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Three Stories We Can't Stop Thinking About Dec 30, 2019

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As 2019 comes to a close, What Next is checking back in on three stories we did this year. From a power struggle in Venezuela to a border wall dispute in Arizona and back to Washington for an impeachment update. Here’s what happened…next!

Guests: Ana Vanessa Herrero, reporter for the New York Times, Mayor of Nogales Arturo Garino, and Noah Feldman Harvard Law School professor and host of Deep Background, available on Luminary.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Mara Silvers.

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WN TBD: A Landmark Privacy Law Takes Effect. Now What? Dec 27, 2019

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On January 1st, a new law will grant Californians the right to see, delete, and stop the sale of personal information collected by tech companies. But the impact of the bill may reach far beyond California. How does this landmark law affect the rest of the country? And will it set the stage for national privacy legislation?

Guest: Hayley Tsukayama, Legislative Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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A Landmark Privacy Law Takes Effect. Now What? Dec 27, 2019

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Guest: Hayley Tsukayama, Legislative Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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WN TBD | Ring: Your Doorbell Is Watching Dec 20, 2019

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Back in 2013, an entrepreneur named Jamie Siminoff appeared on Shark Tank. He was seeking an investment in a new product he was calling Doorbot, a smart doorbell that would make answering the door more convenient and users’ lives “more connected.”

Six years later, Doorbot is now Ring, an Amazon-owned home-security system that partners with more than 600 police departments around the country. How did Doorbot become Ring? And what are the consequences of placing surveillance cameras on front doors around the country?

Guest: Caroline Haskins, technology reporter at Buzzfeed.

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Ring: Your Doorbell Is Watching Dec 20, 2019

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Guest: Caroline Haskins, technology reporter at Buzzfeed.

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A Year of “Remain in Mexico” Dec 19, 2019

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The “Remain in Mexico” policy was sold as a humane way to throttle the flow of migrant families seeking asylum in the U.S. But the immigration courts remain overwhelmed, and migrants who do make the trip to the southern border have been left to wait for months -- sometimes upwards of a year -- in squalid, makeshift refugee camps in Mexico.

Guest: Adolfo Flores, immigration reporter for BuzzFeed.

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Are Active Shooter Drills Traumatizing Kids? Dec 18, 2019

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Preparing for an active shooter is becoming a disturbingly normal part of the school experience. And while companies are developing new methods for how to keep students and teachers safe, it’s unclear if they’re becoming more effective.

Guest: Tali Woodward, deputy editor at The Trace.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt and Mara Silvers.

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Black Voters Fight to Count in Georgia Dec 17, 2019

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It’s hard to keep track of all the things that have happened in Georgia to tweak voter rights and poll access over the past several years. But a new investigation highlighted two overarching themes to recent changes: diminishing federal oversight and structural racism.

Guest: Mark Niesse, reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Read his story, co-reported with Nick Thieme.

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How McKinsey Became a Villain Dec 16, 2019

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Public sector consulting is under a new kind of scrutiny. Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has thrust his former employer, McKinsey, into the spotlight. What’s been brought to the surface has challenged their stated values of “doing the most good”.

Guest: Ian McDougall, Reporter for ProPublica

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Inside The Influence Economy Dec 13, 2019

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Over the past decade, the world of influencers has grown from a fringe marketing movement to a multibillion-dollar industry. Now, tactics and strategies originally developed by influencers can be found across industries, from health care to politics to higher ed.

What’s behind this meteoric rise? And why do we misunderstand a movement that Taylor Lorenz calls “a fundamental shift in society”?

Guest: Taylor Lorenz, internet culture reporter for the New York Times

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