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What Next: How Corporations Are Taking Advantag...
Consumers are paying the price as some companies use inflation as a cover for price hikes.
25 min
1527
What Next: The Evolution of Pro-Choice Messaging
How should supporters of reproductive rights talk about abortion now?
27 min
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A Word: Is Big Tech Pro-Choice?
Tech companies fell short on “racial reckoning” promises. Are abortion rights next?
22 min
1529
What Next TBD: Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
Can Truth Social survive without Trump?
17 min
1530
The Waves: How the Fall of Bitch Media is a Sig...
The feminist outlet going under could not have come at a worse time.
24 min
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What Next TBD: Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
A.I. that can read emotion is the next frontier in machine learning.
16 min
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What Next: The Future of IVF Post-Roe
Abortion access isn’t the only thing hanging in the balance if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
23 min
1533
What Next: Russia’s Next Target?
Why Putin might be setting his sights on Moldova, a tiny country on Ukraine’s western border.
25 min
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What Next: Ukrainian War, American Intelligence
The U.S. government is walking a fine line when it comes to lending its intelligence data to the Ukrainian military.
25 min
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What Next: How Connecticut Became An Abortion S...
Its new law will extend protection beyond just the state’s residents.
21 min
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What Next TBD: Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?
The framework we create now will define speech online for decades to come.
22 min
1537
A Word: Joy and Pain: Navigating Grief
As America marks a million COVID deaths, grief is universal, but still misunderstood.
30 min
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The Waves: What Amber Heard’s Make-up Palette S...
The Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp trial shines a bright light on how the court system fails victims of gender violence.
49 min
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What Next TBD: Can the Internet Rescue Abortion...
A conversation with a doctor providing abortion access via telemedicine.
15 min
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What Next: Depp v. Heard
Free speech and family law collide in a celebrity defamation trial.
23 min
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What Next: The Supreme Court Tips Its Hand
Abortion rights in America are on borrowed time.
28 min
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What Next: The Michigan Democrat Who Said “Enough”
One freshman state senator shows Democrats how to parry Republican attacks designed to stoke fear and anger.
26 min
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What Next: Mexico’s Disappearing Women
Despite all the outrage and protests, the abductions and femicides haven’t stopped.
22 min
1544
A Word: Could Musk Kill Black Twitter?
Many users fear the tech bro troll will make Twitter more racially toxic.
28 min
1545
What Next TBD: The Fantasy of Internet for All
Starlink was supposed to revolutionize the global internet. Can it still meet its goal?
15 min
1546
The Waves: Edible Arrangements Is Getting Into ...
And, a gender-based theory on why fruit chunks on sticks are popular to begin with
38 min
1547
What Next TBD: What Elon Wants With Twitter
The purchase of Twitter is almost across the line. Now what?
18 min
1548
What Next: L.A.’s Alarming Latino Mortality Rate
And why one doctor sees it as a call to action for his community.
21 min
1549
What Next: The Crisis in Special Education
States are mandated to provide quality education for students with disabilities. What’s getting in the way?
23 min
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What Next: Florida’s Most Powerful Flak
How Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary fired up right-wing Twitter and further distorted a debate over education.
19 min