The Alex Jones Verdict and the Fight Against Disinformation
This episode contains descriptions of distressing scenes. In a landmark ruling, a jury in Texas ordered Alex Jones, America’s most prominent conspiracy theorist, to pay millions of dollars to the pare...
8 Aug 202233min
The Sunday Read: 'Why Was Joshua Held for More Than Two Years for Someone Else’s Crimes?'
The more he insisted that his name was Joshua, the more delusional he came to be seen.Journalist Robert Kolker tells us the remarkable story of Joshua Spriestersbach, a homeless man who wound up servi...
7 Aug 202248min
Vacationing in the Time of Covid
Charles Falls Jr., known as Chillie, loves to take cruises. But Covid, as it has done for so many, left him marooned at home in Virginia.As he told Cristal Duhaime, a producer at the Times podcast Fir...
5 Aug 202230min
How to Interpret the Kansas Referendum on Abortion
This episode contains mention of sexual assault. Kansas this week became the first U.S. state since the fall of Roe v. Wade to put the question of abortion directly to the electorate.The result was re...
4 Aug 202222min
Why Democrats Are Bankrolling Far-Right Candidates
Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries this year to an unusual degree, attempting to elevate extremist candidates who they think will be easy to defeat in midterms in the fall.Nowhere has that...
3 Aug 202226min
The Killing of bin Laden’s Successor
On Monday, President Biden announced that the United States had killed Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike in Afghanistan. Al-Zawahri was the leader of Al Qaeda. A long time number two to Osama bin Lad...
2 Aug 202218min
How Monkeypox Went From Containable to Crisis
In mid-June, cases of monkeypox were in the double digits in the United States. There were drug treatments and vaccines against it. There didn’t seem to be any reason for alarm.But in the weeks since,...
1 Aug 202224min
The Sunday Read: ‘Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business’
For generations, America’s major publishers focused almost entirely on white readers. Now a new cadre of executives is trying to open up the industry.The journalist Marcela Valdes spent a year reporti...
31 Jul 20221h 8min
