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What A Day
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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A Trumped Up Ceasefire
In the brief period since President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, Iran has claimed that the United S...
Trump & Iran: From Doomsday To Ceasefire
President Donald Trump posted a disturbing threat on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. If Iran did not meet his demands by 8 PM Eastern, "A whole civ...
Lebanon, The Iran War’s Second Front
The Iran War has a second front in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting Hezbollah, a militia that launched missiles into northern Israel in retalia...
For Hegseth, It’s One Military Under God
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is inserting Christian nationalism into the culture and policy of the armed forces, and that’s drawing concern both insi...
Pam, You're Fired
Attorney General Pam Bondi is out of a job. After multiple media reports stating she was headed to the green pastures of… somewhere else, President Tr...
SCOTUS Takes On Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court tackled a question Wednesday that most Americans probably thought was settled: are the American-born children of immigrants American...
USPS Needs Congress' Stamp Of Approval
Last month, Postmaster General David Steiner told Congress that the U.S. Postal Service is in danger of running out of money by the end of the year. O...
Conservatism's Biggest Conference Was Missing Its Star
Over the past decade or so, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, has become a massive gathering of right-wing power brokers — but th...
The Next Abortion Battle
It’s been nearly four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and sent the issue back to the states. Since then, more than a dozen state...
Gen Z Is Angsty: Here's Why
Young voters are one of many groups that pushed Trump back into the White House in 2024. Some researchers saw this as a potentially massive realignmen...
The Great Social Media Reckoning
On Wednesday, a California jury found Meta and YouTube each liable for harming the well-being of a young user who had sued the two companies. The plai...
Democrats Add Tax Cuts To Affordability Agenda
Ahead of the midterms, several Democrats are trying to seize on the affordability messaging that has been connecting with voters across the country by...
What Is ICE Really Doing In Airports?
It’s been more than a month since the Department of Homeland Security shut down, and American airports are definitely feeling it. Now, President Donal...
The Iran War Is Fueling Antisemitism
The MAGA Right is at war over the role that Israel has in American foreign policy and the war with Iran. If you listen to Tucker Carlson or former cou...
The Uncertain Fate of America’s Dreamers
The Trump Administration’s crackdown on undocumented and documented immigrants hasn’t stopped — even for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood A...
Can Trump's FCC Manufacture War Propaganda?
The Iran War is not very popular with Americans – and the Trump Administration seems to think it knows why: the media is being too mean about the Pres...
MAGA Meltdown Over Trump’s War
Joe Kent – someone you’ve probably never heard of – made huge news on Tuesday. He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center – until he...
Meet Trump's Pick To Lead DHS
This week, the Senate will hold a confirmation hearing for Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's pick to replace Kris...
Can Big Oil Grease The Courts?
The war in Iran has essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil transfer point, sending oil prices over $100 a barrel with...
Why Trump Abandoned America First
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. Remember Ame...
The Cost Of War Is More Than Oil
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. According to...
Trump, Iran And A Brewing Economic Crisis
In case you haven’t noticed, the American economy isn't doing so well right now. Oil prices have been on an absolute rollercoaster since the Iran war...
The War With Iran Has No Exit Plan
The Iran war is a little over a week old and the Trump administration has supplied more than a dozen explanations about why, exactly, it began. Confus...
Can States Stop Trump’s Election Meddling?
President Donald Trump wants to dramatically change how Americans vote, and to make that happen he’s holding all other legislation hostage until Congr...
Sen. Mark Warner Won’t Miss Kristi Noem
On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem via a Truth Social post. Her tenure was marked by a ph...
Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue?
Three states – North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas – held primaries Tuesday. The turnout was massive, but so were the stakes, with the balance of powe...
Trump’s War Hits The Economy
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is sowing death and chaos, surely, but with ship traffic avoiding Iran’s shores, the war’s also threatening the global ec...
Why Congress Might Not Stop Trump’s War In Iran
Today, Trump officials brief all of Congress on what, exactly, the administration’s objectives are in Iran. Until now, the Trump administration has gi...
Trump’s Dangerous Gamble In Iran
Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes that reportedly hit more than 2,000 targets across Iran. In response, Iran struck sites acro...
Hillary Clinton Called Her Epstein Hearing Political Theater
On Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Oversight Committee to answer questions during their investigat...
Texas Republicans Return To Islamophobia
The Texas Senate primary is already setting records for both Republicans and Democrats, with more than $110 million spent on advertising and reserved...
Medals, Insults and A Very Long Speech
Trump’s State of the Union address had everything — if by “everything,” you mean easily fact-checkable lies. We also got fearmongering and racism abou...
Dems Opt Out Of State Of The Union
President Trump will deliver the State of the Union address tonight. And spoiler… the state of his particular union isn't great. According to new poll...
Trump Orders More Tariffs After SCOTUS Ruling
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on Friday that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked sweeping tariffs using a 1970s emergenc...
DHS Dysfunction
It’s been about a week since the Department of Homeland Security entered a partial shutdown, with Democrats refusing to fund the agency until changes...
Don't Bank On Trump's Tax Cuts
The IRS has lost tens of thousands of employees since President Donald Trump took office – the result of DOGE, policy differences, last year’s governm...
Trump’s Iran Power Play
U.S. officials met with Iranian envoys in Switzerland Tuesday to negotiate the fate of Iran’s nuclear program — and came away with a “set of guiding p...
The MAGA Health Movement
It's been about a year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order, "Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission." S...
Democrats Shut Down DHS
Capitol Hill was surprisingly busy this week. Republicans and Democrats yelled at one another, Republicans yelled at other Republicans, and amazingly,...
Bondi's DOJ Fails Again
The Department of Justice fumbled yet another attempt to prosecute President Donald Trump’s enemies on Tuesday night. This time, it failed to get an i...