Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Progressivism and the Pandemic
Her mentor and political inspiration has dropped out of the presidential race, and her congressional district has been described as the “epicenter of the epicenter” of the pandemic in New York City. I...
17 Apr 202034min
Kicked Out of China
Note: This episode contains strong language.The New York Times’s reporters working in China have been expelled by the Chinese government, alongside reporters covering China for The Wall Street Journal...
16 Apr 202028min
24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital
Note: This episode contains strong language. More than a month since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, the majority of patients — some of whom are doctors themselves — in Brooklyn Hospital Center’s...
15 Apr 202024min
Examining the Allegation Against Joe Biden
Note: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence.A former Senate aide to Joseph R. Biden Jr., the prospective Democratic presidential candidate, has accused him of sexually assaulting her i...
14 Apr 202030min
Voices of the Pandemic
Most of America is entering its second month of lockdown in an ongoing effort to contain the coronavirus. Still, our reporters are — as safely as they can be — spread across the country, doing their b...
13 Apr 202026min
The Sunday Read: 'Weird Al Yankovic’s Weirdly Enduring Appeal'
On this episode of “The Sunday Read,” staff writer Sam Anderson claims Weird Al Yankovic is not just a parody singer — he’s “a full-on rock star, a legitimate performance monster and a spiritual techn...
12 Apr 202057min
A Bit of Relief: 'Soup Is Soup'
Ali Jaffe and her grandmother Roslyn are self-quarantining 1,200 miles apart. Lately, they’ve been connecting — and coping — by cooking together over FaceTime. Ali is learning the recipes her grandmot...
11 Apr 202013min
'I Become a Person of Suspicion'
Note: This episode contains strong language.As the death toll from the coronavirus rises in the U.S., so do reports of verbal and physical attacks against Asian-Americans, who say hostile strangers ar...
10 Apr 202035min
