Background reading: 

• The care Osama bin Laden showed his son was not just fatherly, but appears to have been an attempt by the world’s most hunted terrorist to secure his legacy.
• The United States had a role in the operation that killed Hamza bin Laden, officials said. But other details, including where he died, are unknown.

Background reading: 

• A Times investigation found that the Federal Aviation Administration’s regulatory process, which gave Boeing significant oversight authority, compromised the safety of the 737 Max.

Background reading:

• Mr. Johnson has become one of the great escape artists of British politics.
• Some of Mr. Johnson’s family members, once staunch opponents of Brexit, have had to perform a complicated political jujitsu around his candidacy for prime minister.
• Prime Minister Theresa May is scheduled to step down on Wednesday. Only 160,000 Conservative Party members can vote for the next leader, sidelining 99 percent of registered voters.

Background reading: 

• “The school bus, treasured when it was serving as a tool of segregation, became reviled only when it transformed into a tool of integration,” Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in a news analysis.

Background reading:

• A small number of raids targeting recently arrived undocumented migrant parents and their children took place over the weekend. More raids are expected to follow throughout the week.

Background reading: 

• After a key witness for prosecutors changed his story on the stand, Chief Gallagher was found not guilty of the most serious charges against him, including the first-degree murder of a captive ISIS fighter and attempted murder of civilians in Iraq.
• Some SEAL commanders expressed worry that the verdict would discourage others from reporting possible war crimes in the future.

Background reading: 

• Soiled clothes, no diapers and no access to showers or soap — read more about the conditions that migrant children faced in an overcrowded border station in Texas.
• The authorities emptied the station, then moved more than 100 children back in. A Times reporter toured the site last week.
• Congress sent President Trump a $4.6 billion border aid package that left Democratic lawmakers badly divided.

Background reading:

• Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the leader of the paramilitary forces that carried out the killings, is now considered by many to be the de facto ruler of Sudan.
• Listen to an episode of “The Daily” about the fall of Sudan’s longtime dictator, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was deposed by his own generals in May.

Background reading:

• President Trump’s messaging at the rally signals a bet that his 2020 campaign will be a replay of 2016 — but this time, with the full support of the Republican Party.
• Here are eight things our reporters learned from attending the rally.
• The 2020 election is shaping up as a test: Was Mr. Trump’s victory a historical fluke, or a genuine reflection of America today?

Guests: Katrin Bennhold, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times, and Clare Toeniskoetter and Lynsea Garrison, producers for “The Daily,” went to an election party in Berlin for the far-right party Alternative for Germany. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

• Germany’s political establishment looks increasingly fragile after the European Parliament elections.
• As anti-Semitic crime rises in Germany, new forms of old hatreds are stoking fear for the nation’s estimated 200,000 Jews.
• Katrin Bennhold offers her main takeaway after 10 days on the road: “Europe cannot be taken for granted. But neither can its demise.”

Background reading:

• Gilead Sciences, the maker of Truvada, the only drug approved to prevent H.I.V. infection, will donate enough of the drug to supply 200,000 patients, but critics questioned the company’s motives.
• The high cost of drugs remains a major obstacle to ending the AIDS epidemic.
• Here’s more information about PrEP from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

Background reading:

• Limited information released by UNC shows that the hospital’s cardiac surgery mortality rate from July 2013 through June 2017 was higher than those of most of the 82 hospitals that publicly report similar information.
• Listen to the audio recordings that provide an unfiltered look behind closed doors at the hospital.

Background reading:

• A real estate mogul made toxic by polarizing rhetoric and a pattern of defaults. A bank with longstanding financial problems and a record of misconduct. Read about President Trump’s tumultuous history with Deutsche Bank.
• A federal judge on Wednesday ruled against a request from the president to block Deutsche Bank from complying with congressional subpoenas.

Ms. Tlaib has repeatedly denied that there’s any anti-Semitism behind what she’s said. But she hasn’t spoken at length about the controversy or explained where she’s coming from. So a few weeks ago, we traveled back to visit her at her congressional office in Detroit.

Guests: Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan; and Andy Mills and Jessica Cheung, producers for “The Daily.” For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. This episode contains explicit language.

Background reading:

• Remarks by Ms. Tlaib about the Palestinian role in the founding of Israel further inflamed feud over the Jewish state, anti-Semitism and the first two Muslim women in the House.
• This episode of “The Daily” includes excerpts from an interview with Ms. Tlaib on “Skullduggery,” a podcast from Yahoo News. Listen to the full interview here.

Background reading:

• “It’s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard, and I haven’t worked at the company in a decade,” Mr. Hughes writes in his Op-Ed. “But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.”

Background reading:

• The Times has obtained figures from President Trump’s federal income tax returns from 1985 through 1994. They paint a far bleaker picture of his financial condition than was previously known.
• Here are five takeaways of what the numbers show.
• Listen to an episode of “The Daily” about Mr. Trump’s participation in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s.

Background reading:

A confidential Navy criminal investigation report obtained by The Times paints a disturbing picture of a subculture within the SEALs that prized aggression and protected wrongdoers.

This episode includes disturbing language.

Background reading:

• The Mueller report laid out the scope of Russian election interference and President Trump’s frantic efforts to thwart the special counsel investigation.
• Read a rundown of what we know so far from the report.
• Times reporters shared key annotated excerpts from the report.

The Many Deaths of a Painting

This episode contains descriptions of abuse.

Discussed this week:

• “How to Support a Friend or Loved One Who Has Been Sexually Abused” (Vanessa Marin, The New York Times, 2019)
• “Leaving Neverland” (HBO, 2019)
• “Moonwalk” (Michael Jackson, 2009)
• “The Oprah Winfrey Show” (ABC, Feb. 10, 1993)
• “Living With Michael Jackson” (ITV, 2003)
• “On Michael Jackson” (Margo Jefferson, 2006)

The Known Unknown

Discussed this week:

• “Jussie Smollett Timeline: Mystery Remains as Actor Is Charged With Faking His Assault” (Sopan Deb, The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2019)
• “Lee Daniels Shares Powerful Words for Jussie Smollett After Racist, Homophobic Attack” (Alex Ungerman, ETOnline, Jan. 29, 2019)
• April Ryan asks President Trump what he thinks about the alleged attack on Jussie Smollett (C-Span, Jan. 29, 2019)
• “Jussie Smollett speaks to Robin Roberts in ABC News exclusive interview” (Good Morning America, Feb. 14, 2019)
• “Can the Grammys Please Anyone?” (Ben Sisario, The New York Times, Feb. 7, 2019)
• “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” (Netflix, 2019)
• “Fyre Fraud” (Hulu, 2019)
• “Breaking Bad” (AMC, 2008-13)
• “Where’s All This Energy for the Attacks on Black Transgender Women?” (Raquel Willis, Out, Jan. 31, 2019)
• “At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power” (Danielle L. McGuire, 2011)
• “Prada, Gucci and now Burberry: Are brands under fire for offensive designs doing it on purpose?” (Rachel Leah, Salon, Feb 20. 2019)
• “Former Goucher Student Faces Four Counts of Hate Crime Charges for Racist Graffiti” (WJZ, Dec. 5, 2018)
• “Revisiting a Rape Scandal That Would Have Been Monstrous if True” (Retro Report, The New York Times, June 3, 2013)
• “Why You Always Lying” (Nicholas Fraser, Sept. 14, 2015)

We recently checked in with Diane, who moved with her entire family into a house that seemed perfect for them to live in together as they aged. But when her younger son, Theo, started having violent outbursts at home, their plan of continuing to care for him was thrown into question. 

Did you miss our first episode with Diane? Go back and listen. Diane also guest hosted Death, Sex & Money in 2016. Hear her conversation with two other parents of autistic children, including a police officer, here. 

Discussed this week:

• “Becoming” (Michelle Obama, 2019)
• Beyoncé singing “At Last” at Barack Obama’s 2008 inauguration
• “Lean In” (Sheryl Sandberg, 2013)
• “Complete Writings: Phillis Wheatley” (Phillis Wheatley, 2001)
• “Thick: And Other Essays” (Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, 2019)
• “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower” (Dr. Brittney Cooper, 2018)
• “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” (adrienne maree brown, 2017)

Guest: Annie Correal, who covers New York for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Since 2001, China was one of the biggest buyers of American recycling.  That is, until last year, when China pulled a move that no one saw coming: they stopped buying.

National Sword

This episode includes disturbing language.

This experimental program was called Operation Tat-Type. It was administered by the county and the idea was simple: to make it easier to transfuse blood after an atomic bomb. At the age of 16, producer Liza Yeager's grandmother, who went to school in Lake County, was permanently marked in anticipation of a nuclear catastrophe.

Atomic Tattoos

This episode kicks off our month-long series called Our Sex (Mis)Educations. Find the entire series here.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Also, to cap off a chaotic day of breaking news, Jim Mattis resigned as secretary of defense. Guest: Jonathan Weisman, the deputy Washington editor of The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Mini-Stories: Volume 5

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Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear; a six-part series within 99% Invisible, looking at clothing. It is produced and hosted by Avery Trufelman. Episodes will be released on Tuesdays and Fridays from September 25th through October 12th.

Punk Style: Articles of Interest #6

1. The life and work of JSG Boggs, the artist who created hand-drawn replicas of currency that he used to buy goods and services. With Lawrence Weschler and MIT's Neha Nerula [@neha]. Listen.

2. A brief history of money with UC Irvine's Bill Maurer and Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] from Brown University. Listen. 

3. How cryptocurrency could shape the future of money, with MIT's Neha Nerula [@neha], New York Times' Nathaniel Popper [@nathanielpopper], Vinay Gupta [@leashless] of Mattereum, Brown University's Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] and artist Kevin Abosch [@kevinabosch]. Listen.

Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear; a six-part series within 99% Invisible, looking at clothing. It is produced and hosted by Avery Trufelman. Episodes will be released on Tuesdays and Fridays from September 25th through October 12th.

Hawaiian Shirts: Articles of Interest #4

That's what Lawrence Bartley told me the first time I spoke to him in 2014. I was interviewing him at Sing Sing prison in New York, where he was serving a sentence of 27 years to life for second degree murder.

That day came this past May, when Lawrence was paroled, and walked out of Sing Sing a free man. After a few months out, he and his wife, Ronnine, joined me to talk about their life as a family on the outside—how Ronnine navigated a difficult year after Lawrence's first request for parole was denied, how they've approached parenting their two young sons together, and how Lawrence is thinking back on the crime he was imprisoned for now that he's free.

I spoke with Lawrence and Ronnine before, first in 2014, and then again last summer, when he was getting ready to go before the parole board for the first time. Find those episodes here and here.

You can read the essay Lawrence wrote in prison for The Marshall Project here.

Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear; a six-part series within 99% Invisible, looking at clothing. It is produced and hosted by Avery Trufelman. Episodes will be released on Tuesdays and Fridays from September 25th through October 12th.

Pockets: Articles of Interest #3

The routes were rugged and treacherous. The “bookwomen” followed creek beds and fence routes through summer heat and frozen winters — their saddlebags and pillowcases stuffed with Robinson Crusoe, Women’s Home Companion, Popular Mechanics. Many people were illiterate and the women often stayed and read to them.

The pay was $28 a month. Each woman was required to supply her own horse or mule, their food and boarding. When the program closed in 1943 as America entered World War II, nearly one thousand pack horse librarians had served 1.5 million people in 48 Kentucky counties.

This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault.

Let's get started. If we're talking about the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, it only feels right to start at the beginning. The First and Second Amendments are arguably the most ferociously contentious amendments of them all, and the Third Amendment is the underdog that everyone underestimates but (maybe) shouldn’t.

With that in mind, Episode One dives into the poetic dream behind the First Amendment. This is the amendment that reflects the kind of country the Founding Fathers hoped we would be. Next, we examine the fiercely debated words of the Second Amendment, words that often feel like they divide our nation in two. And finally, we question whether the seemingly irrelevant Third Amendment might actually be the key to figuring out where our country is going.

And when you're done with the episode, take a listen to the songs by Joey Stylez, Cherry Glazerr, Sateen, Flor de Toloache, Michael Richard Klics, Palehound, and They Might be Giants inspired by Amendments 1, 2 and 3 on 27: The Most Perfect Album.

The House that Came in the Mail

Go back and listen to the entire series at deathsexmoney.org/hotdates. And we know that sometimes, being single can be more fun than it seems! So we want to celebrate the times in your life when you're not planning around anyone else. Head on over to our interactive Google spreadsheet where you can share the ways you treat yourself well when you're on your own, and get some inspiration from other listeners. 

How do you define hate speech? Where’s the line between a joke and an attack? How much butt is too much butt? Facebook has answered these questions. And from these answers they’ve written a rulebook that all 2.2 billion of us are expected to follow. Today, we explore that rulebook. We dive into its details and untangle its logic. All the while wondering what does this mean for the future of free speech?

This episode was reported by Simon Adler with help from Tracie Hunte and was produced by Simon Adler with help from Bethel Habte.

Special thanks to Sarah Roberts, Jeffrey Rosen, Carolyn Glanville, Ruchika Budhraja, Brian Dogan, Ellen Silver, James Mitchell, Guy Rosen, and our voice actor Michael Churnus.

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Discussed this week:

• “The Score” (The Fugees, 1996)
• “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (Lauryn Hill, 1998)
• “MTV Unplugged No. 2.0” (Lauryn Hill, 2002)
• “Ooo Baby Baby” (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “Smokey Robinson and the Miracles LIVE!,” 1969)
• "They Won't Go When I Go" (Stevie Wonder, "Fulfillingness' First Finale," 1974)
• “All Falls Down” (Kanye West, “The College Dropout,” 2004)
• “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party” (Directed by Michel Gondry, 2006)

The Shipping Forecast

Each story is from a different writer: Chris Kipiniak, Becca Schall, Louis Kornfeld, Lila Newman, and Davy Gardner. They were all given one assignment: take us beyond the lights and the color, to show us what’s really going on in the park.

Plus, bothy talk.

Right to Roam

Discussed this week: 

• "Everything is Love" (The Carters, 2018)
• Zerina Akers' Instagram
• Vince Aletti's Interview with Madonna in Aperture 156 (Summer 1999)
• Deana Lawson, Photographer
• John Edmonds, Photographer
• Carrie Mae Weems, Photographer
• "Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December 1804" (Jacques-Louis David)

Discussed this week:

• "Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet" (Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, June 1, 2018)
• Rebecca Traister's tweets about Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump the C-word (2018)
• "Running Up That Hill" (Kate Bush, 1985) 
• "The Man Who Ate Everything" (Jeffrey Steingarten, 1998)
• "Julián is a Mermaid" (Jessica Love, 2018)
• "O Superman" (Laurie Anderson, 1982)
• Kanye's comments about former president George Bush after Hurricane Katrina (MTV, 2005)
• "Ye" (Kanye West, 2018)
• "The Life of Pablo" (Kanye West, 2016)
• "Yeezus" (Kanye West, 2013)
• "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (Kanye West, 2010)
• "808s & Heartbreak" (Kanye West, 2008)
• "Graduation" (Kanye West, 2007)
• "Late Registration" (Kanye West, 2005)
• "The College Dropout" (Kanye West, 2004)

This episode includes disturbing language and scenes of graphic violence.

To show off the durability of his creation, Dinges took it up to the eighth floor of a hotel in Chicago, where the Navy was examining submissions, and threw it out of the window. It bounced, but didn't bend or break.

And so the Navy gave its inventor the contract, and he, in turn, opened a factory and called new his business the Electrical Machine and Equipment Company, or: Emeco.

Over the decades the Emeco Navy chair became so popular that companies began to copy it. There are now tons of knockoffs -- fakes. Last month, Benjamen Walker of Theory of Everything walked 99% Invisible Host Roman Mars around New York city, pointing out real and fake Emeco chairs.

77 Steps

This episode includes disturbing language and scenes of graphic violence.

Curb Cuts

Instead, two decades later, she says that decision ushered in the best times of her life. “I wanted a kind of life I had never seen before,” she told me. “I was always really attracted to women who seemed to be eccentric and kind of uncontrollable. I wanted them to teach me how they came to be so free.”

I talk to her about pushing back against the unspoken confines of womanhood, in her writing and in her life, and about how a phone call from Oprah changed everything for her.  

Lizzie sees the relationships as purely transactional, but she says the men often don’t treat it that way. “They think they’re getting better girls if they’re not actually escorts,” she told me. I spoke with Lizzie about why she prefers seeing men who are new to Seeking Arrangement, and how she navigates her double life. 

*Name changed

Written by Louis Kornfeld and produced by Jonathan Mitchell. Performed by Michael Cullen.

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Listen to Part 1 of this story here.

In Part 2, we look at how the immigration of tens of thousands of Surinamese Dutch began to give the empty place life where it wasn’t before and how a tragic accident kickstarted a redesign that managed to do what the modernists neglected to do: listen to the people who live there.

Blood, Sweat and Tears (City of the Future, Part 2)

“I feel like I’m still writing to let my 10-year-old self know it’s okay to be you. It’s okay to be a chubby androgynous weirdo. You know what I mean? Like this weird black kid. It’s okay. There are others like you.”

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• @jennydeluxe
• www.jennydeluxe.com
• Wortham on Longform
• [02:00] Wortham’s New York Times archive
• [02:00] Still Processing
• [02:00] Longform Podcast #95: Wesley Moris
• [02:00] Longform Podcast #218: Wesley Morris
• [05:35] "Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home" (David Carr • New York Times • March 2011)
• [06:40] "We Sink Our Claws Into Black Panther with Ta-Nehisi Coates" (Still Processing • Feb 2018)
• [20:40] Wortham’s Wired archive
• [25:15] "Meet the Mario Maestros Who Have Video Game Music Rocking Concert Halls" (Joel Stein • Wired • Nov 2007)
• [26:05] The Underwire
• [27:08] "Early-Bird Buzz Mounts for Whedon's Dollhouse" (Wired • March 2008)
• [27:25] "Rosario Dawson Delivers High-Tech Drama in Gemini Division" (Wired • Aug 2008)
• [43:50] "Facebook to Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion" (New York Times • April 2012)
• [52:30] "Everybody Sexts" (Matter • Nov 2014)
• [56:20] "Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?" (New York Times • Jan 2018)

Lynne's latest is Swimming in the Sink

You can find more about Lynne at her website: http://www.lynnecox.com/

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Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)

"It just goes to show that the best thing you can possibly do as a journalist is to forget you’re a journalist, go out, have some authentic experiences, preferably fail at something really hard, and then write about that."

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• @michaelidov
• Idov on Longform
• [01:15] "The Movie Set That Ate Itself" (GQ • Oct 2011)
• [02:00] Idov’s Archive at NY Mag
• [02:25] Dressed Up for a Riot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2018)
• [06:35] “Samizdat”
• [14:00] "Bitter Brew" (Slate • Dec 2009)
• [16:55] Ground Up (Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2009)
• [19:30] Adam Moss on the Longform Podcast
• [19:35] Jim Nelson on the Longform Podcast
• [21:40] "Georgia’s Next Leader May Be a Billionaire Zookeeper with Albino Rapper Children" (The New Republic • Sep 2012)
• [22:20] "Dosvedanie to All That" (Julia Ioffe • The New Republic • Feb 2014)
• [24:30] 4 (Magnolia Home Entertainment • 2009)
• [32:50] "My Accidental Career as a Russian Screenwriter" (New York Times • Jan 2016)
• [33:05] "Russia: Life After Trust" (New York • Jan 2017)

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Border Wall

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“You want to write about something real. I hate stories that are, the tension of the story is, talk radio perception versus the reality that I see when I’m with somebody. I can’t stand those stories because to me, you’re just writing about the ether versus a real person, and that’s not a real tension to me. The inner tensions are the best tensions. You can’t get to them with everybody, but you try.”

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• @SethWickersham
• Wickersham on Longform
• [02:10] "For Kraft, Brady and Belichick, Is This the Beginning of the End?" (ESPN • Jan 2018)
• [05:35] "Spygate to Deflategate: Inside What Split the NFL and Patriots Apart " (Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham • ESPN • Sep 2015)
• [05:35] "The Secret Life of Tiger Woods" (Wright Thompson • ESPN • April 2016)
• [15:05] "Why Richard Sherman Can't Let Go of Seattle's Super Bowl Loss" (ESPN • May 2017)
• [16:35] "Sin City or Bust " (Seth Wickersham, Don Van Natta Jr. • ESPN • April 2017)
• [19:10] @bruceallen
• [25:05] “The Brady Hunch” (ESPN The Magazine • Dec 2001)
• [26:00] The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance (Tom Brady • Simon & Schuster • 2017)
• [26:50] “The Drive That Never Ends” (ESPN The Magazine • Sept 2016)
• [28:25] “Tom Brady's Most Dangerous Game” (ESPN The Magazine • Oct 2017)
• [30:15] “A Football Life: Meet Bill Belichick” (NFL Productions • NFL Network • 2009)
• [30:20] “Patriots Coach Bill Belichick Dressed Up as a Pirate for Halloween” (Nick Schwartz • USA Today • Oct 2013)
• [41:40] “Rick Carlisle Rips ESPN for Publishing LaVar Ball Story on Luke Walton's Job Status” (Chris Chavez • Sports Illustrated • Jan 2018)
• [44:20] "John Skipper Resigns as ESPN president; George Bodenheimer Takes Over as Acting Chairman” (ESPN • Dec 2017)

Managed Retreat

"I used to have a lot of anxiety that I don’t seem like an investigative reporter. Utlimately, my reporting personality is just me. It’s just, I want to be real with people. And the number one rule of repoting is to be a human being to other people. Be decent. Be kind."

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Thermal Delight

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We will be taking Christmas and New Years Day off. For the rest of next week, we’re going to revisit our favorite episodes of the year. We’ll listen back and then hear what’s happened since the stories first ran.

Guests: Helene Cooper, who covers the Pentagon for The New York Times; Luis Elizondo, an intelligence officer who led the program inside the Pentagon. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

“Radio is a movie in your head. It’s a very visual thing. It’s a transporting thing—when it’s done well. And it’s louder than your thoughts. It is both of those things. It would just take me out of the place that I was, where I was lost and couldn’t figure things out. ... They had a very personal way of telling the story to you, so that you kind of felt like you’re there with them. Like it’s less lonely, it’s literally less lonely to have them there. And that felt really good.”

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• @zchace
• [02:30] Chace's Archive at This American Life
• [02:30] Chace's Archive at Planet Money
• [04:00] Longform Podcast #239: Brian Reed
• [05:50] S-Town
• [16:10] Weekend Edition Saturday
• [25:45] "Donald Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S." (Jeremy Diamond • CNN • Dec 2015)
• [28:55] "I Thought I Knew You" (This American Life • Jan 2016)
• [33:35] "Sex, Boyhood and Politics in South Carolina" (This American Life • Feb 2016)
• [41:35] "The Believer" (Julia Ioffe • Politico • June 2016)
• [43:00] "Will I Know Anyone at This Party" (This American Life • Oct 2016)
• [43:30] "Party in the USA" (This American Life • Oct 2016)
• [50:25] "Flake News" (This American Life • Oct 2017)
• [55:10] "Fighting Donald Trump Cost Jeff Flake His Job. But He's Not Going Quietly" (Nash Jenkins • Time • Nov 2017)
• [55:20] Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle (Jeff Flake • Random House • 2017)

Car companies, safety advocates, and regulators comb through this data constantly, looking for patterns that help them understand how and why people die in car wrecks. In turn, this information helps designers and engineers create safer vehicles and roadways. The data informs all kinds of design decisions around car safety — everything from speed limits to mandatory seat belts.

But this culture of heavily regulated, data-driven, auto-safety engineering did not always exist. In fact, for decades, automakers tried to keep data about car wrecks to themselves. They not only resisted making cars safer, they argued the very idea of a “safe car” was impossible.

The Nut Behind the Wheel

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The key voices:

• Dethorne Graham Jr., son of Dethorne Graham, appellant in Graham v. Connor
• Edward G. (Woody) Connette, lawyer who represented Graham in the lower courts
• Gerald Beaver, lawyer who represented Graham at the Supreme Court
• Kelly McEvers, host of Embedded and All Things Considered

The key case:

• 1989: Graham v. Connor

Additional production for this episode by Dylan Keefe and Derek John; additional music by Matt Kielty and Nicolas Carter.

Special thanks to Cynthia Lee, Frank B. Aycock III, Josh Rosenkrantz, Leonard Feldman, Tom Dreisbach, and Ben Montgomery.

Leadership support for More Perfect is provided by The Joyce Foundation. Additional funding is provided by The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation.

Supreme Court archival audio comes from Oyez®, a free law project in collaboration with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell.

“I do the work. I just work harder than other people. I really do. I work harder, I interview more people, I call more people, I text more people. And so I find out, and they can not talk to me — fine. I know anyway. I’d like to talk to you, I’d like to give you a chance. I’d like to be fair. I’d like to hear your side of the story. And the most important thing is, I think smart people – and these are very smart people — like smart questions. They don’t like the fawning questions. They don’t like being licked up and down all day. Some of the day they like it. They want someone who knew them before they were billionaires. Because when you’re a billionaire, every day you’re so smart. Everyone wants something from you.”

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1. @karaswisher
2. [02:35] Longform Podcast #239: Brian Reed
3. [02:50] Recode
4. [02:55] Recode Decode
5. [03:00] Code Conference
6. [04:40] "Kara Swisher’s First Tech Article Was About Pay Phones in 1980" (Jesse Rifkin • A Step in the Write Direction • Nov 2017)
7. [08:10] "McLaughlin Suit Settled" (Jim Naughton, Phil McCombs • Washington Post • Dec 1999)
8. [10:00] "Pundit Power" (Eric Alterman • Washington Post • March 1989)
9. [11:30] Longform Podcast #128: Jack Shafer
10. [22:51] AOL.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web (Crown Business • 1998)
11. [35:25] Swisher’s Archive at Vanity Fair
12. [41:20] "Uber CEO Kalanick Advised Employees on Sex Rules for a Company Celebration in 2013 ‘Miami Letter’" (Kara Swisher, Johana Bhuiyan • Recode • June 2017)
13. [41:40] "A Top Uber Executive, Who Obtained the Medical Records of a Customer Who Was a Rape Victim, Has Been Fired’" (Kara Swisher, Johana Bhuiyan • Recode • June 2017)
14. [41:40] "The Men and (No) Women Facebook of Facebook Management" (Wall Street Journal • Aug 2007)
15. [41:50] "The Men and No Women of Web 2.0 Boards" (Wall Street Journal • Dec 2010)
16. [43:40] "Will Twitter Add a Woman Director Before the IPO?" (Wall Street Journal • Sept 2013)
17. [48:40] " Missing Milly Dowler's Voicemail Was Hacked by News of the World" (Nick Davies, Amelia Hill • The Guardian • July 2011)
18. [58:35] There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere (Crown Business • 2003)
19. [61:35] Pop-Up Magazine
20. [61:40] California Sunday

Money Makers

“Being a reporter really robs you of self-consciousness and shyness. You realize that it’s this great gift of being able to ask crazy questions, either really personal or very probing or especially with a powerful — to walk up to Harvey Weinstein, essentially and say, ‘What have you been doing to women all these years, and for how long? All of these other people may be afraid to confront you about it, but we are not.’ That is our job.”

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• @jodikantor
• jodikantor.net
• Kantor on Longform
• 11/12: Longform Podcast, Live in Chicago with Zoe Chace
• 11/15: Longform Podcast, Live in San Francisco with Kara Swisher
• [00:50] "Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades" (Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey • New York Times • Oct 2017)
• [02:10] "Promethea Unbound" (Mike Mariani • Atavist • Nov 2017)
• [03:30] "From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories" (Ronan Farrow • New Yorker • Oct 2017)
• [03:45] "Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies" (Ronan Farrow • New Yorker • Nov 2017)
• [04:50] "New Accusers Expand Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Claims Back to ’70s" (Ellen Gabler, Megan Twohey, Jodi Kantor • New York Times • Oct 2017)
• [5:15] "Kevin Spacey Issues Apology to Actor After Sexual Accusation " (Michael Paulson • New York Times • April 2017)
• [8:00] "Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up" (Emily Steel, Michael S. Schmidt • New York Times • April 2017)
• [9:05] "Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment" (Katie Benner • New York Times • June 2017)
• [10:50] "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace" (Jodi Kantor, David Streitfeld • New York Times • Aug 2015)
• [18:55] "Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them" (Jodi Kantor, Rachel Abrams • New York Times • Oct 2017)
• [38:10] "Working Anything but 9 to 5" (New York Times • Aug 2014)
• [46:10]Longform Podcast #198: Franch Rich
• [48:00]The Obamas (Little, Brown and Company • 2012)

But driving around The Ville today, the neighborhood looks very different. Some buildings are simply rundown or abandoned, but others are missing large chunks entirely. Walls have disappeared. The bricks are gone. "We call them dollhouses," says local Alderman Samuel Moore, "because you can look inside of them."

People have been stealing the bricks.

Dollhouses of St. Louis

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“One of the things that was initially a challenge was we would all think of ‘the print side’ and ‘the digital side.’ Now what we all think about is, ‘Okay, stop saying GQ.com and GQ the print edition. It’s just GQ!’ And once you cross that line, you don’t ever want to go back to it. I can’t imagine. The job has changed so much, even in the last three years, that when I look back, I think, ‘God, I was just such a quaint little fucker.’”

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• [01:15] 11/12: Longform Podcast, Live in Chicago with Zoe Chace
• [01:25] 11/15: Longform Podcast, Live in Chicago with Kara Swisher
• [10:25] "The Horrible Bosses of Hollywood" (GQ • April 2014)
• [14:10] "Shipping Out" (David Foster Wallace • Harper’s Magazine • Jan 1996)
• [14:15] "Ticket to the Fair" (David Foster Wallace • Harper’s Magazine • July 1994)
• [19:15] Pineapple Street Media
• [21:30] "The AIDS Deniers" (GQ • June 2017)
• [28:35] "Rick Santorum Is Straight" (Robert Draper • GQ • Aug 2003)
• [32:35] GQ on Snapchat Discover
• [33:55] GQ on Instagram
• [43:25] "Upon This Rock" (John Jeremiah Sullivan • GQ • Jan 2004)
• [44:50] "TheIncredible Buddha Boy" (George Saunders • GQ • May 2006)
• [45:25] "Traffic" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • March 2009)
• [45:25] "Underworld" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • May 2007)
• [45:50] "Have You Heard the One About President Joe Biden?" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • July 2013)
• [45:40] "Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns?" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • Aug 2016)
• [45:45] "The Old Man at Burning Man" (Wells Tower • GQ • Aug 2015)
• [45:50] "Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi" (Adam Johnson • GQ • June 2013)
• [45:55] "No Exit" (Sean Flynn • GQ • Sept 2013)
• [45:05] "18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio" (Chris Heath • GQ • Feb 2012)
• [45:15] "Searching for Sugar Daddies" (Taffy Brodesser-Akner • GQ • Aug 2015)
• [45:15] "The Suicide Catcher" (Mike Paterniti • GQ • Aug 2010)
• [45:15] "The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror" (Chris Heath • GQ • Aug 2016)
• [50:45] "The Untold Story of Kim Jong-nam’s Assassination" (Doug Bock Clark • GQ • Sep 2017)
• [52:45] "I Surrendered My Wardrobe" (Sean Hotchkiss • GQ • Dec 2016)
• [54:45] "The Blind Faith of Juan Jose Padilla, the One-Eyed Matador" (Karen Russell • GQ • Oct 2012)
• [55:00] Fly Me (Daniel Riley • Hachette • 2017)
• [56:15] "Why Me?" (Elizabeth Gilbert • GQ • April 2002)

“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.”

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• @mikiebarb
• Barbaro on Longform
• [00:55] The Daily
• [01:20] Barbaro’s Archive at The New York Times
• [03:15] samanthahenig.com
• [05:40] New Haven Register
• [10:50] Robert G. Kaiser's The Washington Post archive
• [15:10] David Leonhardt’s New York Times archive
• [17:30] "Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs" (Steven Greenhouse, Michael Barbaro • New York Times • Oct 2005)
• [19:25] "$1.1 Billion in Thanks From Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins" (New York Times • Jan 2013)
• [22:20] The Run-Up
• [19:55] “Trump: New York Times Reporter Should Resign" (Mark Hensch • The Hill • May 2016)
• [21:10] "Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private" (Michael Barbaro, Megan Twohey • New York Times • May 2016)
• [21:40] Longform Podcast #153: Tim Ferriss
• [27:00] “An Appreciation of Michael Barbaro and 'The Daily'" (Rebecca Mead • New Yorker • Aug 2017)
• [30:50] “The Climate Change Battle Through One Coal Miner’s Eyes” (The Daily • Mar 2017)
• [39:25] "A Conversation With a Former White Nationalist" (The Daily • Aug 2017)
• [39:30] "The White Flight of Derek Black" (Eli Saslow • Washington Post • Oct 2016)
• [40:20] "Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately" (Megan Twohey, Michael Barbaro • New York Times • Oct 2016)
• [45:25] “Syria Strike and Senate Standoff” (The Daily • April 2017)
• [52:15] “Carlos’s Secret” (The Daily • Feb 2017)
• [52:45] Monica Davey’s Archive at The New York Times
• [53:30] "We Gotta Talk About Michael Barbaro, The Host of The NYT's Daily Podcast" (Mariah Oxley • Buzzfeed • April 2017)
• [56:05] Barbaro’s Reddit AMA

The edge of Skid Row is clearly defined and it wasn’t drawn by accident.  It’s the result of a very specific plan to keep homeless people on one side and development on the other. And, perhaps surprisingly to outsiders: it’s a plan that Skid Row residents and their allies actually designed and fought for.

The Containment Plan

“I’m a controversial writer. I’ve never shied away from controversy. I’ve only really courted it because I realized a lot earlier than a lot of other people who are involved in this whole depressing business that clicks are the way to go, right? Or eyeballs, as we used to call them, or readership. I come out of a Tom Wolfe-like, Hunter S. Thompson kind of tradition. You don’t mince any words, you just go for the jugular and you say as many things that can stir people up as possible.”

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• @vanessagrigor
• www.vanessagrigoriadis.com
• Grigoriadis on Longform
• [01:20] Longform Podcast #40: Vanessa Grigoriadis
• [01:35] Grigoriadis’ Archive at Vanity Fair
• [01:40] Grigoriadis’ Archive at Rolling Stone
• [01:45] Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus (Eamon Dolan • 2017)
• [02:00] "Shining a Light on Campus Rape" (Michelle Goldberg • New York Times • Sep 2017)
• [06:30] "The Passion of Nicki Minaj" (New York Times • Oct 2015)
• [06:30] "The Very Pink, Very Perfect Life of Taylor Swift" (Rolling Stone • Mar 2009)
• [06:30] "Justin Bieber: God, Girls and Boatloads of Swag" (Rolling Stone • Mar 2011)
• [08:30] "Meet the College Women Who Are Starting a Revolution Against Campus Sexual Assault" (New York • Sep 2014)
• [11:45] “‘A Rape on Campus’ What Went Wrong?” (Sheila Coronel, Steve Coll, Derek Kravitz • Rolling Stone • April 2015)
• [22:15] "A Power Player and her Sons Disappear Off the Bahamas" (Jacob Bernstein • New York Times • May 2017)
• [26:00] "Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Replaces Obama-era Guidelines for Handling Sexual Assault on Campus" (Lauren Rosenblatt • LA Times • Sep 2017)
• [36:00] "Emasculated? We’ll See!" (New York Post • Oct 2007)
• [39:00] "New York Times Publishes Eye-Popping Correction on Campus-Sexual-Assault Book Review" (Erik Wemple • Washington Post • Sep 2017)
• [44:00] "Glamour’s Cindi Leive Joins List of Top Editors to Exit" (Keith J. Kelly • New York Post • Sep 2017)
• [44:00] "Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale" (Sydney Ember • New York Times • Sep 2017)
• [44:45] "An American Drug Lord in Acapulco" (Rolling Stone • Aug 2011)
• [45:00] "The Rise and Fall of the Eco-Radical Underground" (Rolling Stone • June 2011)
• [45:00] "The Tragedy of Britney Spears" (Rolling Stone • Feb 2008)

• Ryan Haddad is a New York-based writer and performer. His one-man show is called "Hi, Are You Single?"
• This week's episode was recorded live at the Now Hear This podcast festival.

Tobin and Kathy talk with Ryan Haddad at the Now Hear This podcast festival

(Now Hear This)

Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom with additional engineering by Matt Boynton. Additional music by Kevin MacLeod ("Slow Burn") and Anamorphic Orchestra ("Radiant Flux"). Special thanks to Chris Bannon, John DeLore, Chris Hartnett, and the entire Now Hear This team.

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Written by Eric Molinsky, and produced by Jonathan Mitchell.

Performed by Scott Adsit, Amy Warren, and Ed Herbstman, with Anna Neu, Billy Griffin, Alexis Lambright, Louis Kornfeld, Elana Fishbein, Joanna Hausmann, and Kerry Kastin.

You can find more of Marilyn Stasio's thoughts on crime fiction in her column.

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Coal Hogs Work Safe

“I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d ever seen. And I was so mad. I still get so mad. Words aren’t enough. I’m angry about it. I can’t do anything to Dylann Roof, physically, so this is what I could do.”

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• the-rachelkaadzighansah.tumblr.com
• Kaadzi Ghansah on Longform
• [00:45] Kaadzi Ghansah on the Longform Podcast
• [00:45] "A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof" (GQ • Aug 2017)
• [22:45] "America’s Most Political Food" (Lauren Collins • New Yorker • Apr 2017)
• [24:30] Light in August (William Faulkner • Random House • 1990)
• [44:45] "The Rise of the Valkyries" (Seyward Darby • Harper’s • Sep 2017)

The Age of the Algorithm

• Nore Davis is a comedian. You can listen to his albums Home Game and Away Game on Spotify. Khalil Davis runs a website promoting financial literacy within the transgender community called The Trans Capitalist.
• Patti Harrison is a comedian who made her network debut on The Tonight Show, where she criticized Donald Trump's proposed ban on transgender people serving in the military.

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But who decides what emojis are available to users, and who makes the actual designs? Independent radio and film producer Mark Bramhill (Welcome to Macintosh) took it upon himself to find out and, in the process, ended up developing and pitching his own idea for a new emoji.

Person in Lotus Position

• Sabri Ben-Achour is a senior reporter for Marketplace.
• James T. Green is a producer for The Nod.
• Babetown hosts pop-up events for queer women.

Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom and Isaac Jones with additional music by Joey Pecoraro ("Sour Sweets") and Gangi ("Proton Beat").

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Tobin and James recording at New York's Riis Beach.

(Photo by Tobin Low.)

We liked her hatchet pins so much, we thought we'd try to make some of our own. They say "CRIMINAL" on the handle. Get yours here. 

“I make a pretty provocative argument about how Asian American identity doesn’t really exist—how it’s basically just an academic idea, and it’s not lived within the lives of anybody who’s Asian. Like you grow up, you’re Korean, you’re a minority. You don’t have any sort of kinship with, like, Indian kids. You know? And there’s no cultural sharedness where you’re just like, ‘oh yeah…Asia!’”

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• @jaycaspiankang
• Kang’s Blog
• Kang on Longform
• [00:00] Mussolini’s Arctic Airship (Eva Holland • Kindle Single • Aug 2017)
• [00:45] "What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2017)
• [00:45] Kang on the Longform Podcast
• [01:15] Kang’s Archive at The New Yorker
• [02:30] readthissummer.com
• [02:45] Havrilesky on the Longform Podcast
• [05:45] "That Other School Shooting" (New York Times Magazine • Mar 2013)
• [07:30] The Dead Do Not Improve: A Novel (Hogarth • 2013)
• [15:15] Tim Ferriss on the Longform Podcast
• [17:45] "John Wayne: A Love Song" (Joan Didion • Saturday Evening Post • Aug 1965)
• [22:15] "A Question of Identity" (Grantland • Mar 2012)
• [24:45] Kang’s Column “On Sports” at The New York Times Magazine
• [27:30] Les Blank’s Website
• [27:45] Amy
• [27:45] Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
• [35:15] "No place like home" (Vice News • Jun 2017)
• [36:15] "The End and Don King" (Grantland • Apr 2013)
• [36:45] "Inside the final days of the Standing Rock protest" (Vice • Feb 2017)
• [37:30] "What comes after Standing Rock?" (Vice • Jan 2017)
• [39:00] "‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’" (New York Times Magazine • May 2015)
• [41:30] "Charlottesville: Race and Terror" (Vice News • Aug 2017)
• [42:45] "Impeached!" (David Gilbert • Vice News • Dec 2016)
• [48:00] "Now You See Me" (Vice News • Mar 2017)

“The ambition got in my way at first. Because I wanted my stuff to be great, and it froze me up. But later on it was really helpful. I’m startled by the way people don’t, you know, admit [they care] … it seems unlikely people wouldn’t want to be immortal.”

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• @BDsCocktailHour
• davidgessner.com
• Gessner on Longform
• "Not Fuzz" (David Mark Simpson • Atavist • Jul 2017)
• [01:00] Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth (Riverhead Books • 2017)
• [02:00] readthissummer.com
• [04:45] "No Disc-Respect" (Outside • Jun 2017)
• [08:15] A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod (University Press of New England • 1997)
• [08:30] Under the Devil’s Thumb (University of Arizona Press • 1999)
• [11:00] Sick of Nature (University Press of New England • 2004)
• [11:00] "Ultimate Glory" (Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour • Jan 2012)
• [11:15] Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour
• [13:00] All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West (W.W. Norton & Company • 2016)
• [22:30] Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder (Ballantine • 2002)
• [26:15] "Meet the Keatles" (Oxford American • Feb 2014)
• [29:00] "After Hurricane Sandy, One Man Tries to Stop the Reconstruction" (Outside • Oct 2013)
• [29:30] The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons From a Life in Nature (Beacon Press • 2005)
• [30:15] "Those Who Write, Teach" (New York Times Magazine • Sep 2008)
• [37:45] Nina de Gramont’s Website
• [43:30] "This Is Your Brain on Nature" (National Geographic • Jan 2017)

“If I start thinking about it, then I’m not going to be able to just keep doing my job. I'm being as honest as I can — I try not to think about it. If you’re flying a plane and you think about the fact that if the plane blows up in midair you’re gonna die, do you feel like you can really focus as well? So, I’m not thinking about [the stakes]. This is just my job. This is what we do. Ask me another question.”

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• @maggieNYT
• Haberman on Longform
• [01:45] "Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About Meeting With Russians" (with Eileen Sullivan and Adam Goldman • New York Times • Jul 2017)
• [02:15] Haberman’s New York Times archive
• [02:30] Haberman’s New York Post archive
• [02:30] Haberman’s New York Daily News archive
• [03:15] readthissummer.com
• [03:45] "Paladino assails Cuomo’s parenting" (Politico • Oct 2010)
• [09:00] Harold and the Purple Crayon (Crockett Johnson • Harper Collins • 2015)
• [12:45] "Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance" (with Ashley Parker, Jeremy W. Peters, and Michael Barbaro • New York Times • Nov 2016)
• [22:45] Private Parts
• [25:00] "Excerpts From the Times’s Interview With Trump" (with Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt • New York Times • Jul 2017)
• [35:15] "Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles" (with Glenn Thrush • New York Times • Feb 2017)
• [38:45] Steve Dunleavy’s New York Post archive
• [47:45] Broadcast News

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Read the Craft's book: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Running http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/585

Barbara McCaskill wrote about William and Ellen Craft in Love, Liberation, and Escaping SlaveryWilliam and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory
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We're very excited to announce that we're taking the show on the road this fall, visiting Washington D.C., Durham, Philadelphia, Anaheim, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Iowa City, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Toronto. We'd love to see you. Learn more at http://thisiscriminal.com/live/. 

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Visit our website: www.thisiscriminal.com to see Meridy's final brownie bag & recipe.

Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.  If you are interested in sponsoring Criminal, email sponsor@radiotopia.fm. 

We're a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Learn more at radiotopia.fm. 

Say hello on Twitter @criminalshow or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsCriminal/

Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 

Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 

Talk to us on Twitter @criminalshow. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. 

If you'd like a 2016 Criminal Calendar or set of postcards featuring artwork and quotes from our favorite episodes, visit our shop. Thanks very much for supporting the show and have a happy New Year. We'll be back January 8th. 

To see the photos, visit http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-32-it-looked-like-fire-12-11-2015/.

Say hello on Twitter @criminalshow, visit us on Facebook and on our new Instagram at Criminal_Podcast. 

Our artist, Julienne Alexander, has created beautiful 2016 calendars and postcard sets featuring quotes and illustrations from some of our favorite episodes. Learn more at: http://criminal-show.myshopify.com/

Click here to read "Phoebe, Judge Me." 

Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 

This story was reported by Lauren Ober.

Tickets are on sale now for Criminal Live! in Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. More info at: http://thisiscriminal.com/live-shows/

Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 

To learn more, visit us at thisiscriminal.com. We're on Twitter @criminalshow. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 

To learn more about Criminal, visit our (newly redesigned!) site: thisiscriminal.com

Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 

Produced by Jonathan Mitchell

Edited by Hillary Frank

Performed by Eliza Skinner, Birch Harms, and Curtis Gwinn


Additional voices: Pat Etchill, Jennifer Geller, Hillary Frank, and Jonathan Mitchell

Music by Jonathan Mitchell