What Next - Meh-lania

What Next - Meh-lania

Melania, the documentary about the First Lady, is a lot like its subject: extremely expensive and fundamentally inscrutable.


Guest: Heather Schwedel, staff writer at Slate, author of “Unfortunately, I Have to Recommend You See Melania”.


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President Trump has proposed cutting $2.5 billion from the National Cancer Institute, which in addition to cuts to the National Institutes of Health and research universities almost makes you wonder: ...

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Women were prosecuted for experiencing miscarriage or stillbirth even before the Supreme Court swept away the protections of Roe v. Wade. But these prosecutions have ramped up since, in both red and b...

23 Aug 202545min

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The CDC Under Fire

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Two weeks ago, a gunman fired over 500 bullets at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building in Atlanta. Between the anti-public health rhetoric coming from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the t...

22 Aug 202521min

Political Gabfest - Is This Martial Law?

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s deepening takeover of Washington D.C. as National Guard troops from red states arrive, what if anything was accomplished in th...

21 Aug 20251h 3min

What Next - D.C’s Senator Knew This Would Happen

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Donald Trump was able to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and send in National Guard troops and federal agents to patrol the streets due to Washington D.C.’s strange, not-a-state status. O...

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