Michael Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked.

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The civil rights icon had a history of sexually abusing women and girls, which the Times reporters Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes spent five years uncovering. They spoke to “The Daily” about their investigation, and one woman affected shares her story.

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Plus, a three-minute, multimillion-dollar art heist.

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Michael Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked.

Plus, a surge of Catholic converts in the United States.

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The right-wing thinker Christopher Caldwell believes the Iran war is the end of Trumpism. Is he right? What was Trumpism in the first place?

I asked an Iran hawk what victory looks like now.

The war with Iran could change how the whole world thinks about energy security in the future. The energy policy expert Jason Bordoff explains.

David French talks with the retired general about the “great seduction” America fell for in Iran.

Naomi Klein and Ezra Klein discuss what the success of MAGA reveals about the American left.

He wrote a book on anti-white bias. The White House noticed.

Michelle Goldberg on the right’s growing antisemitism problem.

India is winning the standoff between America and China.

The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order.