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What Comes Next

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Every event has a turning point. What Comes Next starts there. We follow the real history, the verified science, right up to the edge of what we know. Then we ask what happens if one thing goes differently, and we trace every ripple forward. We always tell you exactly where the facts end. New episodes twice a week.

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Episodes
  • The Version of Project 2025's Chapter Three Its Critics Fear (Series 01 Episode 2 Short)

    The Version of Project 2025's Chapter Three Its Critics Fear (Series 01 Episode 2 Short)
    Oct 12 2026
    This one is our speculation, and the Short says so out loud before it starts. It pictures the version of Project 2025's chapter three that critics fear, where jobs follow elections the way they did before 1883. It ends on what critics and supporters would each call that government. The archival images are from the Library of Congress, and full credits are in the main episode's description. The full story is Series 01, Episode 2 of What Comes Next.
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    1 min
  • What If Every Human Vanished Tomorrow? Wolves Would Move Into Your Street.

    What If Every Human Vanished Tomorrow? Wolves Would Move Into Your Street.
    Oct 16 2026
    What if every human vanished tomorrow? Under New York, pumps push about 13 million gallons of water out of the subway on a dry day. This episode follows the real nights when that protection failed, from Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to the 2003 blackout, and the two places where land already shows what happens when people leave, the Chernobyl zone and the Korean border strip. The second half imagines the grid going dark with nobody left to restart it, the subway flooding within two days, and centuries of forest swallowing the suburbs. Full sources and credits are in the YouTube description.
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    5 mins
  • The Job Application Question a Judge Halted in 2026 (Series 01 Episode 2 Short)

    The Job Application Question a Judge Halted in 2026 (Series 01 Episode 2 Short)
    Oct 11 2026
    In May 2025 most federal job applications gained an essay question asking how the applicant would advance the President's policies. On September 11, 2026, a federal judge in Massachusetts halted it, finding it likely violated job seekers' First Amendment rights. That question is not in chapter three of Project 2025, but it sits on the same old line between skill and loyalty. The cover photograph shows applicants at the Civil Service Commission in 1936, by Harris and Ewing, from the Library of Congress. The full story is Series 01, Episode 2 of What Comes Next.
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    1 min
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