What Next - Will Abortion Pills Be Banned?
A judge in north Texas is considering a lawsuit that could make access to abortion pills more difficult across the country. While anti-abortion activists can point to a string of recent successes, the...
16 Feb 202323min
What Next - Is Nikki Haley the GOP’s Future?
Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley announced that she is running to be president in 2024—challenging Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. How will she define herself i...
15 Feb 202319min
What Next - Why the West Bank Is at a Boiling Point
With hard-right, pro-settler representatives in the Israeli government, and the Palestinian Authority losing credibility with Palestinians, illegal settlements in the West Bank have become flashpoints...
14 Feb 202323min
What Next - The Mass Shooter Database
Why does someone become a mass shooter? Researchers are interviewing perpetrators and their victims—and those who narrowly averted committing a mass shooting—and discovering a common thread of psychol...
13 Feb 202324min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Contraband Tech Behind Bars
It’s hard to put a number on it but judging from the number of videos emerging online, there are more and more contraband cell phones finding their way into the hands of people in prison, who use them...
12 Feb 202328min
Slate Money - Will A.I. Kill the Internet?
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss Microsoft’s attempt to break into artificial intelligence assisted search with a revamp of their Bing search engine. They also talk ab...
11 Feb 202348min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The "Stop the Steal" Fight That Never Ended
Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court heard one of the landmark cases of the 2020 presidential election. During oral arguments in Trump v Biden in December 2020, Justice Jill J Karofsky participated in proc...
11 Feb 202346min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why Ban TikTok?
TikTok was banned on government agency devices in December; several schools and universities have banned it on their devices and wifi networks, and the governor of Texas unveiled a plan to ban it in t...
10 Feb 202324min
