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In the past half-century, 17 percent of the Amazon — an area larger than Texas — has been converted to croplands or cattle pasture. Less forest means less recycled rain, less vapor to cool the air, less of a canopy ...

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01.29.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘Has the Amazon Reached Its “Tipping Point”?’ In the past half-century, 17 percent of the Amazon — an area larger than Texas — has been converted to croplands or cattle pasture. Less forest means less recycled rain, less vapor to cool the air, less of a canopy ...
01.27.2023 Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up This episode contains descriptions of violence and injury. In September, protests began in Iran over the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the government. The demonstrations have since intensified, as has the government’s response, with ...
01.26.2023 An Aggressive New Approach to Childhood Obesity Recent advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended a bold approach to treating the millions of children in the United States who are affected by obesity. Counseling, drug treatment and even surgery should be considered, the group says. ...
01.25.2023 How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor. But a Times investigation has revealed that many have deviated from those charitable roots, behaving like for-profit companies, sometimes ...
01.24.2023 What Biden Miscalculated About His Classified Documents Over the weekend, F.B.I. agents found classified documents at President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., after conducting a 13-hour search. The search — at the invitation of Mr. Biden’s lawyers — resulted in the latest in a series of discoveries ...
01.23.2023 The Debt Ceiling Showdown, Explained In the past decade or more, votes over increasing the U.S. debt ceiling have increasingly been used as a political tool. That has led to intense showdowns in 2011, 2013 and, now, 2023. This year, both sides of the argument ...
01.22.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘Could I Survive the “Quietest Place on Earth”?’ In a room in a modest concrete building in a leafy Minneapolis neighborhood is silence exceeding the bounds of human perception. Technically an “anechoic chamber,” the room is the quietest place on the planet — according to some. What happens ...
01.20.2023 A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly Journey With mountains, intense mud, fast-running rivers and thick rainforest, the Darién Gap, a strip of terrain connecting South and Central America, is one of the most dangerous places on the planet. Over the past few years, there has been an ...
01.19.2023 Why the U.S. Is Sending More Powerful Weapons to Ukraine Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the United States and allies have held back from sending Kyiv their most potent arms. Over the past few weeks, that has started to change.
01.18.2023 The ‘Enemies List’ at Madison Square Garden With little warning or regulation, companies are increasingly using facial recognition technology on their customers — as a security measure, they say. But what happens when the systems are actually being used to punish the companies’ enemies?
01.17.2023 China’s Abrupt Reversal of ‘Zero Covid’ For nearly three years, China had one of the lowest coronavirus death rates in the world, thanks to its strict yet effective “zero Covid” approach. But last month, the government suddenly abandoned the policy. Since then, there have been millions ...
01.15.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘Risking Everything to Offer Abortion Access Across State Lines’ In states where abortion is severely limited or illegal, clinicians face imminent prosecution if they continue to provide abortions. What is much less clear is what happens if providers in blue states offer telemedicine abortions to women in states where ...
01.13.2023 The Presidents and the Classified Documents The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden came to have classified records after they left office. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel after the discovery of two batches of ...
01.12.2023 The California Floods For weeks, a string of major storms have hit California, causing extreme flooding. While it might seem as if rain should have a silver lining for a state stuck in a historic drought, the reality is far more complicated. Today, ...
01.11.2023 A Jan. 6 Moment for Brazil After Jair Bolsonaro lost October’s Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many believed that the threat of violence from the defeated leader’s supporters would recede. They were wrong. Mr. Bolsonaro had spent years sewing doubt and undermining ...
01.10.2023 The Southwest Airlines Meltdown Air travel was a mess over the holidays — in the last 10 days of December, 30,000 flights were canceled. While every airline was affected, one stood out: Southwest, which over the past few decades has transformed how Americans fly, ...
01.09.2023 Speaker McCarthy. But at What Cost? Representative Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker of the House turned into a rolling disaster last week, played out over five long days and 15 rounds of voting. Today, the inside story of how it went so wrong — and ...
01.08.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away’ On Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Diller, then 17, and her mother boarded a flight in Lima, Peru. She was headed for Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three years she had lived, ...
01.06.2023 Consider the Burying Beetle. (Or Else.) The current level of biodiversity loss is extraordinary in human history: The global rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years. At the end of 2022, ...
01.05.2023 The Life and Lies of George Santos George Santos, the Republican representative-elect from New York, ran for office and won his seat in part on an inspiring personal story. But when Times reporters started looking into his background, they made some astonishing revelations: Almost all of Mr. ...
01.04.2023 Inside Russia’s Military Catastrophe This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence. When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s army would quickly crush the Ukrainian forces. Instead, Russian military failures have defined the war. Today, we hear from Russian ...
01.03.2023 A Crisis of Kevin McCarthy’s Own Making This episode contains strong language. Republicans are set to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four years. The transition is shaping up to be chaotic. Today, the 118th Congress will gather for the first ...
12.30.2022 One Man Flees Putin’s Draft: An Update This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow ...
12.29.2022 A Post-Roe America: An Update This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since. In May, the United States was stunned by the leak of a Supreme Court draft ...
12.28.2022 A View of the Beginning of Time: An Update This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. In July, NASA released new images captured from a point in space ...
12.27.2022 How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union: An Update This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. This year, we explored the story of Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, ...
12.26.2022 On the Road With Ukraine’s Refugees: An Update This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. This episode contains strong language. This year, in response to Russia’s increasingly ...
12.23.2022 A Restaurant Critic (Ours) On the Year That Changed Him Forever During his time as a restaurant critic for The Times, Pete Wells has become both feared and revered in the world of dining — crowning those at the top and dethroning those whose time has passed. But when the pandemic ...
12.22.2022 A Crisis in Peru Signals Trouble for South America A few weeks ago, when President Pedro Castillo of Peru attempted an illegal power grab and ended up in jail, the response was unexpected: Thousands of protesters took to the streets to support him, and some died. Why does such ...
12.21.2022 The Lives They Lived This episode contains descriptions of violence. At the end of every year, The New York Times Magazine devotes an issue to remembering those who have died in the past year. This year’s focus is gun violence, which is now the ...
12.20.2022 A Congressional Call to Prosecute Trump Every step of the way, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has been groundbreaking. As it wraps up its work, the panel referred former President Donald J. Trump to the Justice Department and accused ...
12.19.2022 How This World Cup Changed Soccer For weeks, much of the globe has been riveted by the highs and lows of the World Cup in Qatar. On Sunday, the soccer tournament culminated in a win for Argentina and its star, Lionel Messi, against France. Here’s how ...
12.18.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘He Had a Dark Secret. It Changed His Best Friend’s Life.’ “On his first night at the Brooklyn homeless shelter, Tin Chin met his best friend.” So begins an unforgettable story of deceit and friendship, and the loneliness of starting life anew in a foreign country. The journalist Sam Dolnick traces ...
12.16.2022 Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart? This episode contains strong language.In the past few weeks, a major breakthrough in the world of artificial intelligence — ChatGPT — has put extraordinary powers in the hands of anyone with access to the internet. Released by OpenAI, a San ...
12.15.2022 Scenes from a Russian Draft Office This fall, as Russia’s losses mounted in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin announced a draft. Almost immediately, hundreds of thousands of men fled the country, though many more stayed. Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The Times, spoke to Russians at ...
12.14.2022 The Unexpected Ways the Left is Winning in the Abortion Fight When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this year, it appeared to be an unvarnished victory for the anti-abortion movement. But as the year draws to a close, the realities of a post-Roe America are turning out differently than ...
12.13.2022 The Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Germany’s Government Three thousand security officers fanned out across Germany this past week, raiding 150 homes, arresting 25 people and putting more than 50 others under investigation for plotting to overthrow the national government in Berlin. The target of the counterterrorism operation, ...
12.12.2022 How Layoff News Is Hiding a Hot Job Market Companies like Meta and Twitter have said that they will be cutting jobs. Google and Amazon have announced that they are putting a freeze on any new hiring. Are tech layoffs a sign of things to come across other sectors? ...
12.11.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline’ Shortly after the war in Ukraine began, terrified civilians from across the country made their way to their cities’ main train stations. The stations became scenes of great panic, with people jostling to be admitted onto the crowded trains. Compartments ...
12.09.2022 A Court Case That Could Transform Elections On one level, the case brought before the Supreme Court is about gerrymandering. But on a broader level, it’s about a theory that would completely reorient the relationship between the federal and state governments and upset the ordinary checks and ...
12.08.2022 Why Haiti Asked for an Intervention This episode contains descriptions of distressing scenes. Haiti is unraveling. Gangs control much of the capital, thousands have been displaced and hundreds more are dead. In recent weeks, the government has taken the extraordinary step of asking for an armed ...
12.07.2022 When Book Bans Came to Small Town New Jersey This episode contains strong language. In the contentious debate over who controls what happens in America’s schools, a new battleground has emerged: library books. This is the story of what happened when parents in one town in New Jersey tried ...
12.06.2022 The Last Senate Seat Georgia voters are heading to the polls for the final battle of the 2022 midterms — the runoff election between Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, Herschel Walker. Both parties have their own challenges: Republicans have a ...
12.05.2022 Life in Ukraine as Russia Weaponizes Winter For months, the war in Ukraine was about territory as both sides fought to control areas in the country’s south and east. In recent weeks, the war has taken a new turn. Mounting attacks on civilian infrastructure have left people ...
12.04.2022 The Sunday Read: ‘How Noah Baumbach Made “White Noise” a Disaster Movie for Our Moment’ Jon Mooallem met with the director Noah Baumbach to discuss his latest film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise.” The pair explore the recent chain of personal and public events in Baumbach’s life, including the toll of ...
12.02.2022 Who Pays the Bill for Climate Change? Last month at COP27, the U.N. climate change conference, a yearslong campaign ended in an agreement. The rich nations of the world — the ones primarily responsible for the emissions that have caused climate change — agreed to pay into ...
12.01.2022 A Landmark Jan. 6 Verdict In a landmark verdict, a jury convicted Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia, of sedition for his role in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. The charge he faced, seditious conspiracy, is one that ...
11.30.2022 What It’s Like Inside One of China’s Protests Over the weekend, protests against China’s strict coronavirus restrictions ricocheted across the country in a rare case of nationwide civil unrest. It was the most extensive series of protests since the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989. This is ...
11.29.2022 A Secret Campaign to Influence the Supreme Court For the past few months, Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker, investigative reporters for The New York Times, have looked into a secretive, yearslong effort by an anti-abortion activist to influence the justices of the Supreme Court. This is the story ...
11.28.2022 Qatar’s Big Bet on the World Cup The World Cup, the biggest single sporting event on the planet, began earlier this month. By the time the tournament finishes, half the global population is expected to have watched. The 2022 World Cup has also been the focus of ...

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The Daily episodes:

The Sunday Read: ‘Has the Amazon Reached Its “Tipping Point”?’

Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up

An Aggressive New Approach to Childhood Obesity

How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients

What Biden Miscalculated About His Classified Documents

The Debt Ceiling Showdown, Explained

The Sunday Read: ‘Could I Survive the “Quietest Place on Earth”?’

A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly Journey

Why the U.S. Is Sending More Powerful Weapons to Ukraine

The ‘Enemies List’ at Madison Square Garden

China’s Abrupt Reversal of ‘Zero Covid’

The Sunday Read: ‘Risking Everything to Offer Abortion Access Across State Lines’

The Presidents and the Classified Documents

The California Floods

A Jan. 6 Moment for Brazil

The Southwest Airlines Meltdown

Speaker McCarthy. But at What Cost?

The Sunday Read: ‘She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away’

Consider the Burying Beetle. (Or Else.)

The Life and Lies of George Santos

Inside Russia’s Military Catastrophe

A Crisis of Kevin McCarthy’s Own Making

One Man Flees Putin’s Draft: An Update

A Post-Roe America: An Update

A View of the Beginning of Time: An Update

How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union: An Update

On the Road With Ukraine’s Refugees: An Update

A Restaurant Critic (Ours) On the Year That Changed Him Forever

A Crisis in Peru Signals Trouble for South America

The Lives They Lived

A Congressional Call to Prosecute Trump

How This World Cup Changed Soccer

The Sunday Read: ‘He Had a Dark Secret. It Changed His Best Friend’s Life.’

Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart?

Scenes from a Russian Draft Office

The Unexpected Ways the Left is Winning in the Abortion Fight

The Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Germany’s Government

How Layoff News Is Hiding a Hot Job Market

The Sunday Read: ‘Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline’

A Court Case That Could Transform Elections

Why Haiti Asked for an Intervention

When Book Bans Came to Small Town New Jersey

The Last Senate Seat

Life in Ukraine as Russia Weaponizes Winter

The Sunday Read: ‘How Noah Baumbach Made “White Noise” a Disaster Movie for Our Moment’

Who Pays the Bill for Climate Change?

A Landmark Jan. 6 Verdict

What It’s Like Inside One of China’s Protests

A Secret Campaign to Influence the Supreme Court

Qatar’s Big Bet on the World Cup

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