America's Top Elections Official Isn't Happy

America's Top Elections Official Isn't Happy

The Federal Election Commission was designed to prevent the parties from going rogue with overly punitive campaign finance regulations. But what’s paralyzed FEC is something less partisan, and more principled: Democrats think the government should enforce campaign spending laws. Republicans don’t.

Guest: Ellen Weintraub, Federal Election Commission Chair.

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Best of 2018

Best of 2018

On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus introduce some of their favorite interviews from 2018. We have highlights from our conversations with journalist Taylor Lorenz about teen YouTube st...

2 Tammi 201946min

Aftermath of a Data Breach

Aftermath of a Data Breach

On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus will talk reader mail! The hosts  take a look at some of your questions and comments from the year, in particular about how your relationship to tec...

26 Joulu 201831min

The Information World War

The Information World War

On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus will talk about how Taylor Swift used face recognition to surveil the crowd at a recent concert, and whether that’s smart, scary, or both. Then they...

19 Joulu 201831min

Warehouse Workers Bring Amazon To The Table

Warehouse Workers Bring Amazon To The Table

On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the latest round of “Tech CEO Goes to Washington.” On Tuesday morning, that CEO was Google’s Sundar Pichai, who appeared before the House Ju...

12 Joulu 201845min

We're in the New York Times

We're in the New York Times

No big deal. Did you see What Next mentioned in the New York Times? We'll be back with more shows in January. Until then, these are some of our favorite episodes:The Gun-Owning Doctors Changing the Gu...

9 Joulu 20181min

The Civil Rights Group Targeted By Facebook

The Civil Rights Group Targeted By Facebook

On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the news that Tumblr will soon be banning all adult content on its site -- this in response to some instances of child pornography that got ...

5 Joulu 201840min

Tomorrow's Children, Edited.

Tomorrow's Children, Edited.

On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the ongoing fallout at Facebook over the company’s decision to hire a conservative PR firm to surface opposition research in order to attack...

28 Marras 201837min

Facebook's Former Security Chief on What Went Wrong

Facebook's Former Security Chief on What Went Wrong

On today’s show, host Will Oremus will discuss the fallout from last week’s New York Times expose about Facebook with the company’s former Security Chief Alex Stamos. The Times story was headlined “De...

21 Marras 201844min

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