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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WHO's Calling The Shots

Episode Date: August 5, 2021

The World Health Organization called for a moratorium on booster shots until the end of September, right as a number of countries have started or are...

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Life Cuomos At You Fast

Episode Date: August 4, 2021

A five month investigation into the conduct of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo found evidence of sexual harassment towards 11 current and former employ...

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An Impending Eviction Crisis

Episode Date: August 3, 2021

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that students must be in classrooms this year and that schools should require everyone to mask up, but loca...

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Keeping The DREAM Alive

Episode Date: July 30, 2021

New GDP numbers released by the Commerce Department show that the size of the economy has risen above pre-pandemic levels, but an increased spread of...

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On The Ground At Tokyo 2020

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

This year's Olympics is like no other, taking place in the midst of a pandemic, and in a city under a state of emergency in response to rising COVID-1...

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50 First Mandates

Episode Date: July 27, 2021

Federal public health officials are considering updating mask mandates even for vaccinated Americans as we reach another critical point in the pandemi...

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The Labor Movement Goes PRO

Episode Date: July 22, 2021

Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike yesterday across nearly a dozen cities in the U.S. to call for the passage of the PRO Act, which woul...

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Burn After Heating

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

Wildfires in the western US and parts of Canada, driven by extreme drought conditions and heat waves, are casting hazy skies across the country. We ta...

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How It's Joe-ing Six Months In

Episode Date: July 20, 2021

Today marks six months since President Biden entered the White House. We talked with Crooked Media’s editor-in-chief and the host of "Rubicon," Brian...

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Return Of The Mask

Episode Date: July 19, 2021

Los Angeles County reimposed mask mandates this weekend for everyone indoors in a public space because the Delta variant is causing cases and hospital...

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The Strike At Warrior Met Coal

Episode Date: July 14, 2021

Miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, have been striking for nearly four months in protest of drastic cutbacks to wages and benefits. It’s...

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Walkout, Texas Ranger

Episode Date: July 13, 2021

President Biden’s previous plan to combat crime by tightening the reins on gun sales and empowering the DOJ to target firearm traffickers has got a ma...

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Biden Vs. Big Business

Episode Date: July 12, 2021

President Biden signed an executive order last week aimed at boosting competition between businesses and discouraging monopolies. The order includes 7...

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Amount Past Purdue

Episode Date: July 9, 2021

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a deal where 15 states agreed to drop their opposition to the company's bankruptcy plan in exchange for concessi...

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The Texas Bad Law Massacre

Episode Date: July 8, 2021

Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by a team of mercenaries amid claims by opposition groups that he tried to illegally exte...