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McDonald's Fast Food Price War
Fast food prices are sky high, but chains will take losses to get you in the door. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the economi…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Next TBD: Amazon Wants Your Handprint
Amazon has installed digital palm readers at Whole Foods. The reader scans your palm, collecting biometric data, and links it to your credit card to …
1 year, 8 months ago
Political Gabfest: Presidential Debate Preview
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the 2024 presidential debates; a possible warning on social media and another ban o…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Next: Homelessness Before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is soon expected to decide Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case where a town’s efforts to remove unhoused people from its parks became “c…
1 year, 8 months ago
Slow Burn: Defend Our Children
Happy Juneteenth! What Next resumes regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but for the holiday, check out this episode of Slow Burn Season 9: Gays…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Next; How IVF Became the GOP's Next Battle
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, the Christian right seems to be setting its sights on banning in-vitro fertilization. But even though the S…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Next: What's Eating the Economy?
The American economy has gotten more consolidated and more reliant on algorithms—while also, according to most people, getting more expensive, slower…
1 year, 8 months ago
Well, Now: Doctors Agree: Obesity is a Disease. The Public Needs to Catch Up.
Ever since it showed up on the Body Mass Index, the label “obese” has been used to judge and often shame people with larger bodies.
Medical providers,…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Next TBD: The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.
In 2021, one of the largest global law enforcement operations took place. It was all thanks to an encrypted phone service known as Anom, which was se…
1 year, 8 months ago
A Word: Daddy Lessons
The stereotype of Black fathers is that they’re largely absent, and uninvolved in their children’s lives. And that image persists, despite research t…
1 year, 8 months ago