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The Standoff With Iran

06.21.2019

The Trump administration has been debating a military strike against Iran as tensions with the country escalate. Here’s how we got to this point. Guest: Mark Landler, who covers the White House for The New York Times. For more information ...

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06.21.2019 The Standoff With Iran The Trump administration has been debating a military strike against Iran as tensions with the country escalate. Here’s how we got to this point. Guest: Mark Landler, who covers the White House for The New York Times. For more information ...
06.20.2019 Why Asylum Seekers Are Being Sent Back to Mexico With asylum requests at a record high, the Trump administration is telling migrants to wait in Mexico. We look at how that policy could fundamentally change immigration in the United States. Guests: Natalie Kitroeff, a business reporter for The New ...
06.19.2019 Trump’s Re-election Rally The president kicked off his re-election campaign on Tuesday with a rally in Orlando, Fla. We spoke with a colleague who was there. Guest: Maggie Haberman, who covers the White House for The New York Times. For more information on ...
06.18.2019 Hacking the Russian Power Grid A New York Times investigation found that the United States is actively infiltrating Russia’s electric power grid. We look at what that means for the future of cyberwarfare. Guest: David E. Sanger, a national security correspondent for The New York ...
06.17.2019 Why Hong Kong Is Still Protesting In Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands remain in the streets, even after city officials said they would suspend the contentious extradition bill that prompted the demonstrations in the first place. We look at why the protesters still don’t trust their ...
06.14.2019 Part 5: Can Liberal Democracy Survive in Europe? Across Europe, populists are saying that it’s not democracy they aim to discard, but liberalism. To end our series, we returned to Germany, the country at the heart of a liberal Europe, to see if the rejection of liberalism had ...
06.13.2019 Part 4: Poland’s Culture Wars In Poland, a nationalist party has been in power for four years. We went to Warsaw, the capital, and Gdansk, the birthplace of a movement that brought down Communism, to see how this government has changed democratic institutions. Guests: Katrin ...
06.12.2019 Part 3: ‘Italy First’ In Italy, hard-right populists have moved from the fringes to become part of the national government. Now, the country is on the front lines of a nationalist resurgence in Europe. To understand why, we spent a day with Susanna Ceccardi, ...
06.11.2019 Part 2: The French Rebellion President Emmanuel Macron of France had been viewed as the next leader of a liberal Europe. But when the Yellow Vest movement swept the country, protesters took to the streets, rejecting him as elitist and questioning the vision of Europe ...
06.10.2019 Part 1: The Battle for Europe The decades-long plan to stitch together countries and cultures into the European Union was ultimately blamed for two crises: mass migration and crippling debt. Together, those events contributed to a wave of nationalism across Europe. In a five-part series this ...
06.07.2019 A New Way to Solve a Murder, Part 2: The Future of Genetic Privacy The police identified a suspect in a double murder after combing through DNA profiles on a website designed to connect family members. We look at what his trial will tell us about the future of genetic genealogy in solving crimes. ...
06.06.2019 A New Way to Solve a Murder, Part 1: The Genetic Detectives A year after police used a genetic database to help identify a suspect in the Golden State Killer case, the same technique has been used to arrest dozens of people. Now, for the first time, one of those cases is ...
06.05.2019 This Drug Could End H.I.V. Why Hasn’t It? Dr. Robert Grant developed a treatment — a daily pill known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP — that could stop the AIDS crisis. We look at why that hasn’t happened. Guests: Dr. Grant, who has been working on H.I.V. treatment ...
06.04.2019 How a Secret U.S. Cyberweapon Backfired A criminal group has held computer systems for the city of Baltimore hostage for nearly a month — paralyzing everything from email to the real estate market to the payment of water bills. But what residents don’t know is that ...
06.03.2019 The Legacy of Rachel Held Evans In a brief but prolific career, a young writer asked whether evangelical Christianity could change. In doing so, she changed it. Guests: Elizabeth Dias, who covers religion for The Times, in conversation with Natalie Kitroeff. For more information on today’s ...
05.31.2019 Death, Profit and Disclosure at a Children’s Hospital A Times investigation found that doctors at UNC Children’s Hospital suspected that children with complex heart conditions had been dying at higher-than-expected rates, and even children with low-risk conditions seemed to do poorly. Secret recordings shared with our colleague reveal ...
05.30.2019 Robert Mueller Breaks His Silence Robert Mueller, the special counsel, discussed his investigation of Russian election interference for the first time on Wednesday. He did not absolve President Trump of obstruction of justice, saying: “If we had enough confidence that the president clearly did not ...
05.29.2019 The White House Plan to Change Climate Science From Day 1, the Trump administration has tried to dismantle regulations aimed at curbing climate change. Now officials are attempting to undermine the very science on which such policies rest. Guest: Coral Davenport, who covers energy and environmental policy for ...
05.28.2019 What Actually Happened to New York’s Taxi Drivers In the past year, many New York City taxi drivers have fallen deeper into debt, even as the city moved to rein in ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. Our colleague explains how the rush to blame those apps shielded ...
05.24.2019 Confronting a Childhood Abuser Three months ago, a recording of Sterling Van Wagenen, a founder of the Sundance Film Festival, appeared on an obscure website for whistle-blowers in the Mormon Church. The “Daily” producer Annie Brown spoke with our colleague about the story that ...
05.23.2019 The Bank That Kept Saying Yes to Trump At a time when most Wall Street firms had stopped doing business with Donald J. Trump, a single bank lent him more than $2 billion. We look at the two-decade relationship that could unlock the president’s financial secrets. Guests: Natalie ...
05.22.2019 A Growing Call for Impeachment In the weeks since the release of the Mueller report, the Democratic Party has been struggling with how to proceed. Now, divisions are emerging as a group of House members push their leaders to open impeachment proceedings. Guest: Nicholas Fandos, ...
05.21.2019 The Rise of Modi: India’s Rightward Turn India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has governed as a right-wing populist whose nationalist message has often pitted Hindus against Muslims. We look at what Mr. Modi’s likely re-election this week tells us about the country’s political future. Guest: Jeffrey Gettleman, ...
05.20.2019 The Legal Vulnerability of Roe v. Wade From the day Roe v. Wade was decided, some have seen the constitutional right to an abortion as an inferred right rather than a guaranteed one. That distinction has become a threat to the law’s survival. Guests: Sabrina Tavernise, a ...
05.17.2019 A Direct Challenge to Roe v. Wade in Alabama Alabama has adopted a law that would criminalize nearly all abortions and make the penalty for providing one up to 99 years in prison. The man who wrote the law knew it was unconstitutional — and did it anyway. We ...
05.16.2019 Caught in the Middle of the Trade War Yesterday, we told the story of President Trump’s trade war with China. Today, our colleague speaks with two Americans who have been feeling the effects of that war. Guests: Natalie Kitroeff, a business reporter for The New York Times, talked ...
05.15.2019 The President Takes On China, Alone Years of multinational efforts have failed to get China to play by the international rules of trade. Now, President Trump has launched an all-out trade war in which the United States is confronting China on its own. Guests: Natalie Kitroeff, ...
05.14.2019 The Freshman: Rashida Tlaib, Part 2 When we last spoke with Representative Rashida Tlaib, she had just been sworn in — and had fulfilled the fears of Democratic leaders by calling for the impeachment of President Trump. In the months since, she’s been challenging her party ...
05.13.2019 John Bolton’s Plan for Iran Iran is warning that it may resume production on its nuclear program, reviving a crisis that had been contained by the signing of the Iran nuclear deal four years ago. One man within the United States government may have intentionally ...
05.10.2019 A Founder of Facebook Says It’s Time to Break It Up Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate, has written an Op-Ed in The New York Times saying that Mr. Zuckerberg has become too powerful and that Facebook should be broken up. Our colleague sits down with him ...
05.09.2019 Holding the Attorney General in Contempt The House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt after President Trump asserted executive privilege over the full Mueller report. But little is likely to happen as a result. We look at why Congress is ...
05.08.2019 $1 Billion in Losses: A Decade of Trump’s Taxes In October, The New York Times published an investigation into the tax returns of President Trump’s father, revealing the president’s past involvement in tax evasion and stark inconsistencies in his account of his success. Two reporters who broke that story ...
05.07.2019 The Chinese Surveillance State, Part 2 In Part 2 of our series, we tell the story of an American citizen whose family members have been detained in Chinese re-education camps for Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups. We look at what his efforts to ...
05.06.2019 The Chinese Surveillance State, Part 1 Under President Xi Jinping, China is pioneering a new form of governance by surveillance. In the first of a two-part series, we look at how China tested that system by targeting one minority group. Guest: Paul Mozur, a technology reporter ...
05.03.2019 A Secret Dossier in Venezuela After mass protests and international pressure failed to unseat President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, it became clear that it would take defections from within his own government to remove him from power. Now, secret documents suggest that some of Mr. ...
05.02.2019 The Senate Testimony of William Barr In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr defended his handling of the Mueller report, saying he did not misrepresent its findings. We spoke with our colleague who spent the day in the hearing room. Guest: Nicholas ...
05.01.2019 A Dictator’s Fall in Sudan After a brutal 30-year reign, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan has been deposed by his own generals. The story of one of those generals and his son could signal what comes next for the country. Guest: Declan Walsh, the ...
04.30.2019 A Crisis at the N.R.A. A bitter power struggle has broken out inside the nation’s pre-eminent gun rights group. We look at how the mere threat of a financial investigation plunged the National Rifle Association into crisis. Guest: Danny Hakim, an investigative reporter for The ...
04.29.2019 Why the Supreme Court Is Ruling on the Census Before the 2020 census begins in the United States, a case has been fast-tracked to the nation’s highest court about who is counted and why. It has become the biggest case in front of the Supreme Court this session. Guest: ...
04.26.2019 How the Measles Outbreak Started The number of measles cases in the United States has risen to nearly 700 — the highest annual number recorded since 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated in the country. Many of those cases can be traced to ultra-Orthodox ...
04.25.2019 A Secret in the Navy SEALs Navy SEAL commandos said they had seen their decorated platoon leader, Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, commit war crimes. They were warned not to report it. They did so anyway. Guest: Dave Philipps, who covers the military for The New ...
04.24.2019 The Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka A series of highly coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka has left more than 350 people dead. How did a small, obscure and underfinanced local group carry out one of the deadliest terrorist attacks since 9/11? Guest: Jeffrey Gettleman, the South ...
04.23.2019 The Whistle-Blowers at Boeing After two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets, regulators and lawmakers began asking whether competitive pressure may have led the company to miss safety risks, like an anti-stall system that played a role in both crashes. In reporting that story, ...
04.22.2019 How Trump’s Protector Became Mueller’s Best Witness The most interesting figure in the Mueller report may be the man who was hired to protect President Trump, but turned out to be the most damaging witness against him. We look at the role of Donald F. McGahn II, ...
04.19.2019 The Mueller Report Is Released Two years and 448 pages later, a redacted version of the Mueller report has been made public. Here’s what we’ve learned. Guests: Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti, who have been covering the special counsel investigation for The New York ...
04.18.2019 The Abortion Wars, Part 2: The Illinois Option Four states have passed laws this year that effectively ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, and others, including Missouri, are expected to follow suit. Some Missourians are crossing the state line to Illinois, where abortion access is protected. We ...
04.17.2019 The Abortion Wars, Part 1: The Last Clinic in Missouri When Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s ascendance to the Supreme Court threw the future of abortion rights into question, states scrambled to enact new laws. Two neighboring states in the Midwest are moving in opposite directions: Missouri is taking action to end ...
04.16.2019 The Rise and Fall of Carlos Ghosn Carlos Ghosn, the former head of Nissan, was the rare foreign executive to reach rock-star status in Japan by breaking the rules of its culture. Now, he’s accused of financial wrongdoing at the company he helped save. Guest: Motoko Rich, ...
04.15.2019 The Moral Complexities of Working With Julian Assange Many have considered Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to be a hero of the free speech movement and a partner to journalists. He also came to be seen as a threat to national security. Then, he helped Russia interfere ...
04.12.2019 Israel’s Election, Through the Eyes of a Young Palestinian Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has promised to assert sovereignty over dozens of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. For Palestinians there, that could mean the end of a decades-long struggle for a state of their own. We hear ...

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The Standoff With Iran

Why Asylum Seekers Are Being Sent Back to Mexico

Trump’s Re-election Rally

Hacking the Russian Power Grid

Why Hong Kong Is Still Protesting

Part 5: Can Liberal Democracy Survive in Europe?

Part 4: Poland’s Culture Wars

Part 3: ‘Italy First’

Part 2: The French Rebellion

Part 1: The Battle for Europe

A New Way to Solve a Murder, Part 2: The Future of Genetic Privacy

A New Way to Solve a Murder, Part 1: The Genetic Detectives

This Drug Could End H.I.V. Why Hasn’t It?

How a Secret U.S. Cyberweapon Backfired

The Legacy of Rachel Held Evans

Death, Profit and Disclosure at a Children’s Hospital

Robert Mueller Breaks His Silence

The White House Plan to Change Climate Science

What Actually Happened to New York’s Taxi Drivers

Confronting a Childhood Abuser

The Bank That Kept Saying Yes to Trump

A Growing Call for Impeachment

The Rise of Modi: India’s Rightward Turn

The Legal Vulnerability of Roe v. Wade

A Direct Challenge to Roe v. Wade in Alabama

Caught in the Middle of the Trade War

The President Takes On China, Alone

The Freshman: Rashida Tlaib, Part 2

John Bolton’s Plan for Iran

A Founder of Facebook Says It’s Time to Break It Up

Holding the Attorney General in Contempt

$1 Billion in Losses: A Decade of Trump’s Taxes

The Chinese Surveillance State, Part 2

The Chinese Surveillance State, Part 1

A Secret Dossier in Venezuela

The Senate Testimony of William Barr

A Dictator’s Fall in Sudan

A Crisis at the N.R.A.

Why the Supreme Court Is Ruling on the Census

How the Measles Outbreak Started

A Secret in the Navy SEALs

The Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka

The Whistle-Blowers at Boeing

How Trump’s Protector Became Mueller’s Best Witness

The Mueller Report Is Released

The Abortion Wars, Part 2: The Illinois Option

The Abortion Wars, Part 1: The Last Clinic in Missouri

The Rise and Fall of Carlos Ghosn

The Moral Complexities of Working With Julian Assange

Israel’s Election, Through the Eyes of a Young Palestinian

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