failures on an out-of-touch leadership that ignores minorities at its own peril. Just three years later, Donald Trump proves his party dead wrong. Today, how certain assumptions took hold of both parties — and what they’re still getting wrong — heading into the midterm elections.