My Lost City
When New York was perpetually on fire.
The Scientists Persuading Terrorists to Spill Their Secrets
On the new art of interrogation.
Everest at the Bottom of the Sea
In 1956, an ocean liner named the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Cape Cod. Half a century later, deep-sea divers—the author included—were still risking their lives to explore it.
Trans, Teen and Homeless: America's Most Vulnerable Population
An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.
Meet the "Young Saints" of Bethel Who Go to College to Perform Miracles
Students come from around the world to struggling Redding, California, where the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry promises to teach them to perform miracles.
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?
On whether kids should be protected or pushed.
Fiction: "The Whole World is Desert"
A mother and daughter take a complicated trip to Central Asia.
Birth of a White Supremacist
How Mike Enoch went from progressive to fascist.
A Life on the Line: Cecilia Lam
Eight calls to 911. Three visits by five police officers. One woman’s senseless death.
Michael Barbaro is the host of The Daily.
“I don’t think The Daily should ever be my therapy session. That’s not what it’s meant to be, but I’m a human being. I arrive at work on a random Tuesday, and I do an interview with a guy like that, and it just punched me right in the stomach.”
Thanks to MailChimp, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Blinkist for sponsoring this week's episode.
The Man Who Forgot He Was a Rap Legend
T La Rock was one of the pioneers of hip-hop. But after an attack put him in a nursing home, he had to fight to recover his identity, starting with the fact that he’d ever been a rapper at all.
Dirty John
A con artist terrorizes a California family.
The Prophet of Germany’s New Right
A profile of the goat-herding nationalist intellectual who is leading a movement.
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?
Examining the future of the massive social media site.
Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.
The Confessions Of Cleveland Bynum
Five murders. Two confessions. A mysterious envelope.
Secrets of the South
A weekend with the United Order of Tents, a semi-covert organization of black women.
1491
The Western Hemisphere before Columbus.
They Thought They Were Going to Rehab. They Ended Up in Chicken Plants.
An Oklahoma rehab center puts defendants to grueling, dangerous work in a chicken processing plant. They receive neither pay nor treatment for their addictions.
The Emperor Miramaximus
A profile of Harvey Weinstein.
Death at a Penn State Fraternity
Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.
Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream
An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.
How Essential Oils Became the Cure for Our Age of Anxiety
Inside the big and not especially scientific business of lavender and frankincense.
A Former Superagent Bets Big on a More Diverse Hollywood
Charles D. King tries to change the entertainment landscape.
Fiction: "Stakes"
Loneliness and longing at an Arizona Renaissance fair.
