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The Daily
14 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Confirmation Hearing of Amy Coney Barrett

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It was a 12-hour session. Twenty-two senators took turns questioning Judge Amy Coney Barrett on her record and beliefs. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, evoked personal experience of life before Roe v. Wade and asked Judge Barrett whether she would vote to o...

The Daily
13 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Politics of Pandemic Relief

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In March, Congress pushed through a relief package that preserved the U.S. economy during the pandemic. It felt like government functioning at its best. But now, that money is running out and bipartisanship has given way to an ideological stalemate. While Republicans balk at...

The Daily
12 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

Why the Left Is Losing on Abortion

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Most Americans say that abortion should be legal with some restrictions, but President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, signed a statement in a 2006 newspaper advertisement opposing “abortion on demand.” Her accession would bolster a conservative maj...

The Daily
11 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'David's Ankles'

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“We are conditioned to believe that art is safe,” Sam Anderson, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, explained in this week’s The Sunday Read. “Destruction happens in a number of ways, for any number of reasons, at any number of speeds — and it will happen, and no...

The Daily
09 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: The Battle for Pennsylvania’s White Working Class

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This episode contains strong language. Over the summer, Dave Mitchko started a makeshift pro-Trump sign operation from his garage. By his estimate he has handed out around 26,000 signs, put together with the help of his family. Mr. Mitchko might seem like the kind of voter J...

The Daily
08 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

Plexiglass and Civility: The Vice-Presidential Debate

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During most campaigns, the job of the vice-presidential candidates focuses on boosting the person heading the ticket. Proving their suitability for the top job is secondary. But this year is different. The president is 74 and spent much of the past week in the hospital, and ...

The Daily
07 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

Where Is This Pandemic Headed?

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The pandemic has killed more than one million people around the world, at least 210,000 in the United States alone. The illness has infiltrated the White House and infected the president. Today, we offer an update on measures to fight the coronavirus and try to predict the o...

The Daily
06 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

How a Small Bar Battled to Survive the Coronavirus

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This episode contains strong language. Jack Nicas, a technology reporter for The New York Times, moved to Oakland, Calif., five years ago. When he arrived, he set out to find a bar of choice. It quickly became the Hatch. Unpretentious, cheap and relaxed, the Hatch was a suc...

The Daily
05 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Latest on the President’s Health

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On Saturday morning, the doctors treating President Trump for the coronavirus held a news conference outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — a show of strength, aimed at reassuring the American public that he was in capable hands. But instead of allaying conce...

The Daily
04 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

One Million Lives

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They came from Tel Aviv, Aleppo and a “small house by the river.” They were artists, whiskey drinkers and mbira players. They were also fathers, sisters and best friends.

Today, we hear people from around the world reflect on those they’ve lost.

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The Daily
02 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

Special Edition: The Pandemic Reaches the President

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He assured the country the coronavirus would “disappear” soon. Then he tested positive. We explore how President Trump testing positive for the coronavirus could affect the last days of the 2020 race — and consider what might happen next.

Guests: Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, White House correspondents for The Times.

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The Daily
02 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: The Fight For Voting Rights in Florida

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This episode contains strong language. During much of this election cycle, Julius Irving of Gainesville, Fla., spent his days trying to get former felons registered to vote. He would tell them about Florida’s Amendment Four, a ballot initiative that extended the franchise t...

The Daily
01 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

A User’s Guide to Mail-In Voting

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The pandemic will mean that many more Americans vote by mail this year. All 50 states require people to register before they can cast a mail-in vote. But from there, the rules diverge wildly. And a lot could still change. Our correspondent Luke Broadwater, a reporter in Wash...

The Daily
30 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Chaos and Contempt: The First Presidential Debate

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This episode contains strong language. Both presidential candidates had clear goals for their first debate on Tuesday. For Joseph R. Biden Jr., the contest was an opportunity to consolidate his lead in polls before Election Day. President Trump’s task was, politically, a tal...

The Daily
29 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The President’s Taxes

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Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig, investigative reporters for The Times, have pored over two decades and thousands of pages of documents on Donald J. Trump’s tax information, up to and including his time in the White House. What they found was an existential threat to the ima...

The Daily
28 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Past, Present and Future of Amy Coney Barrett

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s pick to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court, is a product of the conservative legal movement of the 1980s. She clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, a giant of conservative jurisprudence, and his influence is evident throughout h...

The Daily
27 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'How Climate Migration Will Reshape America'

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In August, Abrahm Lustgarten, who reports on climate, watched fires burn just 12 miles from his home in Marin County, Calif. For two years, he had been studying the impact of the changing climate on global migration and recently turned some of his attention to the domestic s...

The Daily
25 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: Policing and Power in Minneapolis

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This episode contains strong language. In June, weeks after George Floyd was killed by the police, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council expressed support for dismantling the city’s police department. The councilors’ pledges to “abolish,” “dismantle” and “en...

The Daily
24 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

On the Ground in Louisville

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This episode contains strong language. Breonna Taylor’s mother and her supporters had made their feelings clear: Nothing short of murder charges for all three officers involved in Ms. Taylor’s death would amount to justice. On Wednesday, one of the officers was indicted on a...

The Daily
23 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

A Historic Opening for Anti-Abortion Activists

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President Trump appears to be on course to give conservatives a sixth vote on the Supreme Court, after several Republican senators who were previously on the fence said they would support quickly installing a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In our interview toda...

The Daily
22 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Swing Voters and the Supreme Court Vacancy

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This episode contains strong language and descriptions of sexual violence. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ensuing battle to fill her seat is set to dominate American politics in the lead up to the election. A poll conducted for The New York Times before Ju...

The Daily
21 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Part 1: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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When Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from law school, she received no job offers from New York law firms, despite being an outstanding student. She spent two years clerking for a federal district judge, who agreed to hire her only after persuasion, and was rejected for a role ...

The Daily
21 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Part 2: The Battle Over Her Seat

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In the second episode of a two-part special, we consider the ramifications of Justice Ginsburg’s death and the struggle over how, and when, to replace her on the bench. The stakes are high: If President Trump is able to name another member of the Supreme Court, he would be t...

The Daily
20 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'The Agency'

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According to Ludmila Savchuk, a former employee, every day at the Internet Research Agency was essentially the same. From an office complex in the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg, employees logged on to the internet via a proxy service and set about flooding Russia’s po...

The Daily
18 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Special Episode: ‘An Obituary for the Land’

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“Nothing comes easily out here,” Terry Tempest Williams, a Utah-based writer, said of the American West. Her family was once almost taken by fire, and as a child of the West, she grew up with it. Our producer Bianca Giaever, who was working out of the West Coast when the wil...

The Daily
18 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

A Messy Return to School in New York

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Iolani Grullon teaches dual-language kindergarten in Washington Heights in New York City, where she has worked for the last 15 years. She, like many colleagues, is leery about a return to in-person instruction amid reports of positive coronavirus cases in other schools. “I g...

The Daily
17 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Forgotten Refugee Crisis in Europe

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Among the olive groves of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, a makeshift city of tents and containers housed thousands of asylum seekers who had fled conflict and hardship in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. Already frustrated at the deplorable conditions, inhabitan...

The Daily
16 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Quarantine on a College Campus

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This episode contains strong language. Infected with the coronavirus and separated from their peers in special dorms, some college students have taken to sharing their quarantine experiences on TikTok. In some videos posted to the social media app, food is a source of discon...

The Daily
15 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

A Deadly Tinderbox

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“The entire state is burning.” That was the refrain Jack Healy, our national correspondent, kept hearing when he arrived in the fire zone in Oregon. The scale of the wildfires is dizzying — millions of acres have burned, 30 different blazes are raging and thousands of people...

The Daily
14 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Inside Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

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This episode contains strong language. After Donald Trump was elected president, two filmmakers were granted rare access to the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Since Mr. Trump had campaigned on a hard-line immigration agenda, the leaders of the usually sec...