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Our Film Critic on Why He’s...

03.23.2023

A.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. After 23 years as a film critic, Mr. Scott discusses ...

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03.23.2023 Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies A.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. After 23 years as a film critic, Mr. Scott discusses ...
03.22.2023 Barney Frank on His Role in the Banking Crisis Barney 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 ...
03.21.2023 China, Russia and the Risk of a New Cold War As 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 ...
03.20.2023 How TikTok Became a Matter of National Security TikTok, 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. In recent weeks, the Biden administration has threatened ...
03.19.2023 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 ...
03.17.2023 Why the Banking Crisis Isn’t Over Yet In 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. But efforts to contain the crisis have met resistance, and the ...
03.16.2023 France’s Battle Over Retirement This episode contains strong language 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. Today, ...
03.15.2023 What to Know About the Covid Lab Leak Theory Three 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 Energy Department ...
03.14.2023 The Implosion of Silicon Valley Bank With 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. The lender’s demise is the second-largest bank failure in ...
03.13.2023 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. But critics of that investment strategy, ...
03.12.2023 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 ...
03.10.2023 Protests and the Future of Democracy in Israel Almost immediately after taking power in December, Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition in Isreal proposed a highly contentious overhaul of the Supreme Court. The court has long been seen as a crucial check and lone backstop on the government, and the ...
03.09.2023 A New Child Labor Crisis in America Slaughterhouses, 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. How did this crisis in child labor develop? And now that it ...
03.08.2023 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. Now, new intelligence reporting has provided the first ...
03.07.2023 Ron DeSantis’s Rise From Unknown to Heir Apparent As 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. That person, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, has broken away from the pack by turning ...
03.06.2023 How a Derailed Train Galvanized an Ohio Town, and Congress On Feb. 3, a nearly two-mile long freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed near East Palestine, Ohio, a town of about 4,700 people. The railroad company and local officials decided to do a chemical burn to neutralize the cargo, but ...
03.05.2023 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 ...
03.03.2023 Why Russia Is Taking Thousands of Ukrainian Children As 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. The children were placed in Russian families and paraded on ...
03.02.2023 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. Now, in a far-reaching case, the Supreme Court will decide ...
03.01.2023 A Threat to Abortion Pills. Plus, the U.S. Shares Secrets In 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 ...
02.28.2023 Why So Many Buildings Collapsed in Turkey The 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. ...
02.27.2023 Why Election Denialism Might Cost Fox News $1.6 Billion After 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 ...
02.26.2023 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 ...
02.24.2023 A Year of War in Ukraine The 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 ...
02.23.2023 A Ruling That Could End the Internet as We Know It Since 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. This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in ...
02.22.2023 The Veterans Fighting to Legalize Psychedelics In 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. The sudden change of heart has a lot to ...
02.21.2023 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. Although mostly over, the turmoil has led to alterations in the way the global economy functions. One such change can be seen in ...
02.19.2023 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, ...
02.17.2023 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. On Valentine’s Day, after a meal with his wife, Kevin Roose, a New ...
02.16.2023 A Crisis Within a Crisis in Syria When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Turkey last week, it killed thousands and created a crisis within a crisis. International aid began pouring into Turkey, but northwestern Syria, which was also hard-hit, received only a trickle. It was a ...
02.15.2023 The Online Search Wars Microsoft recently released a new version of Bing, its search engine that has long been kind of a punchline in the tech world. The company billed this Bing — which is powered by artificial intelligence software from OpenAI, the maker ...
02.14.2023 Why the U.S. Keeps Shooting Objects Out of the Sky Last 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 balloon, the U.S. military said, was part ...
02.13.2023 The Navy’s Very Expensive Mistake Amid 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. On that list: a combat ship rife with flaws. But getting ...
02.12.2023 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 ...
02.10.2023 How Sports Betting Hit the Mainstream in America This 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 booming trade is a sign of how gambling ...
02.09.2023 The Most Empty Downtown in America For 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. In the wake of the pandemic, however, many buildings and ...
02.08.2023 The Police Unit That Was Supposed to Keep Memphis Safe This episode contains descriptions of violence. 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, ...
02.07.2023 The Deadly Earthquake in Turkey and Syria On 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. Thousands of people have ...
02.06.2023 A Chinese Balloon and a Diplomatic Showdown On 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 ...
02.05.2023 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 ...
02.03.2023 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. The move carries both symbolic weight and ...
02.02.2023 A Revolution in How Democrats Pick a President For the past 50 years, the race to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee has been shaped by the where the contest begins: Iowa. But that process could soon be overhauled. In a coming meeting of the Democratic National Committee, ...
02.01.2023 The State of the U.S. Economy in 4 Numbers The 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: ...
01.31.2023 7 States, 1 River and an Agonizing Choice In the United States, 40 million people in seven states depend on water provided by the Colorado River. After 20 years of drought, the situation is dire and the river is at risk of becoming a “deadpool,” a condition in ...
01.30.2023 The Death of Tyre Nichols This episode contains descriptions of violence and strong language. 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 ...
01.29.2023 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 ...
01.27.2023 Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up This episode contains descriptions of violence and injury. 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 ...
01.26.2023 An Aggressive New Approach to Childhood Obesity Recent 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. ...
01.25.2023 How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor. But a Times investigation has revealed that many have deviated from those charitable roots, behaving like for-profit companies, sometimes ...
01.24.2023 What Biden Miscalculated About His Classified Documents Over the weekend, F.B.I. agents found classified documents at President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., after conducting a 13-hour search. The search — at the invitation of Mr. Biden’s lawyers — resulted in the latest in a series of discoveries ...

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Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies

Barney Frank on His Role in the Banking Crisis

China, Russia and the Risk of a New Cold War

How TikTok Became a Matter of National Security

The Sunday Read: ‘Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land’

Why the Banking Crisis Isn’t Over Yet

France’s Battle Over Retirement

What to Know About the Covid Lab Leak Theory

The Implosion of Silicon Valley Bank

What Is E.S.G., and Why Are Republicans So Mad About It?

The Sunday Read: ‘Can Germany Be a Great Military Power Again?’

Protests and the Future of Democracy in Israel

A New Child Labor Crisis in America

Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines?

Ron DeSantis’s Rise From Unknown to Heir Apparent

How a Derailed Train Galvanized an Ohio Town, and Congress

Sunday Special: An Episode of ‘The Coldest Case in Laramie’

Why Russia Is Taking Thousands of Ukrainian Children

Will the Supreme Court Let Biden Cancel Student Debt?

A Threat to Abortion Pills. Plus, the U.S. Shares Secrets

Why So Many Buildings Collapsed in Turkey

Why Election Denialism Might Cost Fox News $1.6 Billion

The Sunday Read: ‘Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction’

A Year of War in Ukraine

A Ruling That Could End the Internet as We Know It

The Veterans Fighting to Legalize Psychedelics

Why ‘Made in China’ Is Becoming ‘Made in Mexico’

Sunday Special: An Episode of ‘Hard Fork’

The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast.

A Crisis Within a Crisis in Syria

The Online Search Wars

Why the U.S. Keeps Shooting Objects Out of the Sky

The Navy’s Very Expensive Mistake

The Sunday Read: ‘Women Have Been Misled About Menopause’

How Sports Betting Hit the Mainstream in America

The Most Empty Downtown in America

The Police Unit That Was Supposed to Keep Memphis Safe

The Deadly Earthquake in Turkey and Syria

A Chinese Balloon and a Diplomatic Showdown

The Sunday Read: ‘The Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World’

The End of the Pandemic Emergency in the U.S.

A Revolution in How Democrats Pick a President

The State of the U.S. Economy in 4 Numbers

7 States, 1 River and an Agonizing Choice

The Death of Tyre Nichols

The Sunday Read: ‘Has the Amazon Reached Its “Tipping Point”?’

Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up

An Aggressive New Approach to Childhood Obesity

How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients

What Biden Miscalculated About His Classified Documents

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