Warning: This episode contains strong language and racial slurs.

For decades, Black Americans formed the backbone of the Democratic Party, voting by overwhelming margins for Democratic candidates. While most Black voters are expected to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris, polls suggest that support for her might be softening, particularly among Black men.

Sabrina Tavernise travels to Georgia, a key swing state, with two “Daily” producers, Lynsea Garrison and Sydney Harper, to speak with one family about their experiences through the decades.

Guest: 

• Sabrina Tavernise, co-host of “The Daily.”
• Lynsea Garrison, a producer on “The Daily.”
• Sydney Harper, a producer on “The Daily.”

Background reading: 

• Some Black voters have drifted from Democrats, imperiling Ms. Harris’s bid, a poll showed.
• As Black voters appear to hesitate on their support, Democrats race to win them over.

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In the final week of the race for president, Donald J. Trump’s big rally in New York appeared to backfire, while Kamala Harris’s closing message cast her as a unifier. Fears about election interference also resurfaced after arsonists burned ballots in three states.

The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher and Astead Herndon try to make sense of it all.

Guest: 

• Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.
• Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.
• Astead W. Herndon, a national politics reporter and the host of the politics podcast “The Run-Up.”

Background reading: 

• Trump at the Garden: A closing carnival of grievances, misogyny and racism.
• Michelle Obama made a searing appeal to men: “Take our lives seriously.”
• Investigators have identified a “suspect vehicle” in the ballot drop box fires in the Pacific Northwest.

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If Donald J. Trump wins next week’s election, it will be in large part because voters embraced his message that the U.S. immigration system is broken.

David Leonhardt, a senior writer at The New York Times, tells the surprising story of how that system came to be.

Guest: David Leonhardt, a senior writer at The New York Times who runs The Morning.

Background reading: 

• Whoever wins the election, seeking asylum in the United States may never be the same.
• For people fleeing war, the U.S. immigration fight has real-life consequences.

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The presidential campaign is in its final week and one thing remains true: the election is probably going to come down to a handful of voters in a swing states.

Jessica Cheung,  a producer for “The Daily,” and Jonathan Swan, a reporter covering politics for The Times, take us inside Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign to win over those voters.

Guest: 

• Jessica Cheung, a senior producer of “The Daily.”
• Jonathan Swan, a reporter covering politics and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• In Arizona, many Latino families are divided about the 2024 election.
• The electorate has rarely seemed so evenly divided. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll found Harris and Trump tied at 48 to 48 percent.

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If you take a journey deep within Netflix’s furthest recesses — burrow past Binge-worthy TV Dramas and 1980s Action Thrillers, take a left at Because You Watched the Lego Batman Movie, keep going past Fright Night — you will eventually find your way to the platform’s core, the forgotten layers of content fossilized by the pressure from the accreted layers above.

Netflix’s vast library changed the business of television — in part by making a better product and showing the rest of the industry that it had to follow suit — but it also changed the very nature of television.

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Throughout this election, one state has been at the center of every imaginable path to victory: Pennsylvania. Both candidates have campaigned there relentlessly, and both parties have spent more money there than in any other state.

Campbell Robertson, who has been reporting from Pennsylvania, discusses the shift that is reshaping the map in Pennsylvania. 

Guest: Campbell Robertson, a reporter for the National desk at The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• Inside the battle for America’s most consequential battleground state.
• Small-town Pennsylvania is changing, and Democrats see opportunity.

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With less than two weeks to go in the race for the presidency, Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff is warning that he met the definition of a fascist, Kamala Harris is seizing on the message of Mr. Trump as a threat to democracy and Mr. Trump himself is relying on viral stunts and vulgarity to break through to undecided voters.

The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Michael S. Schmidt, Lisa Lerer, Reid J. Epstein and Nate Cohn try to make sense of it all.

Guests: 

• Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, covering Washington
• Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.
• Reid J. Epstein, a New York Times reporter covering politics.
• Nate Cohn, the chief political analyst for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.
• Harris called Mr. Trump’s reported remarks on Hitler and Nazis “deeply troubling.”
• A look at the polls: A slight shift toward Mr. Trump but still no clear favorite.

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A stark new gender divide has formed among the country’s youngest voters. Young men have drifted toward Donald Trump, while young women are surging toward Kamala Harris.

As a result, men and women under 30, once similar in their politics, are now farther apart than any other generation of voters.

Claire Cain Miller, a reporter who covers gender for The New York Times, discusses a divide that is defining this election.

Guest: Claire Cain Miller, a reporter for The New York Times covering gender, families and education.

Background reading: 

• How the last eight years made young women more liberal.
• Many Gen Z men feel left behind. Some see Trump as an answer.

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Warning: this episode contains descriptions of a mental health crisis and violence.

This Election Day, recreational marijuana could become legal across more than half of the United States. But as more Americans consume more potent forms of the drug more often, a Times investigation has revealed that some of the heaviest users are experiencing serious and unexpected harms to their health.

Megan Twohey, an investigative reporter for The Times, explains what she found.

Guest: Megan Twohey, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• As America’s marijuana use grows, so do the harms.
• Stories of marijuana’s little-known risks.
• Trump signals support for marijuana legalization in Florida.

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