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30 May 2020 • The New York Times

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 7: 'Where We Go One'

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Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 7 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, our reporter investigates the QAnon conspiracy theories. The story of QAnon believers, united in...

The Daily
30 May 2020 • The New York Times

Special Episode: The Latest From Minneapolis

17:34

As protests spread over the death of George Floyd, the former officer at the center of the case has been charged with murder. We listen in on the demonstrations, and examine why this tragedy — though too familiar — may be a turning point. Guest: Audra D. S. Burch, a national...

The Daily
29 May 2020 • The New York Times

One Hundred Thousand Lives

30:00

Barbara Krupke won the lottery. Fred Walter Gray enjoyed his bacon and hash browns crispy. Orlando Moncada crawled through a hole in a fence to reach the United States. John Prine chronicled the human condition. Cornelia Ann Hunt left the world with gratitude. Over 100,000 p...

The Daily
28 May 2020 • The New York Times

Space Travel, Privatized

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After nearly a decade on the sidelines of space travel, Cape Canaveral is again launching a shuttle into space. But this time, a private company will be sending NASA astronauts into orbit. What does this moment mean for human exploration of the solar system? Guests: Kenneth ...

The Daily
27 May 2020 • The New York Times

Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic?

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The U.S. Postal Service has survived the telegraph, the fax machine and the dawn of the internet. But will it survive coronavirus? Guests: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for The New York Times and Derek Harpe, a Postal Service worker with a mail route in Mocksville, N....

The Daily
26 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Story of Two Brothers From Mexico

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Two brothers, Javier Morales, 48, and Martin Morales, 39, died of coronavirus within hours of each other in their adopted home of New Jersey. Their last wish was to be buried at home in Mexico, but, to make that happen, their family must navigate the vast bureaucracies of tw...

The Daily
23 May 2020 • The New York Times

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 6: Impasse

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Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 6 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, we hear from PewDiePie, one of the biggest and most polarizing YouTube celebrities. He sat down ...

The Daily
22 May 2020 • The New York Times

Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake

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There are moments when the world we take for granted changes instantaneously — when reality is upended and replaced with the unimaginable. Though we try not to think about it, instability is always lurking, and at any moment, a kind of terrible magic can switch on and scramb...

The Daily
21 May 2020 • The New York Times

A Teenager’s Medical Mystery

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From the earliest days of the coronavirus outbreak, health officials believed that it was largely sparing children and teenagers. But the rise of a mysterious inflammatory syndrome — with symptoms ranging from rashes to heart failure — in children testing positive for the vi...

The Daily
20 May 2020 • The New York Times

Why Is the Pandemic Killing So Many Black Americans?

29:45

Some have called the pandemic “the great equalizer.” But the coronavirus is killing black Americans at staggeringly higher rates than white Americans. Today, we explore why. Guest: Linda Villarosa, a writer for The New York Times Magazine covering racial health disparities,...

The Daily
19 May 2020 • The New York Times

Trump’s Purge of the Watchdogs

22:27

It used to be rare for a president to fire an inspector general, a position created within government agencies after Watergate and assigned to fight waste and corruption. Today, we look at what President Trump’s pattern of replacing inspectors general reveals about the natur...

The Daily
18 May 2020 • The New York Times

Can Government Spending Save the Economy?

25:23

As the American economy plunges toward a recession, economists and policymakers are triaging proposals to stanch the bleeding. All of their ideas will cost money the government doesn’t have. That leaves Democrats and Republicans with two major questions: How much should be b...

The Daily
17 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Letters of Recommendation'

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Our worlds have contracted; once expansive, our orbits are now measured by rooms and street blocks. But there are still ways to travel. Today, escape to the worlds contained in three letters — one about the summer of 1910, another describing an upended misconception and a th...

The Daily
16 May 2020 • The New York Times

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 5: The Accidental Emperor

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Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 5 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, our reporter investigates how a Swedish gamer with a webcam grew to become the biggest YouTuber...

The Daily
15 May 2020 • The New York Times

A Bit of Relief: Reruns, Rituals and Restaurants

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On today’s “A Bit of Relief,” two critics at The Times share the home rituals that they're leaning on for comfort. For the television critic James Poniewozik, it’s binge-watching television with his family (“Experiencing good or even brilliantly dumb art is a form of self-care,” he reassures). And for the restaurant critic Tejal Rao, the act of rewatching cinematic food scenes is surprisingly delightful.

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The Daily
15 May 2020 • The New York Times

Reopening, Warily

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When Louisiana’s stay-at-home order expires today, restaurants across the state can begin allowing customers back inside, at their own discretion. So how do restaurant owners feel about the decision they now face? For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/th...

The Daily
14 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Saga of Michael Flynn

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Federal prosecutors are asking a court to throw out their own criminal case against the former national security adviser Michael Flynn. We look at what led to that decision. Guest: Mark Mazzetti, a Washington investigative correspondent for The New York Times. For more infor...

The Daily
13 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Constitutional Clash on a Conference Call

27:41

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court debated the nature of presidential power in two sets of cases regarding demands for President Trump’s personal records: one about his taxes, the other about claims that during his campaign he paid to silence women with whom he previously had aff...

The Daily
12 May 2020 • The New York Times

Boris Johnson's Change of Heart

26:08

As Italy, France and Spain entered national lockdowns, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain was still shaking hands with coronavirus patients in hospitals, and then joking about it on national television. Then he was hospitalized with the virus — and by the time he return...

The Daily
11 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

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Ahmaud Arbery would have turned 26 on Friday. Instead of celebrating, a crowd of protesters, protected by masks, demanded justice for his death in front of a courthouse in Georgia. So what do we know about the killing of Mr. Arbery by two armed white men? Guest: Richard Faus...

The Daily
10 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'The Iceman in Winter'

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He was Batman. He was Iceman. Until he wasn’t. So what happened to Val Kilmer?

In this weird, dark time, Taffy Brodesser-Akner tells a story about how sometimes, in the end, everything is different but everything is good.

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The Daily
09 May 2020 • The New York Times

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 4: Headquarters

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Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 4 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, our reporter interviews the woman running the world’s largest and most influential video empire...

The Daily
08 May 2020 • The New York Times

A Bit of Relief: Rick Steves' Travel Dreams

16:34

Rick Steves is a travel evangelist, always in motion, traversing faraway places and inspiring others to do the same. So when the world shuts down, and Rick Steves can no longer travel, then who is Rick Steves?

Sam Anderson, a writer for The Times Magazine, profiled the travel guru last year. Today, Sam asks Rick how he’s been expanding his horizons from home. Dreaming of travel, we learn, is nearly as sweet as the real thing.

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The Daily
08 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Arrival of the ‘Murder Hornet’

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It came to the United States from Asia and first appeared in Washington State. The country was slow to recognize it. Deaths mounted as it circulated for weeks undetected. And now, if it’s not stopped, it could reshape populations and industries across the country. Today, we ...

The Daily
07 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Chinese Lab Theory

21:31

Everyone wants to know where the coronavirus came from. In the absence of a clear explanation, several theories are circulating — including one, pushed by the Trump administration, that the pandemic started because of malpractice in a lab in Wuhan, China. But is that a secre...

The Daily
06 May 2020 • The New York Times

A Socially Distanced Senate

23:22

The congressional doctor expressed reservations about whether it was safe for the House and Senate to reconvene. Instead, only senators have returned to Capitol Hill, bringing our new normal — elbow bumps, masks and sanitizer — with them. So why was one chamber so determined...

The Daily
05 May 2020 • The New York Times

Bursting the College Bubble

25:12

Universities across the United States have long prided themselves on bridging the differences between their students. How the coronavirus has instead reinforced inequalities that campus life can hide. Guest: Nicholas Casey, a national politics reporter at The New York Times,...

The Daily
04 May 2020 • The New York Times

One Meat Plant. One Thousand Infections.

29:54

One of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the United States has been inside the Smithfield pork factory in Sioux Falls, S.D. Today, we speak with a worker at the plant, a refugee who survived civil war and malaria only to find her life and livelihood threatened anew. Guest...

The Daily
03 May 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Alone at Sea'

41:44

For Aleksander Doba, pitting himself against the wide-open sea — storms, sunstroke, monotony, hunger and loneliness — is a way to feel alive in old age. Today, listen to the story of one man who chose to paddle toward the existential crisis that is life, crossing the Atlanti...

The Daily
02 May 2020 • The New York Times

'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 3: Mirror Image

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Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 3 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, our reporter continues to trace the journey of a young man named Caleb. Five years into a rabbit...