Episode 554: Yepoka Yeebo

Have you ever wondered how your favorite movie or book—or podcast, TV series, documentary, or article—got made? Origin Stories has you covered. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hear ...  Show more

This is the story of what happens when Evan Ratliff, co-host of Longform and a longtime tech journalist, makes a digital copy of himself, powered by AI, in order to understand how amazing and scary and utterly ridiculous the world is about to get. In Episode 1, Evan clones his vo ...  Show more

The news to know for Wednesday, March 6th, 2019! Today, we're talking about R. Kelly's first (and emotional) interview since he was charged with sexual abuse last month, and a new record at the U.S.-Mexico border. Plus: what to know about the measles vaccines, the first depressio ...  Show more

The news to know for Wednesday, September 18th, 2019!

Today, we're talking about the first impeachment hearing, the too-close-to-call election in Israel, and a storm slamming parts of Texas.

Plus: Facebook's AR glasses, NBC's Peacock, and a new feature on LinkedI ...

For years, the British government used a court superinjunction to conceal a data leak that could have handed the Taliban a “kill list” of innocent civilians. Times defence editor Larisa Brown describes her fight to uncover the truth.

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Palestinian journalist Amal Helles has been reporting for The Times and The Sunday Times from Gaza since the Hamas attacks on Israel, and the beginning of the conflict in October. Foreign journalists aren't allowed unaccompanied into the territory, where she lives with her hus ...