Podcast: The Daily

If you dine out regularly, you might have noticed some changes in restaurants over the past few years. Perhaps you’ve found yourself ordering at a counter, scanning a QR code to see the menu, or eating … a lot more soft serve.

These changes aren’t just trends. Brett Anderson, a New York Times food reporter, says they are restaurant owners’ desperate attempts to stay afloat in an industry in crisis. According to a report from the National Restaurant Association, 42 percent of restaurant owners said they weren’t profitable in 2025. Many of them were at serious risk of closing.

In this episode of “The Sunday Daily,” Brett talks with our host Michael Barbaro about the economic realities that are forcing businesses to rethink the entire concept of a restaurant, including a radical experiment at one Minneapolis diner that stopped charging for food entirely.

The comedian and filmmaker on what real friendship looks like, what keeps him up at night and his new movie, "Misty Green."

The New York Times has reviewed a trove of documents related to the case. Our reporter explains what we know.

Money has exploded in college sports, and Congress is trying to do something about it.

The theft, which hackers said involved a vast trove of personal data, is emerging as one of the worst breaches of sensitive government information.

In lawsuits across the country, Republican and Democratic states have united to take on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.

The Trump administration deported Robert Mosquera to Eswatini, and he has found himself with no way out.

The turn of the century was the beginning of a new era in television: prestige TV for the masses. Today, television is where big stars and innovative creators go to marshal sizable budgets and tell meaningful stories.

Over recent months, our colleagues at The New York Times ran a survey, asking industry insiders — on-screen talent, writers, directors, producers, executives and others — to pick their top 10 television series of the last 26 years. We compiled their responses into a list, published this week, of the best TV of the 21st century.

In this episode of “The Sunday Daily,” The Times’s canon editor, Gilbert Cruz, and our chief TV critic, James Poniewozik, talk with our host Natalie Kitroeff about what made the list, and what didn’t.

The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.

The arts center has been a project of President Trump since the beginning of his second term.

With artificial intelligence on the agenda for talks between President Trump and Xi Jinping of China, our reporter looks at lessons from the nuclear arms race.

Parents are increasingly willing to embrace tracking and analytics for their children — part of a broader cultural obsession with health data and optimization.

The major television networks suspended their pooled coverage of President Trump, breaking a practice that dates back decades.

A new interpretation of the law would mean that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, would be illegal.

For the first time in centuries, the Bayeux Tapestry — a nearly 1,000-year-old piece of embroidery that depicts the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 — is on display in Britain.

It was long said by art experts to be too fragile to move. But in a development that required geopolitical persuasion, this summer the tapestry made its way from Bayeux, France, to the British Museum in London.

When the first block of tickets went on sale, the British Museum said, over 80,000 people at a time waited online to buy them.

In this episode of the “Sunday Daily,” Alex Marshall, a culture reporter for The New York Times, talks with host Michael Barbaro about why this ancient piece of embroidery matters so much to the British public.

The Oscar-winning writer returns to Facebook with “The Social Reckoning”— and surprises us with the revelation of why he is so drawn to uplift and romance.

Are those calling to slow down the development of artificial intelligence in a “doomsday cult,” as some critics say? Our reporter explains.

Months into the war with Iran, its effects are still being felt at pumps around the world. Why?

At a round-table discussion, Times political journalists talk about what we can expect in November.

Just about everybody is affected by the rising interest rates caused by the turmoil. Our economics correspondent explains what’s happening.