America’s Miscalculations, Afghanistan’s Collapse
The last few days in Afghanistan have been chaotic as the Taliban retake control of the country.The debacle can be traced to a number of assumptions that guided the execution of the U.S. withdrawal fr...
17 Aug 202123min
The Fall of Afghanistan
This episode contains strong language. On Sunday, the president of Afghanistan fled the country; the Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital; and the American-backed government collapsed.One outs...
16 Aug 202123min
The Sunday Read: ‘I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?’
In 2019, Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, began communicating with Yutico Briley, an inmate at a prison in Jackson, La.Mr. Briley first reached out to Ms. Bazelon after h...
15 Aug 20211h 3min
A ‘Code Red for Humanity’
This episode contains strong language. A major new United Nations scientific report has concluded that countries and corporations have delayed curbing fossil-fuel emissions for so long that we can no...
13 Aug 202126min
How Washington Now Works
On Tuesday, the United States Senate approved a $1 trillion infrastructure bill — the largest single infusion of federal funds into infrastructure projects in more than a decade. It was a bipartisan v...
12 Aug 202124min
The Resignation of Andrew Cuomo
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced yesterday that he would resign from office, exactly one week after a searing report found that he sexually harassed 11 women.What convinced him to step aside...
11 Aug 202122min
The Taliban’s Advance
The Taliban have made big moves in the last few days in their bid to take control of Afghanistan. This weekend, they seized several cities and suddenly claimed a lot of the north. On Monday, they took...
10 Aug 202122min
Back to School Amid the Delta Variant
To ensure students’ safe return to in-person learning amid a surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus, some school districts plan to institute mask mandates.Yet that move isn’t necessarily straig...
9 Aug 202127min
