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President Biden’s plans for curbing the most devastating impacts of a changing climate are ambitious.
His administration is not only planning a sharp U-turn from the previous White House — former President Donald Trump openly mocked the science behind human-caused climate ch...
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GameStop can feel like a retailer from a bygone era. But last week, it was dragged back into the zeitgeist when it became the center of an online war between members of an irreverent Reddit subforum and hedge funds — one that left Wall ...
“Smell is a startling superpower,” writes Brooke Jarvis, the author of today’s Sunday Read. “If you weren’t used to it, it would seem like witchcraft.”
For hundreds of years, smell has been disregarded. Most adults in a 2019 survey ranked it as the least important sense; and...
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Inauguration Day was supposed to bring vindication for adherents of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon.
Instead, they watched as Joe Biden took the oath as the 46th president of the United States.
What happens to a conspiracy t...
As Democrats and Republicans haggled over how to share power in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, made one key demand: Do not touch the filibuster rule.
Today, we explore the mechanics and history of the rule and look ahead at its fate.
Guest: Julie Hir...
The number of new coronavirus cases in the United States is falling, but has the country turned a corner in the pandemic? And what kind of threats do the new variants pose to people and to the vaccine rollout?
Today, we discuss the latest in the quest to stamp out the pandem...
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In many instances while advising the Trump administration on the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci was faced with a “difficult” situation. Yet he said he had never considered quitting.
What was it like working under President Donald J. Trump?...
The Russian activist Aleksei Navalny has spent years agitating against corruption, and against President Vladimir Putin.
Last summer he was poisoned with a rare nerve agent linked to the Russian state. Last week, after recovering in Germany, he returned to Moscow. He w...
The cultural history of clouds seemed to be shaped by amateurs — the likes of Luke Howard and the Honorable Ralph Abercromby — each of whom projected the ethos of his particular era onto those billowing blank slates in the troposphere. Gavin Pretor-Pinney was our era’s.
On t...
Within hours of assuming the presidency, President Biden signed a flurry of executive orders. He rejoined the Paris climate agreement, repealed the so-called Muslim travel ban and mandated the wearing of masks on federal property.
The actions had a theme: They either reverse...
Unity was the byword of President Biden’s Inaugural Address.
The speech was an attempt to turn the page. But can this be achieved without, as many in the Democratic coalition believe, a full reckoning with and accountability of how America got to this point of division?
Toda...
Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States today. Among Democrats, there is a sense of joy and hope, but also of caution and concern.
We speak with a range of Mr. Biden’s supporters, including activists who had originally hoped for a more progressi...
Polling in the days since the storming of the Capitol paints a complex picture. While most Americans do not support the riot, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Trump bears responsibility. And over 70 percent of them say they believe that there was wides...
Most Americans treat climate change seriously but not literally — they accept the science, worry about forecasts but tell themselves that someone else will get serious about fixing the problem very soon.
The Valve Turners, on the other hand, take climate change both very ser...
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Three days after being sworn into Congress, Representative Peter Meijer, Republican of Michigan, was sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives as pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol.
After the siege, Mr. Meijer made...
“A clear and present danger.” Those were the words used by Nancy Pelosi to describe President Trump, and the main thrust of the Democrats’ arguments for impeachment on the House floor.
While most House Republicans lined up against the move, this impeachment, unlike the last,...
After the attack on the Capitol, social media platforms sprang into action, deleting the accounts of agitators.
Without a central place to congregate, groups have splintered off into other, darker corners of the internet. That could complicate the efforts of law enforcement ...
At the heart of the move to impeach President Trump is a relatively simple accusation: that he incited a violent insurrection against the government of the United States.
We look at the efforts to punish the president for the attack on the Capitol and explain what the impeac...
As 2020 drew to a close, a concerning development in the pandemic came out of Britain — a new variant of the coronavirus had been discovered that is significantly more transmissible. It has since been discovered in a number of countries, including the United States.
The emer...
Without many predators or any prey, rhinos flourished for millions of years. Humans put an end to that, as we hunted them down and destroyed their habitat.
No rhino, however, is doing worse than the northern white. Just two, Najin and Fatu, both females, remain.
In his narra...
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The pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday made their plans in plain sight. They organized on social media platforms and spoke openly of their intentions to occupy the Capitol.
But leaders in Washington opted for a modest ...
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It was always going to be a tense day in Washington. In the baseless campaign to challenge Joe Biden’s victory, Wednesday had been framed by President Trump and his allies as the moment for a final stand.
But what unfolded was disturbin...
The long fight for control of the U.S. Senate is drawing to a close in Georgia, and the Democrats appear set to win out — the Rev. Raphael Warnock is the projected winner of his race against Senator Kelly Loeffler, while Jon Ossoff is heavily favored to beat the other incumb...
Since the presidential election was called for Joe Biden, President Trump has relentlessly attacked the integrity of the count in Georgia. He has floated conspiracy theories to explain away his loss and attacked Republican officials.
Today, we speak to Republican activists a...
A strong Black turnout will be integral to Democratic success in the U.S. Senate races in Georgia this week.
In the first of a two-part examination of election strategies in the Georgia runoffs, we sit down with Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democrat who has become synonymous 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.
When Alaska was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1964, it was the voice of Genie Chance — a journalist, wife and mother — tha...
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.
Scott Watson — a Black police officer in his hometown, Flint, Mich. — has worked to become a pillar of the community. And he al...
This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes from this year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran.
In our society, the public part of mourning is ritualized by a coming together. What do we do now that the opportunity for collec...
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.
When Jack Nicas, a technology reporter for The Times, first moved to California five years ago, he set about finding a local ba...
The escapism of movies took on a new importance during pandemic isolation. Caity Weaver, the author of this week’s Sunday Read, says that to properly embrace this year’s cinematic achievements, the Academy Awards should not only hand out accolades to new releases, but also t...
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