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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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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...
The Big One: Birthright Citizenship Is Upheld
On his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would have made the children of undocumented immigrant...
SCOTUS Tells Trump: Hands Off The Fed
On Monday, we got four more decisions from the nation’s highest court, and they were… well, confusing. For example, the Supreme Court ruled that Presi...
JD Vance Takes On Iran Negotiations
Vice President JD Vance has been given a job no one really wants: ending the incredibly unpopular Iran war. He’s been tasked with leading negotiations...
SCOTUS: Don't Give US Your Huddled Masses
As so many World Cup fans are discovering ranch dressing and enjoying their visits to the U.S., the Supreme Court left a very different message for pe...
Trump, GOP Shouting Match
President Trump has one clear talent: pissing off his purported allies, like when he was supposed to sign a big bipartisan housing bill. Republicans w...
UK Prime Minister Musical Chairs
It’s been 10 years since the UK voted to leave the European Union — a decision with major political implications that most of the country regrets. Sin...
Will The Iran War Cost Trump The Midterms?
The so-called “memorandum of understanding” that might end Trump’s war in Iran has felt pretty disappointing. But here in the U.S., voters may be more...
How Trump Is Betraying Black Soldiers
A message from Jane on Juneteenth:
Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth is a holiday to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States and the emanci...
What If Abortion Meant Prison... Or Worse?
The 2022 Dobbs decision that reversed Roe v. Wade promised to return the issue of abortion back to the states. But for anti-abortion activists, that’s...
Trump's Latest Plot To Rig The Midterms
President Donald Trump has been trying to get the SAVE America Act passed for months. The bill would require not just ID, but proof of citizenship to...
Pride Persists Even Under Trump
Pride Month is here. It’s a month to celebrate the achievements of LGBTQ Americans and the impact they’ve had on our past and present. But it’s also a...
America 250? More Like: Trump 80
If you didn’t tune into Paramount+ to watch the UFC Freedom 250 fight on the White House lawn, because you had better things to do, you're not alone....