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Going to college can be a shock to most: Leaving the comfort of friends and family for a leap into the unknown, a fresh start. But what is the university experience like as a refugee?
The journalist Maddy Crowell met some of the 148 Afghan women who have been enrolled in U.S...
President Biden’s announcement this week that he would cancel chunks of student loan debt stands to have a major impact for many of the 45 million Americans who owe $1.6 trillion for having gone to college.
Who will benefit from the plan, what will the cost be to the taxpaye...
Daria Dugina and her father, Aleksandr Dugin, have been major figures in the Russian propaganda landscape, advocating Russian imperialism and supporting the invasion of Ukraine.
But a few days ago, Ms. Dugina was killed in a car bomb after leaving a nationalist festival, fue...
Across industries and income brackets, a growing number of American workers are discovering that their productivity is being electronically monitored by their bosses.
This technology is giving employers a means to gauge what their employees are doing and it’s already impacti...
Even as the anti-abortion movement celebrates victories at the Supreme Court and in many states across the country, there is debate about where to go next.
A hard-edge faction is pursuing “abortion abolition,” a move to criminalize abortion from conception, targeting not onl...
For more than 500 days, coal miners in rural Alabama have been on strike. Around 900 workers walked off the job in April 2021, and they haven’t been back since.
As the strike drags on, the miners are discovering that neither political party is willing to fight for them.
For ...
In the past decade, planting trees has come to represent many things: a virtuous act, a practical solution and a symbol of hope in the face of climate change. But can planting a trillion trees really save the world?
Visiting the Eden Reforestation Projects in Goiás, Brazil, ...
What is a black hole? Why do we remember the past but not the future? If time had a beginning, does it have an end?
We don’t have the answers to some of the universe’s biggest questions. What we do know often feels bleak, such as the notion that in a billion years there will...
Last week, the F.B.I. took the extraordinary step of searching Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and Florida home. Their goal? To find materials he was thought to have improperly removed from the White House, including classified documents.
An inven...
Across the United States, airline travel this summer has been roiled by canceled flights, overbooked planes, disappointment and desperation.
Two and a half years after the pandemic began and with restrictions easing, why is flying still such an unpleasant experience?
Guest: ...
One year ago this week, when the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, they promised to institute a modern form of Islamic government that honored women’s rights.
That promise evaporated with a sudden decision to prohibit girls from going to high school, prompting questions...
Carried interest is a loophole in the United States tax code that has stood out for its egregious unfairness and stunning longevity.
Typically, the richest of the rich pay 40 percent tax on their income. The very narrow, select group that benefits from carried interest...
It was a long-shot bet on liquid natural gas, but it paid off handsomely — and turned the United States into a leading fossil-fuel exporter.
The journalist Jake Bittle delves into the storied career of Charif Souki, the Lebanese American entrepreneur whose aptitude for risk ...
Five years ago, after decades of resistance, the Boy Scouts of America made a momentous change, allowing girls to participate. Since then, tens of thousands have joined.
Today we revisit a story, first aired in 2017, about 10-year-old twins deciding which group to join, and ...
This episode contains strong language and descriptions of an abortion.
With the end of Roe v. Wade, Louisiana has become one of the most difficult places in the United States to get an abortion. The barriers are expected to disproportionately affect Black women, the largest ...
On Monday, federal agents descended on Mar-a-Lago, the private club and Florida home of former President Donald J. Trump, reportedly looking for classified documents and presidential papers.
Trump supporters expressed outrage about the agency’s actions, while many Democrats ...
This weekend, Democrats passed legislation that would make historic investments to fight climate change and lower the cost of prescription drugs — paid for by raising taxes on businesses.
How did the party finally make progress on the bill, and what effects will it have?
Gue...
This episode contains descriptions of distressing scenes.
In a landmark ruling, a jury in Texas ordered Alex Jones, America’s most prominent conspiracy theorist, to pay millions of dollars to the parents of a boy killed at Sandy Hook for the damage caused by his lies a...
The more he insisted that his name was Joshua, the more delusional he came to be seen.
Journalist Robert Kolker tells us the remarkable story of Joshua Spriestersbach, a homeless man who wound up serving more than two years in a Honolulu jail for crimes committed by someone ...
Charles Falls Jr., known as Chillie, loves to take cruises. But Covid, as it has done for so many, left him marooned at home in Virginia.
As he told Cristal Duhaime, a producer at the Times podcast First Person, as soon as restrictions eased, he eagerly planned a return to t...
This episode contains mention of sexual assault.
Kansas this week became the first U.S. state since the fall of Roe v. Wade to put the question of abortion directly to the electorate.
The result was resounding. Voters chose overwhelmingly to preserve abortion rights, a...
Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries this year to an unusual degree, attempting to elevate extremist candidates who they think will be easy to defeat in midterms in the fall.
Nowhere has that strategy been more divisive than in the election for a House seat in Mich...
On Monday, President Biden announced that the United States had killed Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike in Afghanistan.
Al-Zawahri was the leader of Al Qaeda. A long time number two to Osama bin Laden and the intellectual spine of the terrorist group, he assumed powe...
In mid-June, cases of monkeypox were in the double digits in the United States. There were drug treatments and vaccines against it. There didn’t seem to be any reason for alarm.
But in the weeks since, the virus has spread rapidly across the country, with some local and stat...
For generations, America’s major publishers focused almost entirely on white readers. Now a new cadre of executives is trying to open up the industry.
The journalist Marcela Valdes spent a year reporting on what she described as “the problematic history of diversity in book ...
For decades, Republicans have sought to make gains with a critical voting block: Latinos.
Last month, when Mayra Flores was elected to Congress from Texas, she finally showed them a way to gain that support. Today, we explore what her campaign tells us about the future of th...
To fight historic levels of inflation, the Federal Reserve this week, once again, raised interest rates, its most powerful weapon against rising prices.
The move was intended to slow demand, but there was also a psychological factor: If consumers become convinced that inflat...
This episode contains details of alleged sexual assault.
In the past year, more than 20 women have accused the star N.F.L. quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct.
Despite the allegations, Watson has signed one of the most lucrative contracts in the history of ...
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Democrats introduced a bill to prevent the right to gay marriage from meeting the same fate as the right to abortion.
The bill was expected to go nowhere, but it has won more and more Republican support and now seems to have a narrow path to...
Born in response to the 2008 financial crisis, cryptocurrency was supposed be a form of money that eliminated the traditional gatekeepers who had overseen the tanking of the economy.
But a crash in value recently has raised questions about cryptocurrency’s central promise.
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