Stories from the Great American Labor Shortage: An Update
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.This episode contains strong language.Bartenders, sou...
27 Joulu 202126min
The Year in Sound
A year that started with the mass introduction of Covid vaccines and the astonishing scenes of rioting at the Capitol is ending with concern about new virus variants and fears about the effects of a w...
23 Joulu 202130min
A Covid Testing Crisis, Again
By the end of last year, if you needed a coronavirus test, you could get one. But when vaccines arrived, focus shifted.Many of the vaccinated felt like they didn’t need tests and demand took a nosediv...
22 Joulu 202131min
Has Manchin Doomed the Build Back Better Plan?
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia was always going to be the last Democrat to get on board with President Biden’s $2.2 trillion climate, social spending and tax bill. But the White House was confid...
21 Joulu 202125min
‘The Decision of My Life’: Part 2
This episode contains references to suicide and abuse that may be upsetting to some listeners.A few months ago, we told the story of N, a teenager in Afghanistan whose family was trying to force her t...
20 Joulu 202134min
The Sunday Read: ‘What Does It Mean to Save a Neighborhood?’
Nearly a decade after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed piers and damaged riverside social housing projects, residents of Lower Manhattan are still vulnerable to floods.Michael Kimme...
19 Joulu 202146min
What to Expect From the Next Phase of the Pandemic
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is incredibly contagious — it is able to infect people with even greater frequency than the Delta variant, and it is skilled at evading the immune system’s defen...
17 Joulu 202126min
The Future of America’s Abortion Fight
Anti-abortion activists across the country are optimistic that they might be on the cusp of achieving a long-held goal of the movement: overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that ex...
16 Joulu 202123min
