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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - A.I. Enshittifies Everything (Still)
Through stealing your job or simply tanking the stock market—whichever comes first—the rise of artificial intelligence (companies) is a very futurist…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Political Gabfest - Please Do Not Ruin the Post Office
This week, John Dickerson, David Plotz, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss this week's Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to …
4 weeks, 2 days ago
What Next - How to Lose Wars and Tank the Economy
From the trade war with Canada to the literal war with Iran, US foreign policy seems to have become “flail at whatever Trump says to flail at, no mat…
1 month ago
Slow Burn - Decoder Ring | McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime, Part 2 (Encore)
McGruff the Crime Dog arrived on the scene at the dawn of the 1980s, just as a firehose of anti-drug PSAs was inundating the youth of America. These …
1 month ago
ICYMI - It’s Time To Talk About Lindsay Clancy
True crime has always been entertainment, but social media has turned tragedies like the Lindsay Clancy trial into monocultural moments. It’s not eno…
1 month ago
Decoder Ring - McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime, Part 2 (Encore)
McGruff the Crime Dog arrived on the scene at the dawn of the 1980s, just as a firehose of anti-drug PSAs was inundating the youth of America. These …
1 month ago
What Next - The A.I. Populist
Intertwined with many Americans’ contempt for data centers is their suspicion of artificial intelligence itself, which is being used to spy on you, b…
1 month ago
What Next - What Lindsay Clancy Truthers Are Missing
As the trial of Lindsay Clancy over the murder of her three children goes into closing arguments this week, the reactions to the case reveal just how…
1 month ago
Death, Sex & Money - 'Humane Eldercare Has Become a Luxury Item’
Episode 594
Nursing home care in the U.S. can run families $10,000 a month, a cost Medicare won’t pay for. When Anna de la Cruz's parents both developed dementia…
1 month ago
What Next - The Progressive Case for Midterms Optimism
Since losing the 2024 presidential election, Democrats have been doing a lot of finger pointing. But with the midterms this fall, it’s time to stop p…
1 month ago