The U.S. Approves a Vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable people to begin receiving the vaccine within days....
14 Dec 202031min
The Sunday Read: 'Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited'
Amid the death and desperation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, two inmates, David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, found love.On today’s episode, the story of how they found each other — first within th...
13 Dec 202026min
A Guide to Georgia’s Senate Runoffs
In three weeks, an election will take place that could be as important as the presidential vote in determining the course of the next four years.The Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia will determine w...
11 Dec 202033min
Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Vaccine Doses?
From the start of the pandemic, the Trump administration said it was committed to ordering and stockpiling enough potential vaccine doses to end the outbreak in the United States as quickly as possibl...
10 Dec 202025min
The Beginning of the End of the Pandemic
In Britain, news that the country had become the first to start administering a fully tested coronavirus vaccine was met with hope, excitement — and some trepidation.Amid the optimism that normal life...
9 Dec 202022min
Trump Shut the Door on Migrants. Will Biden Open It?
Caitlin Dickerson, an immigration reporter for The Times, says there is one word that sums up the Trump administration’s approach to border crossing: deterrence. For nearly four years, the U.S. govern...
8 Dec 202030min
‘It Has All Gone Too Far’
The state of the 2020 U.S. election is, still, not a settled matter in Georgia. For weeks, conservatives have been filing lawsuits in state and federal courts in an effort to decertify results that ga...
7 Dec 202033min
The Sunday Read: ‘The Social Life of Forests’
Foresters once regarded trees as solitary individuals: They competed for space and resources, but were otherwise indifferent to one another.The work of the Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended th...
6 Dec 202048min
