The Daily - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I’m revising my longstanding and probably petty review. The Daily is one of the best podcasts available. The professional, methodical, and insightful approach to the news takes hard words rk, and the Daily delivers over and over again. Todays nuanced discussion on the issues in Springfield, OH (16 Sep 2024) highlighted real issues, and gave voice to both sides of a political issue that is really just about people feeling left behind.

And my favorite element is the professional discussion and examination of issues. It’s the content I want to listen to, not another chummy discussion among friends where it’s inside jokes, unstructured discussion, and short on substance.

Wow! This touched me to the depths of my soul. This kind of reporting is brilliant and Sabrina is asking the right questions about our own humanity. Told from both sides of the conflict eliminates the politics and asks a more basic question. What are we fighting for? Both of the men interviewed just want the guns to be put down. Killing innocent hostages in their own lands serves no purpose. Thank you Sabrina for your unique way of having meaningful insight into our world.

Yes, I kinda want to hear election stuff. And some international news. But then I listen to an episode like the one today — explaining the story behind “they’re eating the dogs” — and The Daily hits it out of the park. This is the insightful reporting we want to hear from The New York Times.

Astead Herndon is a treasure, doing the ground level listening to fellow Americans that's so sadly missing from our hyper-partisan politics. It's sometimes hard to stomach hearing what people are thinking when it seems so crazy, but it's so important to try to understand. More Astead!

On the 11/12 episode on abortion. The status quo under Roe was also paternalistic because it relied on a physician’s expertise/right to privacy
and not an affirmative stance on women’s autonomy. Many women have known for generations that Roe was insufficient and bound to lose. Feminism - the Black Feminist Tradition, Reproductive Justice, Working Class and Industrial Feminism, indigenous feminism, Socialist Feminism aka not the bourgeois, individualism of Harris’ feminism - have all accounted for the integration of collective responsibility, collective freedom, and the right to abortion for all as a categorical not contingent right.

Not anymore, and I am sadly unsubscribing. Since the inception of this podcast, I listened to every episode. However this show has not been immune to the NYT’s decline into false equivalency between the actions and decisions of a relatively normal political party and the insane, democracy-ending actions of the other. You are no longer engaging in good faith discussions about hard political topics or news, but have skewed your coverage such that you are legitimizing dangerous and truly baffling situations. It’s sad.