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.
Get more of What Next with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of What Next and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/whatnextplus for access wherever you listen.
1126
Why Biden Can’t Ice Out Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom buys its way out of the dog house.
22 min
1127
An Overlooked Tool to Stop School Shootings
From a student-centered approach, “hardening” a school is obviously counter-productive.
21 min
1128
Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Women vs. Connecticut
What it took to strike down one of the oldest abortion laws in the country.
48 min
1129
TBD | From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. ...
A climate scientist on why it’s not too late to turn things around.
20 min
1130
TBD | The Culture War Over Electric Cars
When will electric cars go mainstream?
19 min
1131
Bill Barr Calls B.S. on Trump
Why the former attorney general has been particularly useful to the House Select Committee.
20 min
1132
The Real Lesson of San Francisco's D.A. Recall
Chesa Boudin became district attorney as part of a wave of progressive prosecutors. As he leaves office, how do his peers survive?
20 min
1133
The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
How the alleged targeting of a Palestinian American journalist lays bare the escalating tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinians.
23 min
1134
Does Gun Violence Need an Emmett Till Moment?
A trauma surgeon’s desperate plea for change.
19 min
1135
TBD | Sheryl Sandberg’s Complicated Legacy
How will Meta's former second-in-command be remembered?
25 min
1136
TBD | Bots! What Are They Good For?
How serious is Twitter's bot problem?
22 min
1137
What The Jan. 6 Hearings Are Really About
Prime-time hearings, professionally produced for television—but can they make a difference?
19 min
1138
Can 20 Years of Oversight Reform a Police Depar...
After 11 different police chiefs and myriad reforms, Oakland PD is “on the cusp of compliance.” But residents remain leery.
24 min
1139
The Right’s Poll-Watcher Army
They still don’t accept the last big election. They’re trying to help with the next one.
22 min
1140
Does Proof Matter at the Supreme Court?
There's evidence a death row inmate is innocent. The justices are condemning him to die.
22 min
1141
TBD | Is Elon Musk Any Good at Business?
A look at the richest man's business acumen.
25 min
1142
TBD | Can an Algorithm Spot a Shooter?
Social media surveillance technology used in schools has been largely ineffective.
21 min
1143
How Gun-Makers Are Arming the Culture War
Manufacturers follow a set playbook for when their products are used in mass shootings.
27 min
1144
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
1145
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
1146
TBD | Online Privacy in a Post-Roe World
How to minimize your digital footprint
17 min
1147
TBD | Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?
How the country's Bitcoin gamble is unraveling.
20 min
1148
A Sandy Hook Parent Speaks
An interview that makes us feel something like hope.
26 min
1149
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
1150
New York State’s Redistricting Mess
The ongoing battle over New York State’s political map has national implications.
21 min