Six Days Left: Closing Arguments, Racist Jokes and Burning Ballots

If Donald J. Trump wins next week’s election, it will be in large part because voters embraced his message that the U.S. immigration system is broken. David Leonhardt, a senior writer at The New York Times, tells the surprising story of how that system came to be. Guest: David Leonhardt, a senior writer at The New York Times who runs The Morning.

Warning: this episode contains strong language. The presidential campaign is in its final week and one thing remains true: the election is probably going to come down to a handful of voters in a swing states. Jessica Cheung,  a producer for “The Daily,” and Jonathan Swan, a reporter covering politics for The Times, take us inside Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign to win over those voters. Guest: Jessica Cheung, a senior producer of “The Daily.” Jonathan Swan, a reporter covering politics and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for The New York Times.

If you take a journey deep within Netflix’s furthest recesses — burrow past Binge-worthy TV Dramas and 1980s Action Thrillers, take a left at Because You Watched the Lego Batman Movie, keep going past Fright Night — you will eventually find your way to the platform’s core, the forgotten layers of content fossilized by the pressure from the accreted layers above. Netflix’s vast library changed the business of television — in part by making a better product and showing the rest of the industry that it had to follow suit — but it also changed the very nature of television.

The senator discusses the “astonishing” support for the former president in Pennsylvania, his rift with progressives over Israel and his own position in the Democratic Party.

Throughout this election, one state has been at the center of every imaginable path to victory: Pennsylvania. Both candidates have campaigned there relentlessly, and both parties have spent more money there than in any other state. Campbell Robertson, who has been reporting from Pennsylvania, discusses the shift that is reshaping the map in Pennsylvania. Guest: Campbell Robertson, a reporter for the National desk at The New York Times.