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What's the Beef with Screwworm?
After being eradicated in the United States in the ‘60s, screwworm is back—at a time when beef is even more in demand and the American herd is alread…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Trump’s B-Team
Why would Trump choose Bill Pulte to be the new acting Director of National Intelligence? Pulte may not have a background in national security, but s…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Did DOGE Cause the Ebola Outbreak?
He’s treated Ebola; he’s had Ebola. Here’s what he thinks of the growing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—and how America can and shoul…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
SchadenFriday: Is the Pope Girlbossing AI?
It’s a bit of an overstatement to say “the Pope came out as anti-A.I.” with last week’s encyclical—after all, Anthropic’s cofounder was there for the…
4 weeks ago
Gradu-AI-tion Day
It’s an awkward time to have a Department of Education that seems so disinterested in, uh, education. It’s leaving teachers to grapple with how to in…
4 weeks ago
Do the Dems Need More Graham Platners?
Graham Platner has a lot of things in his favor as he runs for a US Senate seat in Maine: it’s an off-election year, the president’s approval rating …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Hunger Strike at Delaney Hall
It’s city vs. state vs. the feds at Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, where prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to pr…
1 month ago
Concepts of an Iran Peace Plan
It’s the war that’s been won since it started; the ceasefire with ongoing strikes, and the peace deals that are done except for the points of disagre…
1 month ago
No Panic! at the DNC
Are the Dems in…array? Or at least, in less of a disarray than their opponents?
Guest: Jonathan V. Last, editor at the Bulwark.
Want more What Next? S…
1 month ago
Trump's Disney Shakedown
How the Trump administration has tried to put pressure on Disney for opinions expressed by Jimmy Kimmel and the hosts of The View—and how the Mouse i…
1 month ago