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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TBD | A Colbert Report
How Trump did (and didn't) get Stephen Colbert cancelled.
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He Says Gaza Is a Genocide
Why an Israeli-American Holocaust scholar felt he had to speak up.
28 min
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How Dead Is the Department of Education?
The federal agency can’t be abolished with the stroke of a pen. But it can be put on the austerity path to oblivion.
21 min
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On Epstein, Democrats Go Low
It’s time to get in the muck.
27 min
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Getting Anti-Vaxxers To Roll Up Their Sleeves
Those who won’t listen to health officials did listen to their neighbors and classmates.
27 min
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TBD | When Bots Go Nazi
Grok’s antisemitic posting spree was a glimpse of an unregulated AI future.
25 min
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Bonus: A Muslim, a Dad, an American
Aymann Ismail stops in to talk about his new book—and a certain mayoral race.
3 min
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TBD | How The Epstein Files Blew Up MAGAworld
Live by the conspiracy, die by the conspiracy.
25 min
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Can Trump Bully Russia?
Elon Musk isn’t the only one to fall from Trump’s good graces.
22 min
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Deported—To a Country You've Never Been To
The Trump administration is using a group of immigrants with criminal convictions as a test case to erode basic rights for everyone.
24 min
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Behind the Democrats’ Losing Strategy
The opposition party needs to shake off the old campaign plans—and the strategists—of the 90s.
25 min
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Who Is Trump Promoting For Life?
The rush to stock the federal judiciary with MAGA loyalists.
24 min
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TBD | When A.I. is Sycophantic
Chatbots want to please - but it’s pushing some into dark places.
19 min
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TBD | Hot Measles Summer
Why the next few months are crucial for containing the outbreak.
23 min
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Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
The position has experienced a boom in the years after #MeToo—but have they really changed Hollywood?
27 min
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Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Preventable?
The world we’ve been building for isn’t the world we’ll be living in.
21 min
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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.
20 min
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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.
23 min
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TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful...
With a little help from country music.
24 min
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Bonus: When the Internet Stopped Being Fun
Being online sucks. Let’s touch grass.
4 min
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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.
23 min
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One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
What this sweeping and expensive piece of legislation could cost you.
25 min
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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?
26 min
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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.
28 min
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Why Is ICE Masked Up?
What happens when government agents are impossible to identify?
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