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29 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘How Long Can We Live?’

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Jeanne Calment lived her entire life in the South of France. She filled her days with leisurely pursuits, enjoying a glass of port, a cigarette and some chocolate nearly every day. In 1997, Ms. Calment died. She was 122. With medical and social advances mitigating diseases o...

The Daily
27 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Bombings at the Kabul Airport

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For days, many dreaded an attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, as Western forces scrambled to evacuate tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan. On Thursday, those fears were realized — amid the large crowds outside the airport, terrorists carried out t...

The Daily
26 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Biden’s Border Dilemma

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Early on in the Biden administration, it rolled out a two-pronged migration plan: A reversal of the most punitive elements of Donald Trump’s policy and rooting out the causes of migration from Central America, namely corruption. There is, however, a conflict at the heart of ...

The Daily
25 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Race to Evacuate Kabul

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Since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban last week, everything and everyone has been focused on Hamid Karzai International Airport and the massive military operation to get thousands of Americans and Afghan allies out of the country. It is a monumental challenge — one of the b...

The Daily
24 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Why Mexico Is Suing U.S. Gunmakers

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For years, Mexico has been gripped by horrific violence as drug cartels battle each other and kill civilians. In the last 15 years alone, homicides have tripled. The violence, the Mexican government says, is fueled, in part, by American guns. Now Mexico is bringing a l...

The Daily
23 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Children and Covid: Your Questions, Answered

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As the number of coronavirus infections in the United States surges, and school districts begin to reopen for in-person learning, some parents are apprehensive and full of questions. Recently, The Daily asked parents to send in their queries about children and Covid. We rece...

The Daily
22 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘The Case of the Vanishing Jungle’

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In 2002, a survey revealed there were just 1.6 Sumatran tigers per 100 square kilometers in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, one of the last habitats for the critically endangered animal. In the fall of 2015, however, research suggested that the numbers had significantly...

The Daily
20 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Why Apple Is About To Search Your Files

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Two years ago, a multipart Times investigation highlighted an epidemic of child sexual abuse material which relied on platforms run by the world’s largest technology companies. Last week, Apple revealed its solution — a suite of tools which includes an update to the iPhone’s...

The Daily
19 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Interpreters the U.S. Left Behind in Afghanistan

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This episode contains strong language. Weeks ago, as the Taliban undertook a major military offensive in Afghanistan, the U.S. accelerated its evacuation of Afghans who aided them and feared retribution. Many, however, remain in the country. “I hope we do right b...

The Daily
18 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

A Devastating Earthquake in Haiti

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This weekend, a major earthquake hit Haiti. It is the second crisis to befall the Caribbean nation is just over a month — its president was assassinated in July. The earthquake’s aftermath has been dire, with little help getting through to those most affected. We hear ...

The Daily
17 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

America’s Miscalculations, Afghanistan’s Collapse

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The last few days in Afghanistan have been chaotic as the Taliban retake control of the country. The debacle can be traced to a number of assumptions that guided the execution of the U.S. withdrawal from the country after two decades of war. How could those assumptions have ...

The Daily
16 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Fall of Afghanistan

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This episode contains strong language. On Sunday, the president of Afghanistan fled the country; the Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital; and the American-backed government collapsed. One outspoken critic of the Taliban — a 33-year-old Kabul resident who asked...

The Daily
15 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?’

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In 2019, Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, began communicating with Yutico Briley, an inmate at a prison in Jackson, La. Mr. Briley first reached out to Ms. Bazelon after hearing her on the radio talking about “Charges,” her book on how prosecuto...

The Daily
13 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

A ‘Code Red for Humanity’

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This episode contains strong language. A major new United Nations scientific report has concluded that countries and corporations have delayed curbing fossil-fuel emissions for so long that we can no longer stop the impact of climate change from intensifying over...

The Daily
12 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

How Washington Now Works

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On Tuesday, the United States Senate approved a $1 trillion infrastructure bill — the largest single infusion of federal funds into infrastructure projects in more than a decade. It was a bipartisan vote, with 19 Republicans voting alongside the Democrats. Soon after, ...

The Daily
11 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Resignation of Andrew Cuomo

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced yesterday that he would resign from office, exactly one week after a searing report found that he sexually harassed 11 women. What convinced him to step aside, how did the scandal bring about such a rapid and astonishing reversal of...

The Daily
10 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Taliban’s Advance

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The Taliban have made big moves in the last few days in their bid to take control of Afghanistan. This weekend, they seized several cities and suddenly claimed a lot of the north. On Monday, they took another provincial capital. What is the Taliban’s strategy, wh...

The Daily
09 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Back to School Amid the Delta Variant

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To ensure students’ safe return to in-person learning amid a surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus, some school districts plan to institute mask mandates. Yet that move isn’t necessarily straightforward — several of the country’s hardest-hit states have banned such m...

The Daily
08 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘The Man Who Filed More Than 180 Disability Lawsuits’

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For much of America’s history, a person with a disability had few civil rights related to their disability. That began to change when, in the 1980s, a group of lawmakers started to agitate for sweeping civil rights legislation. The result of their efforts was the Americans W...

The Daily
06 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Voices of the Unvaccinated

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Don, a 38-year-old single father from Pittsburgh, doesn’t want to be lumped into the “crazy anti-vax crowd.” Jeannie, a middle school teacher, has never vaccinated her teenage son and says she won’t start now. Lyndsey, from Florida, regrets having not had her late grandmothe...

The Daily
05 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The End of Andrew Cuomo?

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This episode contains descriptions of sexual harassment. After accusations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York surfaced early this year, an independent investigation was begun. And while people around the governor — and his critics — expected the ensui...

The Daily
04 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Trouble in Tunisia

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Tunisia was supposed to be the success story of the Arab Spring — the only democracy to last in the decade since revolutions swept the region. Recently, after mass protests, President Kais Saied appears to be taking the reins of power for himself. What happened? We hear from...

The Daily
03 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

Stories From the Great American Labor Shortage

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This episode contains strong language. Bartenders, sous chefs, wait staff — at the moment, managers in the U.S. hospitality industry are struggling to fill a range of roles at their establishments. Managers blame pandemic unemployment benefits for the dearth of talent....

The Daily
02 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

A New Chapter of the Coronavirus

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Recent data from the C.D.C. has found that not only can vaccinated people get infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus, though instances are rare, but they also can potentially spread the virus just as much as an unvaccinated person. What are the practical implicat...

The Daily
01 Aug 2021 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘Is There a Right Way to Act Blind?’

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Activists slammed the TV show “In the Dark” for casting a sighted actress in a blind lead role. But what if blindness is a performance of its own?

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The Daily
31 Jul 2021 • The New York Times

From Opinion: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Story We Tell About America

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You’ve heard the 1619 podcast right here on The Daily. And we’ve covered the backlash to the 1619 Project and the battle over critical race theory that followed. In this interview, Ezra Klein, an Opinion columnist at The New York Times and host of The Ezra Klein Show, speaks...

The Daily
30 Jul 2021 • The New York Times

The Story of Simone Biles

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This episode contains mentions of sexual abuse. Simone Biles, 24, showed up on the national stage at 16, when she competed in and won the national championships. She equally impressed at her first Olympics, in 2016 in Rio. Going into the Tokyo Games this year, Ms. Biles — wh...

The Daily
29 Jul 2021 • The New York Times

Why Is China Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal?

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For decades, nuclear weapons did not figure prominently in China’s military planning. However, recent satellite images suggest that the country may be looking to quintuple its nuclear arsenal. Why is China changing strategy now? Guest: David E. Sanger, a White House an...

The Daily
28 Jul 2021 • The New York Times

The Saga of Congress’s Jan. 6 Investigation

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This episode contains strong language. The first hearing of the special congressional committee on the Jan. 6 riots was an emotional affair, but it was not quite the investigation that was originally envisaged. In January, lawmakers on both sides spoke of putting aside parti...

The Daily
27 Jul 2021 • The New York Times

The Vaccine Mandate Conundrum

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In the effort to raise America’s vaccination rate, some agencies and private organizations have turned to the last, and most controversial, weapon in the public health arsenal: vaccine mandates. How have the federal government and the White House approached the issue? Guest:...