‘A Knife to the Throat’: Putin’s Logic for Invading Ukraine
At 10 p.m. in Moscow on Monday night, Russian state television interrupted its regular programming to air an address from President Vladimir V. Putin about the Ukraine crisis.We look back on what Mr. ...
23 Feb 202230min
Russian Troops Advance
This episode contains strong language.On Monday night, as tensions deepened between Russia and Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin sent troops into two regions in eastern Ukraine where separatist for...
22 Feb 202225min
‘Somebody’s Got to Save Us, While We’re Saving Everybody Else’
As hospitals in the United States battled another coronavirus wave in the past few months, another crisis was steadily growing more acute: a shortage of nurses.We speak to some of the “forgotten warri...
18 Feb 202231min
Why U.S. Soldiers Won’t Come to Ukraine’s Rescue
Since the beginning of the standoff with Moscow over Ukraine, President Biden has been clear that he will not allow American troops to come into direct combat with Russians.Why has the U.S., a country...
17 Feb 202226min
An American-Style Protest in Canada
Canada has employed strict restrictions in its efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But unlike in the United States, such measures have received very little pushback or politicization — until re...
16 Feb 202234min
How Ukrainians View This Perilous Moment
Officials in the United States say that Russia could invade Ukraine as early as this week, which raises the question: Should an attack come, how will the Ukrainian people respond? The answer may be co...
15 Feb 202234min
The Rule at the Center of the N.F.L. Discrimination Lawsuit
As the N.F.L. season comes to a close, we’re looking at a class-action lawsuit that Brian Flores, a former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, has filed against the league.At the heart of the case is th...
14 Feb 202231min
The Sunday Read: ‘Animals That Infect Humans Are Scary. It’s Worse When We Infect Them Back’
There’s a working theory for the origins of Covid-19. It goes like this: Somewhere in an open-air market in Wuhan, China, a new coronavirus, growing inside an animal, first made the jump to a human. B...
13 Feb 202242min
