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The problem with the news right now? It’s everywhere. And each day, it can feel like we’re all just mindlessly scrolling. It’s why we created What Next. This short daily show is here to help...

“Intersectionality” was one of those “DEI terms” that the Trump administration and Project 2025 were eager to do away with once they got bac...

Can a Republican Lieutenant Governor be reborn as a Democratic Governor? After failing to create a GOP 2.0, and being harried by Trump for a...

In the early 2020s, Microsoft committed to buying 75 million tons of carbon removal—somewhere between 70 and 90 percent of the entire carbon...

One of independent journalism’s success stories and most charismatic advocates stops by to answer the question: “If journalism is so great,...

This week marks the beginning of the jury trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. There are massive implications for the A.I. industry here,...

How Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais ran contrary to the Voting Rights Act—both as written by Congress and as prev...

Democrats are starting to let themselves feel a little optimistic about the fall midterms, which is just about time for the fight between th...

Presidential assassinations have been spawning conspiracy theories since Lincoln. But Saturday’s attempted assassination seems about as stra...

The biopic “Michael” solves the third-act problem of Michael Jackson’s life by simply ending before the 1993 lawsuit that alleged child sex...

The era of ads following you around the internet via cookies might be coming to an end. What’s replacing it? Guest: Sara Fisher, Axios' medi...

The Trump administration is, let’s say, experiencing a bit of turnover this spring. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out and Kash P...

Is artificial intelligence a blessing to all humanity, or a demon sent to lead us astray from God’s path? MAGA is choosing between two extre...

Representatives Eric Swalwell, Tony Gonzales, and now Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick are out; Virginia is redistricting and Republicans are brac...

The government is getting ready to pay $166 billion in tariff refunds to American businesses. But the consumers who had to foot the bill for...

During the Trump administration’s winter immigration surge, high-level officials assured ICE agents that they could act with impunity. But t...

From bombing fishing boats in the Caribbean, to kidnapping Nicolás Maduro, to the Iran War, the Trump administration seems to operate like i...

This very online administration is facing push back from Iran in their own home territory: the world of insipid memes, A.I. videos, and onli...

Back in the depths of the pandemic, what was an actor to do? Ben McKenzie started looking into cryptocurrency—and his research yielded both...

In Pope Leo XIV, Donald Trump has finally run into someone he can’t silence, threaten, or sully. He’s not taking it gracefully. Guest: Chris...

In a single weekend, JD Vance managed to flunk out of peace talks with Iran and hitch the Trump wagon to Victor Orban’s star just in time fo...

The U.S. and Iran began (and ended) negotiations under a shaky ceasefire, and are now at the stage where America is threatening to also bloc...

Lurking behind—and sometimes explicitly out in front of — the Trump administration’s ire for DEI, its crackdowns on immigration, and its rhe...

If you had as much trouble getting along with other humans as Sam Altman does, you too might be eager to issue in the artificial intelligenc...

With Congress again out for recess—instead of, say, working to end the partial government shutdown or doing something, anything, when the pr...

As OpenAI prepares for its IPO, the company decided to…pay millions of dollars for a tech talk show? Is this just what rich tech guys like S...

An Israeli filmmaker, who returned home from abroad after October 7, attempts to capture the feeling of mourning becoming a thirst for reven...

Where was Congress while the president threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight”? Guest: Senator Mark Warner , U.S. Senator fr...

Last week, the Army’s Chief of Staff, General Randy George, joined a long and growing list of high-level military officers who have been fir...

American Catholicism finds itself at a crossroads—split between its prominent conservative representatives in the Trump administration and i...

One of artificial intelligence’s most hyped “abilities” is how it writes computer code. So much so that seemingly anyone can do it. So we fi...

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, private credit or “shadow banking” grew as an alternative to the regulations and shared risk that...

Even with Trump in attendance, it didn’t look like the Supreme Court was buying his administration’s attack on the 14th amendment and birthr...

The Iran war’s disruption to global oil supplies demonstrates another upside to switching to renewable energy sources. Instead, Europe is co...

A flurry of activity in the oil-futures market, minutes before Donald Trump made a big announcement about not striking at Iranian infrastruc...

OpenAI is shutting down its video generator Sora less than six months after it launched, and just three months since it signed a deal with D...

Artificial intelligence is working its way into every aspect of our lives, including law and immigration enforcement, and the industry is sp...

What YouTube and Meta’s loss in the “social media addiction trial” could mean for your feed. Guest: Ryan Mac , business and technology repor...

Trump’s unpredictability injects uncertainty into the economy, foreign policy, and everything else he touches. Even as his war messaging var...

Leftist political commentator Hasan Piker feels the Democrats have missed an opportunity to articulate their opposition to Trump’s foreign p...

Kristi Noem is out, and Senator Markwayne Mullin is in (in theory) as the new DHS secretary. Mullin tried to strike a softer tone during his...

The argument against counting mail-in ballots that arrive after election day is going to involve Supreme Court-pleasing “originalist” langua...

Why Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp views working with Western militaries not just as a business opportunity, but as a higher calling....

Hank Green recently pulled a “reverse OpenAI” - he took his education platform Complexly and made it a nonprofit. In a world where outrage,...

The war in Iran is either already over, or almost over, or going to continue until Trump feels it is over in his bones? If you’re Congress,...

Israel and America’s war with Iran has spread, leading to the displacement of nearly 20 percent of people in Lebanon. What does that look li...

The Republican-led Senate prepares this week to tackle an issue that’s very important to the president, his diehards, and hardly anyone else...

If no other explanations for the Iran War seem satisfying, have you considered that the point is to bring about the end of the world and the...

A half dozen state attorneys general have sued the online gaming platform Roblox after multiple investigations found child predators on the...

On this week’s Slate Plus exclusive, Timothée Chalamet enters the pas de deux between an Oscar-nominated actor and a public itching for a vi...

Drone warfare has evolved immensely since Ukraine. The use of artificial intelligence in combat has evolved just since Venezuela. Guest: Ste...