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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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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...
Trump's Revenge Tour Could Backfire
A swath of President Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates won their primary elections Tuesday night – and one of Trump's biggest opponents in Congress...
Is The US Ready For A New Global Health Threat?
The World Health Organization met on Tuesday in Switzerland to discuss a deadly outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda....
Has The West Forgotten About Ukraine?
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. And despite President Donald Trump's promise to end the conflict on his first day back in office, the t...
Americans Should Be Happy, But They're Not
It's rather obvious Americans have not exactly been … cheerful for the last few years. And it's showing up in the data – the General Social Survey, th...
Trump Made Inflation Great Again
Life is pretty expensive right now – and Americans are not happy about it. Trump came into office claiming he would lower prices, QUOTE, “on day 1.” B...
Stacey Abrams On Why We Still Need The Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais last month dismantled a critical portion of the Voting Rights Act. And since then, a slew of states...
What Does Trump Need Most From China?
President Donald Trump is arriving in Beijing today on a long-awaited trip – one that got delayed even further by Trump’s war in Iran. It’s Trump’s se...
Jeffrey Epstein Funded Harvard Women's Athletics
The impact of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes has been felt in so many places, from the halls of Congress to the royal families of Bri...
The Gentrification Of Intersectionality
Over the last year and a half, the Trump Administration has made a big effort to limit which words are used in federal documents. Across government me...
Trump Still Has A Grip On Indiana
There’s a lot going on in this year’s midterm elections. Tennessee Republicans approved a new map on Thursday, splitting the majority-Black voting dis...
Why You Shouldn't Buy Into The Crypto Trend
President Donald Trump made a lot of promises when he took office for the second time. One of those promises included becoming the most pro-cryptocurr...
Can Democrats Sell Affordability?
President Trump was elected, in part, due to his many promises to lower the cost of living. Unsurprisingly, he gave up on that pretty much the second...
Trump v. The Constitution
The Supreme Court surprised many on Monday allowing the commonly used abortion medication mifepristone to stay available via mail for at least one mor...
A Committee Protecting U.S. Elections Is Under Threat
Last week's Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act is big news. But there are tons of other ways that the Trump Administration and the G...
Trump’s Vibing Approach To Governing
From the alleged attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to the indictment of former FBI Director...
SCOTUS Clears The Way for Gerrymandering
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down a 2024 Louisiana district map that created a second majority-Black voting district for use in future elect...
Hegseth Hits The Hill
Secretary of War/little boy Pete Hegseth will be testifying before Congress this week — starting with a hearing before the House Armed Services Commit...
Can Jared Kushner Negotiate Peace And Still Make Money?
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff were supposed to fly to Islamabad, Pakistan, this week to negotiat...
From Inside The Ballroom
On Saturday evening, there was a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C. President Trump and members of his cabinet wer...
Should Dems Welcome The MAGA Defectors?
Earlier this week, What A Day talked about Tucker Carlson's "apology" for supporting President Donald Trump. Carlson's unexpected confession stemmed f...
Kash Grabs Trump’s Defamation Playbook
FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic for $250 million. It comes after the magazine published an article alleging that Patel is frequently dru...
Donald Trump Boosts Renewable Energy (By Accident)
Happy Earth Day! While we celebrate efforts to save the earth, the Trump administration appears to be doing everything in its power to destroy it. At...
Is Trump… Okay?
The media and Democrats have been sounding the alarm on Trump's mental health for a decade. But now, even some of his biggest supporters are wondering...
Trump vs Reddit: Free Speech In The Balance
President Donald Trump and Co. have historically claimed to be all about free speech. But maybe Trump only cares about free speech when he likes what'...
How Trump Bullied Israel Into A Ceasefire
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire. The ceasefire could pause weeks of fighting be...
The Race To 2028 Has Begun
Presidential hopefuls have already started jockeying for position in the 2028 race — look at the number of Democrats who published memoirs over the la...
#MeToo Hits Congress, Again
Two members of Congress stepped down over allegations of sexual misconduct from former staffers on Tuesday —Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales and Ca...
Should Democrats Be The Anti-War Party?
Trump’s war in Iran is now 45 days old with no end in sight — which is a problem for Republicans. Because while midterms are always tough for the part...
Why Iran Spells Trouble For The GOP
A very tired-looking Vice President JD Vance emerged from 21 hours of high-stakes peace talks on Sunday to say no deal has been made to end the Iran w...
Prediction Markets: All Bets Are War
From the moment the U.S. and Israel launched strikes in Iran at the end of February, several people have been profiting from them because of extremely...
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...