The Sunday Read: ‘Has the Amazon Reached Its “Tipping Point”?’
In the past half-century, 17 percent of the Amazon — an area larger than Texas — has been converted to croplands or cattle pasture. Less forest means less recycled rain, less vapor to cool the air, le...
29 Jan 202358min
Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up
This episode contains descriptions of violence and injury. In September, protests began in Iran over the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the government. The demonstrations have si...
27 Jan 202334min
An Aggressive New Approach to Childhood Obesity
Recent advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended a bold approach to treating the millions of children in the United States who are affected by obesity. Counseling, drug treatment ...
26 Jan 202322min
How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients
Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor.But a Times investigation has revealed that many have deviated from those charitable r...
25 Jan 202331min
What Biden Miscalculated About His Classified Documents
Over the weekend, F.B.I. agents found classified documents at President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., after conducting a 13-hour search.The search — at the invitation of Mr. Biden’s lawyers —...
24 Jan 202324min
The Debt Ceiling Showdown, Explained
In the past decade or more, votes over increasing the U.S. debt ceiling have increasingly been used as a political tool. That has led to intense showdowns in 2011, 2013 and, now, 2023. This year, both...
23 Jan 202328min
The Sunday Read: ‘Could I Survive the “Quietest Place on Earth”?’
In a room in a modest concrete building in a leafy Minneapolis neighborhood is silence exceeding the bounds of human perception. Technically an “anechoic chamber,” the room is the quietest place on th...
22 Jan 202327min
A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly Journey
With mountains, intense mud, fast-running rivers and thick rainforest, the Darién Gap, a strip of terrain connecting South and Central America, is one of the most dangerous places on the planet.Over t...
20 Jan 202338min
