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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Surveilling The Police

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

Viral videos of police brutality against Black people have generated outrage, protest, and sustained national attention this year. We talk to Bijan St...

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Coming Out Of The Woodward

Episode Date: September 10, 2020

Recorded interviews of Donald Trump by Bob Woodward show he understood the threat of coronavirus in February, while he insisted in public it would “di...

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Here Comes The Sunrise Movement

Episode Date: September 8, 2020

College students have returned to campuses, and so has coronavirus. Northeastern University suspended 11 students for partying, and will not refund th...

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Vaxxers Without Borders

Episode Date: September 3, 2020

Joe Biden will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin later today, where he’ll meet with the family of Jacob Blake. We check in on the continued protests happening...

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Mr. Eviction Freeze

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

The CDC and the Health Department are moving to ban evictions through December for people who can’t pay because of the pandemic. New York City caved t...

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Class Of Covid-19

Episode Date: September 1, 2020

Joe Biden spoke in Pennsylvania yesterday, where he condemned violence of any kind at recent protests. Trump spoke at the White House yesterday, where...

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Critical Mass

Episode Date: August 31, 2020

One man is now dead after a weekend of violence in Portland, Oregon, in which pro-Trump demonstrators drove through the city’s downtown taunting Black...

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The South Yawn

Episode Date: August 28, 2020

Trump closed out the RNC last night, with a meandering 70-minute long speech that saw him paint a rosy picture of his administration’s handling of COV...

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Game Off

Episode Date: August 27, 2020

Police arrested 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday for killing two protestors and injuring a third at demonstrations in Kenosha, Washington agains...

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Bleakfast At Tiffany's

Episode Date: August 26, 2020

Last night’s Republican National Convention brought more speeches from Trump’s employees and family members, including First Lady Melania Trump, Tiffa...

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Guilfoyle Salesman

Episode Date: August 25, 2020

Protestors gathered for a second night in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who is reportedly still in inte...

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Do You Believe In Plasmagic

Episode Date: August 24, 2020

The Republican National Convention begins tonight, predominantly featuring speakers who are Trump’s employees or blood relatives. This weekend, Trump...

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The Dude Abidens

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

Last night was the final night of the DNC, featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, former 2020 presidential candidates, and most notably, Joe Biden’s acceptanc...

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Return Of Barack

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

Last night was the third night of the Democratic National Convention, featuring marquee speeches from VP pick Senator Kamala Harris and former Preside...

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License To Jill

Episode Date: August 19, 2020

Last night was the second night of the DNC, featuring beautiful shots of delegates across our gorgeous country, as well as speeches from AOC, activist...

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First Lady's Night

Episode Date: August 18, 2020

This year’s socially-distanced DNC began last night, with speeches from former First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, and more. Joe Biden...

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DeJoy Division

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

The DNC was set to begin today in Wisconsin, but instead, it’s beginning in Zooms across America. We talked to Wisconsin Democrats Senator Tammy Baldw...

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No Post On Trump Days

Episode Date: August 14, 2020

This was the first week since March that the number of new unemployment claims in the US fell below one million. Tens of millions remain jobless and...

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Teacher Buffering

Episode Date: August 13, 2020

The last time we spoke with Monise Seward, a 6th grade special education teacher in Georgia, it was April and schools had just begun to tackle remote...