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07.10.2020

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that President Trump cannot block the release of his financial records. Today, we hear the story behind the cases the justices heard — and the meaning of their decisions. Guests: David Enrich, the business investigations ...

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07.10.2020 The Fate of Trump's Financial Records The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that President Trump cannot block the release of his financial records. Today, we hear the story behind the cases the justices heard — and the meaning of their decisions. Guests: David Enrich, the business investigations ...
07.09.2020 A Missed Warning About Silent Coronavirus Infections At the end of January, long before the world understood that seemingly healthy people could spread the coronavirus, a doctor in Germany tried to sound the alarm. Today, we look at why that warning was unwelcome. Guests: Matt Apuzzo, an ...
07.08.2020 Counting the Infected For months, the U.S. government has been quietly collecting information on hundreds of thousands of coronavirus cases across the country. Today, we tell the story of how The Times got hold of that data, and what it says about the ...
07.07.2020 ‘Their Goal Is the End of America’ What President Trump’s divisive speech at Mount Rushmore reveals about his re-election campaign. Guest: Maggie Haberman, who covers the White House for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Missteps by a fractured ...
07.06.2020 Four New Insights About the Coronavirus Infection rates broke records across the United States over the holiday weekend, with many of the most severe surges in areas that reopened fastest. One thing that seems to have played a factor: transmission indoors, such as in restaurants and ...
07.02.2020 What Went Wrong in Brazil Brazil has a long, distinguished history of successfully navigating public health crises. But in recent weeks, it has emerged as one of the world’s most severe coronavirus hot spots, second only to the United States. What went wrong? Guest: Ernesto ...
07.01.2020 A Russian Plot to Kill U.S. Soldiers A New York Times investigation has revealed evidence of a secret Russian operation to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan — and of the failure of the Trump administration to act on that intelligence. As lawmakers from both parties react with ...
06.30.2020 A Major Ruling on Abortion The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law that could have left the state with a single abortion clinic. It was a setback for conservatives in the first major ruling on abortion since two Trump appointees joined the ...
06.29.2020 A Conversation With a Police Union Leader In the weeks since George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Americans have been confronting hard questions about bias and racism within law enforcement — and what the role of the police should be. In the ...
06.28.2020 The Sunday Read: 'The Man Who Saw America' In this episode of The Sunday Read, we look at the complexity, diversity and humanity of America through the eyes of Robert Frank — one of the most influential photographers in history — who, through his camera, collected the world. ...
06.27.2020 A Bit of Relief: The Long Distance Chorus Gregg Breinberg has been directing the chorus at Public School 22 on Staten Island for twenty years. He tells his fourth and fifth grade students that participation is not about whether they can sing on key or not. It’s about ...
06.26.2020 A Dilemma in Texas Texas has become the latest hot spot in the coronavirus pandemic, forcing its governor to pause the state’s reopening process after a surge of infections and hospitalizations. We speak with our Houston correspondent about the state’s dilemma. Guest: Manny Fernandez, ...
06.25.2020 The Voters Trump Is Losing This fall’s presidential race is likely to be decided by a handful of battleground states won by President Trump in 2016. So how do voters in those states view the candidates? Guest: Nate Cohn, who covers elections, polling and demographics ...
06.24.2020 The Epidemic of Unemployment Three months after mass layoffs began across America, 20 million Americans remain out of work because of the pandemic. Federal employment benefits are about to run out, and Congress can’t agree on more financial help. We called people struggling with ...
06.23.2020 The Battle Over the Democratic Party's Future This episode contains strong language. Today’s Senate primary in Kentucky has been transformed by the outcry over police brutality. What can the election tell us about the future of Democratic politics? Guest: Jonathan Martin, who covers national politics for The ...
06.22.2020 How Facebook Is Undermining Black Lives Matter Companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have come out in support of Black Lives Matter and its mission. But are their platforms undermining the movement for racial justice? Guest: Kevin Roose, who covers technology, business and culture for The Times. ...
06.21.2020 The Sunday Read: 'Facing the Wind' In today’s episode of The Sunday Read, Carvell Wallace considers why, for his kids, a global pandemic that shut down the world was not news — it was the opposite of news. It was a struggle that had, in some ...
06.19.2020 The History and Meaning of Juneteenth After 155 years, Juneteenth, a celebration of the emancipation of enslaved Americans, is being acknowledged as a holiday by corporations and state governments across the country. Today, we consider why, throughout its history, Juneteenth has gained prominence at moments of ...
06.18.2020 The Latest: The Supreme Court Rules on DACA In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Trump may not shut down Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the program that shields immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation. But is ...
06.18.2020 Who Will Be Joe Biden’s Running Mate? Joseph R. Biden Jr. is looking for a potential vice president in one of the most tumultuous moments in modern American history. His selection committee is attempting to winnow an exceptionally diverse field. So who’s on the list? Guest: Alexander ...
06.17.2020 The Killing of Rayshard Brooks This episode contains strong language. Rayshard Brooks fell asleep in his car at a Wendy’s drive-through. Soon afterward, he was shot. We look closely at what happened in the minutes in between — and at the unrest his killing has ...
06.16.2020 A Landmark Supreme Court Ruling The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination. We examine the three words the case hung on; what the written opinions had to say about bathrooms, locker rooms, ...
06.15.2020 What We’ve Learned About the Coronavirus States are reopening. Parks are crowded. Restaurants are filling, again, with diners. But is this dangerous? Six months into the pandemic, we reflect on what we’ve learned about the virus — and ask how that knowledge should chart the course ...
06.14.2020 The Sunday Read: 'Getting Out' In this episode of The Sunday Read, one man reflects on what it was like to go to prison as a child and to attempt to become an attorney upon his release. In doing so, he asks: What is punishment ...
06.13.2020 Special Episode: The Song That Found Me The Times critic Wesley Morris had listened to Patti LaBelle’s live rendition of “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” over a hundred times before. But one recent Sunday, the song came on and he heard something new. “I heard ...
06.12.2020 The Struggle to Teach From Afar Ronda McIntyre’s classroom is built around a big rug, where her students crowd together often for group instruction. But since March, when schools across the country shut down because of the coronavirus, she has had to try to create the ...
06.11.2020 Georgia's Election Meltdown A full-scale meltdown of new voting systems in Georgia is alarming Democratic leaders — and revealing a new national playing field — ahead of the general election in November. Today, we explore why voting access in Georgia has become a ...
06.10.2020 ‘I Want To Touch the World’ This episode contains strong language. Nearly 30 years ago, George Perry Floyd Jr. told a high school classmate he would “touch the world” someday. We went to the funeral in Houston of an outsize man who dreamed equally big and ...
06.09.2020 The Case For Defunding the Police This episode contains strong language. Several major U.S. cities are proposing ways to defund and even dismantle their police departments. But what would that actually look like? Guest: John Eligon, a national correspondent covering race for The New York Times. ...
06.08.2020 Why Are Police Attacking Protestors? This episode contains strong language. Across the country, the police have responded to protests over police brutality with more force. Today, we listen in on confrontations at demonstrations in New York. Guest: Ali Watkins, a crime and law enforcement reporter ...
06.07.2020 The Sunday Read: 'The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’ Today on “The Sunday Read,” listen to Claudia Rankine reflect on the precariousness of being black in America. Her words were written five years ago after avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black people at a Bible study in ...
06.06.2020 'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 8: 'We Go All' Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing the series finale of “Rabbit Hole,” a Times podcast with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, we follow one QAnon believer’s journey through faith and loss — and what ...
06.05.2020 Why They're Protesting This episode includes disturbing language including racial slurs. They came together to protest the killing of George Floyd — and because what happened to him had echoes in their own experiences. Today, we speak with five protesters about the moments ...
06.04.2020 The Showdown at Lafayette Square This episode contains sounds of explosives and descriptions of violence. Today, we go inside a high-stakes White House debate over how President Trump should respond to reports that he was hiding in a bunker while the nation’s capital burned. This ...
06.03.2020 The Mayor of Minneapolis As nationwide protests about the death of George Floyd enter a second week, we speak with the leader of the city where they began. Guest: Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: ...
06.02.2020 The Systems That Protect the Police The Minneapolis police officer whose tactics led to George Floyd’s death had a long record of complaints against him. So why was he still on patrol? Guest: Shaila Dewan, a national reporter covering criminal justice for The New York Times. ...
06.01.2020 A Weekend of Pain and Protest This episode contains strong language. Demonstrations have erupted in at least 140 cities across the United States in the days since George Floyd, a black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis. We were on the ground in some of ...
05.30.2020 'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 7: 'Where We Go One' Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 7 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, our reporter investigates the QAnon conspiracy theories. The story of QAnon ...
05.30.2020 Special Episode: The Latest From Minneapolis As protests spread over the death of George Floyd, the former officer at the center of the case has been charged with murder. We listen in on the demonstrations, and examine why this tragedy — though too familiar — may ...
05.29.2020 One Hundred Thousand Lives Barbara Krupke won the lottery. Fred Walter Gray enjoyed his bacon and hash browns crispy. Orlando Moncada crawled through a hole in a fence to reach the United States. John Prine chronicled the human condition. Cornelia Ann Hunt left the ...
05.28.2020 Space Travel, Privatized After nearly a decade on the sidelines of space travel, Cape Canaveral is again launching a shuttle into space. But this time, a private company will be sending NASA astronauts into orbit. What does this moment mean for human exploration ...
05.27.2020 Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic? The U.S. Postal Service has survived the telegraph, the fax machine and the dawn of the internet. But will it survive coronavirus? Guests: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for The New York Times and Derek Harpe, a Postal Service worker ...
05.26.2020 The Story of Two Brothers From Mexico Two brothers, Javier Morales, 48, and Martin Morales, 39, died of coronavirus within hours of each other in their adopted home of New Jersey. Their last wish was to be buried at home in Mexico, but, to make that happen, ...
05.23.2020 'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 6: Impasse Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 6 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, we hear from PewDiePie, one of the biggest and most polarizing ...
05.22.2020 Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake There are moments when the world we take for granted changes instantaneously — when reality is upended and replaced with the unimaginable. Though we try not to think about it, instability is always lurking, and at any moment, a kind ...
05.21.2020 A Teenager’s Medical Mystery From the earliest days of the coronavirus outbreak, health officials believed that it was largely sparing children and teenagers. But the rise of a mysterious inflammatory syndrome — with symptoms ranging from rashes to heart failure — in children testing ...
05.20.2020 Why Is the Pandemic Killing So Many Black Americans? Some have called the pandemic “the great equalizer.” But the coronavirus is killing black Americans at staggeringly higher rates than white Americans. Today, we explore why. Guest: Linda Villarosa, a writer for The New York Times Magazine covering racial health ...
05.19.2020 Trump’s Purge of the Watchdogs It used to be rare for a president to fire an inspector general, a position created within government agencies after Watergate and assigned to fight waste and corruption. Today, we look at what President Trump’s pattern of replacing inspectors general ...
05.18.2020 Can Government Spending Save the Economy? As the American economy plunges toward a recession, economists and policymakers are triaging proposals to stanch the bleeding. All of their ideas will cost money the government doesn’t have. That leaves Democrats and Republicans with two major questions: How much ...
05.17.2020 The Sunday Read: 'Letters of Recommendation' Our worlds have contracted; once expansive, our orbits are now measured by rooms and street blocks. But there are still ways to travel. Today, escape to the worlds contained in three letters — one about the summer of 1910, another ...

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The Fate of Trump's Financial Records

A Missed Warning About Silent Coronavirus Infections

Counting the Infected

‘Their Goal Is the End of America’

Four New Insights About the Coronavirus

What Went Wrong in Brazil

A Russian Plot to Kill U.S. Soldiers

A Major Ruling on Abortion

A Conversation With a Police Union Leader

The Sunday Read: 'The Man Who Saw America'

A Bit of Relief: The Long Distance Chorus

A Dilemma in Texas

The Voters Trump Is Losing

The Epidemic of Unemployment

The Battle Over the Democratic Party's Future

How Facebook Is Undermining Black Lives Matter

The Sunday Read: 'Facing the Wind'

The History and Meaning of Juneteenth

The Latest: The Supreme Court Rules on DACA

Who Will Be Joe Biden’s Running Mate?

The Killing of Rayshard Brooks

A Landmark Supreme Court Ruling

What We’ve Learned About the Coronavirus

The Sunday Read: 'Getting Out'

Special Episode: The Song That Found Me

The Struggle to Teach From Afar

Georgia's Election Meltdown

‘I Want To Touch the World’

The Case For Defunding the Police

Why Are Police Attacking Protestors?

The Sunday Read: 'The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 8: 'We Go All'

Why They're Protesting

The Showdown at Lafayette Square

The Mayor of Minneapolis

The Systems That Protect the Police

A Weekend of Pain and Protest

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 7: 'Where We Go One'

Special Episode: The Latest From Minneapolis

One Hundred Thousand Lives

Space Travel, Privatized

Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic?

The Story of Two Brothers From Mexico

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 6: Impasse

Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake

A Teenager’s Medical Mystery

Why Is the Pandemic Killing So Many Black Americans?

Trump’s Purge of the Watchdogs

Can Government Spending Save the Economy?

The Sunday Read: 'Letters of Recommendation'

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