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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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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...
Sen. Sanders Slams The Surrender Dems
Monday night, the Senate passed legislation to reopen the government, sending it to the House. The eight Senate Democrats who reached a deal with Repu...
Inside the Deal to End the Shutdown
On Sunday evening, senators from both parties reached a deal that could bring an end to the government shutdown, which has lasted well over a month. T...
If Not A Recession, Why Does It Feel Like One?
After Tuesday’s election results, everyone seems to have gotten the message that affordability is king. Democrats, Republicans, and even President Don...
Is Trump About To Lose His Trade War?
It was a big day for President Donald Trump as the Supreme Court heard arguments on his power to impose tariffs unilaterally. And the justices seemed…...
Dems Win Big: A Midterm Preview?
Tuesday was Election Day and Democrats won big! Voters in New York City elected Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor. In Georgia, D...
Chicago Fights Back
A federal judge once again blocked the Trump Administration from sending the National Guard to Portland over the weekend — but if Trump is successful...
The GOP's Anti-Semitic Turn
Last week, former Fox News host and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson invited white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes onto his highly-ranked po...
Will Trump's Trade Truce With China Last?
President Donald Trump announced a trade truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a 90-minute meeting in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday. But wha...
The Redistricting Game
A Virginia judge allowed the state’s Democrats to pursue a redistricting plan on Wednesday that would permit them to amend the state’s constitution an...
Is This Mamdani's Moment
Highly anticipated elections are happening across the country on Tuesday. In states from California to Virginia, Americans will head to the polls in b...
The Price of Care: Fixing The ACA
The main issue keeping the government closed is healthcare — specifically, the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that have been in place since 20...
The Reality of Being An American Farmer Right Now
Chinese and American negotiators announced on Sunday that they had agreed to a “framework of a deal” on tariffs ahead of President Donald Trump’s expe...
FBI Takes Down NBA-Mafia Gambling Ring
On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced over 30 indictments as part of a massive investigation into a criminal gambling ring. Those indicted in...
The Key to Unlocking the Epstein Files
With the government shutdown in its third week, the House of Representatives is still out of session – and votes aren’t getting scheduled. That includ...
Trump’s Deadly Attacks in the Caribbean Sea
Since the start of September, President Donald Trump has ordered a series of lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing dozens of people. H...
This Supreme Court Could Change The Future of Elections
In two weeks, millions of Americans will be voting — but a Supreme Court case could change elections as we know them. Last week, the court heard argum...
Over 7 Million Americans Protested Against Trump
Millions of Americans were in the streets over the weekend, rallying against President Donald Trump and his administration's latest authoritarian esca...
America Has No Kings
This weekend, people across the country are taking to the streets for the second iteration of the “No Kings” protests. Organizers say they anticipate...
Rural Healthcare Is At Stake In The Shutdown Fight
A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s efforts to get rid of roughly 4,000 federal workers during the shutdown on Wednesday. And yet while...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Sounds Like A Democrat Lately
As the government shutdown chugs along, cracks form within the GOP. The biggest crack? Georgia Republican Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene. She's s...
Your Shutdown Outrage Won’t Change The Next Election
Week two of the government shutdown isn't proving to be any more successful than week one. In fact, on Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said this sh...
Trump Is Prosecuting His Enemies
Things have been moving fast since President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social last month QUOTE: "Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts...
What A Week!
This week has been… a lot. On Thursday, Israel’s cabinet approved the first phase of a peace agreement between Hamas and Israel, which would end the f...
Trump's War And Peace Plans
In September, after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum you may not have heard v...
Will SCOTUS Greenlight Trump’s Worst Ideas?
The new Supreme Court term started on Monday, and the justices have a lot on their plates. They’ll be deciding a host of big issues in the coming mont...
Fed Versus Blue
For the past four months, President Donald Trump has been sending the National Guard into cities that protest his policies. First, it was Los Angeles....
The Politics Of 'AI Slop'
Even if you don’t know what “AI slop” is, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered it basically everywhere you spend time online. Maybe it was those F...
What Happens When We Can’t Rely On Federal Data
Because of the government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release its monthly unemployment and jobs survey today. But that’s probabl...
Trump's Shutdown, Your Problem
It's Day 2 of the government shutdown. And we'd like to note that despite the government closing shop, House Republicans have been on vacation since l...
How Trump Wants To Wield The Shutdown
Well, the Government has shut down and, as of Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump didn’t sound to worried about it. “A lot of good can come down...
Dems Throw Down For Health Care
Is the government about to shut down? Congressional leaders and the White House appear to be at an impasse, even after President Donald Trump gave in...
How To Survive Online Speech Wars Without Self-Censorship
Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a wave of everyday people have been punished, getting doxxed and even losing their...
Dems Are Primed For Shutdown Fight
We’ve been on quite the journey with our First Amendment-guaranteed right to free speech, haven’t we? This week, we had the reinstatement of ABC’s “Ji...
Trump Takes Down US Immigration System
The machinery of mass deportations has been operating both in plain sight and out of view since President Donald Trump took office back in January. As...
Trump Dumps Putin?
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the brutal war has cost millions of lives. But President Donald Trump has consistently said that he could easily...
Dr. Trump’s Bad Medicine
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., noted anti-vaxxer and, apparently, part-time detective, announced back in April that he was...
The Big Business Behind The Kimmel Suspension
On Friday we learned that according to President Donald Trump, when coverage is negative, "It's no longer free speech." And it seems he's not alone....
Trump’s War On Free Speech
Democrats on the Hill are hitting back after ABC suspended "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely. They’ve introduced the No Political Enemies (or NOPE) Ac...