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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 analysi...
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Why Greenland Keeps Rejecting America's Advances
President Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland isn’t new. Back in 2019, he made an offer to buy the island, but was told by Denmark and Greenland t...
Will Claude Code Change Everything?
Today marks a year since President Donald Trump took office for a second time, and a lot has happened. Amidst all the threats to take over Greenland,...
A Brief History of ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't some storied government agency from the 19th century. ICE was invented back in 2003 — but now it has a multi...
How We Got Here: The MAGA New Right
President Trump is declining in popularity with voters, but his rhetoric and that of the Trump Administration is only growing more extreme. But to und...
Can Minnesota Deport ICE?
The great city of Minneapolis is under siege by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and we have all seen the videos to prove it… which may be why the...
Iran, Greenland, And Trump's Ego
In Iran, weeks of protests against the ruling regime have resulted in the deaths of thousands of protestors at the hands of the government. The Trump...
Trump’s War On The Fed
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck back on Sunday night after the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into his handling of r...
The 'Dark Fleet' Behind Venezuela's Oil Trade
The United States Coast Guard seized another oil tanker, the Olina, on Friday. It is the fifth Venezuela-linked tanker seized by US forces under Presi...
The White House Blames Victim In Minnesota ICE Shooting
On Thursday, protestors continued to gather in Minnesota’s largest city to stand up to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an officer fatally sh...
And Then The Majority Was 2
There are 435 members of the House of Representatives — and after the resignation of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and the passing of...
A Quack In Trump’s Presidency
It’s been a strange 12 months for Trump. He won the 2024 election on a wave of economic discontent, and responded by blowing up a wing of the White Ho...
Did The J6ers Win?
Five years ago today, supporters of President Trump, emboldened by his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stormed the Capitol. Now, with...
Trump Extracts Oil -- And The Venezuelan President
Late Friday evening, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his...
Donald Trump’s Pot Shot
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I substance...
Why Is Trump So Obsessed With Rep. Ilhan Omar
President Trump has made multiple xenophobic comments about Somali immigrants over the past few weeks, following the findings of an investigation into...
Quantifying Happiness In 2026
Unemployment is up. Two-thirds of Americans have recently struggled with the rising cost of groceries. And the President of the United States has occu...
Trump Can't Stop Saying Biden
Trump has been president for 11 months, and during that time, former President Joe Biden has basically left the public eye. Yet as Trump's own preside...
If Tariffs Are So Great, Why Are There So Many Exemptions?
President Donald Trump loves tariffs. But according to a new analysis from Politico, more than half of US imports right now are not subjected to them....
ICE Polices The American Dream
The Trump Administration has put billions of dollars into building an immigration superstructure meant to punish those who have done nothing wrong and...
The GOP’s Plan For Your Healthcare
Monday is your deadline to pick an insurance plan on the Affordable Care Act marketplace – and there is still zero plan to ensure that the enhanced su...
Billionaires Brawl Over Warner Bros.
We’ve been talking about the Paramount Skydance/Warner Brothers Discovery/Netflix Billionaire Boys Club Spectacular for a few days now. But it’s reall...
The Vax Wars Are Here
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is likely to reverse its long-standing recommendation that all newborns be immunized against Hepatitis...
Why Trump’s Got A Big AI Problem
The Trump Administration has gone all in on artificial intelligence. It doesn’t hurt that AI’s biggest backers also happen to run the biggest companie...
Rep. Jim Clyburn Offers A Historical Warning
The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, released a new survey this week in an attempt to figure out who, exactly, is a Republican these da...
Hegseth Takes His “Secretary of War” Title Too Seriously
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been under fire for his continually evolving explanations and blame-shifting regarding a September attack on an all...
President Trump Is Disconnected From His Beloved Base
President Trump is old, and it shows. But in his second term in the White House, he's not just old – he's cloistered. After building his political car...
With Next Phase Of Ceasefire Unclear, Gazans Brace For Winter
It's been nearly two months since the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas went into effect. The ceasefire is intended to be the first...
Trump Capitalizes On The National Guard Shooting
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot just a few blocks away from the White House, on Wednesday. One of the two shooting victims,...
Protecting The Franchise: How Can We Secure Our Elections?
Fear is mounting about the integrity of next year’s elections and all the tricks MAGA World might be able to pull. How valid are those concerns? What...
The Tennessee Democrat Fighting The MAGA Machine
Congress is not exactly a barrel of fun at the best of times. Still, after the unexpected exit of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene last...
MAGA Threats Made Him Leave The Country
A lot happened while we were off this weekend, from President Donald Trump's overly friendly meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to...
Trump's Grift Goes Global
From $400 million planes to $300 million ballrooms, from cryptocurrency to just plain… currency, President Donald Trump and his family have profited m...
US Absent From Global Climate Conference
For the last two weeks, a critically important climate conference has been taking place in Belem, Brazil. For the first time in 30 years, the United S...
"Things Happen": Trump Goes All In On MBS
President Donald Trump joyously welcomed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, also known as MBS, to the White House on Tuesday. That's des...
The U.S. Takes Aim At Venezuela
This week, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would be willing to hold talks with Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. His statements came...
Were There Any Winners In The Government Shutdown?
The longest government shutdown in American history ended last week, thanks to 8 Senate Democrats giving up the fight to extend Affordable Care Act su...
Make America What Again? Policy Priorities For A Progressive Future
Good policy is good politics, or so the saying goes.
So, uh, how do we agree on what that is? Jane Coaston talks with three of the left’s most...
Scam Calls Are Getting Worse: Here's Why
This week, a court filing showed that the Trump Administration has declared the current funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
The Government Reopens — To More Epstein Chaos
The House returned on Wednesday and ended the longest shutdown in government history. House Republicans were joined by six democrats to fund the gover...
Misread the Moment: Rep. McBride On Senate Democrats
The government shutdown is inching closer to an end as members of the House of Representatives return to Washington today. They are expected to vote o...