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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.
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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. -
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.
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
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That last episode about the NordStream-sabotage was horrible. First, you assert strongly that Russia had no motive. You forget to mention that (1) Russia had already stopped delivering gas, and (2) Europe had clearly condemned this while at the same time making it clear that they wanted to make itself i dependent from Russian gas. A Russian sabotage would be a convenient way for Russia to quickly kill a dying relationship in a way that could cause havoc in Europe while blaming others (as it always does). Second, you strongly hint that Ukraine most likely was behind this, and that Europe should view that as a stab in the back. You should know better than throwing speculations like that out during an ongoing war…
Also, in a previous episode: How is it possible to spend an entire episode on Putin’s speech without clearly showing that it’s full of historical half-truths, omissions and outright lies?! Listeners without previous knowledge could come away from it thinking that Ukraine’s existence (and quest for democracy) is illegitimate.
I usually enjoy the Daily immensely, but sometimes you act as useful idiots for Kremlin and autocrats around the world…
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