Amazon Wants Your Handprint
Amazon has installed digital palm readers at Whole Foods. The reader scans your palm, collecting biometric data, and links it to your credit card to pay for your groceries. What does exchanging vein m...
21 Jun 202419min
Homelessness Before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is soon expected to decide Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case where a town’s efforts to remove unhoused people from its parks became “cruel and unusual,” according to lower courts.Guest:...
20 Jun 202429min
Slow Burn: Defend Our Children
Happy Juneteenth! What Next resumes regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but for the holiday, check out this episode of Slow Burn Season 9: Gays Against Briggs.In 1977, John Briggs was a small-ti...
19 Jun 202449min
How IVF Became the GOP's Next Battle
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, the Christian right seems to be setting its sights on banning in-vitro fertilization. But even though the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution agai...
18 Jun 202424min
What's Eating the Economy?
The American economy has gotten more consolidated and more reliant on algorithms—while also, according to most people, getting more expensive, slower, and worse. Is there some causality in this correl...
17 Jun 202419min
The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.
In 2021, one of the largest global law enforcement operations took place. It was all thanks to an encrypted phone service known as Anom, which was secretly run by the FBI. The program was a wild succe...
16 Jun 202429min
Apple Goes Intelligent
On Monday, Tim Cook announced Apple was getting into artificial intelligence. Is Apple about to do for A.I. what it did for personal computers and smartphones?Guest: Gerrit De Vynck, tech reporter for...
14 Jun 202421min
She Met the Alitos—and Got Them on Tape
Furtively recorded conversations with Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Alito’s wife Martha-Ann provided a window into what these powerful figures are saying behind closed doors. But do the mea...
13 Jun 202423min
