What Next | Daily News and Analysis - When Are We Going to Start Planning For Floods?

This week, we’re following the enormous flooding in the Midwest. Climate change is magnifying the shortcomings of our river policies. We build in the flood plains, and we bracket our rivers with dams and reservoirs. But is it folly to think that we can control where the rivers run?

Guest: Tony Messenger, metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – When Are We Going to Start Planning For Floods?

This week, we’re following the enormous flooding in the Midwest. Climate change is magnifying the shortcomings of our river policies. We build in the flood plains, and we bracket our rivers with dams and reservoirs. But is it folly to think that we can control where the rivers run?

Guest: Tony Messenger, metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.


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What Next - What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future – Livestreaming A Massacre

On today’s show, April Glaser and Will Oremus first talk to two researchers who’ve uncovered new information about the way the U.S. government trains its facial recognition software. According to their findings, the government uses photos of immigrants, children, and even deceased prisoners to train their programs. 

Then NBC News reporter Ben Collins talks about the role of online extremism in last week’s New Zealand attacks, specifically with regard to Facebook and other platforms that allow live broadcasting. Collins also discusses how the shooter left a manifesto riddled with white supremacist signals from online communities and the difficulty of reporting on these racist communities without broadening their reach.


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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 why are top Democrats finally embracing it as a way out of the wilderness?

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

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.

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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 why are top Democrats finally embracing it as a way out of the wilderness?

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

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How the Internet Makes Murderers

The Christchurch shooter lurked in corners of the internet that most people don’t understand. But there are ways to fight extremists who are radicalized online -- and the U.S. has done it quite recently.

Guest: Robert Evans, writer for Bellingcat and host of the podcast Behind the Bastards.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – How the Internet Makes Murderers

The Christchurch shooter lurked in corners of the internet that most people don’t understand. But there are ways to fight extremists who are radicalized online -- and the U.S. has done it quite recently.

Guest: Robert Evans, writer for Bellingcat and host of the podcast Behind the Bastards.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why is Beto Running?

After weeks and weeks of mulling a decision, Beto O’Rourke finally entered the 2020 presidential race. What is he bringing to the table? Anything?

Guest: Josh Voorhees, Senior Writer at Slate.

Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to whatnext@slate.com. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Why is Beto Running?

After weeks and weeks of mulling a decision, Beto O’Rourke finally entered the 2020 presidential race. What is he bringing to the table? Anything?

Guest: Josh Voorhees, Senior Writer at Slate.

Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to whatnext@slate.com. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin


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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Lawyers are Tackling our Democracy Problem Via the Take Care Clause

Dahlia Lithwick pans back this week to assess what’s holding and what’s buckling in terms of norms and institutions, two years and change into the Trump presidency. She’s joined by Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, a new kind of litigation shop looking at global trends toward authoritarianism and trying to resist those trends in the United States.

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