The Sunday Read: ‘A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies’
14 July - 29 minsCindy Elgan glanced into the lobby of her office and saw a sheriff’s deputy waiting at the front counter. “Let’s start a video recording, just in case this goes sideways,” Elgan, 65, told one of her employees in the Esmeralda County clerk’s office. She had come to expect skepticism, conspiracy theories and even threats related to her job as an election administrator. She grabbed her annotated booklet of Nevada state laws, said a prayer for patience and walked into the lobby to confront the latest challenge to America’s electoral process.
The deputy was standing alongside a woman that Elgan recognized as Mary Jane Zakas, 77, a longtime elementary schoolteacher and a leader in the local Repub...
Series Episodes
Six Days Left: Closing Arguments, Racist Jokes and Burning Ballots
In the final week of the race for president, Donald J. Trump’s big rally in New York appeared to backfire, while Kamala Harris’s closing message cast her as a unifier. Fears about election interference also resurfaced after arsonists burned ballots in three states. The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher and Astead Herndon try to make sense of it all.
36 mins
30 October Finished
On the Ballot: An Immigration System Most Americans Never Wanted
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.
52 mins
29 October Finished
The Trump Campaign’s Big Gamble
explicitWarning: 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.
37 mins
28 October Finished
The Sunday Read: ‘How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library’
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.
36 mins
27 October Finished
'The Interview': John Fetterman Fears Trump Is Stronger Than Ever
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.
36 mins
26 October Finished
The United States of Pennsylvania
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.
37 mins
25 October Finished
