The Sunday Read: ‘A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies’
14 July 2024 - 29 minsCindy Elgan glanced into the lobby of her office and saw a sheriff’s deputy waiting at the front counter. “Let’s start a video recording, just in case this goes sideways,” Elgan, 65, told one of her employees in the Esmeralda County clerk’s office. She had come to expect skepticism, conspiracy theories and even threats related to her job as an election administrator. She grabbed her annotated booklet of Nevada state laws, said a prayer for patience and walked into the lobby to confront the latest challenge to America’s electoral process.
The deputy was standing alongside a woman that Elgan recognized as Mary Jane Zakas, 77, a longtime elementary schoolteacher and a leader in the local Repub...
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Introducing ‘METRO’ From Serial Productions
Today, we’re sharing an episode from a brand-new show called “METRO,” made by the Serial podcast team and the reporters here at The Times who cover New York City. Every other week, Sarah Koenig and her team will tell stories about the city and its most fascinating raw material: New Yorkers. They’ll bring you investigations, personal stories, essays and interviews that take the bigness of New York and make it human scale and relevant, no matter where you live. You can find all episodes of Serial’s “METRO” wherever you get your podcasts and in The New York Times app.
41 mins
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Chuck Schumer on Governing With (Or Without) Trump
explicitWarning: This episode contains strong language. Last spring, the political picture for Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, was downright bleak. President Trump was back in the White House. Schumer’s Democratic caucus was largely powerless to stop him. And restless Democratic activists were calling for Schumer to resign. Fast forward to this week. Democrats have roared back to power in both the Senate, where the party flipped seven Republican seats, and the House. And now Schumer, who personally recruited several of the winning candidates, is poised to become the next Senate majority leader with an unambiguous goal: reining in Trump. On Thursday afternoon, I visited Schumer’s office in the U.S. Capitol to talk about all of that during a 45-minute interview. In between profanity-laced descriptions of the president, Schumer laid out his plans for Senate Democrats over the next two years, including investigations into the Trump administration and legislation seeking to lower Americans’ cost of living.
34 mins
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The Voters Who Flipped Congress
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28 mins
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A Landslide Victory for Democrats
The party clinched the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, giving Democrats a powerful platform to counter President Trump.
34 mins
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A Guide to Election Night 2026
Strategists in both parties say Democrats are likely to wrest back control of the House, but the battle for the Senate is more complicated.
35 mins
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A Political Rebellion in the Rio Grande Valley
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1 hour 16 mins
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