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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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Still Counting: Trump vs. The BLUE WAVE: A Midterm Extravaganza
Nate Silver, Clare Malone, and Galen Druke discuss the most competitive Senate races heading into the midterms in this excerpt from their new podcast,...
More Than True Crime Content with Elizabeth Smart
In June 2022, a 14-year-old girl named Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Utah home and held captive for nine months. She endured abuse and tortur...
The Forgotten Victims of Sept. 11
Friday marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11. And earlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release of records related to the g...
The High Stakes Politics of College Sports
College football is back and so is Congress. What does one have to do with the other? More than you think. Jane talks to veteran college sports analys...
Will The GOP Come To Trump-a-Palooza?
President Donald Trump is going all in on... President Donald Trump. And he's hoping GOP lawmakers will do the same at their midterm convention in Dal...
Why The Tech World Is Spooked About AI
On today's show, our guest host, Todd Zwillich, talks with Nate Soares, co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and the President of the Mach...
No One Can Escape The Time Tax
Here at What A Day, we’re keeping an eye on the midterms — which are likely to hinge on which party can tackle the skyrocketing cost of living. On tod...
Timing Is Everything For Maine's Troy Jackson
On today's show, Jane talks with Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson about what he thinks it will take for him to beat longtime Republican...
Democrats Zero In On Midterms
The House passed a short-term measure today to fund the federal government into early December, a move designed to avoid a chaotic shutdown as lawmake...
Donald Trump Dreams of Empire
In case you missed it, President Donald Trump announced a deal that would give the United States a stake in Venezuela’s vast oil reserves on Friday. A...
Trump’s Obsession With Trump
In the last year and a half, President Donald Trump has put his name, image, or both, on a whole host of things — federal buildings, passports, the re...
Some Aid Workers Turn To Sex Work Amid USAID Cuts
Yesterday, we heard from former USAID administrator Dr. Atul Gawande about the lives lost because of the gutting of the United States Agency for Inter...
The Deadly Dismantling Of USAID
It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk and the DOGE boys fed the United States Agency for International Development – or USAID, into a QUOTE “wood...
Why Is CBP Detaining American Citizens?
We’ve all seen how Customs and Border Protection has run roughshod over the civil rights of immigrants both legal and undocumented alike across the co...
Trump's Tariff Tirade Targets Our Friends Up North
President Donald Trump is back at it with his nonsensical trade wars, and this time he’s targeting one of our closest allies: Canada. After trade nego...
How Trump Increasing The National Debt Impacts You
The United States national debt reached a record-breaking $40 trillion dollars this week. If you spread out that debt to every resident of the U.S., w...
The Age Of Self-Optimization
Americans spend nearly $30 billion a year on plastic surgery procedures, including fillers and Botox. And there's probably no better example than the...
The Reality Of Being Trapped On The USS Lincoln
You may have heard about the conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln — the carrier where sailors have been facing food shortages and broken toilets....
Is Democratic Socialism Taking Over The Party?
You’ve probably heard a lot about the Democratic Socialists of America this year. Political figures who are either members of the organization or asso...
Reining In The Congressional Culture of Harassment
The fact that the US Congress is absolutely rotten with creeps is one of the worst-kept secrets in Washington. From former Representatives like Califo...
Politics In The Paint
The Women’s National Basketball Association has been making the headlines lately. In fact, according to a Media Matters report, since the end of June,...
MAGA Media’s Trump Slump
Donald Trump’s poll numbers are trash — and numbers for right-wing influencers on YouTube, Twitter and elsewhere are going down the tubes, too. As the...
Is Wisconsin A Warning for Democratic Socialists?
On Tuesday, Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost to Milwaukee’s county executive, David Crowley, in the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary....
What The Special Elections In The South Mean For The Midterms
It’s voting day in states across the country – including in two Southern states that have already voted once this year. In South Carolina, Republicans...
Netanyahu Bucks Trump's Board Of Peace
Last month, Trump bragged that the Board of Peace had accomplished a monumental breakthrough: an agreement for the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza. Howev...
The Hidden Cameras You Can't Avoid
Automated License Plate Readers have been sweeping the country, with cameras popping up outside of stores and alongside roads in communities big and s...
Tucker Carlson's Vision For America
In a livestream Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson laid out some ideas for what he thinks would make Americans’ lives better – a vision, you could call i...
Jon Favreau Ranks Michigan Primary Hot Takes
It was a big night for Michigan Democrats, as progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed beat US Representative Haley Stevens in the race for a seat in the...
A New GOP Scandal Erupts
Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller is facing serious allegations of spousal and child abuse from his former wife, Emily Moreno. Miller has denied all of...
The Panic Over Progressive Dems
You’ve probably heard a lot about the Democratic Socialists and progressives running for office nationwide – and maybe even more about how establishme...
1: Georgia: The New Bellwether
Georgia has become one of the most closely watched states in America, but its story didn't begin with the last election.
Jen, Mitch, and Errin e...
Trump's Presidential Payday
About a month ago, the Antwerp World Diamond Center, which deals with a large percentage of the world’s diamonds, made Donald Trump a very special gif...
The Battle For Massachusetts' 8th District
There are just 96 days until the November midterms — and while the battle between Democrats and Republicans is taking up a lot of headlines, many Demo...
Senator Raphael Warnock On Where Morality Meets Politics
We don’t often talk about what the most moral path forward for the Senate, or Congress, or hell, politics in general might be — but it would probably...
Trump's Lonely War
Today marked the start of two days of services for the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, with President Donald Trump joining foreign leaders...
Can Senate Republicans Pass Trump's Agenda?
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is trying to get a bunch done ahead of the Senate’s long summer break, from sanctions legislation on Russia to fundi...
The Terrible Tates
Andrew and Tristan Tate are facing extradition to the United Kingdom after their arrest in Miami last weekend. The brothers are facing 59 counts betwe...
The Parasite Causing Explosive Diarrhea
By now, you've probably heard more than you ever wanted about cyclospora, a parasite that spreads via infected water and food and causes explosive dia...
Trump Opens Utah For Mining
Last week, President Trump dramatically reduced the size of two national monuments that aren't only beloved by everyday Utahns but contain priceless a...
A Woman Could Be South Carolina's Next Senator
Lindsey Graham died a little over a week ago – and last Tuesday, his younger sister, Darline Graham, was sworn in to fill his seat. Given that she has...