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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A Surgeon in Gaza’s “End Game”
How a surgeon has seen the situation on the ground devolve for Palestinians.
29 min
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Trump’s Attack on Visas
Foreign workers are choosing between a narrowing path to legal visas, risking deportation, or simply leaving Americans to pick their own produce.
27 min
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How Big Media Obeys in Advance
When you’re an authoritarian, they do it to themselves.
25 min
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TBD | Is A.I. Taking Your Job?
For young workers, it might be time to worry.
27 min
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The Discourse | TikTok Ban: The Final Loop?
4 min
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TBD | A Very Online Shooter
The memes that came before, and the memes that were made after.
32 min
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Trump’s Getting His Economy. Yikes.
The Fed cut rates, but it won’t be enough to save the economy from what this administration is doing.
22 min
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Can Kash Patel Survive This?
The Patel era is less about investigations and more about posting stuff Trump likes.
26 min
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Who’s Winning the War on Higher Education?
The Trump administration has silenced professors, withheld more than two billion dollars in research funding, and forced administrators out.
30 min
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Hasan Piker Knew Charlie Kirk
The leftist streamer says that in the rush to mourn Kirk and condemn political violence, Kirk’s own words and politics are in danger of being whitewashed or ignored.
25 min
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TBD | Her Daughter Killed Herself. Then She Saw...
Should A.I. have warned someone?
31 min
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Bonus: “We Got Him”
The internet made Charlie Kirk. Did it make his killer too?
3 min
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TBD | You Can't Escape the Charlie Kirk Video
Content moderation is dead, algorithms are designed to serve you horrific videos - is this the future of life online?
32 min
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How the Supreme Court Legalized Racial Profiling
According to the court, college admissions offices can’t consider race. ICE, however…
26 min
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Trump Blew Up 11 People. Is That Legal?
The president takes the “because I say so” theory of authority into international waters.
28 min
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The Democrats Have Leverage. Will They Use It?
Rep. Jamie Raskin and the Democrats are considering all of their options for stopping Trump’s authoritarian agenda.
23 min
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Can You Get a COVID Vaccine?
RFK Jr. undid in one summer something decades in the making.
24 min
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TBD | End of an Electric Avenue
Are Americans ready and willing to pay full-price for an electric vehicle?
20 min
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TBD | Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting?
An “A.I. hater” makes the case.
31 min
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Decorator-In-Chief
Turning the White House to Mar-A-Lago North.
23 min
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Can Congress Stop Trump's Takeover?
You’re a coequal branch of government! Act like it!
26 min
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Presidency for Sale
Trump's not being particularly sly about profiting from his office this term. But how much has he made so far?
24 min
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ICYMI | The Great Girlboss Comeback
Just a few years after their cancellations, some girlbosses are starting their second acts.
49 min
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TBD | A24 Meets A.I.
Risk alienating your “auteurs”—or risk being left behind?
22 min
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Bonus: I’ll Gav What She’s Gavin
Is the California governor fighting fire with fire—or just sinking to their level?
2 min