"The Interview': Lady Gaga's Latest Experiment? Happiness.
Sat, 8 Mar 2025
The pop superstar reflects on her struggles with mental health, the pressures of the music industry ...
The Cinematic Masterpiece You Won’t Get to See
Fri, 7 Mar 2025
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and domestic abuse.Over the past few year...
How Tariffs Are Shaking Up the War on Fentanyl
Thu, 6 Mar 2025
For years, even as fentanyl has killed Americans at an astonishing rate, Mexico has claimed that it ...
Partisan Taunts and Defiant Protests: Trump’s First Speech to Congress
Wed, 5 Mar 2025
In his first address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Trump took a highly partisan victory la...
DOGE Has a Math Problem
Tue, 4 Mar 2025
Since President Trump took office, Elon Musk and DOGE have wielded an unprecedented level of power t...
The Fallout From Zelensky and Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Mon, 3 Mar 2025
On Friday, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukrai...
The Sunday Read: ‘The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself’
Sun, 2 Mar 2025
Jim Tucker could hardly believe what he was hearing. It sounded like fiction, a nightmare too outlan...
'The Interview': Gov. Maura Healey Wants Democrats to Put Up a Fight
Sat, 1 Mar 2025
The Massachusetts leader, whose influence goes well beyond her state, discusses how the Democratic P...
Trump 2.0: The Art of the Deal
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
This week, President Trump proposed two deals that would require allies to put his needs ahead of th...
He Was America’s Highest-Ranking Military Officer. Then Came the War on D.E.I.
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
During his decades-long path to become America’s highest-ranking military officer, Gen. Charles Q....
Can the Cease-Fire in Gaza Hold?
Wed, 26 Feb 2025
Today, as the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas enters its most fragile phase, no one knows who wi...
She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Like, Actual Love. With Sex.
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
Warning: This episode discusses sexual themes.Artificial intelligence has changed how millions of pe...
Exporting America’s Immigration Problem
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
Warning: This episode contains mentions of suicide.Since President Trump took office, his plan to de...
The Sunday Read: ‘What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons’
Sun, 23 Feb 2025
When David Muhammad was 15, his mother moved from Oakland, Calif., to Philadelphia with her boyfrien...
'The Interview': Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
Sat, 22 Feb 2025
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bir...
Trump 2.0: Rewriting Histories
Fri, 21 Feb 2025
This week, President Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine started the war against Russia, ordered fede...
The Sordid Saga of President Trump and Mayor Adams
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
The sweeping federal corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams seemed to spell the end of his care...
Inside the Trump Purge: Federal Workers Tell Their Stories
Wed, 19 Feb 2025
On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump and his allies left little doubt that, if they returned to po...
A Conversation With the Architect of Trump's New Trade War
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
During less than a month in office, President Trump has pursued more trade actions against adversari...
Trump Shocks Europe
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
A few days ago, the Trump administration began blowing up America’s existing approach to ending th...
'The Interview': Senator Ruben Gallego on the Democrats’ Problem: ‘We’re Always Afraid’
Sat, 15 Feb 2025
The Arizona lawmaker diagnoses what he thinks needs to change in the way his party communicates with...
Trump 2.0: Musk in the Oval, a Gift to Mayor Adams and a Win for Putin
Fri, 14 Feb 2025
Over the past week, President Donald J. Trump dramatically ceded the stage to Elon Musk in the Oval ...
How Close Are We to Another Pandemic?
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
An outbreak of bird flu has been tearing through the nation’s dairy farms and infecting more and m...
A Constitutional Crisis
Wed, 12 Feb 2025
As President Trump issues executive orders that encroach on the powers of Congress — and in some c...
The Demise of U.S.A.I.D. — and American Soft Power
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
Warning: This episode contains strong language.As President Trump demolishes the government’s bigg...
China Seems Unstoppable. Trump Thinks Otherwise.
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
Over the past week, President Trump avoided a trade war with Canada and Mexico. But he escalated a t...
The Sunday Read: ‘Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk’
Sun, 9 Feb 2025
Thousands of years ago, after domesticating cows and other ruminants, humans did something remarkabl...
'The Interview': Denzel Washington Has Finally Found His Purpose
Sat, 8 Feb 2025
The legendary actor discusses the prophecy that changed his life, his Oscar snub and his upcoming ro...
The Story of ‘Not Like Us’
Fri, 7 Feb 2025
A battle between two major artists has been dominating the world of music. It’s a fight over one s...
Where Are the Democrats?
Thu, 6 Feb 2025
How is the Democratic Party navigating the dominance of President Trump — and reckoning with the r...
How Elon Musk Is Infiltrating Washington
Wed, 5 Feb 2025
Elon Musk and his team have taken a hacksaw to the federal bureaucracy one agency at a time, and the...
North America Averted a Trade War — for Now
Tue, 4 Feb 2025
North America came within hours of a multibillion dollar trade war that was poised to hobble the eco...
China Challenges Silicon Valley for A.I. Dominance
Mon, 3 Feb 2025
Financial markets went into a panic last week over an obscure Chinese tech start-up called DeepSeek....
The Sunday Read: ‘Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution.’
Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Here’s a strange story: One day two summers ago, Jennifer Kahn woke up because her arms — both o...
'The Interview': Digital Drugs Have Us Hooked. Dr. Anna Lembke Sees a Way Out.
Sat, 1 Feb 2025
The psychiatrist and author of “Dopamine Nation” wants us to find balance in a world of temptati...
Trump 2.0 Arrives in Force
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Since his inauguration, President Trump has exercised a level of power that has directly challenged ...
What We Know About the Plane Crash
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
The midair collision between a passenger jet and a helicopter over Washington on Wednesday night was...
How R.F.K. Jr. and ‘Medical Freedom’ Rose to Power
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a crucial nomination hearing on Wednesday where a panel of skeptical sen...
Trump Freezes Trillions. Chaos Ensues.
Wed, 29 Jan 2025
In one of his most audacious moves since taking office, President Trump ordered a freeze on Tuesday ...
The Legal Battle Riveting Hollywood
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of alleged sexual harassment, and a fictional portrayal ...
Stephen Miller’s Return to Power
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
At the center of President Trump’s aggressive first week back in office is a 39-year-old adviser, ...
The Sunday Read: ‘Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World?’
Sun, 26 Jan 2025
As soon as Camille Bromley got Ellie, a black-eyed, bat-eared German shepherd puppy, she trained her...
Trump 2.0: Bans, Purges and Retribution
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
This week, President Trump has banned diversity, equity and inclusion programming in the federal gov...
Trump Plans to Abandon Clean Energy. Can He Do It?
Thu, 23 Jan 2025
Among the many plans that President Trump laid out on his first day back in office was a directive t...
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Begins
Wed, 22 Jan 2025
At the heart of President Trump’s flurry of executive orders was a systematic dismantling of the U...
Pardons and Populism: Trump’s First Day Back in the White House
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
Warning: This episode contains strong language.On Monday, in the culmination of an extraordinary pol...
The TikTok Flip-Flop
Mon, 20 Jan 2025
Over the past few weeks, users of the video app TikTok braced themselves for a national ban to take ...
The Sunday Read: ‘Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town. Then Rehab Became Its Business.’
Sun, 19 Jan 2025
Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small town. She was born in Louisville, Ky....
'The Interview': Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
Sat, 18 Jan 2025
The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in...
Waiting for the Immigration Raids, Again
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Five years ago, we interviewed a woman who asked that we call her Herminia. It was the summer of 201...
A Fragile Cease-Fire in Gaza
Thu, 16 Jan 2025
After 15 months of war, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a temporary cease-fire. The deal prompted ho...
Drunkenness, Women and Wokeness: A Dramatic Confirmation Hearing for Pete Hegseth
Wed, 15 Jan 2025
On Tuesday, the confirmation process for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet picks kicked of...
Could the L.A. Fires Have Been Stopped Sooner?
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
A week after fires broke out in the Los Angeles area, Californians are grappling with the widespre...
Big Tech’s Big Bet on Trump
Mon, 13 Jan 2025
Big Tech’s biggest names are throwing their weight behind Donald J. Trump in the biggest possible ...
The Sunday Read: ‘What Alice Munro Knew’
Sun, 12 Jan 2025
“My life has gone rosy, again,” Alice Munro told a friend in a buoyant letter of March 1975. For...
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today
Sat, 11 Jan 2025
The actor-director discusses the long-awaited return of the hit series, the comedies that made him a...
Trump 2.0: A Criminal Sentencing, Presidential Legacies, and Greenland
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
This week, President-elect Donald J. Trump asked the Supreme Court to prevent him from being sentenc...
L.A. on Fire
Thu, 9 Jan 2025
Over the past 48 hours, wildfires have consumed acre after acre and building after building across g...
The End of Justin Trudeau’s Canada
Wed, 8 Jan 2025
This week, Justin Trudeau said he would step down as prime minister of Canada — a stunning downfal...
Republicans Take Control of Congress — and Harris Certifies Her Own Loss
Tue, 7 Jan 2025
During their first few days in power, the Republican-controlled House and Senate vowed to put aside ...
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
Mon, 6 Jan 2025
Since the riot on Capitol Hill four years ago, President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have set ...
'The Interview': Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls
Sat, 4 Jan 2025
At the end of a tenure marked by war and division, the outgoing secretary of state defends his legac...
Terror in New Orleans
Fri, 3 Jan 2025
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence and death.A mere three hours into 2025, terr...
Dana White, Donald Trump and the Rise of Cage-Match Politics
Thu, 2 Jan 2025
Warning: this episode contains strong language.Over the past five years, one sports league has gaine...
The Year in Wisdom
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
To end the year, Melissa Kirsch, The New York Times’s deputy editor of Culture and Lifestyle, talk...
The Year in Books
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, critics, reporters and editors at The New York Times are reflecting on the...
The Life and Legacy of Jimmy Carter
Mon, 30 Dec 2024
In 1976, after the Watergate scandal and the country’s withdrawal from the Vietnam War, American v...
The Sunday Read: ‘Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back.’
Sun, 29 Dec 2024
For decades, Big Food has been marketing products to people who can’t seem to stop eating, and now...
The Sunday Read: ‘My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog ‘Hotels.’ I Tagged Along.’
Sat, 28 Dec 2024
By the time Sam Apple pulled up with his goldendoodle, Steve, to their resting place, he was tired f...
The Year in Music
Fri, 27 Dec 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, critics, reporters and editors at The New York Times are reflecting on the...
The Year in TV & Movies
Thu, 26 Dec 2024
As we approach the end of 2024, critics, reporters and editors at The New York Times are reflecting ...
Joni Mitchell Never Lies
Wed, 25 Dec 2024
In 2022, seven years after surviving a brain aneurysm that left her unable to sing or even speak, Jo...
How a Skeptical Critic Came to Love Bad Christmas Movies
Tue, 24 Dec 2024
Hallmark Christmas movies are corny, predictable and just what our critic needed to embrace the holi...
Could One Phone Call Lead to the 28th Amendment?
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
How President Biden could transform women’s rights and rescue his legacy with just a ring.Dozens o...
The Sunday Read: ‘The Alienation of Jaime Cachua’
Sun, 22 Dec 2024
His wife was spiraling into insomnia, and his children were afraid to go to school, so Jaime Cachua ...
'The Interview': Jonathan Roumie Plays Jesus to Millions. It Can Get Intense.
Sat, 21 Dec 2024
The star of “The Chosen” discusses his early struggles in Hollywood, fans who conflate him with ...
Ring-Kissing, Lawsuits and a Looming Shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
Weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald J. Trump is pushing the federal government tow...
Crypto’s Big Bet Is Paying Off
Thu, 19 Dec 2024
Since Donald J. Trump won the 2024 election, cryptocurrency has surged to its highest level ever. D...
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence.After months of testimony, ve...
Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of torture and death. It also contains audio of death an...
Pete Hegseth Was Toast. The MAGA Swarm Came to His Rescue.
Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Warning: this episode contains strong language.Over the past few weeks, the resistance of a single R...
The Sunday Read: ‘What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?’
Sun, 15 Dec 2024
“You couldn’t have made this movie three years ago,” said Robert Zemeckis, the director of “...
'The Interview': Rick Steves Refuses To Get Cynical About the World
Sat, 14 Dec 2024
The guidebook writer and television personality reflects on his cancer diagnosis, social media’s c...
A Turning Point for Ultraprocessed Foods
Fri, 13 Dec 2024
A new study has found that nearly three-quarters of American adults are now obese or overweight, and...
How China Hacked America’s Phone Network
Thu, 12 Dec 2024
An alarming new hack by China has penetrated the nerve center of the United States: its telephone ne...
Notre-Dame Rises From the Ashes
Wed, 11 Dec 2024
On Sunday, after a fire that many feared would destroy it, and a swift renovation that defied all pr...
The Manhunt, the Manifesto and the Murder Charge
Tue, 10 Dec 2024
Last week, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in Manhattan. A five-day sear...
Inside The Fall Of Syria’s Brutal Dictator
Mon, 9 Dec 2024
Syria has been controlled by one family for more than half a century who ruled by repression, devast...
From DealBook: Alex Cooper on Building a Media Brand
Sun, 8 Dec 2024
The host of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and founder of the Unwell Network discusses her intervi...
'The Interview': Tilda Swinton Would Like a Word With Trump About His Mother
Sat, 7 Dec 2024
The Academy Award-winning actress discusses her lifelong quest for connection, humanity’s innate g...
The Texas Village Rethinking Homelessness
Fri, 6 Dec 2024
Warning: this episode contains strong language.In Austin, Texas, a local businessman has undertaken ...
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
Thu, 5 Dec 2024
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a major case on the rights of transgender children that could ...
Two Billionaires’ Big Plan to Shrink Government
Wed, 4 Dec 2024
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have called the federal bureaucracy an “existential threat to our re...
When the President Pardons His Son
Tue, 3 Dec 2024
President Biden went back on his word by pardoning his son Hunter Biden. His stated rationale for gr...
It’s Tariff Time, Again
Mon, 2 Dec 2024
Weeks before taking office, President-elect Donald J. Trump is doubling down on tariffs. Even if the...
From Wirecutter: Don't Get Swindled on Black Friday
Fri, 29 Nov 2024
Most of the deals you’ll see for Black Friday and Cyber Week aren’t worth your time. This week, ...
Thanksgiving With Ina Garten
Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Leading up to Thanksgiving, we took a trip to the home of Ina Garten, the legendary cookbook author ...
How Israel Uses Palestinian Detainees as Human Shields
Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Overnight, Israel agreed to a cease-fire with the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah — a major turning...
The Metamorphosis of Pete Hegseth
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Now that Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general, President-elect Donald J. ...
It Sucks to Be 33
Thu, 14 Mar 2024
Jeanna Smialek, who covers the U.S. economy for The Times, will be 33 in a few weeks; she is part of...