What Next - The Lawsuit Scaring Protesters
A jury recently found Greenpeace liable for more than $660 million in damages to the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline for its role in the Standing Rock protests. But the ramifications extend ...
24 Juni 202525min
What Next - Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?
The Trump administration bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. While the Pentagon says these facilities are severely damaged, a diplomatic end to the conflict and a nuclear disarmament agreement feel le...
23 Juni 202526min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government
ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in the US to Customs and Border Protection. But in the contract, they told CBP not to reveal where the...
22 Juni 202522min
Slate Money - Slate Money Submits To The AI Overlords
This week: We become cheerleaders for crypto regulation, AI, and…Cheerleaders. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the GENIUS act, the major crypto regulation bill which recently pas...
21 Juni 202550min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Many Compromises of Elena Kagan
The Justices seem intent on packing their summer vacation bags and getting on their way. Earlier in the week, the court’s conservative supermajority upheld a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for...
21 Juni 202547min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Alison Bechdel Explains Selling Out the Progressive Way
David Plotz talks with author Alison Bechdel about her new book, Spent. They discuss what’s memoir and what’s less than memoir in the comic novel, David’s own contribution to the book, and more. Tweet...
21 Juni 202527min
What Next - Bonus: The All New Electric … Hummer?
Listen to What Next via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, Overcast, Google Play, or iHeart.America’s most machismo and gas-guzzling car, the Hummer, has been relaunched as an electric vehicle...
20 Juni 20255min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - We Deport. You Laugh?
The Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign has become defined by distasteful memes that gleefully portray the mass deportations being carried out across the country. It’s impossible to ignor...
20 Juni 202526min
