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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Russia Attacks Ukraine

Episode Date: February 24, 2022

In a televised speech early Thursday Moscow-time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” to protect Donbas, the Rus...

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Snow Long, Beijing

Episode Date: February 18, 2022

On Thursday, there was a big spike in shelling across the front line between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists within Ukraine. The...

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A Slow Descent Into Maskless

Episode Date: February 10, 2022

Several states announced plans to lift mask mandates this week, but the federal government is taking a more cautious approach, and has communicated th...

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Police Killings And The DOJ

Episode Date: February 2, 2022

The NAACP is urging the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who murdered 17-ye...

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Are You Putin Or Are You Out?

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

Concerns of a possible Russian invasion into Ukraine continue to mount, with Britain moving this week to broaden the sanctions it could impose in case...