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After the Trump administration launched a massive Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operation in Minnesota, protesters gathered to defend immigrant neighbors. Renee Nicole Good, a mother of a six year old, showed up with her wife and dog to film altercations between officers and community members. What happened next changed everything. Guest: Jon Collins, senior reporter on the Minnesota Public Radio News race, class and communities team. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.

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Yesterday · 33 min
What Next - A Hit of Democratic Hopium
The opposition can have a little optimism, as a treat.
Yesterday · 31 min
Slate Money - Money Talks: Chasing Ambulances on Wall Street
Ellen Gabler on what can go wrong when investors stand to profit from personal-injury lawsuits.
Monday · 26 min
What Next - The Knockdown Dragout Fight for Max Miller's House Seat
Another deep red seat is primed to flip.
Saturday · 59 min
Slate Money - Fabulous, Beautiful Debt
Robin Wigglesworth on the epic history of bonds, the state of the bond market, and the aesthetics of debt.
Saturday · 46 min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Everybody Out of the Pool
Trump banned three news outlets from the White House, then something unprecedented happened.
Friday · 27 min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Is the A.I. Race Real?
How the US and China are different—and similar—in their thoughts on the technology.
Thursday · 1 hr
Political Gabfest - Purposely Negative
The press fights back after Trump attempts to ban three outlets from the White House; Trump rolls out the red carpet for Xi Jinping; and voter trust, polls, and money illuminate the approaching midterms.
Thursday · 7 min
What Next - Off the Record: Draining the Press Pool
Donald Trump: off mic and off the deep end.
Thursday · 37 min
What Next - Is a Tejano Star's Next Stop Congress?
How the singer-turned-congressional candidate Bobby Pulido is charting a path for Democrats in rural and Latino districts.
September 23 · 29 min
What Next - The Fascist Threat Brewing in…Kansas?
M Gessen knows what “denationalization” looks like. It’s happening to trans Americans.
September 22 · 31 min
What Next - The Data Center Will Not Hold
Slate’s politics team goes deep on our first A.I. election.
September 21 · 30 min
What Next - Why is Everyone Fighting Over... Macklemore?
How opinions have shifted on Israel, Palestine, and what you can and can’t say.
September 19 · 33 min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | The Tax Nobody Talks About: Your Time
Journalist Annie Lowrey joins David Plotz to discuss “The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It”, an infuriating, often funny accounting of the hours Americans lose to broken bureaucracy, and why the poor pay for it most.
September 19 · 52 min
Slate Money - Avoiding the A.I. Apocalypse
A.I. fears reach a fever pitch, Kevin Warsh votes to raise rates, and the SEC allows stocks to trade like crypto.
September 19 · 1 hr 6 min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - One Ballot After Another
To catastrophize, or not to catastrophize—that is (unfortunately) the question.
September 18 · 3 min
What Next - Off-the-Record: Weddings by Kremlev
Plus, this year’s Rush Week revealed a queasy new strategy to thin the recruiting ranks.
September 18 · 30 min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - But HOW Might A.I. Kill Us All?
When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.
September 17 · 1 hr 3 min
Political Gabfest - Kremlin Wedding Present
SCOTUS finally squashes the biggest threat to the midterm elections; AI anxieties rapidly start to affect American politics; and new reporting exposes the Russian oligarch who underwrote Don Jr.'s lavish wedding.
September 17 · 36 min
What Next - Who's Interfering in the Election Now
The president doesn’t control voting and as long as state and local officials remember that, it’ll probably be okay.
September 16 · 26 min
What Next - JD Vance Enters the Mommy Wars
The administration proposed a non-solution to a massive caregiving problem they don’t seem to understand. But maybe that’s the point.

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