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Aleksei Navalny and the Fut...

01.25.2021

The Russian activist Aleksei Navalny has spent years agitating against corruption, and against President Vladimir Putin. Last summer he was poisoned with a rare nerve agent linked to the Russian state. Last week, after recovering in Germany, he returned to ...

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01.25.2021 Aleksei Navalny and the Future of Russia The Russian activist Aleksei Navalny has spent years agitating against corruption, and against President Vladimir Putin. Last summer he was poisoned with a rare nerve agent linked to the Russian state. Last week, after recovering in Germany, he returned to ...
01.24.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community’ The cultural history of clouds seemed to be shaped by amateurs — the likes of Luke Howard and the Honorable Ralph Abercromby — each of whom projected the ethos of his particular era onto those billowing blank slates in the ...
01.22.2021 Biden’s Executive Orders Within hours of assuming the presidency, President Biden signed a flurry of executive orders. He rejoined the Paris climate agreement, repealed the so-called Muslim travel ban and mandated the wearing of masks on federal property. The actions had a theme: ...
01.21.2021 The Inauguration of Joe Biden Unity was the byword of President Biden’s Inaugural Address. The speech was an attempt to turn the page. But can this be achieved without, as many in the Democratic coalition believe, a full reckoning with and accountability of how America ...
01.20.2021 ‘Restoring the First Brick of Dignity’: Biden Supporters on His Inauguration Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States today. Among Democrats, there is a sense of joy and hope, but also of caution and concern. We speak with a range of Mr. Biden’s supporters, ...
01.19.2021 'What Kind of Message Is That?': How Republicans See the Attack on the Capitol Polling in the days since the storming of the Capitol paints a complex picture. While most Americans do not support the riot, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Trump bears responsibility. And over 70 percent of them ...
01.17.2021 The Sunday Read: 'The Valve Turners' Most Americans treat climate change seriously but not literally — they accept the science, worry about forecasts but tell themselves that someone else will get serious about fixing the problem very soon. The Valve Turners, on the other hand, take ...
01.15.2021 ‘Rankly Unfit’: The View From a Republican Who Voted to Impeach This episode contains strong language. Three days after being sworn into Congress, Representative Peter Meijer, Republican of Michigan, was sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives as pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol. After the siege, Mr. Meijer made ...
01.14.2021 Impeached, Again “A clear and present danger.” Those were the words used by Nancy Pelosi to describe President Trump, and the main thrust of the Democrats’ arguments for impeachment on the House floor. While most House Republicans lined up against the move, ...
01.13.2021 Is More Violence Coming? After the attack on the Capitol, social media platforms sprang into action, deleting the accounts of agitators. Without a central place to congregate, groups have splintered off into other, darker corners of the internet. That could complicate the efforts of ...
01.12.2021 A Swift Impeachment Plan At the heart of the move to impeach President Trump is a relatively simple accusation: that he incited a violent insurrection against the government of the United States. We look at the efforts to punish the president for the attack ...
01.11.2021 A Pandemic Update: The Variant and the Vaccine Rollout As 2020 drew to a close, a concerning development in the pandemic came out of Britain — a new variant of the coronavirus had been discovered that is significantly more transmissible. It has since been discovered in a number of ...
01.10.2021 The Sunday Read: 'A Mother and Daughter at the End' Without many predators or any prey, rhinos flourished for millions of years. Humans put an end to that, as we hunted them down and destroyed their habitat. No rhino, however, is doing worse than the northern white. Just two, Najin ...
01.08.2021 How They Stormed Congress This episode contains strong language. The pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday made their plans in plain sight. They organized on social media platforms and spoke openly of their intentions to occupy the Capitol. But leaders in Washington ...
01.07.2021 An Assault on the Capitol This episode contains strong language. It was always going to be a tense day in Washington. In the baseless campaign to challenge Joe Biden’s victory, Wednesday had been framed by President Trump and his allies as the moment for a ...
01.06.2021 A Historic Night in Georgia The long fight for control of the U.S. Senate is drawing to a close in Georgia, and the Democrats appear set to win out — the Rev. Raphael Warnock is the projected winner of his race against Senator Kelly Loeffler, ...
01.05.2021 The Georgia Runoffs, Part 2: ‘I Have Zero Confidence in My Vote’ Since the presidential election was called for Joe Biden, President Trump has relentlessly attacked the integrity of the count in Georgia. He has floated conspiracy theories to explain away his loss and attacked Republican officials. Today, we speak to Republican ...
01.04.2021 The Georgia Runoffs, Part 1: ‘We Are Black Diamonds.’ A strong Black turnout will be integral to Democratic success in the U.S. Senate races in Georgia this week. In the first of a two-part examination of election strategies in the Georgia runoffs, we sit down with Stacey Abrams, a ...
12.31.2020 Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake: An Update 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. When Alaska was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1964, it was ...
12.30.2020 ‘Who Replaces Me?’: An Update 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. Scott Watson — a Black police officer in his hometown, Flint, Mich. ...
12.29.2020 A New Way to Mourn: An Update This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes from this year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. In our society, the public part of mourning is ritualized by a coming together. ...
12.28.2020 How a Small Bar Battled to Survive the Coronavirus: An Update 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. When Jack Nicas, a technology reporter for The Times, first moved to ...
12.27.2020 The Sunday Read: 'Cher Everlasting' The escapism of movies took on a new importance during pandemic isolation. Caity Weaver, the author of this week’s Sunday Read, says that to properly embrace this year’s cinematic achievements, the Academy Awards should not only hand out accolades to ...
12.24.2020 24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital: An Update This episode contains strong language. 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. When New York City was the epicenter ...
12.23.2020 The Year in Good News A few weeks ago, we put a callout on The Daily, asking people to send in their good news from a particularly bleak year. The response was overwhelming. Audio messages poured into our inboxes from around the world, with multiple ...
12.22.2020 The Lives They Lived It is a very human thing, at the end of a year, to stop and take stock. Part of that involves acknowledging that some remarkable people who were here in 2020 will be not joining us in 2021. Today, we ...
12.21.2020 Delilah The radio host Delilah has been on the air for more than 40 years. She takes calls from listeners across the United States, as they open up about their heavy hearts, their hopes and the important people in their lives. ...
12.20.2020 The Sunday Read: 'The Movement to Bring Death Closer' “If death practices reveal a culture’s values,” writes Maggie Jones, the author of today’s Sunday Read, “we choose convenience, outsourcing, an aversion to knowing or seeing too much.” Enter home-funeral guides, practitioners who believe families can benefit from tending to ...
12.18.2020 Evicted During the Pandemic For years there has been an evictions crisis in the United States. The pandemic has made it more acute. On today’s episode, our conversations with a single mother of two from Georgia over several months during the pandemic. After she ...
12.17.2020 Should Facebook Be Broken Up? This episode contains strong language. When the photo-sharing app Instagram started to grow in popularity in the 2010s, the chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, had two options: build something comparable or buy it out. He opted for the latter. ...
12.16.2020 Hacked, Again Undetected for months, sophisticated hackers working on behalf of a foreign government were able to breach computer networks across a number of U.S. government agencies. It’s believed to be the handiwork of Russian intelligence. And this is far from the ...
12.15.2020 America’s First Coronavirus Vaccinations North Dakota and New Orleans have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus. On today’s episode, we speak to health care workers in both places as they become some of the first to receive and administer the vaccine, and tap ...
12.14.2020 The U.S. Approves a Vaccine The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable people to begin receiving the vaccine within days. The authorization is a historic turning point in a pandemic ...
12.13.2020 The Sunday Read: 'Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited' Amid the death and desperation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, two inmates, David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, found love. On today’s episode, the story of how they found each other — first within the camp and again, seven decades later. ...
12.11.2020 A Guide to Georgia’s Senate Runoffs In three weeks, an election will take place that could be as important as the presidential vote in determining the course of the next four years. The Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia will determine whether two Republican senators, David ...
12.10.2020 Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Vaccine Doses? From the start of the pandemic, the Trump administration said it was committed to ordering and stockpiling enough potential vaccine doses to end the outbreak in the United States as quickly as possible. But new reporting from The Times has ...
12.09.2020 The Beginning of the End of the Pandemic In Britain, news that the country had become the first to start administering a fully tested coronavirus vaccine was met with hope, excitement — and some trepidation. Amid the optimism that normal life might soon resume, there is also concern. ...
12.08.2020 Trump Shut the Door on Migrants. Will Biden Open It? Caitlin Dickerson, an immigration reporter for The Times, says there is one word that sums up the Trump administration’s approach to border crossing: deterrence. For nearly four years, the U.S. government has tried to discourage migrants, with reinforced walls, family ...
12.07.2020 ‘It Has All Gone Too Far’ The state of the 2020 U.S. election is, still, not a settled matter in Georgia. For weeks, conservatives have been filing lawsuits in state and federal courts in an effort to decertify results that gave a victory to Joe Biden. ...
12.06.2020 The Sunday Read: ‘The Social Life of Forests’ Foresters once regarded trees as solitary individuals: They competed for space and resources, but were otherwise indifferent to one another. The work of the Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended that, finding that while there is indeed conflict in a forest, ...
12.04.2020 The President and Pre-Emptive Pardons The power to pardon criminals or commute their sentences is one of the most sacred and absolute a president has, and President Trump has already used it to rescue political allies and answer the pleas of celebrities. With his term ...
12.03.2020 ‘Something Terrible Has Happened’ This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault. When the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy this year, it created a final window for claims of sexual abuse against the organization’s leaders. Within nine months, nearly 100,000 victims filed suits ...
12.02.2020 Biden’s Cabinet Picks, Part 2: Antony Blinken What kind of foreign policy is possible for the United States after four years of isolationism under President Trump? Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state, has an interventionist streak, but some vestiges of Trump-era foreign policy ...
12.01.2020 Biden’s Cabinet Picks, Part 1: Janet Yellen Janet Yellen, who is poised to become secretary of the Treasury, will immediately have her work cut out for her. The U.S. economy is in a precarious state and Congress is consumed by partisan politics. Ms. Yellen, however, is no ...
11.30.2020 When and How You’ll Get a Vaccine For Americans, months of collective isolation and fear could soon be winding down. A coronavirus vaccine may be just weeks away. According to Dr. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to accelerate vaccine development, the first ...
11.25.2020 A Day at the Food Pantry On a day early this fall, Nikita Stewart, who covers social services for The New York Times, and the Daily producers Annie Brown and Stella Tan spent a day at Council of Peoples Organization, a food pantry in Brooklyn, speaking ...
11.24.2020 A Failed Attempt to Overturn the Election Pressure and litigation appear to have been the pillars of President Trump’s response to his general election loss. His team filed a litany of court cases in battleground states. In some, such as Georgia and Michigan, the president and his ...
11.23.2020 New York City’s 3 Percent Problem This week New York City’s public schools will close their doors and students will once again undertake online instruction. The shutdown was triggered when 3 percent of coronavirus tests in the city came back positive over seven days. There are ...
11.22.2020 The Sunday Read: 'Man to Man' For years, Wil S. Hylton had been drawn to his cousin’s strength and violence. He was pulled in by the archetype that he embodied and was envious of the power he seemed to command. Wil describes his relative’s violence as ...
11.20.2020 When the Pandemic Came to Rural Wisconsin When the pandemic struck, Patty Schachtner, in her capacity as both a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and chief medical officer for St. Croix County, tried to remain one step ahead. It was an approach criticized by many in ...

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The Daily episodes:

Aleksei Navalny and the Future of Russia

The Sunday Read: ‘The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community’

Biden’s Executive Orders

The Inauguration of Joe Biden

‘Restoring the First Brick of Dignity’: Biden Supporters on His Inauguration

'What Kind of Message Is That?': How Republicans See the Attack on the Capitol

The Sunday Read: 'The Valve Turners'

‘Rankly Unfit’: The View From a Republican Who Voted to Impeach

Impeached, Again

Is More Violence Coming?

A Swift Impeachment Plan

A Pandemic Update: The Variant and the Vaccine Rollout

The Sunday Read: 'A Mother and Daughter at the End'

How They Stormed Congress

An Assault on the Capitol

A Historic Night in Georgia

The Georgia Runoffs, Part 2: ‘I Have Zero Confidence in My Vote’

The Georgia Runoffs, Part 1: ‘We Are Black Diamonds.’

Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake: An Update

‘Who Replaces Me?’: An Update

A New Way to Mourn: An Update

How a Small Bar Battled to Survive the Coronavirus: An Update

The Sunday Read: 'Cher Everlasting'

24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital: An Update

The Year in Good News

The Lives They Lived

Delilah

The Sunday Read: 'The Movement to Bring Death Closer'

Evicted During the Pandemic

Should Facebook Be Broken Up?

Hacked, Again

America’s First Coronavirus Vaccinations

The U.S. Approves a Vaccine

The Sunday Read: 'Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited'

A Guide to Georgia’s Senate Runoffs

Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Vaccine Doses?

The Beginning of the End of the Pandemic

Trump Shut the Door on Migrants. Will Biden Open It?

‘It Has All Gone Too Far’

The Sunday Read: ‘The Social Life of Forests’

The President and Pre-Emptive Pardons

‘Something Terrible Has Happened’

Biden’s Cabinet Picks, Part 2: Antony Blinken

Biden’s Cabinet Picks, Part 1: Janet Yellen

When and How You’ll Get a Vaccine

A Day at the Food Pantry

A Failed Attempt to Overturn the Election

New York City’s 3 Percent Problem

The Sunday Read: 'Man to Man'

When the Pandemic Came to Rural Wisconsin

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