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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How Gun-Makers Are Arming the Culture War
Manufacturers follow a set playbook for when their products are used in mass shootings.
27 min
1052
How Soccer's Best Women Finally Got Paid
The US Women’s National Soccer team fought for six years to secure equal pay for equal work.
25 min
1053
Reporting on Guns from Texas
The view from a state that doesn’t “have that many restrictions left to loosen up”—and just had a mass shooting.
23 min
1054
TBD | Online Privacy in a Post-Roe World
How to minimize your digital footprint
17 min
1055
TBD | Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?
How the country's Bitcoin gamble is unraveling.
20 min
1056
A Sandy Hook Parent Speaks
An interview that makes us feel something like hope.
26 min
1057
The End of Ending the Pandemic
How treatments for addiction and HIV prevention can inform this moment—and the next—in the fight against COVID.
18 min
1058
New York State’s Redistricting Mess
The ongoing battle over New York State’s political map has national implications.
21 min
1059
Biden’s Student Loan Ambivalence
If only looking at debt made it disappear.
23 min
1060
TBD | North Korea's Hacking Army
Can North Korea's army of cyber-criminals be stopped?
20 min
1061
TBD | How Buffalo Could Transform Social Media
Can the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism effectively moderate extremist content?
19 min
1062
China’s Zero-COVID Policy
How did a virus prevention strategy turn into punishment?
23 min
1063
No Lone Wolves
Why the mass shooting in Buffalo is part of a bigger movement.
25 min
1064
How Corporations Are Taking Advantage of Inflation
Consumers are paying the price as some companies use inflation as a cover for price hikes.
25 min
1065
The Evolution of Pro-Choice Messaging
How should supporters of reproductive rights talk about abortion now?
27 min
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TBD | Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
Can Truth Social survive without Trump?
17 min
1067
TBD | Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
A.I. that can read emotion is the next frontier in machine learning.
16 min
1068
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
1069
Russia’s Next Target?
Why Putin might be setting his sights on Moldova, a tiny country on Ukraine’s western border.
25 min
1070
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
1071
How Connecticut Became An Abortion Safe Haven
Its new law will extend protection beyond just the state’s residents.
21 min
1072
TBD | Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?
The framework we create now will define speech online for decades to come.
22 min
1073
TBD | Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?
A conversation with a doctor providing abortion access via telemedicine.
15 min
1074
Depp v. Heard
Free speech and family law collide in a celebrity defamation trial.
23 min
1075
The Supreme Court Tips Its Hand
Abortion rights in America are on borrowed time.
28 min