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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Listening to Ilhan Omar

Back in March, Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke passionately about pro-Israel political forces that “push for allegiance to a foreign country.” She later apologized for unwittingly deploying an anti-Semitic trope. Why were Omar’s words so triggering? And is she making a fair point? 

Guest: Slate economics & policy writer Jordan Weissmann. 

This episode originally aired in March 2019. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon.

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Listening to Ilhan Omar

Back in March, Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke passionately about pro-Israel political forces that “push for allegiance to a foreign country.” She later apologized for unwittingly deploying an anti-Semitic trope. Why were Omar’s words so triggering? And is she making a fair point? 

Guest: Slate economics & policy writer Jordan Weissmann. 

This episode originally aired in March 2019. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon.

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What Next - What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future – Cosmetic Gene Editing Gone Awry

Host Shannon Palus explores a future in which high school girls stay atop the social hierarchy by editing their genes, giving themselves purple eyes, and glittery skin. That’s what fiction author E. Lily Yu imagines 2060 is like in her short story, Zero In Babel, which was published on Slate as part of the Future Tense Fiction Series. Shannon and producer Cameron Drews read and excerpt of the story, and then Shannon speaks to Yu about her creative process. 

After the interview Aaron Mak joins the show for this week’s edition of “Don’t Close My Tabs.”

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Court-Packing Is Not That Extreme

Some of your favorite presidents have tried to pack the Supreme Court. So why does it sound like such an extreme tactic? And how did some of the top Democrats running for president come to embrace it?

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate’s legal correspondent. 

This episode originally aired in March 2019. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon.

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Court-Packing Is Not That Extreme

Some of your favorite presidents have tried to pack the Supreme Court. So why does it sound like such an extreme tactic? And how did some of the top Democrats running for president come to embrace it?

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate’s legal correspondent. 

This episode originally aired in March 2019. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Dangerous Idea Behind the World’s Unrest

Over the past several months, tensions have escalated in Hong Kong, Kashmir, and the United States. Each for their own reasons. But what if all these headlines are connected?

Guest: Josh Keating, international editor at Slate

For more information about this episode please read:

• “The Next Jimmy Aldaoud” by Chris Gelardi

• “India’s Great Disenfranchisement” by Namrata Kolachalam

• “Crossing a Line in Kashmir” by Nitish Pahwa

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