What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Biden-McConnell Relationship

There’s a lot riding on the working relationship of President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They are bonded by their service in the U.S. Senate, their ideological flexibility, and their respect for norms -- unless those norms stand in the way of their ambitions. 

Guest: Alex Thompson, White House reporter for Politico. 

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – The Biden-McConnell Relationship

There’s a lot riding on the working relationship of President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They are bonded by their service in the U.S. Senate, their ideological flexibility, and their respect for norms -- unless those norms stand in the way of their ambitions. 

Guest: Alex Thompson, White House reporter for Politico. 

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Did the Media Fail the Trump Years?

Back in 2015, Farai Chideya was a senior writer covering politics at FiveThirtyEight. Her time there was instructive in understanding how the media failed to take Trump’s presidential candidacy seriously. Now that she has her own show, she’s speaking up about how journalists -- and the news outlets that employ them -- could better serve the public. 


Guest: Farai Chideya, host of Our Body Politic.


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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Did the Media Fail the Trump Years?

Back in 2015, Farai Chideya was a senior writer covering politics at FiveThirtyEight. Her time there was instructive in understanding how the media failed to take Trump’s presidential candidacy seriously. Now that she has her own show, she’s speaking up about how journalists -- and the news outlets that employ them -- could better serve the public. 


Guest: Farai Chideya, host of Our Body Politic.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Why the Vaccine Websites Suck

Most people thought developing the vaccine in record time would be the hard part. That, or shipping millions of doses at subzero temperatures to every corner of the country. But nobody--or, almost nobody--guessed that the biggest barrier between U.S. citizens and vaccination would be … online scheduling. 


What went wrong with the vaccine websites? And what will it take to get them right?


Guests: 


Raphael Lee, director of USDR’s Health Program 


Hana Schank, director of Strategy for Public Interest Technology at New America


Jessica Allen



Host

Lizzie O’Leary

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What Next - What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future – Why the Vaccine Websites Suck

Most people thought developing the vaccine in record time would be the hard part. That, or shipping millions of doses at subzero temperatures to every corner of the country. But nobody--or, almost nobody--guessed that the biggest barrier between U.S. citizens and vaccination would be … online scheduling. 


What went wrong with the vaccine websites? And what will it take to get them right?


Guests: 


Raphael Lee, director of USDR’s Health Program 


Hana Schank, director of Strategy for Public Interest Technology at New America


Jessica Allen



Host

Lizzie O’Leary


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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – TBD | Why the Vaccine Websites Suck

Most people thought developing the vaccine in record time would be the hard part. That, or shipping millions of doses at subzero temperatures to every corner of the country. But nobody--or, almost nobody--guessed that the biggest barrier between U.S. citizens and vaccination would be … online scheduling. 


What went wrong with the vaccine websites? And what will it take to get them right?


Guests: 


Raphael Lee, director of USDR’s Health Program 


Hana Schank, director of Strategy for Public Interest Technology at New America


Jessica Allen



Host

Lizzie O’Leary


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