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If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What a Day is simple: to be your guide to what truly matters each morning (and the fun stuff you might have missed) in just 20 minutes. Host Jane Coaston brings you in-depth reporting and substantive analysi...
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Iran: Trump's Forever War?
Over the weekend, the Pentagon announced that three US service members were killed as fighting intensified between the US and Iran. That brings the cu...
Amending The Constitution For The 21st Century With Heather Cox Richardson
President Donald Trump is obsessed with the past. Last night, Trump gave a primetime address about his favorite subject: the 2020 election, which he d...
What Happens When Trump's Lawyer Becomes America's Lawyer
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went under the microscope this week as he took questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of his confi...
Where Does Maine Go Post-Platner?
It’s been less than a week since Graham Platner officially withdrew from the Maine Senate race after a serious allegation of sexual assault. Maine Dem...
ICE’s Deadly Traffic Stops
Last week, ICE agents killed a Mexican man in Houston, Texas, who was driving to work and was not the target of an ICE operation – despite what the De...
Lindsey Graham's Sister Picked To Complete His Senate Term
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham passed away suddenly on Saturday evening at the age of 71. A preliminary report said he died of an ao...
Do Democrats Need to Fight Dirty?
A lot of Democratic voters want fighters in the battle against President Donald Trump and the Trumpified Republican Party, and it’s pretty obvious why...
Mitch McConnell and Our Very Old Congress
Since 84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized on June 14th after being found unconscious at his home, not one person — not even President...
Can Democrats Solve The Platner Problem?
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner burst into the national spotlight last year with a campaign centering around his supposed working cla...
Trump Brings The Drama To NATO
NATO’s most important global summit has begun in Turkiye. It’s an event where the world’s leaders meet, mingle, and above all, try to keep President D...
How to Be A Proud American In the Trump Era
America’s 250th birthday celebration on the National Mall had everything. Thunderstorms! Heat warnings! Flyovers! President Donald Trump giving a spee...
Stacey Abrams And Jane Fonda Discuss Why Activism Matters
Today, we bring you an episode from Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams. Stacey Abrams has committed her career to bold political advocacy and voting...
The College Dropoff
July 1 is the start of big changes for colleges, universities and you – if you have student loans. Because of last year’s ugly Republican One Big Beau...
The Big One: Birthright Citizenship Is Upheld
On his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would have made the children of undocumented immigrant...
SCOTUS Tells Trump: Hands Off The Fed
On Monday, we got four more decisions from the nation’s highest court, and they were… well, confusing. For example, the Supreme Court ruled that Presi...
JD Vance Takes On Iran Negotiations
Vice President JD Vance has been given a job no one really wants: ending the incredibly unpopular Iran war. He’s been tasked with leading negotiations...
SCOTUS: Don't Give US Your Huddled Masses
As so many World Cup fans are discovering ranch dressing and enjoying their visits to the U.S., the Supreme Court left a very different message for pe...
Trump, GOP Shouting Match
President Trump has one clear talent: pissing off his purported allies, like when he was supposed to sign a big bipartisan housing bill. Republicans w...
UK Prime Minister Musical Chairs
It’s been 10 years since the UK voted to leave the European Union — a decision with major political implications that most of the country regrets. Sin...
Will The Iran War Cost Trump The Midterms?
The so-called “memorandum of understanding” that might end Trump’s war in Iran has felt pretty disappointing. But here in the U.S., voters may be more...
How Trump Is Betraying Black Soldiers
A message from Jane on Juneteenth:
Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth is a holiday to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States and the emanci...
What If Abortion Meant Prison... Or Worse?
The 2022 Dobbs decision that reversed Roe v. Wade promised to return the issue of abortion back to the states. But for anti-abortion activists, that’s...
Trump's Latest Plot To Rig The Midterms
President Donald Trump has been trying to get the SAVE America Act passed for months. The bill would require not just ID, but proof of citizenship to...
Pride Persists Even Under Trump
Pride Month is here. It’s a month to celebrate the achievements of LGBTQ Americans and the impact they’ve had on our past and present. But it’s also a...
America 250? More Like: Trump 80
If you didn’t tune into Paramount+ to watch the UFC Freedom 250 fight on the White House lawn, because you had better things to do, you're not alone....
Trump’s Senioritis
On today’s show, we are diving into the tough week our commander in chief just had. From MMA fights no one seems very excited about… to the potential...
Trump Keeps Promising Peace
President Donald Trump has changed a lot about American foreign policy – and to many, America itself. But a lot of the issues facing this country were...
America Icing Out World Cup Fans
The World Cup is the biggest annual sporting event in the world. And the first game is tomorrow. This year’s competition is being hosted by three coun...
Can Blanche Do What Bondi Couldn't?
President Donald Trump officially nominated Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General. After firing Pam Bondi back in April, Trump went with his forme...
Democrats' Platner Problem
Maine voters will head to the polls tomorrow to decide who will take on five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins. And somehow, Graham Platner still ...
Are The Killer Robots Inevitable?
Artificial Intelligence isn't just clogging up your Instagram feed with cartoon cat romance-revenge videos or helping your cousin pass AP European His...
The CBS News Crisis
CBS News, under the leadership of Bari Weiss, continues to devolve into chaos. On Tuesday, CBS News fired longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pe...
Trump’s Dangerous New Spy Boss
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he's appointing the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, as acting Director of Nat...
Californians Vote With New Map
California politics is experiencing a rare moment on the national stage as wacky candidates and local scandals have become a microcosm for the country...
Is Social Media Hype Even Real?
It’s no secret that what we see on social media is highly choreographed. But a recent article in New York Magazine by Lane Brown confirms it by uncove...
ICE Is Still Detaining People
President Donald Trump's immigration policies haven't been getting much attention lately. But don't be fooled — the immigration detention industrial c...
The Challenge To Ending The Iran War
Despite whatever President Donald Trump has said over the last few days, his war in Iran does not look like it's ending soon. But here's the thing: a...
The Real J6 Victims Are Standing Up
You know, President Donald Trump's 1.776 billion-dollar MAGA slush fund? The fund is intended for victims of "DOJ weaponization," like the January 6 i...
MAGA's Misogyny
You may have noticed that misogyny seems to be everywhere right now, especially online. As American women continue to move further to the political le...
How Trump Got In The Way Of His Own Bill
Republicans had a filibuster-proof immigration bill that would allocate $70 billion to immigration enforcement and fully reopen the Department of Home...