The Daily - New York Times podcast

Since the podcast launched at the start of the year, I have been on sound enginerring duties most mornings. The show has been extraordinarily popular with well over 500K listeners each day. The quality of the reporting and the range of stories never fails to amaze me. Some recent episodes I strongly recommend listening to include:

A 16-year-old boy who sometimes wore skirts and makeup to school was killed in Iowa. Then the Justice Department sent a federal hate-crimes lawyer to aid in the prosecution.

The trial has become part of the national debate over gender identity.

When a waiter at an Iraqi restaurant in Portland, Ore., was attacked, the eatery’s owner, an Iraqi refugee, saw it as an act of hate.

But as details emerged about the man who did it, the story became far more complicated.

The opioid crisis in the United States now rivals the Vietnam War in terms of how many Americans have been killed.

After calling the opioid crisis a national emergency, President Trump has officially declared it a public health emergency — a distinction with a difference.

We speak with a recovering opioid addict, who was 14 when he tried oxycodone for the first time.