August 15, 2025

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This week: Pour yourself a Cosmo for “Sex and the City,” set a Guinness World Record, and find out if your smart devices are spying on you.

Plus, unpack Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s impact on our health, and discover a rapper’s new country album.

Great Listens

Philip Montgomery for The New York Times

‘THE INTERVIEW’

The Head of the A.D.L. on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Free Speech

Jonathan Greenblatt on the line between legitimate protest and anti-Jewish hate.

Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Craig Blankenhorn/HBO Max

POUR YOURSELF A COSMO

‘And Just Like That … ’ It’s Over

Wesley and Taffy loved the reboot of “Sex and the City” that everyone else loved to hate.

Loren Elliott for The New York Times

‘THEY’VE OCCUPIED OUR NEIGHBORHOOD’

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

He’s bought at least 11 properties, creating a compound — and headaches for neighbors.

Philip Cheung for The New York Times

‘YOU CHANGED YOUR NAME TO MCLOVIN?’

The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century

Kyle Buchanan takes you behind the scenes of The Times’s list on “The Daily.”

Angie Smith for The New York Times

MEET ‘THE SPARKLE BOSS’

The Hardest Part of Setting a Guinness World Record?

Getting people to show up.

News and Ideas

Illustration by The New York Times; photograph by Ken Welsh/Getty

Unwind

Illustration by Brian Rea

‘MODERN LOVE’

Where Did All My Male Friendships Go?

Anna talks with Sam Graham-Felsen about his quest to cure his loneliness and get his friends back.

NYT Wirecutter; source photos by iStock/Kittisak_Taramas and nuchao

WIRECUTTER

Are Your Smart Devices Really Spying on You?

How your data is being collected and sold — and how to protect yourself.

Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Jason Nocito for The New York Times

‘POPCAST’

From Solitary Confinement to Nashville’s Favorite Rapper

Hear our interview with BigXthaPlug.

FOR NYT AUDIO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Great listens beyond The Times

The Food and Drug Administration’s 2022 inspection of the Sun Pharma factory in India warned of contaminations and deficiencies. But the plant received permission from the FDA to continue shipping more than a dozen generic medications to Americans.. Photo: Drone footage for ProPublica ProPublica Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs For a dozen years, the agency has quietly given foreign factories that violated critical standards in drugmaking continued access to the U.S. market. 37 MIN LISTEN

Susan Schiff Faludi, Three Lions/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images New York Review of Books Bodies by Joe With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement. 23 MIN LISTEN

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