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  1. The Secret Plan to End U.S. Climate Regulations

    2 DAYS AGO

    The Secret Plan to End U.S. Climate Regulations

    The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is expected on Thursday to repeal a scientific finding that requires the federal government to fight global warming. The move is the latest push by the Trump administration to wipe out climate regulations in the United States. Lisa Friedman, a New York Times reporter who covers climate policy, has spent the past few weeks piecing together the inside story of how a small group of activists turned its goal of rolling back environmental protections into reality. Guest: Lisa Friedman, a reporter covering climate policy and politics at The New York Times. Background reading:  President Trump’s allies are near a “total victory” in wiping out a central U.S. climate regulation.Four Trump allies have been a driving force behind the administration’s efforts to rollback the rule.Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    31 min
  2. The Sunday Daily: Bad Bunny Takes Over America

    1 FEB

    The Sunday Daily: Bad Bunny Takes Over America

    At the Grammy Awards tonight, the Puerto Rican pop sensation Bad Bunny is the first Spanish-language artist to be nominated for album, record and song of the year simultaneously. For most artists, this would be the high point of their year, if not their career. For Bad Bunny, this is just an appetizer for what’s in store for him next week. Next Sunday, he will headline the Super Bowl halftime show. His performance comes in the middle of a nationwide crackdown on immigration — an issue he’s been vocal about — and follows a backlash against the N.F.L. for booking him in the first place. Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, the hosts of The Times’s pop music show “Popcast,” discuss Bad Bunny’s rise to the heights of pop stardom, and explore what it means for a Puerto Rican artist to headline the world’s biggest stage. On Today’s Episode: Jon Caramanica is a pop music critic at The New York Times and a co-host of “Popcast.” Joe Coscarelli is a culture reporter for The New York Times who focuses on popular music and a co-host of “Popcast.” Background Reading: Grammys 2026: Who Should Win the Biggest Awards Bad Bunny Talks Coming Back Home on His ‘Most Puerto Rican’ Album Yet Get to Know Bad Bunny in 9 Songs Photo: Mario Anzuoni for Reuters. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    49 min
  3. The Sunday Daily: We Underestimated the Neanderthal

    25 JAN

    The Sunday Daily: We Underestimated the Neanderthal

    Pop culture has not been kind to the Neanderthal. In books, movies and even TV commercials, the species is portrayed as rough and mindless, a brutish type that was rightly supplanted by our Homo sapiens ancestors. But even 40,000 years after the last Neanderthals walked the earth, we continue to make discoveries that challenge that portrayal. New research suggests Neanderthals might have been less primitive — and a lot more like modern humans — than we might have thought. The Times science reporters Carl Zimmer and Franz Lidz discuss recent discoveries about Neanderthals, and what those discoveries can tell us about the origins of humanity.   On Today’s Episode: Carl Zimmer writes the Origins column and covers news about science for The Times. Franz Lidz writes about archaeology for The Times.   Background Reading: The Year in Neanderthals Morning Person? You Might Have Neanderthal Genes to Thank. What Makes Your Brain Different From a Neanderthal’s? The Neanderthal Inside Us   Photo: Frank Franklin II/Associated Press Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    32 min
  4. The Sunday Daily: Hollywood’s A.I. Moment

    18 JAN

    The Sunday Daily: Hollywood’s A.I. Moment

    There’s a lot of anxiety about artificial intelligence invading Hollywood; the general mood there right now could be called “doom and gloom.” But speculation about a future where A.I. actors perform A.I. scripts in A.I.-generated movies often obscures the role A.I. is currently playing in the industry. In this episode, the host Michael Barbaro talks with the Hollywood reporter Brooks Barnes and the movie critic Alissa Wilkinson about the ways that A.I. is already showing up in our movies and television today, and how they see it contributing to — and complicating — the future.   On Today’s Episode: Alissa Wilkinson is a Times movie critic. Brooks Barnes is the chief Hollywood correspondent for The Times.   Background Reading: Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching? Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Is Getting an A.I. Glow-Up. Cue the Pitchforks. Is ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Sphere the Future of Cinema? Or the End of It?   Photo: Roger Kisby for The New York Times Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    38 min
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