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2311 episodes transcribedIt’s a big week in the Senate for voting rights. Democrats have two bills that include measures to bolster and protect elections.But the bills are alm...
Four years ago, Azmat Khan, an investigative reporter for The Times Magazine, told us the story of Basim Razzo, whose entire family was killed in a U....
Elizabeth Weil, the author of today’s Sunday Read, writes that, in her marriage, there was a silent third spouse: California.“The state was dramatic a...
Sidney Poitier, who was Hollywood’s first Black matinee idol and who helped open the door for Black actors in the film industry, died last week. He wa...
As the highly infectious Omicron variant surged, a high-stakes battle played out between Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and the city’s teachers’ unio...
The diplomatic talks in Geneva this week are of a kind not seen in a long time: an effort to defuse the possibility of a major war in Europe.President...
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has a reputation for causing mild illness, yet it’s fueling a staggering rise in hospitalizations across the c...
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was muted. Instead of a celebrity-filled evening, broadcast on NBC, the results were live tweeted from a room in th...
In her new book, “The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change,” Pauline Boss considers what it means to reach “emotional clos...
After the election on Nov. 3, 2020, President J. Donald Trump and his allies tested the limits of the U.S. election system, launching pressure and leg...
This episode contains strong language. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming was the only Republican leader call...
Who exactly joined the mob that, almost a year ago, on Jan. 6, breached the walls of the U.S. Capitol in a bid to halt the certification of President...
About a decade ago, companies began offering pregnant women tests that promised to detect rare genetic disorders in their fetuses.The tests initially...
The Omicron variant is fueling record-breaking cases across the world and disrupting life. But it may not present as great a danger of hospitalization...
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.Wit...
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.The...
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.Thi...
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.Whe...
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.Thi...
A year that started with the mass introduction of Covid vaccines and the astonishing scenes of rioting at the Capitol is ending with concern about new...
