What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – TBD | Why Texas Went Dark

Over the last week, millions of Texans have been forced to live without power or heat. At least 16 have died since Monday. In a state that’s no stranger to extreme weather and high power demand, how did it all go so wrong?


Guest: 


Josh Rhodes, research associate at the Webber Energy Group at the University of Texas at Austin


 

Host

Lizzie O’Leary

 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - What Rush Limbaugh Left Behind

Rush Limbaugh’s radio show provided a roadmap that the Republican Party has been following, more or less faithfully, for decades. 

Guest: Nicole Hemmer, author of Messengers of the Right and co-host of This Day in Esoteric Political History

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – What Rush Limbaugh Left Behind

Rush Limbaugh’s radio show provided a roadmap that the Republican Party has been following, more or less faithfully, for decades. 

Guest: Nicole Hemmer, author of Messengers of the Right and co-host of This Day in Esoteric Political History

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - A Year of Anti-Asian Violence

In the year since the pandemic began, the number of attacks against Asian Americans has skyrocketed. The most recent wave of assaults left a number of victims injured and one man dead. Many Asian American activists say the attacks reflect a pattern of violence “as old as America itself.” 


Guest: Kim Tran, an anti-oppression consultant and the author of the forthcoming book, The End of Allyship: A New Era of Solidarity.


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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – A Year of Anti-Asian Violence

In the year since the pandemic began, the number of attacks against Asian Americans has skyrocketed. The most recent wave of assaults left a number of victims injured and one man dead. Many Asian American activists say the attacks reflect a pattern of violence “as old as America itself.” 


Guest: Kim Tran, an anti-oppression consultant and the author of the forthcoming book, The End of Allyship: A New Era of Solidarity.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - When the Vaccine Skeptic Is Your Dad

Gustavo Arellano’s father is what he would call a ‘pandejo’ - someone who doesn't take COVID safety seriously. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Gustavo has been fighting the uphill battle to dissuade him of his skepticism. And two weeks ago, his father finally got vaccinated. 


We all know a ‘pandejo.’ What can we learn from Gustavo’s relationship with his father?


Guest: Gustavo Arellano, columnist for the LA Times


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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – When the Vaccine Skeptic Is Your Dad

Gustavo Arellano’s father is what he would call a ‘pandejo’ - someone who doesn't take COVID safety seriously. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Gustavo has been fighting the uphill battle to dissuade him of his skepticism. And two weeks ago, his father finally got vaccinated. 


We all know a ‘pandejo.’ What can we learn from Gustavo’s relationship with his father?


Guest: Gustavo Arellano, columnist for the LA Times


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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Impeachment’s Message and Meaning

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by renowned communications researcher and campaign adviser Anat Shenker-Osorio to talk about the messaging of impeachment outside the lens of the law. Then, Bob Bauer, former White House counsel under President Barack Obama and senior adviser to the 2020 Biden campaign, joins Dahlia to discuss the significance of this impeachment as a legal matter, and the next steps needed when the trial ends (in acquittal). 

In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern on the guessing-game that is the law of Covid and death-penalty protocols in late-night SCOTUS orders.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Impeachment’s Message and Meaning

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by renowned communications researcher and campaign adviser Anat Shenker-Osorio to talk about the messaging of impeachment outside the lens of the law. Then, Bob Bauer, former White House counsel under President Barack Obama and senior adviser to the 2020 Biden campaign, joins Dahlia to discuss the significance of this impeachment as a legal matter, and the next steps needed when the trial ends (in acquittal). 

In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern on the guessing-game that is the law of Covid and death-penalty protocols in late-night SCOTUS orders.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | How Clubhouse Cracked China’s Firewall

For most of the last year, Clubhouse—the audio-only social media app—has been dominated by conversations about business, branding, and Elon Musk. But as users picked up the app around the globe, something extraordinary happened.  


Censors in mainland China overlooked it. And for two weeks in February, it hosted a series of unusual, unfiltered conversations. Han Chinese, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, and Uighurs all flooded to the app to speak freely about authoritarianism, democracy, and propaganda. 


Here’s what happened when the censors looked the other way. 


Guest: 


Melissa Chan, journalist with the Global Reporting Centre


Host

Lizzie O’Leary

 

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