What Next Plus
The problem with the news right now? It’s everywhere. And each day, it can feel like we’re all just mindlessly scrolling. It’s why we created What Next. This short daily show is here to help you make sense of things. When the news feels overwhelming, we’re here to help you answer: What next? Look for new episodes every weekday morning.
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TBD | How The Epstein Files Blew Up MAGAworld
Live by the conspiracy, die by the conspiracy.
25 min
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Can Trump Bully Russia?
Elon Musk isn’t the only one to fall from Trump’s good graces.
22 min
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Deported—To a Country You've Never Been To
The Trump administration is using a group of immigrants with criminal convictions as a test case to erode basic rights for everyone.
24 min
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Behind the Democrats’ Losing Strategy
The opposition party needs to shake off the old campaign plans—and the strategists—of the 90s.
25 min
30
Who Is Trump Promoting For Life?
The rush to stock the federal judiciary with MAGA loyalists.
24 min
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TBD | When A.I. is Sycophantic
Chatbots want to please - but it’s pushing some into dark places.
19 min
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TBD | The Discourse: The Right Stuff (For Mars)
Who’s ready for the Red Planet?
12 min
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TBD | Hot Measles Summer
Why the next few months are crucial for containing the outbreak.
23 min
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Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
The position has experienced a boom in the years after #MeToo—but have they really changed Hollywood?
27 min
35
Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Preventable?
The world we’ve been building for isn’t the world we’ll be living in.
21 min
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Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave Act Playbook?
The lessons and warnings from a law that failed to avert the Civil War.
20 min
37
The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Point
How the new immigration detention facility in Florida became a reality in just over a week.
23 min
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TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful...
With a little help from country music.
24 min
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Bonus: When the Internet Stopped Being Fun
Being online sucks. Let’s touch grass.
17 min
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TBD | Rerun: Death of the Weather Forecast?
Climate and weather aren’t the same thing, but the Trump administration would have you understand neither one.
23 min
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One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
What this sweeping and expensive piece of legislation could cost you.
25 min
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Is This the End of NPR and PBS?
The Trump administration’s plan to kill public broadcasting is going to hurt rural America most—will any Congressional Republicans step up?
26 min
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We Need to Talk About the Supreme Court
The justices have grown increasingly impatient with each other—and anything standing in the way of Trump's agenda.
28 min
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Why Is ICE Masked Up?
What happens when government agents are impossible to identify?
27 min
45
TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
A stipulation in a merger between two ad giants aims to stop “collusion” against platforms based on political beliefs.
21 min
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TBD | The Discourse: What Ryan Reynolds and Don...
What, people don’t want to make liquor anymore?
10 min
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TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
20 min
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Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
A new New York City has asserted itself.
27 min
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Even This Senator Had No Warning About Iran
Sen. Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence wasn’t any more in the loop than you were.
25 min
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The Lawsuit Scaring Protesters
What can demonstrators today learn from a financially disastrous outcome for one advocacy organization in the Standing Rock protests?
25 min