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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Trump Is Back. Is the Media Ready?
Making the right choice when it comes to good TV vs. good journalism.
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TBD | Space After NASA
The passionate weirdos and hedge funds that want to boldly go where only governments have gone before.
30 min
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TBD | Who’s Afraid of A.I.?
Real harm from A.I. doesn’t have to look like Skynet—it’s already happening.
29 min
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Debt Ceiling Dinner Theater
Why does America have to keep having this fight?
21 min
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The Border's New Normal
Can the Biden administration live up to the campaign’s rhetoric when Title 42 lifts?
23 min
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Why Richard Glossip Has Escaped Execution Nine ...
Inside nearly a decade of delays, stays, and last meals.
24 min
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Can DeSantis Beat Disney?
What may have started as bluster and rhetoric is now a matter for the courts.
24 min
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TBD | What's Going on at Meta?
Market instability, bad bets and low morale are putting Silicon Valley's poster child in uncharted territory. Can it claw its way back?
29 min
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TBD | What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
The WGA is fighting to get ahead of A.I.—and finally catch up with the streaming era.
27 min
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Charles In Charge
A coronation is a good time to ask of the monarchy “Do we have to?”
21 min
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America’s Rich History of Gun Control
How “originalist” arguments against gun control distort actual history.
21 min
862
What E. Jean Carroll Is Fighting For
And how Donald Trump’s defense team is trying to sway the jury.
24 min
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War in Ukraine: The View Behind Closed Doors
The country is bracing for a spring counteroffensive, with still no end to the conflict in sight.
23 min
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TBD | Is Your Uber Drivers' Pay Rigged?
Same ride. Same route. Different pay.
21 min
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TBD | Stephen King Is Just as Confused About Bl...
A meltdown over its subscription service reveals Twitter’s wheels coming off.
30 min
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Fighting for the Right to Die
Her state didn’t allow terminally-ill patients the choice to end their lives—but Vermont did.
23 min
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The Ballad of Tucker Carlson
How Fox’s most popular host followed his audience - until he was fired.
21 min
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Beyond Stand Your Ground
How “self-defense” laws create a shoot-first mentality.
23 min
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Why Evan Gershkovich Went to Russia
His latest appeal was rejected. What happens now?
22 min
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TBD | "Crap Apps": Why Weather Apps Suck
Why our smartphone forecasts are so mercurial.
21 min
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TBD | Will A.I. Close Off the Internet?
As A.I. companies are sucking up as much data as they can to train their systems, social platforms are starting to put their most valuable resource behind a paywall.
22 min
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So Fox News, What Did We Learn?
With an audience this big—and fiercely loyal—who needs the truth?
23 min
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Dianne Feinstein's Last Stand
Can the Democrats afford to let the California senator finish her term?
20 min
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Fox News Goes to Court
Can Dominion prove “actual malice”?
28 min
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He Couldn’t Teach ‘Slavery Was Wrong.’ So He Quit.
More teachers are leaving their jobs as a wave of restrictive legislation targets educators across the country.
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