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 analysis on the big stories shaping today and the creeping trends shaping tomorrow—and when she doesn’t know the answers, she asks someone even smarter to fill us all in. Radical, right? New episodes at 5:00 a.m. EST, Monday–Saturday in your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. Being informed was never this easy.

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America Has No Kings

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

This weekend, people across the country are taking to the streets for the second iteration of the “No Kings” protests. Organizers say they anticipate...

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What A Week!

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

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...

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Trump's War And Peace Plans

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

In September, after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum you may not have heard v...

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Fed Versus Blue

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

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....

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The Politics Of 'AI Slop'

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

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...

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Trump's Shutdown, Your Problem

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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...

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Dems Throw Down For Health Care

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

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...