The Sunday Read: 'The Forgotten Sense'
“Smell is a startling superpower,” writes Brooke Jarvis, the author of today’s Sunday Read. “If you weren’t used to it, it would seem like witchcraft.”For hundreds of years, smell has been disregarded...
31 Jan 202154min
A Conspiracy Theory Is Proved Wrong
This episode contains strong language. Inauguration Day was supposed to bring vindication for adherents of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon.Instead, they watched as Joe Biden took the oath as the...
29 Jan 202131min
The Fate of the Filibuster
As Democrats and Republicans haggled over how to share power in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, made one key demand: Do not touch the filibuster rule.Today, we explore the mechanics ...
28 Jan 202126min
Why Are U.S. Coronavirus Cases Falling? And Will the Trend Last?
The number of new coronavirus cases in the United States is falling, but has the country turned a corner in the pandemic? And what kind of threats do the new variants pose to people and to the vaccine...
27 Jan 202126min
‘The Skunk at the Picnic’: Dr. Anthony Fauci on Working for Trump
This episode contains strong language.In many instances while advising the Trump administration on the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci was faced with a “difficult” situation. Yet he said he had never cons...
26 Jan 202135min
Aleksei Navalny and the Future of Russia
The Russian activist Aleksei Navalny has spent years agitating against corruption, and against President Vladimir Putin. Last summer he was poisoned with a rare nerve agent linked to the Russian state...
25 Jan 202128min
The Sunday Read: ‘The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community’
The cultural history of clouds seemed to be shaped by amateurs — the likes of Luke Howard and the Honorable Ralph Abercromby — each of whom projected the ethos of his particular era onto those billowi...
24 Jan 202138min
Biden’s Executive Orders
Within hours of assuming the presidency, President Biden signed a flurry of executive orders. He rejoined the Paris climate agreement, repealed the so-called Muslim travel ban and mandated the wearing...
22 Jan 202122min
