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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 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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The Haunted Manchin
Episode Date: July 20, 2022The House passed the Respect for Marriage Act on Tuesday with bipartisan support. The law would mandate that all states recognize same-sex marriage an...
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Location Sharing With Homeland Security
Episode Date: July 19, 2022Heat waves are devastating people in Europe and North America this summer. In the U.K. it’s hotter than the Sahara Desert, and in the U.S. 35 million...
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Nearly 400 Cops Failed At Uvalde
Episode Date: July 18, 2022None of the 400 law enforcement officials on location at the Uvalde mass school shooting in May did anything for over an hour to stop the gunman who e...
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The Very Uphill Battle To Protect Abortion In Congress
Episode Date: July 15, 2022The House will vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act today in an effort to codify abortion rights — but without a Democratic majority in the Senat...
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Lost In Inflation
Episode Date: July 14, 2022Consumer prices are up 9.1% over this time last year, according to new inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the highest inflatio...
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COVID Burnout Notice
Episode Date: July 13, 2022As the U.S. sees another rise in COVID cases, White House officials are working to give all adults access to a second vaccine booster shot. Dr. Abdul...
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Jan 6th Back, Alright!
Episode Date: July 12, 2022The House Select Committee investigating January 6th is back in action with another hearing today. Dan Pfieffer, co-host of Crooked’s “Pod Save Americ...
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Shinzo Abe's Assassination And What It Means For Japan
Episode Date: July 11, 2022President Biden signed an executive order on Friday to try to protect access to abortion, but it’s not the solution many reproductive rights advocates...
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The Great British Boot Out
Episode Date: July 8, 2022Embattled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he’ll be stepping down after three years in office. This comes after many members of the gove...
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The Victims Of The July 4th Highland Park Shooting
Episode Date: July 7, 2022During an Independence Day parade this Monday, a 21-year-old man in Highland Park, Illinois shot and killed at least seven people and injured many mor...
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The Courts v. Climate (From our friends at Hot Take)
Episode Date: July 1, 2022The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday that limits the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat climate change. Our friends at...
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SCOTUS Ends A Low Term On A Low Note
Episode Date: June 30, 2022The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Wednesday — one of which dramatically increased the power that states have over Native American tribes and tr...
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Ketchup On The Latest January 6th News
Episode Date: June 29, 2022The latest House January 6th hearing was perhaps the most explosive to date with testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, the top aide to former White House...
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Drag Queen History Hour
Episode Date: June 28, 2022The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Monday. There have also been several legal challenges to the trigger laws set to go into effect in states lik...
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The Fight For Abortion Rights Isn't Over
Episode Date: June 27, 2022The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday, and throughout the weekend people took to the streets. We hear from you, our listeners,...
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SCOTUS Shoots Down A NY Gun Control Law
Episode Date: June 24, 2022The Supreme Court announced more rulings on Thursday — one of which dealt a huge blow to gun control advocates. The court struck down a New York State...
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Ready, Aim, Bipartisan Gun Control Deal
Episode Date: June 23, 2022The Senate unveiled a highly-anticipated, bipartisan gun control bill on Tuesday. The chamber voted 64-34 in a procedural vote to allow for its quick...
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The "Abject Failure" Of Law Enforcement At Uvalde
Episode Date: June 22, 2022The January 6th House committee held its fourth hearing on Tuesday, and we learned more about the effort to overturn the election by former President...
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Some VP That I Used To Know
Episode Date: June 17, 2022We're about halfway through the January 6th committee hearings scheduled for this month. Yesterday, the committee focused on former President Trump’s...