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The Field: Why Suburban Wom...

10.26.2020

In America’s increasingly divided political landscape, it can be hard to imagine almost any voter switching sides. One demographic group has provided plenty of exceptions: white suburban women. In the past four years, the group has turned away from the ...

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10.26.2020 The Field: Why Suburban Women Changed Their Minds In America’s increasingly divided political landscape, it can be hard to imagine almost any voter switching sides. One demographic group has provided plenty of exceptions: white suburban women. In the past four years, the group has turned away from the ...
10.25.2020 The Sunday Read: 'My Mustache, My Self' During months of pandemic isolation, Wesley Morris, a critic at large for The New York Times, decided to grow a mustache. The reviews were mixed and predictable. He heard it described as “porny” and “creepy,” as well as “rugged” and ...
10.23.2020 Sudden Civility: The Final Presidential Debate At the start of Thursday night’s debate its moderator, Kristen Welker of NBC News, delivered a polite but firm instruction: The matchup should not be a repeat of the chaos of last month’s debate. It was a calmer affair and, ...
10.22.2020 A Peculiar Way to Pick a President The winner-take-all system used by the Electoral College in the United States appears nowhere in the Constitution. It awards all of a state’s electors to the candidate with the most votes, no matter how small the margin of victory. Critics ...
10.21.2020 A Misinformation Test for Social Media Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have invested a significant amount of time and money trying to avoid the mistakes made during the 2016 election. A test of those new policies came last week, when The New York Post published a story ...
10.20.2020 A Pivotal Senate Race in North Carolina In the struggle to control the U.S. Senate, one race in North Carolina — where the Republican incumbent, Thom Tillis, is trying to hold off his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham — could be crucial. North Carolina is a classic purple ...
10.19.2020 The Field: A Divided Latino Vote in Arizona This episode contains strong language. In the last decade, elections have tightened in Arizona, a traditionally Republican stronghold, as Democrats gain ground. According to polls, Joe Biden is leading in the state — partly because of white suburban women moving ...
10.18.2020 The Sunday Read: 'Jim Dwyer, About New York' Jim Dwyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, died earlier this month. He was 63. Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Jim was drawn to stories about discrimination, wrongly convicted prisoners and society’s mistreated outcasts. From 2007, he ...
10.16.2020 The Candidates: Joe Biden’s Plans In the second of a two-part examination of the presidential candidates’ policies, we turn to Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s agenda and how he plans to govern a nation wracked by a public health and economic crisis. The themes of Mr. ...
10.15.2020 The Candidates: Donald Trump’s Promises In a two-part examination of the policies of the president and of the man seeking to replace him, Joe Biden, we first take a look at what Donald Trump said he would do four years ago — and what he’s ...
10.14.2020 The Confirmation Hearing of Amy Coney Barrett It was a 12-hour session. Twenty-two senators took turns questioning Judge Amy Coney Barrett on her record and beliefs. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, evoked personal experience of life before Roe v. Wade and asked Judge Barrett whether she ...
10.13.2020 The Politics of Pandemic Relief In March, Congress pushed through a relief package that preserved the U.S. economy during the pandemic. It felt like government functioning at its best. But now, that money is running out and bipartisanship has given way to an ideological stalemate. ...
10.12.2020 Why the Left Is Losing on Abortion Most Americans say that abortion should be legal with some restrictions, but President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, signed a statement in a 2006 newspaper advertisement opposing “abortion on demand.” Her accession would bolster a conservative ...
10.11.2020 The Sunday Read: 'David's Ankles' “We are conditioned to believe that art is safe,” Sam Anderson, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, explained in this week’s The Sunday Read. “Destruction happens in a number of ways, for any number of reasons, at ...
10.09.2020 The Field: The Battle for Pennsylvania’s White Working Class This episode contains strong language. Over the summer, Dave Mitchko started a makeshift pro-Trump sign operation from his garage. By his estimate he has handed out around 26,000 signs, put together with the help of his family. Mr. Mitchko might ...
10.08.2020 Plexiglass and Civility: The Vice-Presidential Debate During most campaigns, the job of the vice-presidential candidates focuses on boosting the person heading the ticket. Proving their suitability for the top job is secondary. But this year is different. The president is 74 and spent much of the ...
10.07.2020 Where Is This Pandemic Headed? The pandemic has killed more than one million people around the world, at least 210,000 in the United States alone. The illness has infiltrated the White House and infected the president. Today, we offer an update on measures to fight ...
10.06.2020 How a Small Bar Battled to Survive the Coronavirus This episode contains strong language. Jack Nicas, a technology reporter for The New York Times, moved to Oakland, Calif., five years ago. When he arrived, he set out to find a bar of choice. It quickly became the Hatch. Unpretentious, ...
10.05.2020 The Latest on the President’s Health On Saturday morning, the doctors treating President Trump for the coronavirus held a news conference outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — a show of strength, aimed at reassuring the American public that he was in capable hands. But ...
10.04.2020 One Million Lives They came from Tel Aviv, Aleppo and a “small house by the river.” They were artists, whiskey drinkers and mbira players. They were also fathers, sisters and best friends. Today, we hear people from around the world reflect on those ...
10.02.2020 Special Edition: The Pandemic Reaches the President He assured the country the coronavirus would “disappear” soon. Then he tested positive. We explore how President Trump testing positive for the coronavirus could affect the last days of the 2020 race — and consider what might happen next. Guests: ...
10.02.2020 The Field: The Fight For Voting Rights in Florida This episode contains strong language. During much of this election cycle, Julius Irving of Gainesville, Fla., spent his days trying to get former felons registered to vote. He would tell them about Florida’s Amendment Four, a ballot initiative that extended ...
10.01.2020 A User’s Guide to Mail-In Voting The pandemic will mean that many more Americans vote by mail this year. All 50 states require people to register before they can cast a mail-in vote. But from there, the rules diverge wildly. And a lot could still change. ...
09.30.2020 Chaos and Contempt: The First Presidential Debate This episode contains strong language. Both presidential candidates had clear goals for their first debate on Tuesday. For Joseph R. Biden Jr., the contest was an opportunity to consolidate his lead in polls before Election Day. President Trump’s task was, ...
09.29.2020 The President’s Taxes Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig, investigative reporters for The Times, have pored over two decades and thousands of pages of documents on Donald J. Trump’s tax information, up to and including his time in the White House. What they found ...
09.28.2020 The Past, Present and Future of Amy Coney Barrett Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s pick to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court, is a product of the conservative legal movement of the 1980s. She clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, a giant of conservative jurisprudence, and his ...
09.27.2020 The Sunday Read: 'How Climate Migration Will Reshape America' In August, Abrahm Lustgarten, who reports on climate, watched fires burn just 12 miles from his home in Marin County, Calif. For two years, he had been studying the impact of the changing climate on global migration and recently turned ...
09.25.2020 The Field: Policing and Power in Minneapolis This episode contains strong language. In June, weeks after George Floyd was killed by the police, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council expressed support for dismantling the city’s police department. The councilors’ pledges to “abolish,” “dismantle” and “end ...
09.24.2020 On the Ground in Louisville This episode contains strong language. Breonna Taylor’s mother and her supporters had made their feelings clear: Nothing short of murder charges for all three officers involved in Ms. Taylor’s death would amount to justice. On Wednesday, one of the officers ...
09.23.2020 A Historic Opening for Anti-Abortion Activists President Trump appears to be on course to give conservatives a sixth vote on the Supreme Court, after several Republican senators who were previously on the fence said they would support quickly installing a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ...
09.22.2020 Swing Voters and the Supreme Court Vacancy This episode contains strong language and descriptions of sexual violence. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ensuing battle to fill her seat is set to dominate American politics in the lead up to the election. A poll ...
09.21.2020 Part 1: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg When Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from law school, she received no job offers from New York law firms, despite being an outstanding student. She spent two years clerking for a federal district judge, who agreed to hire her only after ...
09.21.2020 Part 2: The Battle Over Her Seat In the second episode of a two-part special, we consider the ramifications of Justice Ginsburg’s death and the struggle over how, and when, to replace her on the bench. The stakes are high: If President Trump is able to name ...
09.20.2020 The Sunday Read: 'The Agency' According to Ludmila Savchuk, a former employee, every day at the Internet Research Agency was essentially the same. From an office complex in the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg, employees logged on to the internet via a proxy service and ...
09.18.2020 Special Episode: ‘An Obituary for the Land’ “Nothing comes easily out here,” Terry Tempest Williams, a Utah-based writer, said of the American West. Her family was once almost taken by fire, and as a child of the West, she grew up with it. Our producer Bianca Giaever, ...
09.18.2020 A Messy Return to School in New York Iolani Grullon teaches dual-language kindergarten in Washington Heights in New York City, where she has worked for the last 15 years. She, like many colleagues, is leery about a return to in-person instruction amid reports of positive coronavirus cases in ...
09.17.2020 The Forgotten Refugee Crisis in Europe Among the olive groves of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, a makeshift city of tents and containers housed thousands of asylum seekers who had fled conflict and hardship in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. Already frustrated at ...
09.16.2020 Quarantine on a College Campus This episode contains strong language. Infected with the coronavirus and separated from their peers in special dorms, some college students have taken to sharing their quarantine experiences on TikTok. In some videos posted to the social media app, food is ...
09.15.2020 A Deadly Tinderbox “The entire state is burning.” That was the refrain Jack Healy, our national correspondent, kept hearing when he arrived in the fire zone in Oregon. The scale of the wildfires is dizzying — millions of acres have burned, 30 different ...
09.14.2020 Inside Trump’s Immigration Crackdown This episode contains strong language. After Donald Trump was elected president, two filmmakers were granted rare access to the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Since Mr. Trump had campaigned on a hard-line immigration agenda, the leaders of the usually ...
09.13.2020 The Sunday Read: 'The Children in the Shadows' Prince is 9 years old, ebullient and bright; he has spent much of the pandemic navigating the Google Classroom app from his mother’s phone. The uncertainty and isolation of the coronavirus lockdown is not new to him — he is ...
09.11.2020 A Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Wildfires When many in California talk about this year’s wildfires, they describe the color — the apocalyptic, ominous, red-orange glow in the sky. The state’s current wildfires have seen two and a half million acres already burned. Climate change has made ...
09.10.2020 The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 2 This episode contains strong language. “So there’s just shooting, like we’re both on the ground,” Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, said of the raid on her home. “I don’t know where these shots are coming from, and I’m scared.” Much ...
09.09.2020 The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 1 At the beginning of 2020, Breonna Taylor posted on social media that it was going to be her year. She was planning a family with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker; she had a new job and a new car. She had ...
09.08.2020 What Happened to Daniel Prude? This episode contains strong language. In March, Daniel Prude was exhibiting signs of a mental health crisis. His brother called an ambulance in the hopes that Mr. Prude would be hospitalized, but he was sent back home after three hours ...
09.04.2020 Bringing the Theater Back to Life Three months into Broadway’s shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, Michael Paulson, a theater reporter for The New York Times, got a call from a theater in western Massachusetts — they planned to put on “Godspell,” a well-loved and much-performed ...
09.03.2020 Jimmy Lai vs. China This episode contains strong language. Jimmy Lai was born in mainland China but made his fortune in Hong Kong, starting as a sweatshop worker and becoming a clothing tycoon. After the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, he turned his attention to ...
09.02.2020 A High-Stakes Standoff in Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko came to office in Belarus in the 1990s on a nostalgic message, promising to undo moves toward a market economy and end the hardship the country had endured after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. As president, he ...
09.01.2020 Joe Biden’s Rebuttal Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s plan for winning the presidential election relies on putting together African-American voters of all ages, including younger Black people who are less enthusiastic about him, and white moderates who find President Trump unacceptable. At last week’s ...
08.31.2020 ‘Who Replaces Me?’ This episode contains strong language. As a police officer in his hometown of Flint, Mich., Scott Watson has worked to become a pillar of the community, believing his identity has placed him in a unique position to do his job. ...

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The Daily episodes:

The Field: Why Suburban Women Changed Their Minds

The Sunday Read: 'My Mustache, My Self'

Sudden Civility: The Final Presidential Debate

A Peculiar Way to Pick a President

A Misinformation Test for Social Media

A Pivotal Senate Race in North Carolina

The Field: A Divided Latino Vote in Arizona

The Sunday Read: 'Jim Dwyer, About New York'

The Candidates: Joe Biden’s Plans

The Candidates: Donald Trump’s Promises

The Confirmation Hearing of Amy Coney Barrett

The Politics of Pandemic Relief

Why the Left Is Losing on Abortion

The Sunday Read: 'David's Ankles'

The Field: The Battle for Pennsylvania’s White Working Class

Plexiglass and Civility: The Vice-Presidential Debate

Where Is This Pandemic Headed?

How a Small Bar Battled to Survive the Coronavirus

The Latest on the President’s Health

One Million Lives

Special Edition: The Pandemic Reaches the President

The Field: The Fight For Voting Rights in Florida

A User’s Guide to Mail-In Voting

Chaos and Contempt: The First Presidential Debate

The President’s Taxes

The Past, Present and Future of Amy Coney Barrett

The Sunday Read: 'How Climate Migration Will Reshape America'

The Field: Policing and Power in Minneapolis

On the Ground in Louisville

A Historic Opening for Anti-Abortion Activists

Swing Voters and the Supreme Court Vacancy

Part 1: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Part 2: The Battle Over Her Seat

The Sunday Read: 'The Agency'

Special Episode: ‘An Obituary for the Land’

A Messy Return to School in New York

The Forgotten Refugee Crisis in Europe

Quarantine on a College Campus

A Deadly Tinderbox

Inside Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

The Sunday Read: 'The Children in the Shadows'

A Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Wildfires

The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 2

The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 1

What Happened to Daniel Prude?

Bringing the Theater Back to Life

Jimmy Lai vs. China

A High-Stakes Standoff in Belarus

Joe Biden’s Rebuttal

‘Who Replaces Me?’

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