What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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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 fo...
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Bonus: What It’s Going to Take
Host Mary Harris appeared on stage a few weeks back to speak in response to a night of “Resistance Theater,” considering how she, as a journalist, is...
2025: The Music of the Year
2025 might not have been a great year —but the music sure was stellar.
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2025: The Advice of the Year
With rising authoritarianism, terrifying speech crackdowns, and violence in the streets, this year we found ourselves turning to our friends over at H...
TBD | Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting? | 2025 in Review
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the peopl...
A Rabbi’s Plea for Peace | 2025 in Review
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the peopl...
Gutting Our National Parks | 2025 in Review
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the peopl...
He Wrote About Anti-Fascism—Then Fled the Country | 2025 in Review
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the peopl...
The Flight Attendant Who Wants You to Go on Strike | 2025 in Review
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the peopl...
TBD | We Made a Memecoin | 2025 in Review
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the peopl...
Bonus: SchadenFriday: Spewing Bile and Susie Wiles
Is the president falling into the very trap that launched him back into office by telling people the economy is actually great when they say it isn’t?...
TBD | Data Center Space Race
While the A.I. boom has created a data center boom, rich guys are turning their computing dreams to the skies. With its impending IPO, SpaceX stands t...
Why Antisemitism Is Everywhere
It’s not that antisemitism ever went away, but it’s still jarring to watch people spread its oldest and most vile tropes on social media in a way that...
The Unaffordable Economy
Even though the economy looks to be slowing down, prices are still rising. And while presidents don’t have a ton of control over the economy, there is...
Candace Owens at a Turning Point
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the right-wing commentator Candace Owens didn’t simply blame liberals. Her antisemetic conspiracy theories have...
The Boot Camps Treating Kids’ Pain
Are “boot camp” clinics that treat kids and teenagers with chronic pain symptoms helping or inflicting more damage on patients who have trouble advoca...
His Mom Got Deported. Then He Went Viral.
Today’s TikTok influencers share every aspect of their lives: from their morning routines, to getting ready to go out, to their parents being detained...
The Fight Over The Future of Movies
Last Friday, Netflix announced that they would be acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery, a massive megamerger that would let the number one streaming servi...
Healthcare Is Expensive. It’s About To Get Worse.
This week, Senate Democrats will hold a vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits to try to prevent health insurance premiums from sk...
SchadenFriday Plus: Feelin’ Nuzzi
Olivia Nuzzi’s book, American Canto, is out. Somehow it discloses almost nothing and also way, way too much.
Guest: Scaachi Koul, Slate s...
The Year of Vaccine Backsliding
Today, the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee will be meeting to vote on recommendations for childhood vaccinations. But under RFK Jr.’s leadership, thi...
Pardon Me, Mr. President
Some presidents use their pardons for large groups of people. Some presidents use them for personal reasons. If you were to sum up Donald Trump’s use...
A Textbook Example of an Unlawful Order
Just after the Trump administration threw a fit over a video reminding the military that they have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders, the Washin...
TBD | If You Give A.I. a Nuke
As the U.S. upgrades and updates its defense and military systems, the question isn’t whether A.I. will be integrated, but where, how much, and how mu...
Decoder Ring | Cozy Autumn Mysteries
While the What Next team works their way from preparing
food to sleeping it off, enjoy this episode on fall’s flavorful favorites from
our...
Could We Get Peace In Ukraine?
The Trump administration has announced a 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine that involves ceding territory, giving up on joining NATO and reducin...
How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded
Between the drastic budget cuts and provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration has found a way to drain Planned Parenthood and oth...
Bonus: SchadenFriday: Are You Fitter Than an ICE Applicant?
You can have enough ICE recruits or you can have standards for the shape that they’re in, but you can’t have both—this was just one lesson Donald Trum...
TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming
Trump promised to stop the “persecution” of the cryptocurrency industry. He did call off the SEC investigations that began under Biden, and pardoned B...
Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
People have been talking about how the penny is more trouble than it’s worth for 50 years—so why drop it now? And—other than having nothing to put in...
Sudan on the Brink
Ongoing civil war in Sudan has left tens of thousands dead, with millions displaced. A country of great natural resources, regional foreign government...
Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
You can’t really blame Donald Trump for thinking he could just handwave away the Epstein Files. But for the first time in what feels like forever, his...
The National Guard Is Asking Questions
Trump can’t seem to decide if the National Guard is needed in American cities to stop violent crime, or to assist ICE deportations, or something else...
No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
It didn’t take long to go from Beyoncé holding for applause in front of the word “FEMINISM” to a headline in the New York Times asking “Did Women Ruin...
How To Lose a Government Shutdown
It has been the longest government shutdown on record. Why did the Democrats choose this moment—right after elections proved how unpopular Donald Trum...
Is Special Ed Getting Left Behind?
Children with disabilities' place in public schools—though legally mandated—has often been tenuous at best. Now the Trump Administration is targeting...
Bonus: SchadenFriday | Muslim, Millennial, Mr. Mayor Mamdani
Well well well. Looks like being a truculent, aging sex pest who clearly hates the constituency he aspires to rule only works in national elections. I...
Trump’s Tariffs Have a Constitution Problem
Trump’s tariffs went before the Supreme Court this week and even the extremely accommodating Roberts court was having trouble seeing how the president...
The Andrew Formerly Known as a Prince
How Virginia Giuffre’s accusations of a decade ago finally brought His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, down to simply Andrew.
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She Won the Election. The GOP Won’t Swear Her In.
She won a special election on Sept. 23 but still hasn’t been sworn into the House of Representatives—even though new members have been sworn in during...
The Redistricting Arms Race Is On
Fearing a Democratic-led House of Representatives, Donald Trump set off a state-redistricting arms race when he asked Texas to find him five more safe...