The Southwest Airlines Meltdown
Air travel was a mess over the holidays — in the last 10 days of December, 30,000 flights were canceled. While every airline was affected, one stood out: Southwest, which over the past few decades has...
10 Jan 202328min
Speaker McCarthy. But at What Cost?
Representative Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker of the House turned into a rolling disaster last week, played out over five long days and 15 rounds of voting. Today, the inside story of how it w...
9 Jan 202334min
The Sunday Read: ‘She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away’
On Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Diller, then 17, and her mother boarded a flight in Lima, Peru. She was headed for Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three...
8 Jan 202324min
Consider the Burying Beetle. (Or Else.)
The current level of biodiversity loss is extraordinary in human history: The global rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million y...
6 Jan 202325min
The Life and Lies of George Santos
George Santos, the Republican representative-elect from New York, ran for office and won his seat in part on an inspiring personal story.But when Times reporters started looking into his background, t...
5 Jan 202328min
Inside Russia’s Military Catastrophe
This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s army would quickly crush the Ukrainian forces. Instea...
4 Jan 202325min
A Crisis of Kevin McCarthy’s Own Making
This episode contains strong language. Republicans are set to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four years. The transition is shaping up to be chaotic. Today, the 118t...
3 Jan 202333min
One Man Flees Putin’s Draft: An Update
This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people...
30 Dec 202234min
