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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 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.

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    Behind the Democrats’ Losing Strategy Jul 15, 2025
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    Why the Democrats’ electoral strategy of “hire consultants to tell you which positions poll well enough to take” has run its course—and where they should look to start rebuilding.

    Guest: Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate senior writer and author of “How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party”.

    Cited in this episode:

    The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld)

    Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Robert D. Putnam)

    The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—And How the World Lost Its Mind(Dan Davies)

    Cited in this episode:

    The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld)

    Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Robert D. Putnam)

    The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—And How the World Lost Its Mind(Dan Davies)

    Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen.

    Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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    Who Is Trump Promoting For Life? Jul 14, 2025
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    This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to vote on Emil Bove, who has been promoted from Trump’s personal lawyer to his current nominee for a lifelong appointment to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. In any other administration, Bove would be a real outlier. But here? He’s par for a very strange course.

    Guest: Jay Willis, editor-in-chief of Balls and Strikes.

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    When A.I. is Sycophantic Jul 13, 2025
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    He started using ChatGPT to help with spreadsheets. But their relationship took a turn, and before long it was telling him he could leap off a 19-story building and fly.


    Guest: Kashmir Hill, features writer at the New York Times.


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    Hot Measles Summer Jul 11, 2025
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    It’s a record-breaking year for America: we’ve now had the most reported cases of measles since the disease was declared “eradicated” in 2000.

    How did public health backslide so hard that it undid decades of progress—and is there any hope we can get back on track?

    Guest: Dylan Scott, senior health correspondent at Vox.

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    Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood Jul 10, 2025
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    In the wake of #MeToo, Hollywood productions began hiring “intimacy coordinators,” people who work to ensure sex scenes are safe and comfortable for performers. How are they working out so far?

    Guest: Jennifer Wilson, staff writer at the New Yorker.

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    Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.


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    Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Preventable? Jul 09, 2025
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    After one of the deadliest floods in American history in central Texas, people are looking at cuts to the National Weather Service and FEMA’s absence contributing to the devastation. But one looming problem is much, much bigger.

    Guest: Jeff Goodell, writer covering climate change, author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet and The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World.

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    Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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    Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave Act Playbook? Jul 08, 2025
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    A federal force—often defying local governance—coming to take people away without due process has happened before. What lessons can be drawn from parallels between a law that led to the Civil War and what’s happening today with Trump’s hardline immigration enforcement?

    Guest: Jamelle Bouie, columnist at the New York Times

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    Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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    The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Point Jul 07, 2025
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    Built in just eight days, Donald Trump and Kristi Noem toured “Alligator Alcatraz,” a migrant detention facility built on a disused airstrip in the Florida Everglades. Even before Trump touched down in South Florida, branded merchandise was being sold. Soon after he headed back to Washington, the first detainees were brought in.

    Guest: Sommer Brugal, Miami reporter for Axios.

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    Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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    How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful Debate Jul 06, 2025
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    As the One Big Beautiful Bill bounced around Congress, one provision—the 10-year moratorium on states making laws to regulate artificial intelligence—fell out. But AI-fans don’t need to worry, there’s still plenty of industry support in the bill.

    Guest: Will Oremus, technology news analysis writer for the Washington Post.

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    Podcast production by Evan Campbell and Patrick Fort.


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    Bonus: When the Internet Stopped Being Fun Jul 04, 2025
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    Is anyone having fun on the internet anymore? Let’s all go touch grass.

    Guest: Scaachi Koul, Slate senior writer and author of “It’s Time to Log Off.”

    This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive episodes of What Next —you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen.

    Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther.


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