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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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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...
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...