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
Why the U.S. Is Sending More Powerful Weapons to Ukraine
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the United States and allies have held back from sending Kyiv their most potent arms.Over the past few weeks, that has started to change.Guest: Eric Schmitt,...
19 Jan 202331min
The ‘Enemies List’ at Madison Square Garden
With little warning or regulation, companies are increasingly using facial recognition technology on their customers — as a security measure, they say.But what happens when the systems are actually be...
18 Jan 202323min
China’s Abrupt Reversal of ‘Zero Covid’
For nearly three years, China had one of the lowest coronavirus death rates in the world, thanks to its strict yet effective “zero Covid” approach.But last month, the government suddenly abandoned the...
17 Jan 202323min
The Sunday Read: ‘Risking Everything to Offer Abortion Access Across State Lines’
In states where abortion is severely limited or illegal, clinicians face imminent prosecution if they continue to provide abortions. What is much less clear is what happens if providers in blue states...
15 Jan 202355min
The Presidents and the Classified Documents
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden came to have classified records after they left office.Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointe...
13 Jan 202320min
