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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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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...
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...