What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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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MAGA Eating Itself Alive
When your knee-jerk contrarian movement chases everyone else from the room, who’s left to rebel against?
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TBD | Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
Almost every country has banned the practice—but in the US, its growing.
25 min
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TBD | Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
The artificial intelligence election is on.
17 min
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Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand
Is Trump’s best defense…a mistrial?
24 min
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Conservative Candid Camera in the Darién Gap
On top of everything else, migrants now have to worry about being ambushed by Laura Loomer.
26 min
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Hamas Agreed to a Ceasefire. Now What?
On Sunday, talks looked “dead.” Then on Monday, Hamas took the deal.
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Why Democrats Will Save Mike Johnson’s Job
The bipartisan effort to ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene.
23 min
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TBD | Can California Save Journalism?
The Sunshine State considers making Google and Meta pony up—and making news outlets spend that revenue on their staff.
20 min
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TBD | Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
Scientists are observing, for the first time, the virus spreading cow-to-cow—is human-to-human next?
21 min
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Columbia Cracks Down
"Every single thing about this is completely maddening. And none of it had to happen.”
24 min
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Biden’s Climate Report Card
We're doing more than ever, and still not nearly enough.
20 min
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The Man Who Wrote the Trump Playbook—30 Years Ago.
Republicans these days are ceding popular elections but holding on to power. That strategy is older than you think.
23 min
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The Jewish Case for Protest
How views of Israel have changed—and how some Jewish Americans are grappling with the dissonance.
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TBD | The Failures of ‘Organic’ Farming
Organic farms try to make their products better for people, but that doesn’t mean better animal welfare.
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TBD | So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Or has the long journey to banning the short-video app just begun?
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How Trump Found His Lawyer
An ex-prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, Todd Blanche left one of the oldest Wall Street law firms to represent the former president.
24 min
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Columbia Calls the Cops
How student protests have intensified and spread.
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Your Right to Protest? Not the Supreme Court’s ...
Looks like the highest court will let the wildly conservative Fifth Circuit judges violate the Constitution a bit, as a treat.
19 min
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What the WNBA Salary Debate Misses
Caitlin Clark’s $76,000 pay is shocking—but the story is bigger than her.
24 min
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TBD | The Internet Archive Endangered
A non-profit site just digitized Aruba’s history. They could be sued out of existence.
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TBD | What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?
The EV maker may be demonstrating why other car makers don’t do it this way.
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Is It Too Late to Escape “Forever Chemicals”?
The EPA has known PFAS are dangerous for a long time—why are they finally ratcheting up regulations now?
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Will Abortion in Florida and Arizona Decide the...
The ghost of Roe v. Wade haunts our voting booths.
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What Israel Does Now
How to interpret Iran’s checked-swing retaliation.
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Trump In (Criminal) Court
What to expect when a former president facing jail time appears before a jury of his peers.
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