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A Climate Warning From the Fertile Crescent
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the Middle East braces for another year of extreme heat, climate change is turning the soil to dust in the landscape that has long been known as th...
You Have Questions About the Economy. We Have Answers.
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At a time of enormous economic upheaval and uncertainty prompted by President Trump’s trade war, we asked our listeners what they wanted to understa...
The Sunday Read: ‘This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write’
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Taffy Brodesser-Akner became a writer, Mr. Lindenblatt, the father of one of her oldest friends, began asking to tell his story of survival durin...
'The Interview': Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop ...
Family Separation 2.0
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his first 100 days in office, President Trump has struggled to fulfill his promise to carry out mass deportations, a reality that has prompted his ...
The Crypto President
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump was once a loud skeptic of cryptocurrency — one who called it a haven for drug dealers and scammers. But over the past few months, h...
100 Days
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, the second Trump presidency officially reached the 100-day mark.It’s been a hundred days of transformation, tariffs, retribution, firing...
The Housing Market Has New Rules. Realtors Are Evading Them.
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, a historic legal settlement resulted in sweeping rule changes that were supposed to lower the price of buying and selling a home across the...
Americans to Trump: You’ve Gone Too Far
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode contains strong language.One question that has hung over the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term: Is his aggressiv...
The Sunday Read: ‘The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber’
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Online, there is a name for the experience of finding sympathy with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber: Tedpilling. To be Tedpilled means to read Paragraph ...
'The Interview': Isabel Allende Understands How Fear Changes a Society
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since. Unlock full access to New York Times p...
Children’s Books Go Before the Supreme Court
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard a case that could hand parents with religious objections a lot more control over what their kids learn in the clas...
What an Iowa Farmer Fears About the Trade War
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the increasingly bitter trade war between the United States and China, perhaps nobody has more at stake than America’s soybean farmers, whose cro...
Trump Says They’re Foreign Gang Members. Are They?
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants by quickly labeling them as gang members and foreign enemies, a...
How Pope Francis Changed the Catholic Church
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Church bells rang out across the world on Monday to mark the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88.Jason Horowitz, the Rome bureau chief at The New Y...
Is the Era of Student Loan Forgiveness Officially Over?
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the country, millions of Americans with unpaid student loans are discovering that years of patience and forgiveness from the U.S. government ha...
The Sunday Read: ‘How Analytics Marginalized Baseball’s Superstar Pitchers’
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One day at Wrigley Field in Chicago last May, Paul Skenes was pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates, carving out a small piece of baseball history in hi...
'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The self-deprecating stand-up comic discusses having a magician for a father, the challenge of mainstream comedy and his aspirations to build the next...
Do Trump Voters Like His Tariffs? We Went to Michigan to Find Out.
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump’s tariffs have terrified stock markets, business owners and anyone with a 401(k). Does that mean that his approach to trade is becom...
The Trial Mark Zuckerberg Couldn’t Prevent
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Testimonies began this week in one of the most aggressive cases the government has ever brought against a big tech company. Over the next eight weeks,...
Trump Trashed the Iran Nuclear Deal. Will His Be Any Better?
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, President Trump has mocked the Obama administration for the nuclear agreement that it reached with Iran — a plan he disliked so much that...
Trapped Abroad: The Man at the Center of a Constitutional Standoff
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When President Trump met with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, at the White House, the fate of one man was hanging in the balance.Adam Liptak,...
Her Business Was Thriving. Then Came the Tariffs.
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When President Trump raised tariffs against China to an astonishing 145 percent last week, he radically changed the cost of doing business for thousan...
The Sunday Read: ‘Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich’
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Daniel and Victoria Van Beuningen first toured their future home, a quiet villa in the Polish city of Wroclaw, it had been abandoned for years, i...
'The Interview': Ramy Youssef Is Just Trying to Be ‘Emotionally Correct’
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The creator and comedian discusses his penchant for self-reflection, how politics fits into his work and why he’s not interested in representing any...
The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interviewed two people with leading roles in the rapidly escalating conflict between the Trump administration and American higher educat...
A U-Turn on Tariffs
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After promising that tariffs against dozens of countries were here to stay, no matter how much they hurt businesses or the stock market, President Tru...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few weeks, some of the most prestigious universities in the country have faced a threat to their very existence.President Trump has froz...
How Trump Wiped Out $10 Trillion in Wealth in 3 Days
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, global stocks whipsawed over President Trump’s tariffs, a bear market briefly became official in the United States and tit-for-tat retali...
‘I Felt Ashamed.’ Why One Lawyer Resigned When His Firm Caved to Trump
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few weeks, President Trump has used executive orders to wage war on law firms, specifically targeting those whose lawyers have investiga...
The Sunday Read: ‘What Happened to Val Kilmer?’
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The force of his will is the thing I remember about him,” says Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who wrote a profile of Val Kilmer for The New York Times Ma...
'The Interview': Bill Murray Says He's Not the Man He Used to Be
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The actor talks about his new film “The Friend,” his jerky past and what he doesn’t get about himself. Unlock full access to New York Times podc...
Fear and Fury: The Fallout From Trump’s Tariffs
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The reverberations from President Trump’s new global tariffs have rocked financial markets and world capitals. American stocks have plunged, and for...
The Trump Tariffs Poised to Remake Global Trade
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a history-making day of tariffs, President Trump imposed charges of at least 10 percent on nearly all of America’s trading partners.Ana Swanson, ...
Shen Yun: The Dark Side of a Dance Troupe
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few days ago, one of the most ubiquitous live shows in the country, Shen Yun, began its latest run at Lincoln Center, drawing thousands of people to...
Is Elon Musk Buying Today’s Election in Wisconsin?
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On paper, the election in Wisconsin on Tuesday is about who should control the state’s highest court. In reality, it has become a referendum on Elon...
ICE on Campus
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration arrests are taking place at universities across the country. The story of three Columbia students helps explain what’s happening, and wh...
The Sunday Read: ‘Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness’
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Troy Merritt, a pilot for a major U.S. airline, returned from his 30th birthday trip in Croatia in October 2022 — sailing on a catamaran, eating gre...
'The Interview': Megyn Kelly Is Embracing Her Bias and Rejecting the 'Old Rules'
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The former Fox News and current YouTube host on her professional evolution, conservative media and why she endorsed Trump.Unlock full access to New Yo...
Trump 2.0: Group Chats and a New Spat
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does the continuing fallout from the Signal text security breach tell us about President Trump’s cabinet’s approach to blame and accountabili...
J.F.K., the C.I.A. and the Original ‘Deep State’
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the past three decades, the U.S. government has released documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy with an overriding goal of disp...
The Editor Who Was Accidentally Texted War Plans
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, top Trump officials inadvertently shared secret U.S. military plans with a prominent journalist after mistakenly adding him to a group chat...
Nixon Dreamed of Breaking the Media. Trump Is Doing It.
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As President Trump set out to systematically eliminate or intimidate those who stood in his way — inspectors general, judges, law firms — the news...
Trump’s Escalating War With Higher Education
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has put the American university system on notice.It has pressed for changes, opened investigations — and i...
The Sunday Read: ‘What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero’
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometime in the 1850s or ’60s, at a terrible moment in U.S. history, a strange man seemed to sprout, out of nowhere, into the rocky landscape betwee...
'The Interview': Dr. Lindsay Gibson on What We Owe Our 'Emotionally Immature' Parents
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The clinical psychologist explains the foundations of egocentric parental behavior, the impact it has on their children and the freedom of saying “n...
Why a Worrisome Economy Doesn’t Seem to Worry Trump
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As President Trump has rolled out his economic agenda, the assumption has been that he would quickly scale back his most aggressive policies once they...
Were the Covid Lockdowns Worth It?
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Five years ago, at the urging of federal officials, much of the United States locked down to stop the spread of Covid. Over time, the action polarized...
Trump’s Showdown With the Courts
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump’s showdown with the courts reached a new milestone on Tuesday, when he called for a federal judge to be impeached and the chief just...
How Trump Is Scaring Big Law Firms Into Submission
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After engaging in a campaign of retribution against his enemies within the federal government, President Trump is turning to those outside of it.Micha...
The Weekend Democrats Went to War — Against Each Other
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode contains strong language.Over the past few days, a routine debate over government funding has exploded into an angry showdown ov...
'The Interview': Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book....
Trump, Europe and the New World Order
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In just a few weeks, the Trump administration has taken a hard line with allies such as Mexico and Canada. Now, a trade war is on the horizon with Eur...
Elbows Up: Canada’s Response to Trump’s Trade War
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A gloves-off trade war with the United States is uniting Canadians against their southern neighbor.Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Canada bureau chief for...
The Growing Danger of Measles
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A measles outbreak continues to spread in Texas. More than 200 people have been infected. One child has died. And health experts are now concerned tha...
Trump’s Bid for Greenland
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his recent address before Congress, President Trump talked once again about his big ambitions for Greenland.He told the icebound island’s “incr...
Trump Takes Aim at the Department of Education
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the coming days, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would follow through on one of his major campaign promises: to abolish...
The Sunday Read: ‘How I Learned That the Problem in My Marriage Was Me’
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One thing I’ve learned from being married to my wife, Jess, who is a couples therapist, is how vast the distance is between the masks people show to...
'The Interview': Lady Gaga's Latest Experiment? Happiness.
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pop superstar reflects on her struggles with mental health, the pressures of the music industry and why she’s returned to the sound that made he...
The Cinematic Masterpiece You Won’t Get to See
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and domestic abuse.Over the past few years, a celebrated filmmaker has tried to unlock the ...
How Tariffs Are Shaking Up the War on Fentanyl
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, even as fentanyl has killed Americans at an astonishing rate, Mexico has claimed that it was doing everything possible to crack down on pro...
Partisan Taunts and Defiant Protests: Trump’s First Speech to Congress
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his first address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Trump took a highly partisan victory lap as Democratic lawmakers openly protested against...
DOGE Has a Math Problem
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since President Trump took office, Elon Musk and DOGE have wielded an unprecedented level of power to help the administration cut the U.S. government,...
The Fallout From Zelensky and Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in an explosive televised Oval Office meeting a...
The Sunday Read: ‘The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself’
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Tucker could hardly believe what he was hearing. It sounded like fiction, a nightmare too outlandish for an unassuming town like his.It was July 2...
'The Interview': Gov. Maura Healey Wants Democrats to Put Up a Fight
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Massachusetts leader, whose influence goes well beyond her state, discusses how the Democratic Party can pick its battles and rebuild its brand. U...
Trump 2.0: The Art of the Deal
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, President Trump proposed two deals that would require allies to put his needs ahead of their own.Times’ Journalists Michael Barbaro, Cati...
He Was America’s Highest-Ranking Military Officer. Then Came the War on D.E.I.
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During his decades-long path to become America’s highest-ranking military officer, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. won the crucial support of President Tr...
Can the Cease-Fire in Gaza Hold?
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, as the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas enters its most fragile phase, no one knows who will control the future of Gaza.Patrick Kingsley, th...
She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Like, Actual Love. With Sex.
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode discusses sexual themes.Artificial intelligence has changed how millions of people write emails, conduct research and seek advic...
Exporting America’s Immigration Problem
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode contains mentions of suicide.Since President Trump took office, his plan to deport millions of undocumented people has kept runn...
The Sunday Read: ‘What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons’
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When David Muhammad was 15, his mother moved from Oakland, Calif., to Philadelphia with her boyfriend, leaving Muhammad in the care of his brothers, a...
'The Interview': Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.Unlock ful...
Trump 2.0: Rewriting Histories
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, President Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine started the war against Russia, ordered federal agencies created by Congress to answer directl...
The Sordid Saga of President Trump and Mayor Adams
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sweeping federal corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams seemed to spell the end of his career. Then he got a sudden reprieve from President T...
Inside the Trump Purge: Federal Workers Tell Their Stories
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump and his allies left little doubt that, if they returned to power, federal workers would face layoffs, buyouts a...
A Conversation With the Architect of Trump's New Trade War
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During less than a month in office, President Trump has pursued more trade actions against adversaries and allies than all the trade measures he took ...
Trump Shocks Europe
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few days ago, the Trump administration began blowing up America’s existing approach to ending the war in Europe by embracing Russia and snubbing U...
'The Interview': Senator Ruben Gallego on the Democrats’ Problem: ‘We’re Always Afraid’
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Arizona lawmaker diagnoses what he thinks needs to change in the way his party communicates with men, Latinos and Trump voters.Unlock full access ...
Trump 2.0: Musk in the Oval, a Gift to Mayor Adams and a Win for Putin
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past week, President Donald J. Trump dramatically ceded the stage to Elon Musk in the Oval Office, turned the Democratic mayor of New York Ci...
How Close Are We to Another Pandemic?
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An outbreak of bird flu has been tearing through the nation’s dairy farms and infecting more and more people.Now there are troubling signs that the ...
A Constitutional Crisis
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As President Trump issues executive orders that encroach on the powers of Congress — and in some cases fly in the face of established law — a deba...
The Demise of U.S.A.I.D. — and American Soft Power
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode contains strong language.As President Trump demolishes the government’s biggest provider of foreign aid, the United States Age...
China Seems Unstoppable. Trump Thinks Otherwise.
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past week, President Trump avoided a trade war with Canada and Mexico. But he escalated a trade war with China.His reasoning? China has becom...
The Sunday Read: ‘Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk’
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of years ago, after domesticating cows and other ruminants, humans did something remarkable: They began to consume the milk from these anima...
'The Interview': Denzel Washington Has Finally Found His Purpose
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The legendary actor discusses the prophecy that changed his life, his Oscar snub and his upcoming role starring alongside a “complicated” Jake Gyl...
The Story of ‘Not Like Us’
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A battle between two major artists has been dominating the world of music. It’s a fight over one song — a song that may get its biggest stage ever...
Where Are the Democrats?
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is the Democratic Party navigating the dominance of President Trump — and reckoning with the reality that more and more voters have been souring...
How Elon Musk Is Infiltrating Washington
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk and his team have taken a hacksaw to the federal bureaucracy one agency at a time, and the question has become whether he’s on a crusade t...
North America Averted a Trade War — for Now
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
North America came within hours of a multibillion dollar trade war that was poised to hobble the economies of Mexico and Canada.The Times journalists ...
China Challenges Silicon Valley for A.I. Dominance
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Financial markets went into a panic last week over an obscure Chinese tech start-up called DeepSeek. The company now threatens to upend the world of a...
The Sunday Read: ‘Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution.’
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a strange story: One day two summers ago, Jennifer Kahn woke up because her arms — both of them — hurt. Not the way they do when you’ve...
'The Interview': Digital Drugs Have Us Hooked. Dr. Anna Lembke Sees a Way Out.
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The psychiatrist and author of “Dopamine Nation” wants us to find balance in a world of temptation and abundance.Unlock full access to New York Ti...
Trump 2.0 Arrives in Force
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since his inauguration, President Trump has exercised a level of power that has directly challenged the checks and balances that, on paper, define the...
What We Know About the Plane Crash
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The midair collision between a passenger jet and a helicopter over Washington on Wednesday night was the deadliest plane crash in the United States in...
How R.F.K. Jr. and ‘Medical Freedom’ Rose to Power
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a crucial nomination hearing on Wednesday where a panel of skeptical senators probed his past, often contentious remarks.S...
Trump Freezes Trillions. Chaos Ensues.
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In one of his most audacious moves since taking office, President Trump ordered a freeze on Tuesday on trillions of dollars in federal money — from ...
The Legal Battle Riveting Hollywood
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of alleged sexual harassment, and a fictional portrayal of domestic violence.Over the last few weeks, the ...
Stephen Miller’s Return to Power
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the center of President Trump’s aggressive first week back in office is a 39-year-old adviser, Stephen Miller. His ideas and ideology have animat...
The Sunday Read: ‘Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World?’
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As soon as Camille Bromley got Ellie, a black-eyed, bat-eared German shepherd puppy, she trained her to be a good dog. And so she was. Two years on, M...