What Next - Turns Out the Polls Were Right

Even factoring in late-breaking stories in Alaska and Michigan and a reflexive distrust—on both sides—of any polls that look good for Democrats, all signs are pointing to a big day for the opposition party. What’s at stake today—and how worried should everyone actually be? And jo ...  Show more

The hit movie of the fall is…a three-hour documentary about investor fraud? Technically yes, but there’s more to it than that.Guest: Thomas Flight, media critic.Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all y ...  Show more

J.D. Vance became a sought-after cultural translator when he published Hillbilly Elegy. Now, he’s a rhetorical bomb-thrower running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Ohio. But underneath Vance’s transformation is a relatively consistent appreciation for a new strain of ...  Show more

Tommy is joined by Eugene Daniels, Politico White House Correspondent, coauthor of the Playbook newsletter, and president of the White House Correspondents Association, to talk about the changing media environment and what will—and won't—change about covering a second T ...

Vox's Andrew Prokop and Zack Beauchamp explain the right-wing thinkers whose ideas could dominate Trump's next term. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and ...  Show more