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The problem with the news right now? It’s everywhere. And each day, it can feel like we’re all just mindlessly scrolling. It’s why we created What Next. This short daily show is here to help you make sense of things. When the news feels overwhelming, we’re here to help you answer: What next? Look for new episodes every weekday morning.
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Amicus: Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights?
With a surprising decision on voting rights coming down this week from the Supreme Court, What Next is presenting this special bonus episode from our colleagues at Slate's Amicus.
This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. We consider this coverage so essential that we’re taking down the paywall for all of it. If you would like to help us continue to cover the courts aggressively, please consider joining Slate Plus. And sign up for the pop-up newsletter to see the latest every week in your inbox.
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern join forces for this Opinionpalooza extra episode of Amicus discussing a seismic Supreme Court decision on voting rights. In his majority opinion in Allen v Milligan, Chief Justice John Roberts pushes back against his own long-standing stance on voting rights. Join Dahlia and Mark in this bonus episode to find out why.
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TBD | Is Crypto Toast?
This week, the SEC sued Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, and Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US. Is it a sign that the glory days of crypto are gone?
Guest: Stacy-Marie Ishmael, managing editor for crypto at Bloomberg News
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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After They Testified: The Drag King Who Loves Performing for Kids
Deep in the heart of Texas, they performed in drag, for kids and enthusiastic crowds. But as state legislation moved to ban drag performances, they stopped lip syncing and spoke for themself—and the queer people who depend on them at their day job.
This is the second installment in What Next’s Pride Month series. “After They Testified” is about the Americans who’ve shown up in the last year to speak out against anti-queer legislation, how it felt to do so, and what came next.
Guest: Jay Thomas, AKA Bobby Pudrido, an Austin, Texas-based drag king and care coordinator.
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How Putin’s Chef Became Putin’s Butcher
How Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group became essential to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—and one of Russia’s most vocal critics.
Guest: Brian Taylor, political science professor at Syracuse University, with a focus on Russian politics.
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Can the Feds Lower Your Rent?
Housing prices have skyrocketed, from the usual hot spots in New York and San Francisco, out to the until-recently-affordable places like Boise, Idaho and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sen. Brian Schatz proposed an $85 million program to entice cities and suburbs to enact “fair housing policies,” but is that enough to address a nationwide problem?
Guest: Henry Grabar, Slate writer and author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.
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Do Work Requirements Work?
Last week, Congress finally passed a debt ceiling deal. Part of that deal included expanding the work requirements for government assistance programs like SNAP, specifically for people ages 50 to 54.
Where did the idea of work requirements come from? And do work requirements actually help keep people in the workforce?
Guest: Pamela Herd, professor of public policy at Georgetown University and co-author of Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means.
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Just Heard on the News: “The IRS goes after the workers who are in poverty, lower class income and middle class, because it’s easier.” “But, they rarely go after the very wealthy.”
“If you make $200,000 to a zillion annually, the paperwork is too much and too difficult thus they’re okay if anything goes wrong, deliberately or not.”
“If you make $27,000 annually, then you are basically screwed if you’ve made an error.” ***
*** How much of that is the truth?
The Tipping Episode My thoughts:
Always Tip your beauticians, Food and/or Beverage Cocktail servers, Casino Dealers etc.
Oh, Is it 15%/20% of the gross or the net?
About each State/Store/Restaurant etc have different requirements or policies regarding how much money the employees are paid especially when they receive tips or tokes. I AM GLAD I LIVE WHERE I DO, BECAUSE SOME OTHER STATES ARE GOOFY. The Federal minimum wage for a tipped employee is $2.13 an hour or less in some states. States / Places may boost it up but then some don’t. It’s been $2.13 for how long? Exactly. Minimum Wage including tips isn’t a much of a living. And it gets worse: Lowering the OVERHEAD by extracting employees to make the executives proud 💴 . Why? “””Manipulation, Greed and that’s how its always been done.””” ie., “”Unfortunately people had to be laid off due to some positive changes via corporate or whatever.”” ie., in a restaurant, The Manager says to the staff during a “FREE LUNCH Meeting.” after the terminations, “It’s a sad day for them but let’s think positive — Having the best servers in the restaurant YEAH YEH, YES, BRAVO, CONGRATULATIONS etc., and the best can handle taking 8 tables in lieu of 4. To basically double tips. Does not work that way. Going home tired and sore. It’s crazy. That’s some hypothetical scenarios of what happens.
I need to get off the phone.
Crazy
My favorite daily news podcast
I love this show and listen every day. It’s a much better, less condescending alternative to “The Daily” from the NYT. Mary Harris is a joy to listen to and the show offers great analysis based in looking at the structural root causes of today’s problems.
One of my favorite daily pods
Interesting stories presented well. One of my daily staples.