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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Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave Act Playbook?
The lessons and warnings from a law that failed to avert the Civil War.
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The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Point
How the new immigration detention facility in Florida became a reality in just over a week.
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TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful...
With a little help from country music.
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Bonus: When the Internet Stopped Being Fun
Being online sucks. Let’s touch grass.
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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.
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One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
What this sweeping and expensive piece of legislation could cost you.
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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?
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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.
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Why Is ICE Masked Up?
What happens when government agents are impossible to identify?
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TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
The agency is trying to stop “censorship” on social platforms by keeping private companies from spending their ad dollars as they see fit.
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TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
A new New York City has asserted itself.
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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.
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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?
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Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?
President Trump’s always talked about keeping America out of conflicts abroad. Six months into his second term, here we are.
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TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Gov...
And they don’t want you to know.
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Bonus: The All New Electric … Hummer?
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TBD | We Deport. You Laugh?
Why the White House is memeing its mass deportations.
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Mighty Real Edition
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Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
How the DHS Secretary emerged as the face of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
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The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
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Vaccine Skeptics Just Scored a Big Win
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices found out they were fired via an article in the Wall Street Journal.
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TBD | Summer Travel Tips To Not Get Detained
A guide for digital safety.
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TBD | New DOGE, New Tricks
Elon may be gone, but Big Balls is staying on.
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Trump’s Brittle Authoritarianism
Military parades and troops moving against protestors are things Americans, typically, prefer to happen elsewhere.
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