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24 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital: An Update

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This episode contains strong language. 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 New York City was the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., Sheri Fink, ...

The Daily
23 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The Year in Good News

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A few weeks ago, we put a callout on The Daily, asking people to send in their good news from a particularly bleak year. The response was overwhelming. Audio messages poured into our inboxes from around the world, with multiple emails arriving every minute. There was a man w...

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22 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The Lives They Lived

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It is a very human thing, at the end of a year, to stop and take stock. Part of that involves acknowledging that some remarkable people who were here in 2020 will be not joining us in 2021. Today, we take a moment to honor the lives of four of those people. And in marveling ...

The Daily
21 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Delilah

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The radio host Delilah has been on the air for more than 40 years. She takes calls from listeners across the United States, as they open up about their heavy hearts, their hopes and the important people in their lives. She tells callers that they’re loved, and then she plays...

The Daily
20 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'The Movement to Bring Death Closer'

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“If death practices reveal a culture’s values,” writes Maggie Jones, the author of today’s Sunday Read, “we choose convenience, outsourcing, an aversion to knowing or seeing too much.” Enter home-funeral guides, practitioners who believe families can benefit from tending to ...

The Daily
18 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Evicted During the Pandemic

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For years there has been an evictions crisis in the United States. The pandemic has made it more acute. On today’s episode, our conversations with a single mother of two from Georgia over several months during the pandemic. After she lost her job in March, the bottom fell ou...

The Daily
17 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Should Facebook Be Broken Up?

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This episode contains strong language. When the photo-sharing app Instagram started to grow in popularity in the 2010s, the chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, had two options: build something comparable or buy it out. He opted for the latter. The subsequent $1 bil...

The Daily
16 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Hacked, Again

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Undetected for months, sophisticated hackers working on behalf of a foreign government were able to breach computer networks across a number of U.S. government agencies. It’s believed to be the handiwork of Russian intelligence. And this is far from the first time. Today, w...

The Daily
15 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

America’s First Coronavirus Vaccinations

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North Dakota and New Orleans have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus. On today’s episode, we speak to health care workers in both places as they become some of the first to receive and administer the vaccine, and tap into the mood of hope and excitement tempered b...

The Daily
14 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The U.S. Approves a Vaccine

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The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable people to begin receiving the vaccine within days. The authorization is a historic turning point in a pandemic that has taken...

The Daily
13 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited'

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Amid the death and desperation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, two inmates, David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, found love.

On today’s episode, the story of how they found each other — first within the camp and again, seven decades later.

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The Daily
11 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

A Guide to Georgia’s Senate Runoffs

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In three weeks, an election will take place that could be as important as the presidential vote in determining the course of the next four years. The Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia will determine whether two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, keep thei...

The Daily
10 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Vaccine Doses?

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From the start of the pandemic, the Trump administration said it was committed to ordering and stockpiling enough potential vaccine doses to end the outbreak in the United States as quickly as possible. But new reporting from The Times has revealed that Pfizer, the maker of ...

The Daily
09 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The Beginning of the End of the Pandemic

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In Britain, news that the country had become the first to start administering a fully tested coronavirus vaccine was met with hope, excitement — and some trepidation. Amid the optimism that normal life might soon resume, there is also concern. Has the vaccine been developed ...

The Daily
08 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Trump Shut the Door on Migrants. Will Biden Open It?

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Caitlin Dickerson, an immigration reporter for The Times, says there is one word that sums up the Trump administration’s approach to border crossing: deterrence. For nearly four years, the U.S. government has tried to discourage migrants, with reinforced walls, family separa...

The Daily
07 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

‘It Has All Gone Too Far’

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The state of the 2020 U.S. election is, still, not a settled matter in Georgia. For weeks, conservatives have been filing lawsuits in state and federal courts in an effort to decertify results that gave a victory to Joe Biden. On Twitter, President Trump has been making unsu...

The Daily
06 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘The Social Life of Forests’

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Foresters once regarded trees as solitary individuals: They competed for space and resources, but were otherwise indifferent to one another. The work of the Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended that, finding that while there is indeed conflict in a forest, there is also...

The Daily
04 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

The President and Pre-Emptive Pardons

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The power to pardon criminals or commute their sentences is one of the most sacred and absolute a president has, and President Trump has already used it to rescue political allies and answer the pleas of celebrities. With his term coming to an end, the president has discusse...

The Daily
03 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

‘Something Terrible Has Happened’

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This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault. When the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy this year, it created a final window for claims of sexual abuse against the organization’s leaders. Within nine months, nearly 100,000 victims filed suits — that far ecl...

The Daily
02 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Biden’s Cabinet Picks, Part 2: Antony Blinken

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What kind of foreign policy is possible for the United States after four years of isolationism under President Trump? Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state, has an interventionist streak, but some vestiges of Trump-era foreign policy will be...

The Daily
01 Dec 2020 • The New York Times

Biden’s Cabinet Picks, Part 1: Janet Yellen

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Janet Yellen, who is poised to become secretary of the Treasury, will immediately have her work cut out for her. The U.S. economy is in a precarious state and Congress is consumed by partisan politics. Ms. Yellen, however, is no stranger to crisis. She has already held the g...

The Daily
30 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

When and How You’ll Get a Vaccine

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For Americans, months of collective isolation and fear could soon be winding down. A coronavirus vaccine may be just weeks away. According to Dr. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to accelerate vaccine development, the first Americans could rece...

The Daily
25 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

A Day at the Food Pantry

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On a day early this fall, Nikita Stewart, who covers social services for The New York Times, and the Daily producers Annie Brown and Stella Tan spent a day at Council of Peoples Organization, a food pantry in Brooklyn, speaking to its workers and clients. As with many other ...

The Daily
24 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

A Failed Attempt to Overturn the Election

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Pressure and litigation appear to have been the pillars of President Trump’s response to his general election loss. His team filed a litany of court cases in battleground states. In some, such as Georgia and Michigan, the president and his allies took an even more bullish ap...

The Daily
23 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

New York City’s 3 Percent Problem

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This week New York City’s public schools will close their doors and students will once again undertake online instruction. The shutdown was triggered when 3 percent of coronavirus tests in the city came back positive over seven days. There are questions, however, around this...

The Daily
22 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Man to Man'

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For years, Wil S. Hylton had been drawn to his cousin’s strength and violence. He was pulled in by the archetype that he embodied and was envious of the power he seemed to command. Wil describes his relative’s violence as “ambient” and “endemic,” but he was sure it wouldn’t ...

The Daily
20 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

When the Pandemic Came to Rural Wisconsin

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When the pandemic struck, Patty Schachtner, in her capacity as both a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and chief medical officer for St. Croix County, tried to remain one step ahead. It was an approach criticized by many in her conservative community. She was preparing ...

The Daily
19 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The Pandemic Economy in 7 Numbers

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There are several figures that tell the story of the American economy right now. Some are surprisingly positive — the housing market is booming — while others paint a more dire picture. Using seven key numbers, we look at the sectors that have been affected most profoundly a...

The Daily
18 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of the Taliban

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President Trump is pushing the military to accelerate the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, all but guaranteeing a major place for the Taliban in the country’s future. As a child, Mujib Mashal lived through the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, the capital of Afghan...

The Daily
17 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

Why Europe Is Flattening the Curve (and the U.S. Isn’t)

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As it became clear that Europe was heading into another deadly wave of the coronavirus, most of the continent returned to lockdown. European leaders pushed largely similar messages, asking citizens to take measures to protect one another again, and governments offered broad ...