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Warning: This episode mentions suicide. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, was arrested by the British police on Thursday amid widening scrutiny over his ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The New York Times journalists Michael D. Shear and Nichol ...  Show more

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is nobody’s idea of a partisan firebrand. She’s a moderate, swing-state Democrat with a résumé steeped in law enforcement — all of which makes her an unlikely leader of the Democratic-led shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, wh ...  Show more

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A tour of the more surprising — and kind of anonymous — corners of the current Billboard Hot 100. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?sour ...  Show more

Vulture critic Nick Quah shares his favorite podcasts of 2022, including "Mother Country Radicals" and "Normal Gossip." Then, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross talks about the year in classical music, highlighting women composers and performers. And, TikTok is a major player in t ...  Show more

On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat is joined by the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and an editor of America Magazine, to reflect on the legacy of Pope Francis and the challenges facing the next papacy.