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 | When A.I. Steals Your Voice
Your mom hears you calling in distress, but it’s not really you.
22 min
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Is the SAT Done For?
Colleges are dropping the test requirement to create fairer admissions processes—but what will take its place?
25 min
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Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed
There’s plenty of blame to go around—and Congress should get its share.
26 min
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How Anti-Trans Legislation Cost Rural South Dak...
It was already difficult to recruit physicians to rural areas before Gov. Kristi Noem made anti-trans laws her hallmark.
26 min
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A Disability Rights Icon’s Long Legacy
Judy Heumann changed the world for disabled people—and her mentees are the future of this on-going movement.
25 min
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TBD | Would You Let A.I. Date For You?
Would your personal profile benefit from an impersonal touch?
26 min
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TBD | When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About You...
What does Big Tech need to do to protect users in Post-Roe America?
22 min
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Does Steven Spielberg Have an Oscars Curse?
It’s hard to call the most commercially-successful director of all time “underappreciated” but Spielberg’s relationship with the Academy hasn’t been particularly rosy.
25 min
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Why Child Labor is an Immigration Issue
Hillary Scholten, a freshman House representative sees this exploitation as yet another reason for urgent, comprehensive reform.
22 min
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Food Stamps Face Their Biggest-Ever Cut
COVID-era funding has already lapsed in 18 states. Food banks in the remaining 32 are bracing for impact.
21 min
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The Fight To Return Native Remains to Their Tribes
UC Berkeley alone still holds the remains of 10,000 people.
21 min
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TBD | The Hollywood Weight Loss Wonder Drug
Are diabetics competing with celebs for Ozempic?
28 min
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TBD | What Would Convince a Lab Leak Skeptic?
Why one virologist doesn’t find the Department of Energy’s assessment convincing.
29 min
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Will SCOTUS Kill Student Loan Relief?
The judicial and executive branches are facing off due to the legislative branch’s chronic dysfunction.
27 min
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Why Insulin Prices Keep Rising
It's gotten so bad, more than a million Americans have had to ration their intake.
23 min
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When Politicians Need Mental Healthcare
John Fetterman isn’t the first elected official to struggle and seek treatment.
25 min
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Beijing’s Crackdown on Hong Kong Dissidents
A new law is set to silence a generation of political dissidents.
23 min
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TBD | Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?
How the new science of brain development isn’t just changing policy, but how we live.
21 min
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TBD | Why A.I. Says the Darndest Things
Microsoft is working out the kinks of their chatbot in real time, and we're the guinea pigs.
25 min
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Ukraine’s War Is Its New Normal
So long as Putin is alive, there's no end in sight.
20 min
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When an Earthquake Hits a Civil War
Where Turkey, Syria, borders, and fault lines all intersect.
26 min
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The Ohio Trainwreck Blame Game
How a train carrying vinyl chloride opened a new front in the culture war.
25 min
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Amicus: The “Stop the Steal” Fight That Never E...
A State Supreme Court Justice reveals the long-term toll of calling out the Big Lie.
47 min
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TBD | The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex
Is the Snoo a life-saving necessity, or $1700 luxury item for bougie babies?
28 min
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TBD | What Made the Balloon Drama Pop Off?
Blown cover or just blown off course?
32 min