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1751
What Next: New York State’s Redistricting Mess
The ongoing battle over New York State’s political map has national implications.
21 min
1752
What Next: Biden’s Student Loan Ambivalence
If only looking at debt made it disappear.
23 min
1753
A Word: Reparations for Racist Violence?
While the nation focuses on the deadly Buffalo shooting, survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are still fighting for justice.
34 min
1754
What Next TBD: North Korea's Hacking Army
Can North Korea's army of cyber-criminals be stopped?
20 min
1755
The Waves: What Reality TV Says About Us
Are we watching for the right reasons?
26 min
1756
What Next TBD: How Buffalo Could Transform Soci...
Can the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism effectively moderate extremist content?
19 min
1757
What Next: China’s Zero-COVID Policy
How did a virus prevention strategy turn into punishment?
23 min
1758
What Next: No Lone Wolves
Why the mass shooting in Buffalo is part of a bigger movement.
25 min
1759
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
1760
What Next: The Evolution of Pro-Choice Messaging
How should supporters of reproductive rights talk about abortion now?
27 min
1761
A Word: Is Big Tech Pro-Choice?
Tech companies fell short on “racial reckoning” promises. Are abortion rights next?
22 min
1762
What Next TBD: Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
Can Truth Social survive without Trump?
17 min
1763
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
1764
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
1765
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
1766
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
1767
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
1768
What Next: How Connecticut Became An Abortion S...
Its new law will extend protection beyond just the state’s residents.
21 min
1769
A Word: Joy and Pain: Navigating Grief
As America marks a million COVID deaths, grief is universal, but still misunderstood.
30 min
1770
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
1771
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
1772
What Next TBD: Can the Internet Rescue Abortion...
A conversation with a doctor providing abortion access via telemedicine.
15 min
1773
What Next: Depp v. Heard
Free speech and family law collide in a celebrity defamation trial.
23 min
1774
What Next: The Supreme Court Tips Its Hand
Abortion rights in America are on borrowed time.
28 min
1775
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