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1684 episodes transcribedOn today's show, our guest host, Todd Zwillich, talks with Nate Soares, co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and the President of the Mac...
Here at What A Day, we’re keeping an eye on the midterms — which are likely to hinge on which party can tackle the skyrocketing cost of living. On to...
On today's show, Jane talks with Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson about what he thinks it will take for him to beat longtime Republican...
The House passed a short-term measure today to fund the federal government into early December, a move designed to avoid a chaotic shutdown as lawmak...
In case you missed it, President Donald Trump announced a deal that would give the United States a stake in Venezuela’s vast oil reserves on Friday....
In the last year and a half, President Donald Trump has put his name, image, or both, on a whole host of things — federal buildings, passports, the r...
Yesterday, we heard from former USAID administrator Dr. Atul Gawande about the lives lost because of the gutting of the United States Agency for Inte...
It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk and the DOGE boys fed the United States Agency for International Development – or USAID, into a QUOTE “woo...
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 c...
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 neg...
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.,...
Americans spend nearly $30 billion a year on plastic surgery procedures, including fillers and Botox. And there's probably no better example than the...
You may have heard about the conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln — the carrier where sailors have been facing food shortages and broken toilets...
You’ve probably heard a lot about the Democratic Socialists of America this year. Political figures who are either members of the organization or ass...
The fact that the US Congress is absolutely rotten with creeps is one of the worst-kept secrets in Washington. From former Representatives like Calif...
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...
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 th...
On Tuesday, Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost to Milwaukee’s county executive, David Crowley, in the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary....
It’s voting day in states across the country – including in two Southern states that have already voted once this year. In South Carolina, Republican...
Last month, Trump bragged that the Board of Peace had accomplished a monumental breakthrough: an agreement for the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza. Howe...
