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As What Next celebrates President’s Day, please enjoy this episode from our colleagues at How To. Wh

The infinite scroll has no purpose other than keeping your attention. But that doesn’t mean it’s val

Is Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion offer to buy OpenAI genuine—or an irresistible opportunity to troll Sam

As Donald Trump’s campaign of trans panic and anti-Latin American sentiment buoyed him back to the W

Among his recent executive orders, Donald Trump moved to halt aid to South Africa over a land law an

As Donald Trump has demonstrated, losing an election is no reason to admit you lost an election. In

Lessons From Hungary

2025/2/10

Donald Trump has a lot of similarities—and something of a bromance—with Hungarian Prime Minister Vik

Using Github, you can watch as government websites are brought into compliance with Donald Trump’s e

Elon Musk is supposed to be running several companies and a new government department—so why is he a

You can’t doubt the enthusiasm of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. You can question

Last week, Donald Trump announced that Guantanamo Bay would be used to house the “worst criminal ill

DOGE V. USAID

2025/2/5

Why did the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which gives money to humanitarian cause

America hadn’t had a major commercial airline crash since 2009 until the mid-air collision over the

Trump and his allies in the House’s flurry of anti-trans legislation and executive orders will soon

TBD | The DeepSeek Panic

2025/2/2

The artificial intelligence industry was thrown for a loop when the Chinese start-up DeepSeek rolled

Did the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Deepseek just blow up the A.I. world as we know it?

Tapped by Trump for the role of health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presents himself as someone

Tulsi Gabbard’s political career is truly singular: once a young progressive Democrat on the rise, t

Trump’s Office of Management and Budget sent a memo directing federal agencies to “temporarily pause

Who Will Mourn DEI?

2025/1/28

The Trump administration’s fight against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs is underway,