The Plan to Save Baseball From Boredom
Major League Baseball is putting in effect some of the biggest changes in the sport’s history in an effort to speed up the game and inject more activity.As the 2023 season opens, Michael Schmidt, a Ti...
30 Maalis 202330min
Israel’s Far Right Government Backs Down
For months in Israel, the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing a highly contentious plan to fundamentally change the country’s Supreme Court, setting off some of ...
29 Maalis 202323min
The Fight Over ‘Cop City’
This episode contains descriptions of violenceIn a patch of woods southwest of Atlanta, protesters have been clashing with the police over a huge police training facility that the city wants to build ...
28 Maalis 202326min
A Sweeping Plan to Protect Kids From Social Media
A few days ago, Utah became the first state to pass a law prohibiting social media services from allowing users under 18 to have accounts without the explicit consent of a parent or guardian. The move...
27 Maalis 202327min
The Sunday Read: ‘How Danhausen Became Professional Wrestling’s Strangest Star’
Like a lot of people who get into professional wrestling, Donovan Danhausen had a vision of a different version of himself. Ten years ago, at age 21, he was living in Detroit, working as a nursing ass...
26 Maalis 202332min
Should The Government Pay for Your Bad Climate Decisions?
A few days ago, the Biden administration released a report warning that a warming planet posed severe economic challenges for the United States, which would require the federal government to reassess ...
24 Maalis 202327min
Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies
A.O. Scott started as a film critic at The New York Times in January of 2000. Next month he will move to the Book Review as a critic at large.After 23 years as a film critic, Mr. Scott discusses why h...
23 Maalis 202341min
Barney Frank on His Role in the Banking Crisis
Barney Frank was one of the people most responsible for overhauling financial regulation after the 2008 economic crisis. After retiring from Congress, he supported a change to his own law that would b...
22 Maalis 202336min
