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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MTG Get Off The Air

Episode Date: February 5, 2021

The House voted to strip Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments for spreading conspiracy theories and endorsing vio...

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Which Side Are You Amazon?

Episode Date: February 4, 2021

Amazon faces its first unionization vote in the country in seven years next week in Bessemer, Alabama, and if the workers decide to unionize, it could...

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The Needle And The Doses Done

Episode Date: February 2, 2021

The daily pace of vaccinations is picking up, with some states working faster than others. We talk about states that have given the most shots per cap...

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Less Talkie, More Stimmy

Episode Date: February 1, 2021

A group of Republican Senators are sending Biden a counter-proposal on Covid relief. They want to slash the bill by over a trillion dollars, and limit...

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Subreddit And Forget It

Episode Date: January 29, 2021

The COVID strain first discovered in South Africa was found in the United States for the first time in the state of South Carolina. This strain is mor...

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The Gig Short

Episode Date: January 28, 2021

At the Biden team's first public health briefing, officials noted that the number of COVID cases and hospitalizations in the US is on a downward trend...

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All In A Hundred Days Work

Episode Date: January 27, 2021

Impeachment is moving forward in the Senate despite a Republican effort to dismiss it yesterday, but a conviction next month doesn't seem likely.Meanw...

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Life With The Fast Strains

Episode Date: January 26, 2021

Pfizer and Moderna say their vaccines may be less effective against a new coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa. In California, Governo...

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Anarchy In The GOP

Episode Date: January 25, 2021

The House is expected to send the article of impeachment to the Senate today, with the trial set to begin the week of February 8th. There’s a distinct...

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Not Throwing Away My Shot

Episode Date: January 22, 2021

Biden released a 200-page national plan yesterday to centralize the COVID response effort, along with a flurry of executive orders and directives targ...

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Malarkey: Eliminated

Episode Date: January 21, 2021

Yesterday was inauguration day, which saw President Biden give his first speech as president on themes of unity, the division in our country, and a ne...

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Hello, Goodbiden

Episode Date: January 20, 2021

Trump leaves office today after four years of hellish incompetence. We reflect on the challenges President Biden and Vice-President Harris will inheri...

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Executive Order Up

Episode Date: January 19, 2021

Over the weekend, Biden’s team announced the president-elect’s agenda for the first ten days of his term, plus a dozen or so executive actions Biden i...

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Meet Joe Bill

Episode Date: January 15, 2021

Biden unveiled his proposal for a $1.9 trillion COVID rescue package yesterday, which includes $1,400 stimulus checks, an increase in federal unemploy...

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Impeachment's Back, Alright!

Episode Date: January 14, 2021

The House voted to impeach Donald Trump for the second time yesterday, making him the first president to be impeached twice. Soon-to-be minority leade...

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Sedition: Possible

Episode Date: January 13, 2021

The House is planning to vote on impeachment today. Democrats and some number of Republicans are expected to support it, like Wyoming Representative L...

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It's The Companies You Keep

Episode Date: January 12, 2021

The business community is responding to the siege on the Capitol by suspending contributions to lawmakers who didn’t vote to certify the election resu...