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05.20.2022

Throughout the pandemic, long Covid — symptoms that occur after the initial coronavirus infection — has remained something of a medical mystery. Now, amid the latest surge of infections, a series of major studies are shedding light on the condition. ...

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05.20.2022 A Better Understanding of Long Covid Throughout the pandemic, long Covid — symptoms that occur after the initial coronavirus infection — has remained something of a medical mystery. Now, amid the latest surge of infections, a series of major studies are shedding light on the condition. ...
05.19.2022 Inside Operation Lone Star In the post-Trump era, some red states have moved aggressively to rebuke the Biden administration at the local level and signal to voters what a Republican-led country might look like. In Texas, immigration is a key battleground. Today, we speak ...
05.18.2022 The Battle for Azovstal: A Soldier’s Story For the past two months, a group of Ukrainian fighters has been holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol, mounting a last stand against Russian forces in a critical part of eastern Ukraine. On Monday, ...
05.17.2022 The Mexican Model of Abortion Rights When the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion with Roe v. Wade, it established the United States as a global leader on abortion rights, decades ahead of many other countries. Now, with Roe likely to be overturned, we look to Mexico, a ...
05.16.2022 The Racist Theory Behind So Many Mass Shootings Over the weekend, an 18-year-old man livestreamed himself shooting 13 people and killing 10. Within hours it became clear that the shooter’s intent was to kill as many Black people as possible. The suspect wrote online that he was motivated ...
05.15.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty.’ The Times journalist Caity Weaver was tasked by her editor to go on an adventure: With an old college friend she would spend a week in California, living out of a converted camper van, in pursuit of the aesthetic fantasy ...
05.13.2022 One Million This episode contains strong language. Hilma Wolitzer lost her husband, Morty Wolitzer, a psychologist who loved cooking and jazz, on April 11, 2020. They had been together for 68 years. Mary-Margaret Waterbury’s uncle Michael Mantlo had introduced her to Nirvana, ...
05.12.2022 Why Inflation Doesn’t Affect Us All the Same Fresh data from the U.S. government on Wednesday showed that inflation was still climbing at a rapid pace, prompting President Biden to say that controlling the rising prices was his “top domestic priority.” But not everybody experiences inflation equally. Why ...
05.11.2022 A Post-Roe America, Part 2: The Abortion Providers This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence. In Part 1 of our two-part series, we spoke to anti-abortion activists about their preparations for a future without Roe v. Wade. Today, we talk to people working in abortion clinics about what ...
05.10.2022 How Putin Co-opted Russia’s Biggest Holiday For years, President Vladimir V. Putin has taken advantage of Victory Day — when Russians commemorate the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany — to champion his country’s military might and project himself as a leader of enormous power. This year, ...
05.09.2022 The Unseen Trauma of America’s Drone Pilots This episode contains descriptions of suicide. Over the past five years, a series of investigations by The Times has revealed the terror and tragedy that America’s air wars, despite being promoted as the most precise in history, have brought to ...
05.08.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives.’ It was meant to mark the start of their lives out of college, but the adventure quickly turned into a nightmare. Beginning with what seemed to be a lucky whale sighting, three friends set out on a sea-kayaking trip through ...
05.07.2022 The Story of Roe v. Wade, Part 2: The Culture Wars (From the Archive) Today, we revisit a two-part series that first ran in 2018 about the history of Roe v. Wade and the woman behind it. Almost 50 years ago, when the Supreme Court first ruled that women had the constitutional right to ...
05.07.2022 The Story of Roe v. Wade, Part 1: Who Was Jane Roe? (From the Archive) This week, the release of a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade has put a spotlight on the 50-year-old case that redefined abortion in America. Today, we revisit a two-part series that first ran in 2018 about ...
05.06.2022 A Post-Roe America, Part 1: The Anti-Abortion Activists Since the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion on overturning the constitutional right to abortion, both sides of the fight have been scrambling. Today, in the first of two parts, we speak to anti-abortion activists such as Michael Gonidakis, ...
05.05.2022 A Post-Roe Map of America If the Supreme Court revokes Roe v. Wade, individual states will probably be left to make their own decisions about abortion provision. Some states will ban abortion, and some will continue to allow it. And then there is a third ...
05.04.2022 Is This How Roe Ends? The revelation that the Supreme Court could end the constitutional right to abortion in the United States has set off a political firestorm and deepened divisions about one of the most contentious issues in American society. What exactly is in ...
05.03.2022 The Mar-a-Lago Midterms Unlike other former presidents after leaving office, Donald J. Trump has remained in the middle of the political stage — raising more money than the Republican Party itself and doling out coveted endorsements. Who has Mr. Trump backed in the ...
05.02.2022 Are Unions Making a Comeback? The United States is seeing a revival in union membership. In the last six months, the National Labor Relations Board has recorded a 60 percent increase in workers filing for petitions that allow for union elections to take place. The ...
05.01.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’ Is there a connection between former President Donald J. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, the Russian invasion and the events of Jan. 6, 2021? The journalist Robert Draper talked to Fiona Hill, John Bolton and other former Trump advisers to ...
04.29.2022 The Risks of a New U.S. Approach in Ukraine As the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have became clearer, the Biden administration has pivoted to a more aggressive stance, with officials talking about constraining Moscow as a global power. But that is an escalation, and escalations can go ...
04.28.2022 Most of Us Have Had Covid This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data that showed around 60 percent of Americans — more than half of adults and three quarters of children — have now been infected with the coronavirus. But herd ...
04.27.2022 The Supreme Court Considers a Football Coach’s Prayers Joseph A. Kennedy, a former high school football coach, was fired after he made a habit of going to the 50-yard line after his team’s games to thank God and to lead his players in prayer. On Monday, the Supreme ...
04.26.2022 How a Sudden Mask Ruling Left the C.D.C. Reeling In January 2021, one of President Biden’s first big moves in office was to sign an executive order mandating masks in airports and on planes and other forms of public transit. But an unexpected ruling from a judge in Florida ...
04.25.2022 A Push for Traffic Stop Reform A Times investigation last year found that minor traffic stops in the United States were far more deadly than widely thought — in the previous five years, 400 unarmed motorists who were not under pursuit for any violent crime were ...
04.24.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway?’ America is home to 735 billionaires with a collective worth greater than $4.7 trillion, according to Forbes. There were just 424 billionaires in 2012, Forbes found, and only 243 a decade before that. The billionaires keep multiplying. In this article, ...
04.22.2022 France’s Big Decision When they go to the polls on Sunday, voters in France will be faced with the same two presidential candidates as 2017: Emmanuel Macron, the president and a polished centrist, and Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National ...
04.21.2022 When Texas Went After Transgender Care, Part 2 In Texas, a heated political battle is taking place over care provided to young transgender people, with Gov. Greg Abbott taking a leading role. The story of this confrontation began, improbably, with the contentious divorce of a suburban couple from ...
04.20.2022 When Texas Went After Transgender Care, Part 1 In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of younger Americans who identify as transgender and are seeking medical intervention to support their transition. This increase has coincided with laws introduced in Republican State Houses across ...
04.19.2022 The Cost of Dissidence in Russia Nearly two months into the war in Ukraine, many Russians have gone from shock and denial to support for their troops and anger at the West. What is behind this shifting view, and what does it mean for those who ...
04.18.2022 Biden’s Student Loan Dilemma Across the United States, 45 million borrowers now owe $1.6 trillion in debt for federal loans taken out for college — more than consumers owe on any other debt except mortgages. For the past two years, beginning as the pandemic ...
04.17.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘The War for the Rainforest’ The Indigenous Brazilian territory of Ituna-Itatá was established in 2011 for the protection of an isolated group that has never been contacted by outsiders or fully confirmed to exist. But despite its special status, it has become one of the ...
04.15.2022 27 Years in Solitary Confinement In the 1990s, Dennis Wayne Hope committed a series of armed robberies. After proving adept at escaping prison, he was put in isolation. He has been there for nearly three decades. His case, if the Supreme Court agrees to hear ...
04.14.2022 Twitter’s Elon Musk Problem Elon Musk’s recent investment in Twitter has turned a high-profile and frequent user of the platform into the company’s largest stakeholder. At first, the involvement of Mr. Musk, the C.E.O. of Tesla, was seen by the social media giant as ...
04.13.2022 The Next Phase of the War in Ukraine After a disastrous defeat in northern Ukraine, Russia has begun a high-stakes battle for the east, while Western allies arm Ukrainian fighters determined to stave off the attack. After Moscow’s pivot, what lies in store in the coming weeks? Guest: ...
04.12.2022 Biden’s Climate Shift On the campaign trail and when he first came to office, President Biden had ambitious plans to deal with climate change, including promises to reduce fossil fuel production. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, however, Mr. Biden has ...
04.11.2022 How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union This episode contains strong language. A year and a half ago, the Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise began examining labor practices at Amazon. In the process, they met Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a ...
04.10.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘The Battle for the Mural — and the Future of Belarus’ For more than two decades, Belarus existed in an equilibrium of quiet authoritarianism. If the government’s repressions didn’t directly touch them, most Belarusians tolerated them. But over the course of 2020, the country’s history and identity, which never much interested ...
04.08.2022 How Germany’s Approach to Russia Backfired Thirty years ago, Germany put forth a theory for how to work with Russia. Major energy deals, leaders argued, would keep Russia from going to war with its neighbors. Over the past 20 years, Germany has made itself incredibly dependent ...
04.07.2022 A Covid Mystery in Africa As countries have struggled with disease and death throughout the coronavirus pandemic, one part of the world seems to have been mostly spared: central and western Africa. South Africa was deeply affected by waves of the coronavirus, as were countries ...
04.06.2022 Why Proving War Crimes Is Difficult and Rare This episode details graphic scenes. Many around the world are calling the indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Bucha, a suburb northwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, a war crime. But investigating such atrocities is painstakingly complicated. Could one case that ...
04.05.2022 How the War in Ukraine is Creating a Global Food Crisis Ukraine and Russia are enormous producers of wheat, corn, barley, sunflower oil and fertilizer. One study calculated that the two countries accounted for 12 percent of the world’s calories. With Ukraine under attack and Russia hit with strict sanctions, a ...
04.04.2022 ‘The Illegality of the Plan Was Obvious’ After months of investigation by a congressional committee, a federal judge has found that President Donald J. Trump and his allies most likely engaged in illegal activity in the wake of the 2020 election. How did the committee achieve that ...
04.03.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them.’ Exploring the personal experiences of Sara Mardini and Seán Binder, two volunteers who were arrested in February 2018 after helping migrants cross safely into Lesbos, Greece, the journalist Alex W. Palmer outlines the complex situation aid workers in Europe find ...
04.01.2022 Inside Mariupol This episode details graphic scenes. Russia has mounted a brutal siege around the port city of Mariupol for more than a month, framing it as the key to a war of liberation. In reality, it’s a campaign against a city ...
03.31.2022 How Democrats Evened the Congressional Map In the past, Republicans have been able to secure what some see as an unfair political advantage by gerrymandering political districts. But after the recent redrawing of zones, the congressional map across the U.S. is perhaps more evenly split than ...
03.30.2022 The Political Lives of Clarence and Ginni Thomas A series of text messages released in the past week show how Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court, urged White House officials to push to overturn the result of the 2020 election. There has never ...
03.29.2022 Senator Joe Manchin’s Conflict of Interest At every step of his political career, Senator Joe Manchin III has helped a West Virginia power plant that is the sole customer of his private coal business, including by blocking ambitious climate action. A Times investigation has revealed the ...
03.28.2022 Four Million Ukrainians in Limbo Since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine, 10 million Ukrainians — about a quarter of the population — have been displaced, and about four million have fled the country. Iryna Baramidze is one of them. From a middle-class neighborhood ...
03.27.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’ Demand for traveling nurses skyrocketed during the pandemic. In March 2020, there were over 12,000 job opportunities for traveling nurses, but by early December of that year, the number had grown to more than 30,000 open positions. Lauren Hilgers details ...

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The Daily episodes:

A Better Understanding of Long Covid

Inside Operation Lone Star

The Battle for Azovstal: A Soldier’s Story

The Mexican Model of Abortion Rights

The Racist Theory Behind So Many Mass Shootings

The Sunday Read: ‘I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty.’

One Million

Why Inflation Doesn’t Affect Us All the Same

A Post-Roe America, Part 2: The Abortion Providers

How Putin Co-opted Russia’s Biggest Holiday

The Unseen Trauma of America’s Drone Pilots

The Sunday Read: ‘It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives.’

The Story of Roe v. Wade, Part 2: The Culture Wars (From the Archive)

The Story of Roe v. Wade, Part 1: Who Was Jane Roe? (From the Archive)

A Post-Roe America, Part 1: The Anti-Abortion Activists

A Post-Roe Map of America

Is This How Roe Ends?

The Mar-a-Lago Midterms

Are Unions Making a Comeback?

The Sunday Read: ‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’

The Risks of a New U.S. Approach in Ukraine

Most of Us Have Had Covid

The Supreme Court Considers a Football Coach’s Prayers

How a Sudden Mask Ruling Left the C.D.C. Reeling

A Push for Traffic Stop Reform

The Sunday Read: ‘How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway?’

France’s Big Decision

When Texas Went After Transgender Care, Part 2

When Texas Went After Transgender Care, Part 1

The Cost of Dissidence in Russia

Biden’s Student Loan Dilemma

The Sunday Read: ‘The War for the Rainforest’

27 Years in Solitary Confinement

Twitter’s Elon Musk Problem

The Next Phase of the War in Ukraine

Biden’s Climate Shift

How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union

The Sunday Read: ‘The Battle for the Mural — and the Future of Belarus’

How Germany’s Approach to Russia Backfired

A Covid Mystery in Africa

Why Proving War Crimes Is Difficult and Rare

How the War in Ukraine is Creating a Global Food Crisis

‘The Illegality of the Plan Was Obvious’

The Sunday Read: ‘They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them.’

Inside Mariupol

How Democrats Evened the Congressional Map

The Political Lives of Clarence and Ginni Thomas

Senator Joe Manchin’s Conflict of Interest

Four Million Ukrainians in Limbo

The Sunday Read: ‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’

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