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Subscribe to Popcast! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music The third album by the country music superstar Morgan Wallen, the 36-song “One Thing at a Time,” just debuted at the top of the Billboard album chart , with the equivalent of 501,000 units. It is the fifth biggest streaming debut, behind only releases by Taylor Swift and Drake. Its success is an extension of the dominance of his earlier work, especially the 2021 release “Dangerous: The Double Album,” which has been the emblematic and most popular country album of the 2020s. Wallen’s success still comes under the cloud of the 2021 incident in which he was caught on tape using a racial slur. Though he was briefly removed from country radio at the time, he has since been restored, and he remains a touring force. On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about the nature of Wallen’s fame and the scope of his punishment; the ways in which he — perhaps inadvertently — weaponizes culture war; and the … [Read more...] about The Return of Morgan Wallen (Who Never Went Away)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen It should come as no surprise that writers and editors at the Book Review do a lot of outside reading — and, even among ourselves, we like to discuss the books that are on our minds. On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz talks to the critic Jennifer Szalai and the editors Sadie Stein and Joumana Khatib about what they’ve been reading (and in some cases listening to) recently. For Szalai, that includes a novel she’s revisiting some two decades after she first read it: Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day,” which she’s listening to this time around as an audiobook. “It has been wonderful,” she says. “The narration is great and it’s told in the first person, which I think is actually an ideal feature — at least for me, when I’m listening to an audiobook. It feels a bit like a conversation or a story, a personal story, that’s being related to me. And it’s been so long since I read the book that … [Read more...] about What We’re Reading

Hosted by Michael Barbaro Produced by Rikki Novetsky , Mary Wilson and Jessica Cheung Edited by Lexie Diao and Paige Cowett Original music by Marion Lozano Engineered by Chris Wood Listen and follow The Daily Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music In the past week, as spooked customers frantically withdrew $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S. government stepped in to craft a rescue operation for the failed lender. But efforts to contain the crisis have met resistance, and the fallout of the collapse has already spread to other regional banks, whose stocks have plummeted. On today’s episode Emily Flitter , a finance correspondent for The New York Times. Background reading The stunning demise of Silicon Valley Bank has spurred soul-searching about how large and regional banks are overseen. Here’s what to … [Read more...] about Why the Banking Crisis Isn’t Over Yet

By Sam Anderson Produced by Tally Abecassis and Aaron Esposito Edited by John Woo Original music by Aaron Esposito Engineered by Sophia Lanman Listen and follow The Daily Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher As an American, Sam Anderson knows what it feels like to arrive at a theme park. “The totalizing consumerist embrace,” he writes. “The blunt-force, world-warping, escapist delight.” He has known theme parks with entrances like “international borders” and ticket prices like “mortgage payments.” Mr. Anderson has been to Disney World, which he describes as “an alternate reality that basically occupies its own tax zone.” In November, when Ghibli Park finally opened, Mr. Anderson made sure to get himself there. The park is a tribute to the legendary Studio Ghibli, first started by the animator Hayao Miyazaki in 1985, out of desperation, when he and his co-founders, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki, … [Read more...] about The Sunday Read: ‘Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land’

As 91-year-old Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch carves his final deals before heading to the big newsroom in the sky, the world’s focus is beginning to turn to his son and heir apparent, Lachlan . And according to The Daily Beast’s Editor At Large Lachlan Cartwright, there’s more to Murdoch junior than meets the eye. He explains on this week’s episode of The New Abnorma l : “It’s important to note that Lachlan’s politics are far more conservative than his father.” When quizzed by podcast co-host Danielle Moodie how that could even be possible, Cartwright replies: “It is possible. He is staunchly more conservative than his dad and so I think if anything, you may see some of that appear in some of the titles throughout the empire. “Lachlan’s close to Tucker Carlson. Tucker and Lachlan speak often and Lachlan is a big advocate for Tucker. He is very much on side with a lot of the politics that is presented on Fox News.” Subscribe to The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts … [Read more...] about Why Lachlan Murdoch Is Even Scarier Than His Father Rupert

Hosted by Sabrina Tavernise Produced by Rikki Novetsky , Rachel Quester and Nina Feldman Edited by Liz O. Baylen and Paige Cowett Original music by Marion Lozano , Dan Powell and Elisheba Ittoop Engineered by Corey Schreppel Listen and follow The Daily Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher As a proportion of its population, California has one of the lowest rates of gun deaths in the United States — 8.5 per 100,000 people, compared with 13.7 nationally. How did the state get that way? On today’s episode Shawn Hubler , a California correspondent for The New York Times. Background reading Californians are about 25 percent less likely to die in mass shootings, compared with residents of other states, according to a recent study. In a newsletter this week, the Times correspondent Shawn Hubler looked into how and why gun laws there work . … [Read more...] about Lessons in Gun Control From California