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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed l

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This episode was originally published on April 27, 2025.  The Trump administration has already begun

Under a normal administration, a merger between two large advertising firms might attract the govern

In addition to the three-dimensional war of bombs and missiles, Iran and Israel—and the US—are squar

ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in

The Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign has become defined by distasteful memes that gl

A guide to keeping your phone, and your digital life, safe when you’re crossing the border. Guest: L

Elon Musk has ridden off into the sunset acrimoniously (maybe), but the Department of Government Eff

Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater inherited the government’s antitrust case against Google and

One of the goals of DOGE was to get rid of the “silos” that keep government agencies from sharing fr

His time in Washington was brief, but we’ll be picking up the pieces for a long time. What Elon’s ex

The war between Ukraine and Russia is being fought increasingly via drone —and NATO and US military

The crypto industry poured tons of money into the last election cycle. Is the GENIUS Act, which has

OpenAI started as a non-profit dedicated to building safe A.I. Now, they’re obsessed with building a

What do you do when your likeness has been turned into A.I.-generated pornography?—it’s a problem pe

Aging equipment and chronically understaffed air traffic control have made flying in and out of Newa

The intimate and extremely personal experience of bringing a child into this world? There’s an app f

Why artificial intelligence isn’t waiting for consumer demand. Guest: Gerrit De Vynck, tech reporter

What is it about the way that Elon Musk wields power that led 65 percent of Americans to agree he ha

What drove Marc Andreessen’s transformation into a political actor, and what is he looking for from

The Trump administration has already begun cutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati