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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Ad AstraZeneca

Episode Date: March 19, 2021

European countries including Germany, France, Italy, and Spain will resume using the AstraZeneca vaccine as early as today or next week. This comes th...

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Biden At The Border

Episode Date: March 18, 2021

A White gunman attacked three spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday killing eight people including six women of Asian descent. The shootings happened in...

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Shots For Tots

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

Nearly 10,000 children seeking asylum have arrived to the United States southern border since February, and a lack of shelter space has led many of th...

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Vax on Pause

Episode Date: March 16, 2021

Italy, Germany, France and several other countries in Europe are halting use of Astrazeneca’s coronavirus vaccine amid concerns over side effects in h...

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Cuom Alone 2: Lost In New York

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

Covid cases continue to decline, though at a much slower rate than in January. That leveling off, plus the continued threat of variants has public hea...

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Giving Vax And Taking Names

Episode Date: March 11, 2021

Today marks one year since the World Health Organization officially called the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. The US vaccination effort offers a gli...

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Coming To The American Rescue

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

Senate Democrats passed the $1.9 trillion economic relief bill on Saturday, without any support from Republicans. The final bill pared back some eleme...

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UBI Feel It Coming

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

Republican governors in West Virginia and Alabama have continued to advise wearing masks, bucking the trend of governors in Mississippi and Texas who...

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The Trial Of Derek Chauvin

Episode Date: March 4, 2021

Jury selection begins next week for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd’s neck and killed him last...

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It's Gonna Be May

Episode Date: March 3, 2021

Biden is now saying that we'll have enough vaccine doses for every American by the end of May, instead of July. Meanwhile, states like Texas and Missi...

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Minimum Wage, Maximum Rage

Episode Date: February 26, 2021

The House is expected to pass its COVID relief bill as soon as today, but there's still a question of what happens when the bill gets to the Senate. Y...

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Vaccinate K-8

Episode Date: February 25, 2021

The FDA put out analyses yesterday showing that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine is highly effective, setting the stage for its approval as ear...

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Capitol Insecurity

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

Former Capitol security officials appeared before the Senate yesterday, citing communications failures for their inadequate response to the January 6t...

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The Return Of The Tax Returns

Episode Date: February 23, 2021

The Supreme Court threw out the final Trump lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 election, and also paved the way for Trump’s taxes to be discl...