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Trapped in Syria, Part I: A...

10.21.2019

Since the fall of the Islamic State, many of the group’s fighters and their families have been held in prison camps controlled by U.S.-allied Kurdish forces. Parents around the world have been trying to get their children and grandchildren out ...

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10.21.2019 Trapped in Syria, Part I: A Father’s Fight Since the fall of the Islamic State, many of the group’s fighters and their families have been held in prison camps controlled by U.S.-allied Kurdish forces. Parents around the world have been trying to get their children and grandchildren out ...
10.18.2019 The Week Diplomats Broke Their Silence Members of the American diplomatic corps testified about the state of U.S. foreign policy in private hearings on Capitol Hill this week. According to our national political correspondent, their testimonies revealed “a remarkably consistent story” about the ways in which ...
10.17.2019 A Foreseen Calamity in Syria The presence of U.S. troops in northern Syria was designed to protect America’s allies and keep its enemies there in check. President Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the region quickly, and predictably, unraveled a tenuous peace on the volatile border between ...
10.16.2019 The Moderates Strike Back: The 4th Democratic Debate Last night in Ohio, The New York Times co-hosted a presidential debate for the first time in more than a decade. Marc Lacey, The Times’s National editor, moderated the event with the CNN anchors Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper. It ...
10.15.2019 The Effort to Discredit the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine This week, we’re producing episodes of “The Daily” from The New York Times’s Washington bureau. The impeachment inquiry is entering a pivotal phase as Congress returns from recess. The White House’s strategy to block the investigation is beginning to crumble, ...
10.14.2019 The Story of a Kurdish General Turkey has invaded Kurdish-controlled territory in Syria, upending a fragile peace in the region and inciting sectarian bloodshed. The Trump administration has ordered a full evacuation of the 1,000 American troops that remain in northeastern Syria, leaving Mazlum Kobani, the ...
10.12.2019 ‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2 Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 5, Part 2 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast. The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, ...
10.11.2019 Why China Went to War With the N.B.A. A seven-word tweet in support of Hong Kong’s antigovernment protests by Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, triggered a furor in both China and the United States. The ensuing controversy revealed the unspoken rules of doing business with ...
10.10.2019 Republicans' 'Dead Chicken' Strategy on Impeachment The White House response to the impeachment inquiry has been to dismiss the allegations, deflect the facts and discredit the Democrats. It’s the same approach that Republicans used in 2018 to push through the Supreme Court nomination of Brett M. ...
10.09.2019 The Freshmen: Elissa Slotkin Confronts the Impeachment Backlash Days after moderate House Democrats announced they would support an impeachment inquiry against President Trump, a recess began and they returned home to their swing districts. Now they would face their constituents. Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan went to three ...
10.08.2019 Is the U.S. Betraying Its Kurdish Allies? President Trump vowed to withdraw United States troops from the Syrian border with Turkey. But such a move could harm one of America’s most loyal partners in the Middle East, the Kurds, who have been crucial to fighting the Islamic ...
10.07.2019 A ‘Crazy’ Plan: How U.S. Diplomats Discussed the Pressure on Ukraine The House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry of President Trump called their first witness: Kurt Volker, a top American diplomat involved in the negotiations with Ukraine. We look at what Mr. Volker’s testimony — and the text messages he turned ...
10.05.2019 ‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1 Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 5, Part 1 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast. More than a century and a half after the ...
10.04.2019 When #MeToo Went on Trial The investigation of Harvey Weinstein that helped give rise to the #MeToo movement had seemed, for a moment, to unite the country in redefining the rules around sex and power. But as a backlash emerged, the Supreme Court confirmation of ...
10.03.2019 How Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine Operation Backfired In 2018, President Trump hired Rudolph W. Giuliani, his longtime friend and the former New York City mayor, to In 2018, President Trump hired Rudolph W. Giuliani, his longtime friend and the former mayor of New York City, to defend ...
10.02.2019 Pageantry in Beijing. Firebombs in Hong Kong. As China celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule, scenes of pageantry, pride and unity in Beijing contrasted with the firebombs, rubber bullets and mass protests in Hong Kong. We look at what this day of contradictions tells us about ...
10.01.2019 The Impeachment Dilemma for Republicans Three past American presidents have confronted the possibility that members of their own party would support their impeachment. Only one, Richard M. Nixon, left office because of it, when Republicans eventually abandoned him. But what can we expect this time, ...
09.30.2019 How the Whistle-Blower Complaint Almost Didn’t Happen It took just days for a whistle-blower complaint to prompt an impeachment inquiry of President Trump. But it took weeks for the concerns detailed in the complaint to come to light — and they nearly never did. Guest: Julian E. ...
09.29.2019 A Special Episode for Kids: The Fear Facer Nine-year-old Ella was terrified of tornadoes and getting sick. So she did something that was even scarier than her fears: confront them. Guests: Ella Maners and her mother, Katie Maners, and Julia Longoria, a producer for “The Daily.” For more ...
09.27.2019 The Whistle-Blower’s Complaint The whistle-blower complaint at the center of the impeachment inquiry was released on Thursday as the Trump administration official who had declined to turn it over — Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence — testified before Congress. Here’s ...
09.26.2019 ‘I Would Like You to Do Us a Favor’ The White House released a reconstructed transcript of President Trump’s phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the leader of Ukraine. In it, Mr. Trump asks for an investigation into Joseph R. Biden Jr., a potential 2020 rival. We consider what that ...
09.25.2019 An Impeachment Inquiry Begins Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun a formal impeachment investigation of President Trump, saying he “must be held accountable.” We spoke to our colleague who was at the announcement and to one of the lawmakers who helped convince Ms. Pelosi that ...
09.24.2019 A Conversation With a Border Patrol Agent President Trump vowed to crack down on undocumented immigration and empower the Border Patrol. Three years later, the agency is the target of outrage, protest and investigation into its mission and conduct, and many of the agents who have supported ...
09.23.2019 The President, Joe Biden and Ukraine Over the weekend, reports of a secret whistle-blower complaint against President Trump turned into allegations that the president had courted foreign interference from Ukraine to hurt a leading Democratic rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Trump called ...
09.20.2019 Anatomy of a Warren Rally With crowds that are said to number 15,000 to 20,000 people, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s campaign events frequently dwarf those of her Democratic rivals. This week, we experienced the growing phenomenon that is the Warren rally. Guest: Thomas Kaplan, a political ...
09.19.2019 Keeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets, Part 2: Gloria Allred In Part 1 of this series, our colleagues Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey reported on Lisa Bloom, a victims’ rights attorney who used her experience representing women to defend Harvey Weinstein. In Part 2, we look at the role of ...
09.18.2019 Keeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets, Part 1: Lisa Bloom Last week, our colleagues Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published a book documenting their investigation of Harvey Weinstein. In writing it, they discovered information about two feminist icons — Gloria Allred and her daughter, Lisa Bloom — that raises questions ...
09.17.2019 Who Really Attacked Saudi Arabia? President Trump is saying that Iran appears to be responsible for the weekend attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. We look at where things are likely to go from here. Guest: David E. Sanger, a national security correspondent for ...
09.16.2019 The C.I.A. Spy Inside the Kremlin Last week, CNN broke the story that the United States had secretly extracted a top spy from Russia in 2017. What does that mean now for American intelligence operations? Guest: Julian E. Barnes, who covers national security for The New ...
09.14.2019 ‘1619,’ Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 4 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast. Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. ...
09.13.2019 The Third Democratic Debate Just 10 candidates qualified for the stage in Houston, but that didn’t change some recurring themes: Joe Biden was again the target of fierce scrutiny, and health care was a central point of contention. But what else did we learn? ...
09.12.2019 An Interview With Andrew Yang, the Outsider at Tonight’s Democratic Debate Andrew Yang, a former tech executive, remains one of the least known candidates in a Democratic presidential field that includes senators, mayors, a governor and a former vice president. But by focusing on the potential impact of automation on jobs, ...
09.11.2019 John Bolton Is Fired. Or Did He Resign? John Bolton, the national security adviser, was ousted after fundamental disputes with President Trump over how to handle foreign policy challenges like Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea. But the two men disagreed about how they parted ways. Guest: Peter Baker, ...
09.10.2019 A Historic Peace Plan Collapses President Trump abruptly called off negotiations between the United States and the Taliban that could have ended the war in Afghanistan and canceled a secret meeting at Camp David. We look at how a historic peace deal went off the ...
09.09.2019 Parliament Strikes Back in Britain In a battle over what kind of democracy would prevail in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson seemed to have gained the upper hand by cutting Parliament out of Brexit — until last week. Guest: Mark Landler, the London bureau chief ...
09.07.2019 ‘1619,’ Episode 3: The Birth of American Music Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 3 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast. Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic ...
09.06.2019 The Secret Push to Strike Iran For almost two decades, the United States and Israel have tried to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Israeli leaders — including the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu — have pushed for a military strike on Iran, a prospect that ...
09.05.2019 Walmart Enters the Gun Control Debate A month after a gunman killed 22 people at a Walmart store in El Paso, the nation’s largest retailer, said that it would stop selling ammunition used for handguns and military-style weapons and call on Congress to consider a new ...
09.04.2019 The Sudden-Death Phase of the Democratic Primary The Democratic presidential race has entered a phase that is specifically designed to reward front-runners and push out lesser-known candidates. We look at how that will influence the campaign. Guest: Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York ...
09.03.2019 A Potential Peace Deal With the Taliban After months of negotiations in Qatar, the United States appeared to have reached an agreement with the Taliban that could take a step to end America’s longest-running war. We spoke with our colleague about what he learned while covering the ...
08.31.2019 ’1619,’ Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 2 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast. The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a ...
08.30.2019 Political Mayhem in Britain and Italy Two battles over the meaning of democracy are now playing out in Europe. We look at the political power maneuvers this week in Britain and Italy. Guest: Katrin Bennhold, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times. For more ...
08.29.2019 Why Uber Still Can’t Make a Profit Uber transformed American transportation and changed the United States economy. But a decade after its founding, the once-swaggering company is losing more money and growing more slowly than ever. What happened? Guest: Mike Isaac, a technology reporter for The New ...
08.28.2019 Why the Amazon Is Burning More than 26,000 fires have been recorded inside the Amazon rainforest in August alone, leading to global calls for action. But Brazil’s government has told the rest of the world to mind its own business. Guest: Ernesto Londoño, the Brazil ...
08.27.2019 How the U.S.-China Trade War Hurts the Rest of the World At the Group of 7 summit in France, President Trump seemed determined to prove that he can wage a trade war with China without hurting the economy. But there are already signs of distress. Guest: Peter S. Goodman, an economics ...
08.26.2019 The First Women to Report Jeffrey Epstein This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault. Nearly a decade before any police investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s predatory actions toward young girls, two sisters came forward to say they had been lured in and abused by the financier and his ...
08.23.2019 Introducing ‘1619,’ a New York Times Audio Series Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of ...
08.22.2019 What the 2020 Campaign Sounds Like Song playlists at presidential campaign rallies can be about more than music — they can reflect a candidate’s values, political platform, identity and target audience. We examine the role of these playlists in the 2020 campaign. Guest: Astead W. Herndon, ...
08.21.2019 What American C.E.O.s Are Worried About For decades, American corporations have prized profits for shareholders above all else. Now, the country’s most powerful chief executives say it’s time to do things differently. What’s driving that change? Guest: Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial columnist for The New ...
08.20.2019 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Not Regretting Al Franken Al Franken resigned from the Senate more than 18 months ago over allegations of sexual harassment. New reporting about those allegations has revived the debate over whether the Democratic Party — particularly senators currently seeking the presidency — moved too ...

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The Daily episodes:

Trapped in Syria, Part I: A Father’s Fight

The Week Diplomats Broke Their Silence

A Foreseen Calamity in Syria

The Moderates Strike Back: The 4th Democratic Debate

The Effort to Discredit the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

The Story of a Kurdish General

‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2

Why China Went to War With the N.B.A.

Republicans' 'Dead Chicken' Strategy on Impeachment

The Freshmen: Elissa Slotkin Confronts the Impeachment Backlash

Is the U.S. Betraying Its Kurdish Allies?

A ‘Crazy’ Plan: How U.S. Diplomats Discussed the Pressure on Ukraine

‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1

When #MeToo Went on Trial

How Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine Operation Backfired

Pageantry in Beijing. Firebombs in Hong Kong.

The Impeachment Dilemma for Republicans

How the Whistle-Blower Complaint Almost Didn’t Happen

A Special Episode for Kids: The Fear Facer

The Whistle-Blower’s Complaint

‘I Would Like You to Do Us a Favor’

An Impeachment Inquiry Begins

A Conversation With a Border Patrol Agent

The President, Joe Biden and Ukraine

Anatomy of a Warren Rally

Keeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets, Part 2: Gloria Allred

Keeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets, Part 1: Lisa Bloom

Who Really Attacked Saudi Arabia?

The C.I.A. Spy Inside the Kremlin

‘1619,’ Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started

The Third Democratic Debate

An Interview With Andrew Yang, the Outsider at Tonight’s Democratic Debate

John Bolton Is Fired. Or Did He Resign?

A Historic Peace Plan Collapses

Parliament Strikes Back in Britain

‘1619,’ Episode 3: The Birth of American Music

The Secret Push to Strike Iran

Walmart Enters the Gun Control Debate

The Sudden-Death Phase of the Democratic Primary

A Potential Peace Deal With the Taliban

’1619,’ Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built

Political Mayhem in Britain and Italy

Why Uber Still Can’t Make a Profit

Why the Amazon Is Burning

How the U.S.-China Trade War Hurts the Rest of the World

The First Women to Report Jeffrey Epstein

Introducing ‘1619,’ a New York Times Audio Series

What the 2020 Campaign Sounds Like

What American C.E.O.s Are Worried About

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Not Regretting Al Franken

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