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The Story of Simone Biles

07.30.2021

This episode contains mentions of sexual abuse. Simone Biles, 24, showed up on the national stage at 16, when she competed in and won the national championships. She equally impressed at her first Olympics, in 2016 in Rio. Going into ...

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07.30.2021 The Story of Simone Biles This episode contains mentions of sexual abuse. Simone Biles, 24, showed up on the national stage at 16, when she competed in and won the national championships. She equally impressed at her first Olympics, in 2016 in Rio. Going into ...
07.29.2021 Why Is China Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal? For decades, nuclear weapons did not figure prominently in China’s military planning. However, recent satellite images suggest that the country may be looking to quintuple its nuclear arsenal. Why is China changing strategy now? Guest: David E. Sanger, a White ...
07.28.2021 The Saga of Congress’s Jan. 6 Investigation This episode contains strong language. The first hearing of the special congressional committee on the Jan. 6 riots was an emotional affair, but it was not quite the investigation that was originally envisaged. In January, lawmakers on both sides spoke ...
07.27.2021 The Vaccine Mandate Conundrum In the effort to raise America’s vaccination rate, some agencies and private organizations have turned to the last, and most controversial, weapon in the public health arsenal: vaccine mandates. How have the federal government and the White House approached the ...
07.26.2021 Breakthrough Infections, Explained For the past couple of weeks, some Americans have reported a curious phenomenon: They have caught the coronavirus despite being vaccinated. Vaccines are still doing their job by protecting against serious illness and hospitalization, but the frequency of so-called breakthrough ...
07.25.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘The Little Hedge Fund Taking Down Big Oil’ An activist investment firm won a shocking victory at Exxon Mobil. But can new directors really put the oil giant on a cleaner path?
07.23.2021 Putting a Price on Pollution Extreme weather across Europe, North America and Asia is highlighting a harsh reality of science and history: The world as a whole is neither prepared to slow down climate change nor live with it. European officials are trying to change ...
07.22.2021 Who Killed Haiti’s President? A promise of a well-paying assignment abroad for retired Colombian soldiers. A security company in Miami. An evangelical Haitian American pastor with lofty ideas. Trying to join the dots in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse took us from the ...
07.21.2021 Reacting to Chinese Cyberattacks The Chinese government’s hacking of Microsoft was bold and brazen. The Biden administration tried to orchestrate a muscular and coordinated response with Western allies. But while the U.S. has responded to cyberattacks from Russia with economic sanctions, when it comes ...
07.20.2021 Facebook vs. the White House Is misinformation on Facebook an impediment to ending the pandemic? President Biden even said that platforms like Facebook, by harboring skepticism about the shots, were killing people. Facebook immediately rejected the criticism, but who is right? Guest: Cecilia Kang, a ...
07.19.2021 Do We Need a Third Covid Shot? The rise of the Delta variant has prompted a thorny question: Do we need a booster dose of the vaccine for Covid-19? Vaccine makers think so, but regulators are yet to be convinced. Principles are also at stake: Should richer ...
07.18.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘The Mystery of the $113 Million Deli’ It made headlines around the world: a New Jersey sandwich shop with a soaring stock price. Was it just speculation, or something stranger?
07.16.2021 State-Sponsored Abuse in Canada This episode contains accounts of physical and sexual abuse. The residential school system was devised by the Canadian government under the auspices of education, but very little education took place. Instead, children were taken from their families in order to ...
07.15.2021 Cubans Take to the Streets This episode contains strong language. It was a surprise to many recently when protesters took to the streets in a small town near Havana to express their grievances with Cuba’s authoritarian government. Cubans do not protest in huge numbers. Even ...
07.14.2021 The Heat Wave That Hit the Pacific Northwest The heat wave that hit the usually cool and rainy American Pacific Northwest was a shock to many — Oregon and Washington were covered by a blanket of heat in the triple digits. After the temperatures soared, a group of ...
07.13.2021 Will a Top Trump Deputy Flip? In its investigation of the Trump Organization’s financial affairs, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has zeroed in on Allen Weisselberg, the company’s former finance chief, who spent almost half a century working for the Trump family. Criminal charges have been ...
07.12.2021 A City’s Step Toward Reparations For decades, the granting of racial reparations in the United States appeared to be a political nonstarter. But Evanston, Ill., recently became the first city to approve a program of reparations for its Black residents. How did this happen, and ...
07.11.2021 From The Sunday Read Archives: ‘Alone at Sea’ For Aleksander Doba, pitting himself against the wide-open sea — storms, sunstroke, monotony, hunger and loneliness — was a way to feel alive in old age. Today, listen to the story of a man who paddled toward the existential crisis ...
07.09.2021 The Assassination of Haiti’s President Early on Wednesday morning, a group of men killed President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti in his residence on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. It was a brazen act. Very rarely is a nation’s leader killed in at home. What ...
07.08.2021 The End of America’s 20-Year War After a 20-year war, the United States has effectively ended its operations in Afghanistan with little fanfare. In recent weeks, the Americans have quietly vacated their sprawling military bases in the nation, and without giving Afghan security forces prior notice. ...
07.07.2021 'Some Hope Is Better Than Having No Hope' When the F.D.A. approved the drug Aduhelm, the first Alzheimer’s treatment to receive the agency’s endorsement in almost two decades, it gave hope to many. But the decision was contentious; some experts say there’s not enough evidence that the treatment ...
07.06.2021 The Rise of Delta The Delta variant of the coronavirus is threatening to put the world in an entirely new stage of the pandemic. The variant is spreading fast, particularly in places with low vaccination rates — it is thought to be around 50 ...
07.02.2021 The Debate Over Critical Race Theory In Loudoun County, Va., a fierce debate has been raging for months inside normally sleepy school board meetings. At the heart of this anger is critical race theory, a once obscure academic framework for understanding racism in the United States. ...
07.01.2021 A New Era in College Sports Throughout its 115-year history, the N.C.A.A.’s bedrock principle has been that student-athletes should be amateurs and not allowed to profit off their fame. This week, after years of agitation and legislation, the rule was changed. What will this new era ...
06.30.2021 Inside the U.F.O. Report Recently, the government released a long-awaited report: a look at unexplained aerial phenomena. We explore the report and what implications it may have. Will it do anything to quell theories of extraterrestrial visitors?
06.29.2021 The Collapse of Champlain Towers A few years ago, engineers sounded alarm bells about Champlain Towers, a residential building in Surfside, Fla. Last week, disaster struck and the towers collapsed. At least 11 residents have been confirmed dead and 150 more are still unaccounted for. ...
06.28.2021 What the Japanese Think of the Olympics After last year’s postponement, both the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government are determined that the Tokyo Games will take place this summer. But the public in Japan appears unconvinced: About 85 percent of people say they fear that ...
06.27.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘The Woman Who Made van Gogh’ Neglected by art history for decades, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, the sister-in-law to Vincent van Gogh, is finally being recognized as the force who opened the world’s eyes to his genius.
06.26.2021 From Opinion: Anthony Fauci Is Pissed Off On this episode of Sway, a podcast from NYT Opinion, America’s chief immunologist responds to the recent leak of his emails, being compared to Hitler, and weighs in on the Wuhan lab-leak theory. Every Monday and Thursday on Sway, Kara ...
06.25.2021 Day X, Part 5: Defensive Democracy In this episode, we get answers on just how bad the problem of far-right infiltration in the German military and police really is — and how Germany is trying to address it. We learn about Germany's "defensive democracy," which was ...
06.24.2021 The Struggles of India’s Vaccine Giant When the coronavirus hit, the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, seemed uniquely positioned to help. It struck a deal with AstraZeneca, promising a billion vaccine doses to low- and middle-income nations. Earlier this year, a ban ...
06.23.2021 Lessons from the Demise of a Voting Rights Bill The For the People Act, a bill created by House Democrats after the 2018 midterm elections, could have been the most sweeping expansion of voting rights in a generation. On Tuesday night, however, Senate Republicans filibustered the bill before it ...
06.22.2021 Policing and the New York Mayoral Race In the wake of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, a central question of the New York City mayoral contest has become: Is New York safer with more or fewer police officers? Today, we see this tension play out in ...
06.21.2021 A Crucial Voting Rights Decision How does the 1965 Voting Rights Act work? That is the question in front of the Supreme Court as it rules on a pair of Arizona laws from 2016 — the most important voting rights case in a decade. What ...
06.20.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘Finding My Father’ During his childhood, Nicholas Casey, Madrid bureau chief for The New York Times, received visits from his father. He would arrive from some faraway place where the ships on which he worked had taken him, regaling his son with endless ...
06.18.2021 Day X, Part 4: Franco A. We meet Franco A., an officer in the German military who lived a double life as a Syrian refugee and stands accused of plotting an act of terrorism to bring down the German government.
06.17.2021 The Transformation of Ralph Northam In 2019, it seemed to many that Gov. Ralph Northam’s career was over. That year, the Democratic governor of Virginia became embroiled in a highly publicized blackface scandal centered on a racist picture in his medical-school yearbook. There were widespread ...
06.16.2021 The War in Tigray This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence. Just a few years ago, Ethiopia’s leader was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, the nation is in the grips of a civil war, with widespread reports of massacres and human rights abuses, ...
06.15.2021 Why Billionaires Pay So Little Tax Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Elon Musk and George Soros are household names. They are among the wealthiest people in the United States. But a recent report by ProPublica has found another thing that separates them from regular Americans citizens: They ...
06.14.2021 Apple’s Bet on China Apple built the world’s most valuable business by figuring out how to make China work for Apple. A New York Times investigation has found that the dynamic has now changed. China has figured out how to make Apple work for ...
06.13.2021 From The Sunday Read Archives: ‘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 ...
06.11.2021 Day X, Part 3: Blind Spot 2.0 Franco A. is not the only far-right extremist in Germany discovered by chance. For over a decade, 10 murders in the country, including nine victims who were immigrants, went unsolved. The neo-Nazi group responsible was discovered only when a bank ...
06.10.2021 The Unlikely Pioneer Behind mRNA Vaccines When she was at graduate school in the 1970s, Dr. Katalin Kariko learned about something that would become a career-defining obsession: mRNA. She believed in the potential of the molecule, but for decades ran up against institutional roadblocks. Then, the ...
06.09.2021 The Bill That United the Senate The Senate passed the largest piece of industrial policy seen in the U.S. in decades on Tuesday, directing about a quarter of a trillion dollars to bolster high-tech industries. In an era where lawmakers can’t seem to agree on anything, ...
06.08.2021 Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy? In the past few weeks, some of the biggest industries in the U.S. have been held up by cyberattacks. The first big infiltration was at Colonial Pipeline, a major conduit of gas, jet fuel and diesel to the East Coast. ...
06.07.2021 Will Netanyahu Fall? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has always sold himself as a peerless defender of his country. In the minds of many Israelis, he has become a kind of indispensable leader for the nation’s future. Despite that image, Mr. Netanyahu, ...
06.06.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘The Native Scholar Who Wasn't’ Andrea Smith had long been an outspoken activist and academic in the Native American community. Called an icon of “Native American feminism,” she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy work and has aligned herself with prominent ...
06.05.2021 Bonus: Ezra Klein Talks to Obama About How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’ On this episode of The Ezra Klein Show, former President Barack Obama discusses Joe Biden, aliens and what he got right and wrong during his two terms in office. Each Tuesday and Friday for The New York Times Opinion section, ...
06.04.2021 Day X, Part 2: In the Stomach Franco A. visited the workplaces of two of his alleged targets. We meet both targets to hear the stories of two Germanies: One a beacon of liberal democracy that has worked to overcome its Nazi past, the other a place ...
06.03.2021 Inside the Texas Legislature Over the weekend, months of tension in the Texas Legislature came to a head. A group of Democratic lawmakers got up and left the building before a vote — an act of resistance amid the most conservative Texas legislative session ...

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The Story of Simone Biles

Why Is China Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal?

The Saga of Congress’s Jan. 6 Investigation

The Vaccine Mandate Conundrum

Breakthrough Infections, Explained

The Sunday Read: ‘The Little Hedge Fund Taking Down Big Oil’

Putting a Price on Pollution

Who Killed Haiti’s President?

Reacting to Chinese Cyberattacks

Facebook vs. the White House

Do We Need a Third Covid Shot?

The Sunday Read: ‘The Mystery of the $113 Million Deli’

State-Sponsored Abuse in Canada

Cubans Take to the Streets

The Heat Wave That Hit the Pacific Northwest

Will a Top Trump Deputy Flip?

A City’s Step Toward Reparations

From The Sunday Read Archives: ‘Alone at Sea’

The Assassination of Haiti’s President

The End of America’s 20-Year War

'Some Hope Is Better Than Having No Hope'

The Rise of Delta

The Debate Over Critical Race Theory

A New Era in College Sports

Inside the U.F.O. Report

The Collapse of Champlain Towers

What the Japanese Think of the Olympics

The Sunday Read: ‘The Woman Who Made van Gogh’

From Opinion: Anthony Fauci Is Pissed Off

Day X, Part 5: Defensive Democracy

The Struggles of India’s Vaccine Giant

Lessons from the Demise of a Voting Rights Bill

Policing and the New York Mayoral Race

A Crucial Voting Rights Decision

The Sunday Read: ‘Finding My Father’

Day X, Part 4: Franco A.

The Transformation of Ralph Northam

The War in Tigray

Why Billionaires Pay So Little Tax

Apple’s Bet on China

From The Sunday Read Archives: ‘My Mustache, My Self’

Day X, Part 3: Blind Spot 2.0

The Unlikely Pioneer Behind mRNA Vaccines

The Bill That United the Senate

Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy?

Will Netanyahu Fall?

The Sunday Read: ‘The Native Scholar Who Wasn't’

Bonus: Ezra Klein Talks to Obama About How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’

Day X, Part 2: In the Stomach

Inside the Texas Legislature

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