Welcome to the weekend. This week on The Daily, we continued to cover the drip of details coming out of Uvalde, Texas — what the police knew, what they heard on 911 calls from inside the classroom and why they didn't act sooner. We also heard from parents and students who survived the shooting and are in the midst of processing their grief. |
Below, we share additional audio from our reporting in Uvalde and more reporting on the history of reparations in Haiti. But before we get to that, we want to know: Is there a burning question that you'd like answered? Tell us here; we always like to know what's on your mind. |
The big idea: When freedom isn't free |
The Daily strives to reveal a new idea in every episode. Below, we go deeper on one of those from our show this week. |
 | | Daily life in Cap Haitien, Haiti. Haiti's "double debt" — the ransom and the loan to pay it — helped cement its path into poverty and underdevelopment.Federico Rios for The New York Times |
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A failed state. An aid trap. A land seemingly cursed by nature and human nature alike. |
When the world looks at Haiti, one of the poorest nations on the planet, sympathy for its endless suffering is often overshadowed by scolding and sermonizing about corruption and mismanagement. |
Some know how Haitians overthrew their notoriously brutal French slave masters and declared independence in 1804 — the modern world's first nation born of a slave revolt. |
But few know the story of what happened two decades later, when French warships returned to a people who had paid for their freedom with blood, issuing an ultimatum: Pay again, in staggering amounts of cash, or prepare for war. |
For generations, the descendants of enslaved people paid the descendants of their former slave masters, with money that could have been used to build schools, roads, clinics or a vibrant economy. |
For years, as New York Times journalists have chronicled Haiti's travails, a question has hovered: What if? What if the nation had not been looted by outside powers, foreign banks and its own leaders almost since birth? How much more money might it have had to build a nation? |
For more than a year, a team of Times correspondents scoured long-forgotten documents languishing in archives and libraries on three continents to answer that question, to put a number on what it cost Haitians to be free. You heard about the investigation on today's show. Here is where you can read on to learn more: |
From The Daily team: Another portrait of grief |
Grief can take many forms after a mass shooting. In Uvalde, where 19 young children and two teachers were shot dead, families are mourning Jackie Cazares and Annabelle Rodriguez, cousins killed in the same classroom. |
They are grieving the loss of Irma Garcia, a fourth-grade teacher, as well as her husband, Joe, who died of a heart attack two days after her death. They are missing children who had dreams of becoming marine biologists and veterinarians, girls who hoped to be softball stars. |
You heard some of these stories on Wednesday's show. We wanted to share one more story from Alfred Garza III, the father of Amerie Jo, who died in the shooting. Listen to part of his interview with Jack Healy, a national correspondent for The Times. |
| |  | LISTEN TO THIS 'She Was Just Like Me' Listen as one father remembers his daughter — and explains why he wants to speak out.  | 2:47 min |
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Modern Love is back for the summer |
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It's been a heavy couple of weeks, so if you're looking for a bit of escape and connection, we invite you to listen to the new season of Modern Love. The first episode dropped this week, and it's a reflection on the physical objects left by loved ones who have passed — and how those objects can help us grieve. |
The episode is based on Mike Rucker's essay about a beloved couch that he and his partner, John, purchased when they first moved in together. They nicknamed the couch Miss Bee. She epitomized sophistication — with her white denim slipcover, low arms, and wooden legs with brass wheels. |
Over the years, Miss Bee became the anchor of Mike and John's home life. After John passed away from a rare and aggressive form of cancer, Mike decided to get rid of Miss Bee. The process of saying goodbye "unlocked a trove of mounting grief within me that wasn't, of course, about the sofa," Mike said. |
In an interview with Anna Martin, host of Modern Love, Mike reflected on how grieving someone is not just an emotional process — but it's also physical. It's powerful to literally hold in your hands the everyday objects that belonged to a loved one. When you see those objects, "You don't know when something's going to hit you," Mike said. "It just kind of comes up on you like a surprise." |
Check out the season premiere of the podcast, and look out for new episodes every Wednesday for the next 10 weeks. You can follow Modern Love wherever you get your podcasts. |
Tuesday: Why the police took 78 minutes to stop the gunman at Robb Elementary School. |
Wednesday: We hear some of the stories of those who lived through the devastation of the Uvalde massacre. |
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