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In the five years since student athletes have been allowed to earn money, college sports have become a chaotic and murky marketplace where players can move from team to team chasing a payday.
Stewart Mandel of The Athletic explains why, this week, Washington decided to step in.
Guest: Stewart Mandel, the editor in chief of college football for The Athletic and a host of its college football podcast “The Audible.”
Background reading:
The Protect College Sports Act wants to fix college sports. Here’s what it actually targets.
Does your college football roster cost $8 million or $50 million? Read The Athletic’s report on 68 teams.
Here’s how the football programs blow past limits on what they can pay players.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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A little over a decade ago, after hackers broke into the U.S. government and stole the personnel records of millions of federal workers, officials vowed that it would never happen again. Something similar recently did — to the F.B.I.
Dustin Volz, who covers cybersecurity for The New York Times, tells the story of the attack, the group behind it and what could happen to the stolen data.
Guest: Dustin Volz, a cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for The New York Times.
Background reading:
The hackers said they had stolen thousands of sensitive F.B.I. personnel records.
The embarrassing breach at the F.B.I. has fueled fears of harm to its employees.
Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press

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Prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket have gained huge popularity over the past year. These marketplaces allow you to wager on just about anything — whether it’s who will win a football game or the weather in New York City.
David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times, discusses the legal challenge these platforms now face and how it could determine their future.
Guest: David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times.
Background reading:
A clash between prediction markets and states has set off a furious political battle.
Donald Trump Jr.’s firm led a $1 billion funding round for Polymarket.
Photo: Eric Helgas for The New York Times

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In its efforts to deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible, the Trump administration has increasingly relied on a highly controversial strategy: deporting people to countries they have no connection to.
Last week, a federal court ruled the practice to be illegal because it violated people’s right to due process. The administration challenged that ruling, and now it is in front of the Supreme Court.
Nicholas Casey tells the story of Roberto Mosquera, who moved to the United States from Cuba as a child. He has been held in the small country of Eswatini since July 2025.
Guest: Nicholas Casey, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine who writes about geopolitics.
Background reading:
He was deported to a country he’d never heard of. He may never go free.
How do you interview a deportee being held inside a maximum-security prison?
Photo: Moises Saman/Magnum, for The New York Times

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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.

On Today’s Episode
James Poniewozik is The New York Times’s chief TV critic.
Gilbert Cruz is the canon editor at The New York Times.

Background Reading
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: Cast Your Vote
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: How Stars, Creators and Other TV Lovers Voted

Photo: The New York Times

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