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06.03.2023 Special Episode: A Crash Course in Dembow, a Misunderstood Pantry Staple and Simple Tips to Keep Calm and Carry On This weekend, we’re bringing dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They’re all part of a new series called “NYT Shorts,” available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It’s home ...
06.02.2023 America’s Big City Brain Drain In recent years, well-paid and college-educated Americans have shed major cities like New York, San Francisco and Washington for places like Philadelphia or Birmingham, Ala. Emily Badger, who writes about cities and urban policy for The Upshot at The New ...
06.01.2023 How the G.O.P. Picked Trans Kids as a Rallying Cry With stunning speed, the status of trans youth has become the rallying cry of the Republican Party, from state legislatures to presidential campaigns. Adam Nagourney, who covers West Coast cultural affairs for The New York Times, explains how that came ...
05.31.2023 Republicans Impeach One of Their Own Since 2016, the cardinal rule of Republican politics has been to defend Donald J. Trump and his allies at all costs, no matter the allegation. That appeared to change last week, when Texas lawmakers issued 20 articles of impeachment against ...
05.30.2023 The Godfather of A.I. Has Some Regrets As the world begins to experiment with the power of artificial intelligence, a debate has begun about how to contain its risks. One of the sharpest and most urgent warnings has come from a man who helped invent the technology. ...
05.27.2023 Special Episode: An Interplanetary Jazz Legend, a Cosmic Vegetable and a Psychic Prodigy This weekend, we’re bringing dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They’re all part of a new series called “NYT Shorts,” available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It’s home ...
05.26.2023 The Ticking Clock of a U.S. Debt Default Top White House officials and Republican lawmakers are racing to reach an agreement as the date when the United States is projected to default on its debt approaches. Jim Tankersley, who covers the White House for The New York Times, ...
05.26.2023 The Headlines: May 26 Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for. This episode includes: Oath Keepers Leader Is Sentenced to 18 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case, with our ...
05.25.2023 Millions of Dollars, Thousands of Robocalls and 1 Legal Loophole A New York Times investigation has found that a group of Republican operatives used robocalls to raise $89 million on behalf of veterans, police officers and firefighters. David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The Times, explains how they actually ...
05.25.2023 The Headlines: May 25 Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for. This episode includes: DeSantis’s Entry into the 2024 Race Goes Awry With a Twitter Meltdown, with our national ...
05.24.2023 Ukraine Lost in Bakhmut. But It Has Much Bigger Plans. After almost a year of deadly battle, Russia has claimed victory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. But what happens now is uncertain. Eric Schmitt, who covers national security for The New York Times, explains what this moment in ...
05.24.2023 The Headlines: May 24 Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for. This episode includes: A Year After a School Shooting, Divisions Run Through Uvalde, with our National reporter Edgar ...
05.23.2023 The Supreme Court vs. Andy Warhol A few days ago, the Supreme Court tried to answer a question that has long bedeviled the world of art: When is borrowing from an earlier artist an act of inspiration, and when is it theft? Adam Liptak, who covers ...
05.23.2023 The Headlines: May 23 Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for. This episode includes: Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump’s Foreign Business Deals Since 2017, with our courts and criminal ...
05.22.2023 Is Trump's Nomination Now Inevitable? Voters in the 2022 midterms seemed to send a clear message — a rejection of Trumpism and extremism. And yet it appears increasingly likely that he will win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election. Astead W. Herndon, a ...
05.22.2023 Introducing The Headlines: May 22 Our new show brings you the biggest stories in about 10 minutes. It's the complement to The Daily you’ve been waiting for. This episode includes: A Group of 7 Summit Wrap-Up, with our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker Even ...
05.20.2023 Special Episode: Classic TV, New Music and a Side of Pasta This weekend, we’re bringing you something a little different: dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They’re all part of a new series called “NYT Shorts,” and they’re available only on NYT Audio, ...
05.19.2023 When the Culture Wars Came for NASA The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever made, has revolutionized the way we see the universe. The name was chosen for James E. Webb, a NASA administrator during the 1960s. But when doubts about his background emerged, the ...
05.18.2023 An Anonymous #MeToo Source Goes Public This episode contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. It’s been more than five years since the #MeToo movement, driven by reporting at publications like The New York Times, toppled powerful and abusive men. Behind that essential journalism were sources, many ...
05.17.2023 Turkey’s President Fights for Political Survival For two decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has loomed large over Turkish politics. But skyrocketing inflation and a devastating earthquake have eroded his power and, in a presidential election over the weekend, he was forced into a runoff. Ben Hubbard, ...
05.16.2023 The Day Title 42 Ended For weeks, officials have feared that the end of Title 42 would create a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that would strain and possibly cripple America’s immigration system. Natalie Kitroeff, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America ...
05.15.2023 The U.S. Banned Spyware — and Then Kept Trying to Use It A little over a decade ago, a small Israeli company created what would become the world’s most powerful and notorious hacking tool. Mark Mazzetti, who is a Washington investigative correspondent for The Times, explains the surprising story of the NSO ...
05.14.2023 The Lifesaving Power of … Paperwork? In the final days of Marleny Mesa’s pregnancy, she could not shake the feeling that something was wrong. She could barely breathe, for one thing. For another, her anxiety and physical discomfort were approaching what felt like an unbearable peak. ...
05.12.2023 Biden’s Radical Option to End the Debt Fight In a high-stakes showdown this week, President Biden and the leaders of congress met face to face in an effort to avoid the United States defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. Jim Tankersley, a White House ...
05.11.2023 Even More Trouble for George Santos Last year, Times reporting revealed the many lies that the freshman Republican congressman George Santos had told about his life and career. Now he is facing legal consequences. Michael Gold, who covers politics in New York for The Times, explains ...
05.10.2023 Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault. A jury in Manhattan has found former President Donald J. Trump legally liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll. Ben Weiser, who covers the Manhattan federal courts for ...
05.09.2023 A Big Policy Change at the Border For the past three years, the United States has relied on Title 42, a pandemic restriction that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border. But by the end of the week, that rule will expire. ...
05.08.2023 A Crisis of Ethics at the Supreme Court Debate about ethical standards for Supreme Court justices has intensified after a series of revelations about undisclosed gifts, luxury travel and property deals. Adam Liptak, who covers the court for The Times, reviews the allegations of misconduct and the growing ...
05.07.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The School Where the Pandemic Never Ended’ Lakishia Fell-Davis is aware that at this point, in 2023, most people are treating the coronavirus pandemic as a thing of the past. For her, though, Covid still poses a real threat: Fell-Davis has Type I diabetes, putting her at ...
05.05.2023 How Streaming Hurt Hollywood Writers This week, thousands of writers went on strike against Hollywood studios over what they say is an existential threat to their livelihoods. John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times, explains how streaming turned the most prolific era ...
05.04.2023 What if You Could Save Someone From an Overdose? In the face of an escalating opioid epidemic, the F.D.A. recently approved over-the-counter sales for Narcan — a lifesaving nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. Jan Hoffman, who covers health law for The Times, explains why the new ...
05.03.2023 The Democrats’ Dianne Feinstein Problem For the past few months, a single lawmaker has prevented Democrats from carrying out their agenda in Congress. For now, there is no simple solution in sight. Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for The Times, explains the issue surrounding Senator ...
05.02.2023 A Third Bank Implodes. Now What? On Monday morning, the federal government took over a third failing bank — this time, First Republic. Jeanna Smialek, an economy correspondent for The Times, discusses whether we are at the end of the banking crisis, or the start of ...
05.01.2023 Kevin McCarthy’s Debt Ceiling Dilemma Last week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy persuaded Republicans to narrowly pass a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, setting up high-stakes negotiations with the Biden administration. Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress for The New York Times, explains the risks this ...
04.30.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents’ In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge. She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to ...
04.28.2023 The Ballad of ‘Deepfake Drake’ This month, an anonymous producer jolted the music industry by using artificial intelligence to impersonate the singers Drake and the Weeknd, creating a fake track, “Heart on My Sleeve,” that quickly went viral. Joe Coscarelli, a culture reporter for The ...
04.27.2023 Can India Become the Next Global Superpower? This month, India reached a notable milestone. The country’s population surpassed that of China, which had held the No. 1 position for at least three centuries. Alex Travelli, who covers South Asia and business for The Times, examines whether India ...
04.26.2023 Voters Are Wary of Biden. Here’s Why He Might Win Anyway President Biden has announced that he will seek another term in the Oval Office, despite the fact that he will be 81 on Election Day 2024. Not everyone is overjoyed about that prospect — more than half of Democrats don’t ...
04.25.2023 Fox News Fires Its Biggest Star Less than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle the Dominion lawsuit, the network has abruptly fired Tucker Carlson — an anchor at the center of the case. Jeremy W. Peters, who covers media and ...
04.24.2023 How Two Generals Led Sudan to the Brink of Civil War Sudan was supposed to be moving away from military rule and toward democracy. But over the past week, the country has been thrown into violent chaos as two factions battle for control. Declan Walsh, chief Africa correspondent for The Times, ...
04.23.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘Why Are These Italians Massacring Each Other With Oranges?’ One Sunday in February, in a northern Italian town called Ivrea, the facades of historic buildings were covered with plastic sheeting and nets. And in several different piazzas, hundreds of wooden crates had appeared. Inside them were oranges. Oranges, the ...
04.21.2023 Why Low-Ranking Soldiers Have Access to Top Secret Documents Last week, a 21-year old airman from Massachusetts, Jack Teixeira, was arrested under the Espionage Act and charged with violating federal laws by sharing top secret military documents with an online gaming group. Dave Philipps, a military correspondent for The ...
04.20.2023 The Blockbuster Fox Defamation Trial That Wasn’t At the very last minute, both Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News decided to settle their closely watched defamation lawsuit, rather than make their cases at trial. Jeremy W. Peters, who covers media and politics for The Times, was inside ...
04.19.2023 Abortion Goes to the Supreme Court (Again) In overturning Roe v. Wade last year, the Supreme Court’s message was that it was done with the issue of abortion. Now, dueling rulings on abortion pills will send the issue back to the highest court in the country. Adam ...
04.18.2023 How the I.R.S. Became a Political Boogeyman Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service unveiled an $80 billion plan to transform itself into a “digital first” tax collector focused on customer service and cracking down on wealthy tax evaders. Today, on the day that taxes are due ...
04.17.2023 China and Taiwan: A Torrid Backstory The posturing between the United States and China has been intensifying in recent weeks — China responded with condemnations and military drills after Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. Today, Edward ...
04.16.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets’ In March 2017, an engineer at G.E. Aviation in Cincinnati received a request on LinkedIn. The engineer, Hua, is in his 40s, tall and athletic, with a boyish face that makes him look a decade younger. He moved to the ...
04.14.2023 Broadway’s Longest-Running Musical Turns Out the Lights “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show in the history of Broadway, will close its doors on Sunday after more than three decades. We went backstage during one of the final performances before the show’s famous chandelier crashes ...
04.13.2023 What We’re Learning From the Leaked Military Documents A week ago, the world discovered that dozens of classified documents from the American government had been leaked online, including highly sensitive information about Russia’s war in Ukraine and damaging revelations on American spying abroad. David E. Sanger, a national ...
04.12.2023 How Strong (or Not) Is New York’s Case Against Trump? In the week since Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony charges, debate about the strength of the case against him has only intensified. Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent at The Times, has closely studied the case and explains which ...

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The Daily episodes:

Special Episode: A Crash Course in Dembow, a Misunderstood Pantry Staple and Simple Tips to Keep Calm and Carry On

America’s Big City Brain Drain

How the G.O.P. Picked Trans Kids as a Rallying Cry

Republicans Impeach One of Their Own

The Godfather of A.I. Has Some Regrets

Special Episode: An Interplanetary Jazz Legend, a Cosmic Vegetable and a Psychic Prodigy

The Ticking Clock of a U.S. Debt Default

The Headlines: May 26

Millions of Dollars, Thousands of Robocalls and 1 Legal Loophole

The Headlines: May 25

Ukraine Lost in Bakhmut. But It Has Much Bigger Plans.

The Headlines: May 24

The Supreme Court vs. Andy Warhol

The Headlines: May 23

Is Trump's Nomination Now Inevitable?

Introducing The Headlines: May 22

Special Episode: Classic TV, New Music and a Side of Pasta

When the Culture Wars Came for NASA

An Anonymous #MeToo Source Goes Public

Turkey’s President Fights for Political Survival

The Day Title 42 Ended

The U.S. Banned Spyware — and Then Kept Trying to Use It

The Lifesaving Power of … Paperwork?

Biden’s Radical Option to End the Debt Fight

Even More Trouble for George Santos

Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse

A Big Policy Change at the Border

A Crisis of Ethics at the Supreme Court

The Sunday Read: ‘The School Where the Pandemic Never Ended’

How Streaming Hurt Hollywood Writers

What if You Could Save Someone From an Overdose?

The Democrats’ Dianne Feinstein Problem

A Third Bank Implodes. Now What?

Kevin McCarthy’s Debt Ceiling Dilemma

The Sunday Read: ‘The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents’

The Ballad of ‘Deepfake Drake’

Can India Become the Next Global Superpower?

Voters Are Wary of Biden. Here’s Why He Might Win Anyway

Fox News Fires Its Biggest Star

How Two Generals Led Sudan to the Brink of Civil War

The Sunday Read: ‘Why Are These Italians Massacring Each Other With Oranges?’

Why Low-Ranking Soldiers Have Access to Top Secret Documents

The Blockbuster Fox Defamation Trial That Wasn’t

Abortion Goes to the Supreme Court (Again)

How the I.R.S. Became a Political Boogeyman

China and Taiwan: A Torrid Backstory

The Sunday Read: ‘The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets’

Broadway’s Longest-Running Musical Turns Out the Lights

What We’re Learning From the Leaked Military Documents

How Strong (or Not) Is New York’s Case Against Trump?

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