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01.24.2020

Three Rust Belt swing states are critical to winning the presidency this year — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, there is one issue that could be decisive: fracking natural gas. Opposition to fracking could be fatal for a candidate ...

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01.24.2020 The Swing Issue That Could Win a Swing State Three Rust Belt swing states are critical to winning the presidency this year — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, there is one issue that could be decisive: fracking natural gas. Opposition to fracking could be fatal for a candidate ...
01.23.2020 Harry and Meghan. (And Why Their Saga Matters.) In a moment of national insecurity, with the future of the United Kingdom seemingly hanging in the balance, a new royal couple offered the vision of a unified, progressive future. But the same forces that pushed for Britain to leave ...
01.23.2020 The Latest: ‘Let Us Begin’ Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial are underway. For House impeachment managers, that means an opportunity to formally make their case, uninterrupted, for three straight days. For President Trump’s lawyers and Republican allies, that means three straight days of ...
01.22.2020 The Moderates’ Impeachment Moment After nearly 12 hours of vicious debate, the Senate voted early Wednesday to adopt the rules that will govern the rest of the impeachment trial. But in a Republican-controlled chamber, why weren’t they the rules that Senator Mitch McConnell, the ...
01.21.2020 Lessons From the Last Impeachment Trial As President Trump’s impeachment trial resumes this afternoon, we look back two decades to a time when Google was in its infancy, Y2K was stoking anxiety and partisanship in Congress was not quite so entrenched. That year, 1999, was the ...
01.17.2020 Bernie's Big Bet The Obama coalition has become almost mythic within the Democratic Party for having united first-time voters, people of color and moderates to win the presidency in 2008. This year, Senator Bernie Sanders is betting that he can win with the ...
01.16.2020 The Impeachment Trial Begins The impeachment trial of President Trump begins this morning. Today, we answer all of your questions about what will happen next — including how it will work and what is likely to happen. Guest: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for ...
01.15.2020 The Russian Hacking Plan for 2020 At the heart of President Trump’s impeachment is his request that Ukraine investigate how his political rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., could be connected to an energy company called Burisma. New reporting from The Times suggests that ...
01.14.2020 The Escape of Carlos Ghosn Carlos Ghosn’s trial was poised to be one of the most closely watched in Japanese history — a case involving claims of corporate greed, wounded national pride and a rigged legal system. Then the former Nissan chief pulled off an ...
01.13.2020 Why Australia Is Burning Wildfires are devastating Australia, incinerating an area roughly the size of West Virginia and killing 24 people and as many as half a billion animals. Today, we look at the human and environmental costs of the disaster, its connection to ...
01.10.2020 The Case Against Harvey Weinstein, Part 2 Note: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence. Yesterday on “The Daily,” we heard the story of Lucia Evans, whose allegation of sexual violence against Harvey Weinstein helped launch his criminal trial in New York. After Ms. Evans was dropped ...
01.09.2020 The Case Against Harvey Weinstein, Part 1 Note: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence. The story of Harvey Weinstein is a story of patterns. Scores of women — more than 80 — have given eerily similar accounts of abuse and harassment by the powerful movie mogul. ...
01.08.2020 Pelosi’s Impeachment Gamble John R. Bolton, the former White House national security adviser, has announced that he is willing to give evidence in the impeachment trial of President Trump. The question is: Will the Senate — and the majority leader, Mitch McConnell — ...
01.07.2020 Why Iran Is in Mourning The killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most formidable military and intelligence leader, displayed the fault lines in a fractious region. From Iraq to Israel, many victims of the commander’s shadow warfare celebrated his death; but in Tehran, thousands ...
01.06.2020 The Killing of General Qassim Suleimani Iran has promised “severe revenge” against the United States for the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani. But what made the high-ranking military leader an American target in the first place? Guest: Helene Cooper, who covers the Pentagon for The ...
01.03.2020 Boeing’s Broken Dreams This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of 2019 and checking in on what has happened since they first appeared. Today, we return to our conversation with the whistle-blower John Barnett, known as Swampy, about what ...
01.02.2020 The President and the Publisher This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of 2019 and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. Today, we return to the exclusive interview in the Oval Office between the publisher of ...
12.31.2019 Our Fear Facer Makes a New Friend This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since they appeared. Today, we introduce Ella Maners, 9, from our kids’ episode on facing fears, to Barbara Greenman, ...
12.30.2019 Haunted by the Ghost of Michael Jackson This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. Today, we talk to our critic about his reckoning with abuse allegations against Michael ...
12.27.2019 'There's No Going Back' This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. Today: the unexpected story of how family history websites have been used by law ...
12.26.2019 Impeachment Through the Eyes of a Child This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. After we sat down with Leo, a third grader, to talk about the impeachment ...
12.24.2019 By Challenging Evangelicals, She Changed Them This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. Today, we return to the story of Rachel Held Evans and speak to her ...
12.23.2019 Year in Sound Our first episode of 2019 opened the year with a question: “What will Democrats do with their new power?” One of our last offered the answer: “impeach the president.” This audio time capsule captures the weeks in between — a ...
12.20.2019 The Candidates: Joe Biden He built a career, and a presidential campaign, on a belief in bipartisanship. Now, critics of the candidate ask: Is political consensus a dangerous compromise? In Part 4 of our series on pivotal moments in the lives of the 2020 ...
12.19.2019 The Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump The House of Representatives has impeached President Trump, charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. We traveled to Michigan to understand how a fractious Democratic Party ultimately united around impeachment, having started the year divided over the ...
12.18.2019 The Latest: Impeachment Vote Update, 5:30 P.M. Eastern The House is expected to vote tonight along party lines to impeach the president. But before that can take place, there must be speeches — lots of them. These speeches are the last chance lawmakers have to get their words ...
12.18.2019 A Fight Over How to Fight Anti-Semitism President Trump has issued an executive order cracking down on anti-Semitism. But some Jewish Americans fear that the plan could end up deepening prejudice instead of curbing it. Guest: Max Fisher, a Times international reporter and columnist for The Interpreter. ...
12.18.2019 The Latest: The Rules House members are preparing for a vote on two articles of impeachment against President Trump, while their counterparts gear up for the next phase: a trial in the Senate. As the impeachment process moves from a Democratic-controlled chamber to one ...
12.17.2019 Switching Sides in Britain To pull off its landslide victory in last week’s election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party flipped dozens of districts in the “red wall” of British politics — a gritty stronghold of coal and factory towns that had supported the ...
12.16.2019 A Secret History of the War in Afghanistan For nearly two decades, U.S. government officials crafted a careful story of progress to justify their ongoing military campaign in Afghanistan. Newly disclosed documents reveal to what extent that story was not the reality of the war. Today, one former ...
12.13.2019 The Latest: Country Over Party As the House Judiciary Committee pushed toward a historic vote to send two articles of impeachment to the full House, lawmakers made their final appeals to the other side. Democrats implored committee members to vote with their conscience and put ...
12.13.2019 The Candidates: Elizabeth Warren In Part 3 of our series on pivotal moments in the lives of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, we spoke with Elizabeth Warren about how she came to be known as the blow-it-up candidate. With help from Andrew Ross Sorkin, ...
12.12.2019 The Fate of Boris and Brexit Britain is voting in a general election today. During his re-election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson hitched his re-election campaign to a promise to “get Brexit done” — while selling bankers and blue-collar workers two very different visions for the ...
12.11.2019 The Articles of Impeachment House Democratic leaders have introduced two articles of impeachment against President Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. But they did not include obstruction of justice. In today’s episode, we delve into the unseen fight among Democrats over whether ...
12.10.2019 ‘Absolutely No Mercy’ A trove of private government documents offers an unprecedented look inside China’s highly organized crackdown on Uighur Muslims — revealing Beijing’s systematic detention of as many as one million people in camps and prisons over the past three years. In ...
12.10.2019 The Latest: The Mueller Question To mention the Mueller report in articles of impeachment against President Trump, or not? That’s the question Democrats have been asking. Today’s impeachment hearing before the House Judiciary Committee gave us a clue about which way they’re leaning. “The Latest” ...
12.09.2019 A Woman’s Journey Through China’s Detention Camps A last-minute booking, a furtive cab ride and a spy in the window. For the past year, Paul Mozur has been investigating the story of a son determined to free his mother from a repressive system of detention and surveillance ...
12.06.2019 The Candidates: Bernie Sanders Today: Part 2 of our series on pivotal moments in the lives of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. Michael Barbaro speaks with Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist senator from Vermont. Mr. Sanders reflected on his early schooling in politics and ...
12.06.2019 The Latest: ‘Do You Hate the President?’ Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this morning that the House of Representatives would draft articles of impeachment against President Trump. But what our colleague found most striking today happened a few hours later, when a reporter for a conservative television network ...
12.05.2019 America’s Education Problem For decades, the U.S. spent billions of dollars trying to close its education gap with the rest of the world. New data shows that all that money made little difference. Today, we investigate how that could be. Guest: Dana Goldstein, ...
12.05.2019 The Latest: But Is It Impeachable? The House Judiciary Committee opened a new phase of the impeachment inquiry by tackling a fundamental constitutional question: What is an impeachable offense? All the witnesses testifying in today’s hearing were in agreement, except one. “The Latest” is a new ...
12.04.2019 A Louder, Messier Phase of Impeachment The House Intelligence Committee has released its impeachment report to the Judiciary Committee, signaling the end of one phase of impeachment and the beginning of another. Today, we break down the report and explore why those two phases will look ...
12.03.2019 A Deadly Crackdown in Iran Behind the curtain of an internet blackout, the Islamic Republic’s security forces have killed at least 180 unarmed protesters. Natalie Kitroeff speaks to Farnaz Fassihi about Iran’s deadliest political unrest in decades and why the United States wanted that unrest ...
12.02.2019 Why So Many Hospitals Are Suing Their Patients For decades, hospitals could assume that patients with jobs and health insurance would pay their medical bills. That’s no longer the case. We speak to one woman about her skyrocketing medical costs — and the aggressive new way hospitals are ...
11.28.2019 The Jungle Prince, Chapter 3: A House in Yorkshire In a ruined palace in the woods, rummaging through discarded papers, our reporter finds a clue. For more information, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
11.28.2019 The Jungle Prince, Chapter 2: The Hunting Lodge “Ellen, have you been trying to get in touch with the royal family of Oudh?” Our reporter receives an invitation to the forest. For more information, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
11.28.2019 The Jungle Prince, Chapter 1: The Railway Station The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be ...
11.27.2019 What the Bidens Actually Did in Ukraine Yesterday, we looked at the origins of President Trump’s baseless theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 election. This theory inspired one of the two investigations he sought from Ukraine that triggered the impeachment inquiry. Today, we look ...
11.26.2019 Why Trump Still Believes (Wrongly) That Ukraine Hacked the D.N.C. In the phone call at the center of the impeachment inquiry, President Trump asked Ukraine for two different investigations. Today, we explore the unexpected story behind one of them. Guest: Scott Shane, a national security reporter in the Washington bureau ...
11.25.2019 What Should Happen to the Navy SEAL Chief? An unusual battle has broken out between President Trump and top military commanders over the future of a Navy SEAL commando. Today, how a high-profile war-crimes investigation has prompted a war of words from the commander in chief — rocking ...

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The Daily episodes:

The Swing Issue That Could Win a Swing State

Harry and Meghan. (And Why Their Saga Matters.)

The Latest: ‘Let Us Begin’

The Moderates’ Impeachment Moment

Lessons From the Last Impeachment Trial

Bernie's Big Bet

The Impeachment Trial Begins

The Russian Hacking Plan for 2020

The Escape of Carlos Ghosn

Why Australia Is Burning

The Case Against Harvey Weinstein, Part 2

The Case Against Harvey Weinstein, Part 1

Pelosi’s Impeachment Gamble

Why Iran Is in Mourning

The Killing of General Qassim Suleimani

Boeing’s Broken Dreams

The President and the Publisher

Our Fear Facer Makes a New Friend

Haunted by the Ghost of Michael Jackson

'There's No Going Back'

Impeachment Through the Eyes of a Child

By Challenging Evangelicals, She Changed Them

Year in Sound

The Candidates: Joe Biden

The Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump

The Latest: Impeachment Vote Update, 5:30 P.M. Eastern

A Fight Over How to Fight Anti-Semitism

The Latest: The Rules

Switching Sides in Britain

A Secret History of the War in Afghanistan

The Latest: Country Over Party

The Candidates: Elizabeth Warren

The Fate of Boris and Brexit

The Articles of Impeachment

‘Absolutely No Mercy’

The Latest: The Mueller Question

A Woman’s Journey Through China’s Detention Camps

The Candidates: Bernie Sanders

The Latest: ‘Do You Hate the President?’

America’s Education Problem

The Latest: But Is It Impeachable?

A Louder, Messier Phase of Impeachment

A Deadly Crackdown in Iran

Why So Many Hospitals Are Suing Their Patients

The Jungle Prince, Chapter 3: A House in Yorkshire

The Jungle Prince, Chapter 2: The Hunting Lodge

The Jungle Prince, Chapter 1: The Railway Station

What the Bidens Actually Did in Ukraine

Why Trump Still Believes (Wrongly) That Ukraine Hacked the D.N.C.

What Should Happen to the Navy SEAL Chief?

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