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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | 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 to record TikTok dances, take online courses, and alert the outside world to what’s happening on the inside.


Guest: Keri Blakinger, criminal justice reporter at the Los Angeles Times, author of Corrections in Ink.


Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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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 proceedings via Zoom from her office inside the state capitol in Madison. Outside her office window, she could see armed protesters gathered in what she later viewed as a dry run for January 6th. In a 4-3 decision, with one Republican justice siding against Trump, the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to uphold Biden’s victory in the state. On this week’s Amicus, Justice Karofsky speaks for the first time about the fallout from that case: Fallout in her personal life, for herself and loved ones. Fallout in her professional life, with an investigation and the threat of sanction for her line of questioning in oral argument. And beyond all that, the fallout for democracy—and for the role of jurists within that democracy. 


In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to discuss the originalist Second Amendment ruling that puts women’s lives at risk, the looming prospect of a potential nationwide ban on a widely used, FDA-approved, abortion pill, and how the future of jurisprudence appears to be competing time machines. 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | 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 the state. Can “Project Texas” stem the anti-TikTok tide? And would banning the app actually achieve…anything?


Guest: Louise Matsakis, reporter for Semafor covering tech and China


Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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Slate Books - A Word: Surviving “Driving While Black”

For many Americans, the “Green Book” is an Oscar-winning film. But for generations of Black Americans, it served as a literal map for traveling through an often hostile and hateful country, finding safety and businesses that would serve us. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by writer and financial educator Alvin Hall. He’s the author of Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance. Hall explains how the original Green Book began, discusses its evolution, and why he’s dedicated years to studying and sharing stories of its impact.


Guest: Alvin Hall, author of Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance 


Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How Florida’s School Censorship Spreads

Governor Ron DeSantis canceling the rollout of AP African-American Studies course in Florida is more than just another salvo in the culture war. It has implications across public education, across the country—and its chilling effect is already evident.

 

Guests: Jeremy Young, historian and Senior Manager of Free Expression and Education at PEN America.


Chyna-Lee Hunter, a 12th grade student at Robert Morgan Educational Center in Miami, Fla.


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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – How Florida’s School Censorship Spreads

Governor Ron DeSantis canceling the rollout of AP African-American Studies course in Florida is more than just another salvo in the culture war. It has implications across public education, across the country—and its chilling effect is already evident.

 

Guests: Jeremy Young, historian and Senior Manager of Free Expression and Education at PEN America.


Chyna-Lee Hunter, a 12th grade student at Robert Morgan Educational Center in Miami, Fla.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Russian “Collaborators”

For Ukrainians who remained behind when the war began, choices made in the fog of occupation come under scrutiny when the invading army leaves, and neighbors once divided by the Russians again must live side by side.  

 

Guest: Joshua Yaffa, contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of “Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia.”


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - His Son Died in Uvalde. He’s Still Fighting.

Immediately following a mass shooting, public officials will say that “now is not the time” to discuss what changes—for example, making it more difficult to get an assault weapon—could have prevented the shooting, yet once the media cycle moves on, so does the momentum for change. But Brett Cross, whose son was killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas, won’t give up his fight for accountability and reform.


Guest: Brett Cross, father of Uziyah Garcia, who was killed at Robb Elementary School in May 2022.


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Update, Feb. 7, 2023, a 1:10 p.m.: Brett Cross will not be attending the State of the Union address.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Georgia Takes on Trump

A special grand jury in Georgia may soon announce whether Donald Trump will face criminal charges, including racketeering, for a phone call to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger following the 2020 election. 


Guest: Tamar Hallerman, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's lead reporter covering the Fulton County special grand jury investigation.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Did a Twentysomething Con America’s Biggest Bank?

JP Morgan Chase is getting an education on FAFSA and financial aid–which would’ve been helpful before they acquired a now, quite dubious seeming start-up.


Guest: Ron Lieber, New York Times journalist, author of the “Your Money” column.


Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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