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This is what the news should sound like. The biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. Hosted by Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise. Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, ready by 6 a.m.

Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

    Your Car May Be Spying on You

    Your Car May Be Spying on You

    Warning: this episode contains a discussion about domestic abuse.
    As cars become ever more sophisticated pieces of technology, they’ve begun sharing information about their drivers, sometimes with unnerving consequences. Kashmir Hill, a features writer for The Times, explains what information cars can log and what that can mean for their owners.

    • 23 min
    The Sunday Read: ‘Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?’

    The Sunday Read: ‘Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?’

    In October 2022, amid a flurry of media appearances promoting their film “Tàr,” the director Todd Field and the star Cate Blanchett made time to visit a cramped closet in Manhattan. This closet, which has become a sacred space for movie buffs, was once a disused bathroom at the headquarters of the Criterion Collection, a 40-year-old company dedicated to “gathering the greatest films from around the world” and making high-quality editions available to the public on DVD and Blu-ray and, more recently, through its streaming service, the Criterion Channel. Today Criterion uses the closet as its stockroom, housing films by some 600 directors from more than 50 countries — a catalog so synonymous with cinematic achievement that it has come to function as a kind of film Hall of Fame. Through a combination of luck, obsession and good taste, this 55-person company has become the arbiter of what makes a great movie, more so than any Hollywood studio or awards ceremony.

    • 29 min
    A Journey Through Putin’s Russia

    A Journey Through Putin’s Russia

    Russians go to the polls today in the first presidential election since their country invaded Ukraine two years ago.

    The war was expected to carry a steep cost for President Vladimir V. Putin. Valerie Hopkins, who covers Russia for The Times, explains why the opposite has happened.

    Guest: Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The New York Times.

    • 32 min
    It Sucks to Be 33

    It Sucks to Be 33

    Jeanna Smialek, who covers the U.S. economy for The Times, will be 33 in a few weeks; she is part of a cohort born in 1990 and 1991 that makes up the peak of America’s population.

    At every life stage, that microgeneration has stretched a system that was often too small to accommodate it, leaving its members — so-called peak millennials — with outsize economic power but also a fight to get ahead.

    Guest: Jeanna Smialek, a U.S. economy correspondent for The New York Times.

    • 26 min
    The Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain

    The Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain

    Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence and self harm.

    Last fall, an Army reservist killed 18 people at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, before turning the gun on himself.

    Dave Philipps, who covers military affairs for The Times, had already been investigating the idea that soldiers could be injured just by firing their own weapons. Analyzing the case of the gunman in Lewiston, Dave explains, could change our understanding of the effects of modern warfare on the human brain.

    Guest: Dave Philipps, who covers war, the military and veterans for The New York Times.

    • 25 min
    Oregon Decriminalized Drugs. Voters Now Regret It.

    Oregon Decriminalized Drugs. Voters Now Regret It.

    In 2020, motivated to try a different way to combat drug use, Oregon voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs including fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine.

    Things didn’t turn out as planned.

    Mike Baker, a national reporter for The Times, explains what went wrong.

    Guest: Mike Baker, a national reporter for The New York Times.

    • 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
185 Ratings

185 Ratings

John Lajoie ,

Best news podcast

Best format for news podcast, hands down. “What else you need to know today” is something that, weirdly, most other news podcasts completely miss. I have been listening since the very first episode, I genuinely enjoy the podcast as much as I would enjoy watching a netflix documentary, with the bonus that this is actually quality journalism. Thank you for your hard work.

Free Palestine2 🇵🇸 ,

Typical American propaganda

If you want to listen to a light stories and trivial stuff, this is your best podcast! If you are looking for genuine and meaningful content sorry , you should look somewhere else !

polomami ,

Thank you !!

I’m so sad to hear that this show is ending. It is such a quality program.
The waves of layoffs all across news media companies is heartbreaking. We need the work you do.
If not the best, I wish all the better to the team members!

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