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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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Your Shutdown Outrage Won’t Change The Next Election
Week two of the government shutdown isn't proving to be any more successful than week one. In fact, on Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said this sh...
Trump Is Prosecuting His Enemies
Things have been moving fast since President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social last month QUOTE: "Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts...
What A Week!
This week has been… a lot. On Thursday, Israel’s cabinet approved the first phase of a peace agreement between Hamas and Israel, which would end the f...
Trump's War And Peace Plans
In September, after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum you may not have heard v...
Will SCOTUS Greenlight Trump’s Worst Ideas?
The new Supreme Court term started on Monday, and the justices have a lot on their plates. They’ll be deciding a host of big issues in the coming mont...
Fed Versus Blue
For the past four months, President Donald Trump has been sending the National Guard into cities that protest his policies. First, it was Los Angeles....
The Politics Of 'AI Slop'
Even if you don’t know what “AI slop” is, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered it basically everywhere you spend time online. Maybe it was those F...
What Happens When We Can’t Rely On Federal Data
Because of the government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release its monthly unemployment and jobs survey today. But that’s probabl...
Trump's Shutdown, Your Problem
It's Day 2 of the government shutdown. And we'd like to note that despite the government closing shop, House Republicans have been on vacation since l...
How Trump Wants To Wield The Shutdown
Well, the Government has shut down and, as of Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump didn’t sound to worried about it. “A lot of good can come down...
Dems Throw Down For Health Care
Is the government about to shut down? Congressional leaders and the White House appear to be at an impasse, even after President Donald Trump gave in...
How To Survive Online Speech Wars Without Self-Censorship
Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a wave of everyday people have been punished, getting doxxed and even losing their...
Dems Are Primed For Shutdown Fight
We’ve been on quite the journey with our First Amendment-guaranteed right to free speech, haven’t we? This week, we had the reinstatement of ABC’s “Ji...
Trump Takes Down US Immigration System
The machinery of mass deportations has been operating both in plain sight and out of view since President Donald Trump took office back in January. As...
Trump Dumps Putin?
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the brutal war has cost millions of lives. But President Donald Trump has consistently said that he could easily...
Dr. Trump’s Bad Medicine
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., noted anti-vaxxer and, apparently, part-time detective, announced back in April that he was...
The Big Business Behind The Kimmel Suspension
On Friday we learned that according to President Donald Trump, when coverage is negative, "It's no longer free speech." And it seems he's not alone....
Trump’s War On Free Speech
Democrats on the Hill are hitting back after ABC suspended "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely. They’ve introduced the No Political Enemies (or NOPE) Ac...
How NOT To Run The FBI
The investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk has raised a lot of questions – not just about the alleged shooter, but about the investigati...
What The FBI Doesn’t Understand About Online Extremism
FBI Director Kash Patel spoke on Tuesday about a massive rise in the number of investigations into so-called NVEs, which stands for “nihilistic violen...
What Did Trump’s DC Police Takeover Accomplish?
Memphis, Tennessee, is the latest city in President Donald Trump's Crime Takeover-A-Go-Go. On Monday, Trump signed a presidential memorandum establish...
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Shutdown Showdown, Part [We've Lost Count]
The clock is ticking until the federal government runs out of money and potentially shuts down—again. Now you might be thinking, "Didn't we do this? L...
Political Violence In America
The search for a suspect in Charlie Kirk's death continues. The FBI released some grainy photos of a person of interest wearing sunglasses and a baseb...
Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Killed In Utah
On Wednesday, 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an on-campus event near Salt Lake City, Utah. He was there as...
Chicago Teachers Fight To Keep ICE Out Of Schools
Millions of kids have started school over the past few weeks – that includes students in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C, and now Chicago, all cities tar...
Laura Loomer's Rise To The Top
Say what you will about President Donald Trump’s first administration, but at least some of the people given top jobs had a morsel of experience doing...
Georgia To Vote On Energy Costs
A crucial race for Georgia's Public Service Commission is coming up in November. And though the name sounds boring, it's a race that really matters. T...
How Trump's Hatred For Windmills Is Hurting All Of Us
President Donald Trump really, really, really hates wind and solar power. He made sure to make that point very clear during a Cabinet meeting last wee...
Senator Van Hollen On Epstein: Release The Damn Files!
Congress is back. It’s back and it has a lot of work to do. If Congress doesn’t fund the government by the end of September, the government will close...
Putin Cozies Up To Modi And Xi
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and held hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Beijing this weekend. T...
Chicago Caught In The Trump Administration's Crosshairs
The Trump administration is preparing a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Chicago, and it may come as soon as this week. The deta...
Introducing Shadow Kingdom: Coal Survivor
The What A Day team is off. But we’re excited to bring you the first episode of Season 2 of Crooked’s award-winning limited series, Shadow Kingdom: Co...
Cash Bail Keeps People In Jail
This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending cash bail in Washington D.C. and other jurisdictions around the country. H...
Why Conservatism Is Dead In The Trump Era
President Donald Trump’s administration is full of sycophants. That was made quite apparent this week (if it wasn't already) during a three-hour-long...
Three Signs Of The Trumpification Of The Economy
In the federal government’s latest excursion into the private sector, the US announced last week that it took a 10% stake in Intel. The move comes aft...
Trump's Trolling Weakens Polling
A lot has happened so far since President Donald Trump took office for a second term, but one thing is certain- he's indisputably unpopular. According...
What Do Liberals Actually Believe?
Third Way, a center-left think tank, released a list of words it thinks Democrats should stop using on Friday. The list included words like “intersect...
Why We’re In A Redistricting Race To The Bottom
On Thursday, California lawmakers passed a redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats up to five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections. It wa...
The Smithsonian Gets The Trump Edit
The White House announced it's leading a "comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions" to ensure that the museums "c...
Does Washington, D.C. Need Federal Intervention?
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced it's launching a much-needed and super important investigation into Washington D.C.'s crime statistics...