Trump’s War On Free Speech
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats on the Hill are hitting back after ABC suspended "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely. They’...
How NOT To Run The FBI
18 Sep 2025
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The investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk has raised a lot of questions – not just ...
What The FBI Doesn’t Understand About Online Extremism
17 Sep 2025
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FBI Director Kash Patel spoke on Tuesday about a massive rise in the number of investigations into s...
What Did Trump’s DC Police Takeover Accomplish?
16 Sep 2025
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Memphis, Tennessee, is the latest city in President Donald Trump's Crime Takeover-A-Go-Go. On Monday...
Shutdown Showdown, Part [We've Lost Count]
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The clock is ticking until the federal government runs out of money and potentially shuts down—aga...
Political Violence In America
12 Sep 2025
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The search for a suspect in Charlie Kirk's death continues. The FBI released some grainy photos of a...
Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Killed In Utah
11 Sep 2025
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On Wednesday, 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an on-campus...
Chicago Teachers Fight To Keep ICE Out Of Schools
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of kids have started school over the past few weeks – that includes students in Los Angel...
Laura Loomer's Rise To The Top
09 Sep 2025
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Say what you will about President Donald Trump’s first administration, but at least some of the pe...
Georgia To Vote On Energy Costs
08 Sep 2025
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A crucial race for Georgia's Public Service Commission is coming up in November. And though the name...
How Trump's Hatred For Windmills Is Hurting All Of Us
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump really, really, really hates wind and solar power. He made sure to make that ...
Senator Van Hollen On Epstein: Release The Damn Files!
04 Sep 2025
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Congress is back. It’s back and it has a lot of work to do. If Congress doesn’t fund the governm...
Putin Cozies Up To Modi And Xi
03 Sep 2025
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and held hands with Indian Prime...
Chicago Caught In The Trump Administration's Crosshairs
02 Sep 2025
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The Trump administration is preparing a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Chica...
Introducing Shadow Kingdom: Coal Survivor
01 Sep 2025
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The What A Day team is off. But we’re excited to bring you the first episode of Season 2 of Crooke...
Cash Bail Keeps People In Jail
29 Aug 2025
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This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending cash bail in Washington ...
Why Conservatism Is Dead In The Trump Era
28 Aug 2025
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President Donald Trump’s administration is full of sycophants. That was made quite apparent this w...
Three Signs Of The Trumpification Of The Economy
27 Aug 2025
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In the federal government’s latest excursion into the private sector, the US announced last week t...
Trump's Trolling Weakens Polling
26 Aug 2025
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A lot has happened so far since President Donald Trump took office for a second term, but one thing ...
What Do Liberals Actually Believe?
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Third Way, a center-left think tank, released a list of words it thinks Democrats should stop using ...
Why We’re In A Redistricting Race To The Bottom
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, California lawmakers passed a redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats up to five ...
The Smithsonian Gets The Trump Edit
21 Aug 2025
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The White House announced it's leading a "comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian muse...
Does Washington, D.C. Need Federal Intervention?
20 Aug 2025
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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced it's launching a much-needed and super important inv...
The AI Chatbot Childhood Is Officially Here
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation surrounding artificial intelligence in the US is hard to avoid right now. Powerful ...
What It’s Like To Have Trump Hold Your Science Research Hostage
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration’s crackdown on universities across the country for alleged antisemitism h...
The White House's Mob Boss Approach To AI Chips
15 Aug 2025
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Nvidia, a U.S.-based chip manufacturer that's now the richest company on earth, has agreed to pay th...
Can Trump Broker Peace With Putin?
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Ancho...
Baltimore Mayor Responds To Trump Bashing His City
13 Aug 2025
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National Guard troops began showing up on the streets of the nation's capital overnight, a little mo...
Netanyahu's War Expansion Plan
12 Aug 2025
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing massive backlash — both domestic and international —...
80 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New Nuclear Threats Emerge
11 Aug 2025
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President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week to d...
RFK Jr. Is Putting American Lives At Risk
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you got a COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna or Pfizer, congratulations, you got a vaccine that use...
The Truth About El Salvador's Mega Prison
07 Aug 2025
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We’re starting to hear the horror stories from some of the Venezuelan men who the Trump Administra...
The Voting Rights Act Is Again Under Attack
06 Aug 2025
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The Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during t...
Amid Bad Jobs Report, Trump White House Leans Into Politics
05 Aug 2025
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The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision last week to fire the head of the Bureau of Lab...
How The Israeli Far Right And Netanyahu Embolden Each Other
04 Aug 2025
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Gaza Friday ...
Why Red And Blue States Are Waging A Redistricting War
01 Aug 2025
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Republicans in the Texas State House released their plans to redraw the state’s congressional map ...
Loyalty Over Competence At Trump's Justice Department
31 Jul 2025
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove as a federal appeals court judge, a lifetime appointment t...
Trump's Tariff Deadline Is Two Days Away
30 Jul 2025
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Friday is President Donald Trump’s alleged tariff deadline, the day when dozens of countries eithe...
All Eyes On Gaza As Hunger Crisis Grows
29 Jul 2025
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Global outrage is building as the hunger crisis in Gaza descends into new depths of horror. Even aid...
New EPA To Argue Greenhouse Gases Are Totally Fine
28 Jul 2025
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Sometime this week, the Trump Administration is expected to launch an assault on one of the major co...
Immigration Lawyer Details Horrific Conditions at ICE Detention Centers
25 Jul 2025
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The Trump Administration is quickly ramping up its efforts to arrest and deport as many undocumented...
Trump Targets Obama, Deflects From Epstein
24 Jul 2025
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While pressure mounts on the White House to release documents related to the late convicted sex offe...
Mike Johnson Staves Off Epstein Vote
23 Jul 2025
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House lawmakers will start their Summer break a few days early today, vacating the capital until Sep...
A Look At Trump And Epstein's History
22 Jul 2025
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Despite President Donald Trump's best efforts, his administration can't escape the conspiracies swir...
How AI Is Weaponizing Voicemail
21 Jul 2025
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As artificial intelligence programs become more widely accessible, so too do increasingly sophistica...
Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz' with Rep. Maxwell Frost
18 Jul 2025
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Alligator Alcatraz, a pop-up immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, has been touted...
Trump v The Federal Reserve Chair
17 Jul 2025
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President Donald Trump spent Wednesday refuting reports he plans to imminently fire Federal Reserve ...
The Trump Putin Breakup Explained
16 Jul 2025
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On the 2024 campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly claimed he could end Russia’s w...
Can Planned Parenthood Survive Trump’s Big Beautiful Law?
15 Jul 2025
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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago, the question of abortion's legality ...
Why Hiring 10,000 New ICE Agents Is A Bad Idea
14 Jul 2025
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President Donald Trump’s new spending and tax law is set to balloon the budget for immigration and...
Ex-NOAA Administrator On Trump's Staffing Cuts
11 Jul 2025
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to central Texas today to tour damage of the devastati...
ICE Gets Billions To Intimidate Americans
10 Jul 2025
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Federal agents descended on a park in the middle of Los Angeles midday Monday, showing up on horseba...
Ex-CDC Doctor On RFK Jr.'s Risky Vaccine Policies
09 Jul 2025
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In just a few short months on the job, Health And Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has...
How Democrats Will Make Trump Own His Disastrous Spending Bill
08 Jul 2025
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Now that President Donald Trump has gotten exactly what he wanted, and signed his major domestic tax...
Trump's War On The Poor
07 Jul 2025
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Despite months of handwringing and a litany complaints from dozens of Congressional Republicans, Pre...
Zohran Mamdani's Fight For NYC feat. Brad Lander
03 Jul 2025
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The New York City Board of Elections on Tuesday confirmed Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemb...
The Big Republican Spending Bill Debacle Disaster Adventure
02 Jul 2025
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The Senate passed President Donald Trump's spending bill on Tuesday after Vice President JD Vance ar...
GOP Senators Ruin Their Summer Vacay for Trump Spending Bill
01 Jul 2025
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As Republicans in Congress look to gut Medicaid with President Donald Trump’s supposed “Big Beau...
GOP Rushes To Pass Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
30 Jun 2025
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It’s make-or-break week for Congressional Republicans and their big policy and spending legislatio...
A Blockbuster Day For The Supreme Court
27 Jun 2025
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The Supreme Court will issue a slew of major opinions today on what’s expected to be the final day...
Is This Trump's Idea of Isolationism?
26 Jun 2025
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President Donald Trump addressed leaders at a NATO summit in the Netherlands Wednesday as the tenuou...
What It's Like To Have An Empathetic Leader
25 Jun 2025
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What does national leadership really look like? Despite all of President Donald Trump's rhetoric, it...
MAGA Isolationists Sidelined in Iran Strike Debate
24 Jun 2025
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Iran fired missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar Monday in retaliation for American strikes on t...
Sen. Warner Says Congress Needs Answers After US Bombs Iran
23 Jun 2025
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The United States is going to war in the Middle East again… maybe. President Donald Trump announce...
Politics and Musings Live with former Senator Al Franken
20 Jun 2025
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A few weeks ago, What A Day took a trip to the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival in Seattle, Washington, fo...
How The Supreme Court Just Failed Trans Youth
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court is staying busy with decisions. The High Court issued a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday in...
The Israel Iran Conflict Explained
18 Jun 2025
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Tensions continue to escalate between Iran and Israel as the two countries swap missile fire. Israel...
Los Angeles Is Not In Crisis feat. Mayor Karen Bass
17 Jun 2025
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A federal appeals court will decide if President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops ...
Sustaining The Movement After No Kings
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In towns and cities across the country, from blue cities to red states, from Idaho to Georgia and pr...
Asking A Question Got US Senator Padilla Handcuffed
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress is reeling after Democratic US Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed and handcuffed –...
Decoding Recent Supreme Court Gun Rulings
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court has been busy releasing opinions. Last week, it ruled against a ten billion dollar...
Why Climate Change Is Driving An Insurance Meltdown
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know how people are always saying, "What happens in California often doesn't stay here"? They're...
The Court’s Willful Ignorance And Our Racial Caste System
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump Administration has decided that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are themselves a ...
LA On The Front Lines Of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People protesting against Immigration Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles and President Trump’...
Trump And Musk's Messy Break-Up
06 Jun 2025
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While President Trump demands his administration investigate the former president's pardons and exec...
The Big Beautiful Bill Breakdown feat. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly
05 Jun 2025
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Some Republican lawmakers are backtracking their support for President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful B...
We're Not Powerless Against Trump's Climate Sabotage
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump has made it his mission to single-handedly reverse basically every accomplish...
Migrants’ Legal Limbo
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last few weeks, the Supreme Court has dealt more than half a million migrants a serious blow ...
How Trump's Chaos Is Becoming Normal
02 Jun 2025
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Can you believe it’s already June? So much has happened since President Donald Trump returned to t...
In Israel And Gaza, War Opposition Grows
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week marked more than 600 days since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. In the wake of Hamas' h...
When The Conspiracy Theorists Become Bureaucrats
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before Kash Patel, Dan Bongino and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. were prominent members of the Trump Admini...
Are Trump’s Crypto Ventures Corrupt
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To the average American, the world of cryptocurrencies can be completely inscrutable. Only about 17 ...
Abortion Access In Trump's America 2.0
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has long been a pusher of junk science, especi...
Assembly Required: Rachel Maddow on Winning America’s Fight Against Fascism
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, the What A Day team is off. But we’re excited to bring you a recent episode of Assembly Req...
SCOTUS Deadlocks On Major Religion Case
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In one of the most anticipated rulings of the term, the Supreme Court justices deadlocked Thursday i...
Inside Diddy's Federal Sex-Trafficking Trial
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you're a certain age, Sean' Diddy' Combs was inescapable during some really formative years of yo...
Why Medicaid Work Requirements Are A Bad Idea
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Congressional Republicans try to pass President Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' through the ...
A House Divided
20 May 2025
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It's make-or-break week in the House for President Donald Trump's 'one big, beautiful bill.' House S...
Why One Yale Professor Chose To Leave The U.S.
19 May 2025
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The New York Times recently published a video op-ed by a group of Yale University professors who say...
The Art Of The Deal: Mideast Edition
16 May 2025
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President Donald Trump is expected to wrap up the first major international trip of his second term ...
What To Know About Today's SCOTUS Birthright Case
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court hears arguments today in three cases challenging President Donald Trump's effort t...
Why Trump’s Economy is Weird AF
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the U.S. economy … good? Bad? Somewhere in the middle? If it feels like you're desperately shak...
Can The India-Pakistan Ceasefire Hold?
13 May 2025
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India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire Saturday, after days of fighting along their shared border ...
Millennials And Gen Zers Step Into Leadership
12 May 2025
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It's 2025, and if you're a Millennial or Gen Zer, there's a good chance that you are qualified to ma...
The First American Pope
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have a new pope, and he’s from Chicago! On the second day of the papal conclave Thursday, Cardi...
Congress, U Up?
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few months, you might have been wondering to yourself, “Hey! The president of the Un...
Elon Musk Go!
07 May 2025
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and, depending on whom you ask, the perceived head of the Depar...
Netanyahu Threatens to Escalate War In Gaza
06 May 2025
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel was 'on the eve of a forceful entry to Gaz...
Project 2025: Trump's 100-Day Blitz
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While President Donald Trump struggles to convince the American public his tariffs are worth sacrifi...
Mike Waltz Loses Job, Gets A New One
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Thursday became the first major ouster of President Donald T...