The 10 Best The Daily Podcast Episodes
1) Why Would Anybody Claim That Birds Aren’t Real?
Birds Aren’t Real, a conspiracy theory with an apparently absurd premise, has become surprisingly popular in the past few years. But its followers were in on the joke: The movement’s aim was to poke ...Show More
2) The End of Privacy as We Know It?
A secretive start-up promising the next generation of facial recognition software has compiled a database of images far bigger than anything ever constructed by the United States government: over thre...Show More
3) A Bit of Relief: The Long Distance Chorus
Gregg Breinberg has been directing the chorus at Public School 22 on Staten Island for twenty years. He tells his fourth and fifth grade students that participation is not about whether they can sing ...Show More
4) The Sunday Read: ‘The “E-Pimps” of OnlyFans’
Ezra Marcus takes a deep dive into the world of OnlyFans and self-described e-pimps, and untangles the vast web of models, agencies and “chatters” (the people who often act as the OnlyFans models in p...Show More
5) How They Stormed Congress
This episode contains strong language. The pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday made their plans in plain sight. They organized on social media platforms and spoke openly of their int...Show More
6) Jack Dorsey on Twitter's Mistakes
It’s been four years since the 2016 election laid bare the powerful role that social media companies have come to play in shaping political discourse and beliefs in America. Since then, there have be...Show More
7) When Book Bans Came to Small Town New Jersey
This episode contains strong language. In the contentious debate over who controls what happens in America’s schools, a new battleground has emerged: library books. This is the story of what happened...Show More
8) The Rise of Workplace Surveillance
Across industries and income brackets, a growing number of American workers are discovering that their productivity is being electronically monitored by their bosses. This technology is giving employ...Show More
9) The Vaccine Trust Problem
Public health officials and private researchers have vowed to develop a coronavirus vaccine in record time. But could that rush backfire? Guest: Jan Hoffman, a health reporter for The New York Times. ...Show More
10) The Woman Defending Harvey Weinstein
Note: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence. In the trial of Harvey Weinstein, six women have taken the stand, each making similar accusations of rape and sexual assault against the m...Show More