NYT's The Daily discussed this in response to Parkland. I found it to be quite insightful.
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The Daily podcast's series on it seemed like a good introduction
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Daniel Radcliffe, Mariska Hargitay and the Happiest List on Earth
The NYTimes The Daily podcast this week had an interesting explanation of this situation: North Korea is more a rogue proxy state than a proxy.
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Martin McDonagh Has a Vision for Hope. It's Not for the Faint of Heart.
Thursday night's episode on Zuckerberg's success built on mining personal data and his reluctance to be transparent.
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Sunday Special: TV's Big Night
The Daily has a good podcast episode going into more detail with the reporters who wrote the NYT article.
@fuddle
The Voters Who Flipped Congress
Listen to "The Daily", the NYTimes podcast, for the episode "A Secret U.F.O. Program" about how the reporter first came to the story.
@bvinc
Who Will Rule the 2026 U.S. Open?
A former white nationalist describes how dinners with his Jewish friend changed his mind; a fascinating story.
@ulrikrasmussen
To Save His Life, Our Food Critic Reset His Appetite
for more information, there was a podcast episode on the daily about this practice
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Sunday Special: A Sea of Streaming Docs
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NYT's The Daily is a great deeper dive on a current issue for a morning commute.
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Says they love this linked episode and that it is their favourite episode of The Daily.
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I highly recommend listening to it. It's my one 'must-listen' podcast, with far better production value than The Runup.
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A daily show covering what's most important in the world on that day.
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A great episode of The Daily on how Russian missile engines may be reaching North Korea through intermediaries.
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Try The Daily from NYT: about 20 minutes an episode, and hearing directly affected people makes the news more human and meaningful.
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Points readers to today's episode of The Daily, which discusses the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data story.
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The Daily by the New York Times is an awesome podcast, basically an audio newspaper for listening to the news.
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Check out today's episode of The Daily, which argues the media never saw Obama as "their guy."
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I love their 'The Daily' podcast; they pick one topic every day and dive deep over 30 minutes.
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I listen to the Daily as well, definitely recommended no shill.
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A deeper dive into the most important story of the past day, plus a quick summary of other notable events.
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Monday's Daily episode did a pretty good job explaining how location data enables blackmail and correlation attacks.
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Two-part episode explores how China opened its economy and how Western politics assumed political change was all but inevitable; highly recommended.
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A really good, roughly 20-minute The Daily episode about these crashes that answers a lot of the questions on this page.
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Says this Daily episode is very enlightening about the cultural shift that came with Boeing's move, and that quality staff quitting over conscience signals a real culture problem.
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The Daily podcast is wonderful.
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A week-long series visiting EU countries and talking with people on the ground. The commenter found it eye-opening and highly recommends it.
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I also recommend listening to yesterday's The Daily podcast on China's claimed release of Uighurs.
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The Daily is the only one I still listen to; I always feel like I learned something after it is over.
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Found a lot about CAHOOTS from The Daily a few weeks ago, and linked the episode.
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Really good episode on Apple and China that shows how political requirements touch on privacy, subtler but just as concerning.
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Not print, but I enjoy the daily Wall Street Journal's Tech News Briefing podcast.
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Their podcast "The Daily" had an episode on it, with the original lawyer who discovered the trick. A pretty good podcast for those who may not know about it.
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The Daily Ape newsletter and the Bankless podcast are solid news sources if you don't have time to follow everyone on Twitter.
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The Daily from the NYT had an episode a few days ago precisely on this idea. Very interesting.
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The Daily released an interview with the Amazon Labor Union organizers, and the commenter calls it pretty good.
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The Daily has a good episode on how online sports betting moves into one state at a time.
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Commenter often watches Chris Remo's channel because his voice is relaxing to listen to.
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Recommends listening to The Daily episode "The Messy Fight Over the SAT" as a follow-up listen.
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NYTimes "The Daily" podcast had an informative episode on the matter
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The NYT/The Daily did some great reporting and follow-up podcast on the situation.
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The Daily did an episode on this in April, with a former police officer who still fell victim to the scam.
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The Daily's Dec 4th episode was even-handed and noted that past attempts to cut government spending have mostly failed for political reasons.
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There is a recent episode of The Daily about him - worth checking out!
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The New York Times' The Daily podcast had a very good episode on it a couple weeks ago.
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Today's The Daily podcast has the author on as the guest, in case you want to hear him talk about his investigation.
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