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 | We Deport. You Laugh?
Why the White House is memeing its mass deportations.
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Mighty Real Edition
57 min
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Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
How the DHS Secretary emerged as the face of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
26 min
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The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
27 min
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Vaccine Skeptics Just Scored a Big Win
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices found out they were fired via an article in the Wall Street Journal.
22 min
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TBD | Summer Travel Tips To Not Get Detained
A guide for digital safety.
24 min
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TBD | New DOGE, New Tricks
Elon may be gone, but Big Balls is staying on.
24 min
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Trump’s Brittle Authoritarianism
Military parades and troops moving against protestors are things Americans, typically, prefer to happen elsewhere.
25 min
184
Will Israel Starve Gaza Into Submission?
There’s a long, ugly history of famine being used as a weapon of war.
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Corporate America Retreats From Pride
It was always an awkward fit, but it’s still ominous to watch companies pull back support.
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Trump Sends in the Troops
In response to protests in Los Angeles, the President invoked a legal authority last used by L.B.J. to deploy the National Guard on domestic protesters.
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TBD | The Future of the Internet Hinges on Gail...
You may be asking, “Who?”
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Main Character: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Slate’s Nadira Goffe visits with reporting from the courthouse.
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TBD | Is Palantir Building a Data Big Brother?
Palantir is laying the groundwork for a central government data system - one that sounds an awful lot like a surveillance state.
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She Was Tortured. America Shut Her Out.
One of the last avenues of protection at the southern border appears to have closed.
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Can Zionism Survive This War?
A self-described Zionist feels the path Israel is on isn’t leading to a safe, peaceful nation for Jews, which he once believed was the goal.
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George Floyd Square, Five Years Later
Searching for progress, in Minneapolis and America.
30 min
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Can the U.S. Learn from the U.K.'s Post-Brexit ...
Even with a US trade deal in hand, British politics still feel lost in the woods, five years after leaving the EU.
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TBD | So Long, Elon
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
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TBD | The Drone Wars
Russia and Ukraine are locked in an arms race that will change war forever.
22 min
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Legally Dead—And Pregnant
Adriana Smith is being kept on life support, at her family’s expense, until her fetus reaches 32 weeks.
25 min
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Does Gavin Newsom Have It All Figured Out?
Why the California governor seems to be engineering a big pivot to the center.
26 min
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What Would You Pay to Stay Alive?
A reporter investigates why his lifesaving medication costs nearly $1,000 a day.
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The Glaring Problem with Headlights
Why car headlights have gotten so bright—and why they’re likely to stay that way.
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TBD | Crypto's Big Win
Even if you've never touched crypto, you could be burned by the GENIUS Act.
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