The Rise and Fall of the Golden Globes
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was muted. Instead of a celebrity-filled evening, broadcast on NBC, the results were live tweeted from a room in the Beverly Hilton. It was the culmination of years ...
10 Tammi 202228min
The Sunday Read: ‘What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure?’
In her new book, “The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change,” Pauline Boss considers what it means to reach “emotional closure” in a state of unnamable grief.Hard to define,...
9 Tammi 202236min
Jan. 6, Part 3: The State of American Democracy
After the election on Nov. 3, 2020, President J. Donald Trump and his allies tested the limits of the U.S. election system, launching pressure and legal campaigns in competitive states to have votes o...
7 Tammi 202237min
Jan. 6, Part 2: Liz Cheney’s Battle Against the 'Big Lie'
This episode contains strong language. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming was the only Republican leader calling on President Donald Trump to move on from his ...
6 Tammi 202246min
Jan. 6, Part 1: ‘The Herd Mentality’
Who exactly joined the mob that, almost a year ago, on Jan. 6, breached the walls of the U.S. Capitol in a bid to halt the certification of President Biden’s election victory?Members of far-right extr...
5 Tammi 202248min
Investigating the Prenatal Testing Market
About a decade ago, companies began offering pregnant women tests that promised to detect rare genetic disorders in their fetuses.The tests initially looked for Down syndrome and worked well, but late...
4 Tammi 202225min
Why Omicron Is Counterintuitive
The Omicron variant is fueling record-breaking cases across the world and disrupting life. But it may not present as great a danger of hospitalization and severe illness as earlier variants. We explor...
3 Tammi 202226min
Texas After the Storm: 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.With most natural disasters, the devastation is immed...
31 Joulu 202133min
