What A Day
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Every Child Left Behind feat. Sec. John King
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Department of Education announced Tuesday it would lay off around 1,300 employees, or about half of its workforce. In a statement, Education Secre...
The Many Legal Fights Facing Dem AGs
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ kids. It’s the latest example of how...
Trump, Musk, The Shutdown — And You
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will the government shut down this week? That's the big question rocking Washington right now. House Republicans floated a plan over the weekend that ...
How States Can Fight Trump feat. NY Gov. Kathy Hochul
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dozens of Democratic governors across the country are facing a nearly impossible task: Manage the day-to-day operations of their state while also play...
Will The Supreme Court Stop Trump?
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt one of its first blows to President Donald Trump’s aggressive agenda to reshape how the federal government work...
Trump's Rambling Speech
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump gave his first speech to the American people since taking office Tuesday night, and it was long. The president's address to Con...
Dems Ditch Trump’s Yap Flap
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tonight, President Trump will give his first major address to the nation since the inauguration of his second term. He’ll probably talk about how gr...
In Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Putin Wins
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
European leaders met for an emergency summit in London Sunday to shore up support for Ukraine and wrest control of ceasefire talks with Russia. The ru...
Why The Oscars “Never Get It Right”
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
WAD is taking a break from the daily horror show that is political news to talk about the scandals plaguing another American institution: Hollywood. S...
Billionaire Tax Club
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tax season is upon us, with millions of Americans preparing to file lots of complicated paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service to figure out how ...
Are Democrats Really Powerless?
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, it feels like President Donald Trump and billionaire ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk are holding all the political cards. While we’re out her...
Will Republicans Slash Medicaid?
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As House Republicans prepare to begin voting on their big policy blueprint this week, one of the programs they're targeting for major cuts is Medicaid...
Is The Alt-Right Even 'Alt' Anymore?
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, wrapped up Saturday. While billionaire Elon Musk ate up a lot of the attention by wielding an a...
The True Cost Of USAID Cuts
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday marked one month since President Donald Trump officially took office. Since then, he’s signed dozens of executive orders. And the fallout f...
What Happens If The U.S. Sells Out Ukraine
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traded public barbs on Wednesday, one day after top White House and Russian officia...
Trump And The Threat To The Media
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump has a problem with journalists, particularly those who do or say things he doesn’t like. His latest fight is with the Associa...
Will U.S. Public Schools Survive Trump?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that he wants to end the Department of Education and return teaching “to the states.” And now th...
Trump’s Dept. of Just Us
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Justice Department is in turmoil after more than half a dozen federal prosecutors resigned rather than sign their names to a motion to dismiss cor...
Dem Attorneys General Take On Trump
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democratic state attorneys general have been a major thorn in President Donald Trump's side since he returned to the White House last month. They've s...
Inflation Is Up Again. What Does That Mean For Your Wallet?
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation rose more than expected in January according to federal data released Wednesday, as the cost of things like groceries, housing and energy ti...
How VP Vance Uses Catholicism To Justify Mass Deportations
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its decision to let immigration agents make arrests ...
Why Trump Wants To Shutter The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has become the latest federal agency in the Trump administration's crosshairs. On Friday, unelected billionai...
Trump vs. The Constitution
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, and already Democratic lawmakers are warning that we're in a constitutional crisis. They ...
What Will Be Left Of USAID?
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development continued Thursday. Multiple news outlets reported the Trump administration plans to ...
Is This An 'Administrative Coup'?
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has seemingly been waging a personal war on the federal government via his Department of Government Efficiency. ...
Trump Says the US Should 'Take Over the Gaza Strip'
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re a little over two weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, and already his foreign policy doctrine could be generously described as ...
Trump's Tariff Showdown
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As of Monday evening, President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico are on hold for at least 30 days. But that could all change as ...
Trump Declares War On Trans Service Members
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of trans people serving in the armed forces are worried that their careers are in real peril after President Donald Trump signed an executiv...
Trump Blames Fatal Potomac Crash On Dems, DEI feat. Rep. Jamie Raskin
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army helicopter on a routine training flight collided over the Potomac River late Wednesday n...
Is ICE Only Arresting Criminal Migrants?
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act, a new law that requires law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants who are accu...
Can Trump Just Pause Federal Funds?
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A federal judge late Tuesday paused a sweeping order from the Trump administration to temporarily freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and lo...
Public Health Scrambles To Figure Out Trump's Health Orders
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration late Sunday ordered federal health officials to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. It fo...
Trump Targets DEI in Public and Private Sectors
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump fired up his social media account Sunday to say the U.S. would immediately slap a 25 percent tariff on all goods from Colombia,...
Trump Gangs Up On The Cartels
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump was dealt his first major legal blow since returning to the White House when a federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked hi...
Trump's Jan 6 Pardons Re-Energize Far-Right Groups
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a couple of days since President Donald Trump granted clemency to all of his nearly 1,600 supporters who faced charges for storming the Ca...
Trump Targets Immigrants
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In one of his first acts back in the White House, President Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders Monday to severely restrict immigration in...
Trump: Here We Go Again
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is President of the United States. Again. His inaugural address Tuesday wasn’t quite as dark as the ‘American carnage’ speech he ga...
Trump Returns to the White House
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today is Inauguration Day in DC. As of around noon ET, we will officially be living under a Donald Trump administration. Again. The president-elect's ...
Bye Bye, Biden
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden’s presidency officially ends at noon on Monday, when Donald Trump is sworn in... again. And along with the end of Biden’s presidency com...
Breaking Down The Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Negotiators announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas had reached a temporary ceasefire deal to pause the 15-month war in Gaza and return some Israeli...
Hegseth’s Sham Hearing
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon, faced tough questions — at least from Senate Democrats — during his confi...
Let The Senate Confirmation Hearings Begin
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Around a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are headed to Capitol Hill this week to appear for their Senate confirmation hearings...
TikTok Is Still On The Chopping Block
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After months of delays, New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan finally sentenced president-elect Donald Trump in his criminal hush money ca...
While LA Burns, Trump Fuels The Disinformation Fire
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Palisades and Eaton fires that began Tuesday in and around Los Angeles have become some of the most destructive — and likely most expensive — ...
Los Angeles Is On Fire
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Los Angeles area is battling massive fires. At least five people have died, and more than 2,000 structures have either been damaged or destroyed s...
Meta’s MAGA Moment
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company plans to end its fact-checking program as part of a broader overhaul of how it moderates c...
Congress Ain’t Gettin’ Any Younger, Folks
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s victory Monday, exactly four years after he denied President Joe Biden the same courtesy by inciti...
What Trump's Win Means for Jan 6 Rioters
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress is set to certify President-elect Donald Trump's victory today, on the four-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Since then, almost 1...
The New Jersey Drones Mass Delusion, Explained
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Something mysterious has been going down in New Jersey this week…but it’s NOT drones. It’s that thousands of people are looking at airplanes in ...
House Republicans ClusterMusk
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
House Republicans on Thursday failed to pass their backup plan to fund the government temporarily. The bill’s demise left lawmakers with few options...
Abortion in Trump's America
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a case over South Carolina’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood. The state wants to cut off Medicaid ...
Media Braces For Trump's Revenge
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Donald Trump made good on his promise late Monday to sue The Des Moines Register, the newspaper's former pollster, Ann Selzer, and the...
Will Senators Let A Vaccine Skeptic Run Public Health?
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started making the rounds on Capitol Hill Monday to lobby Senators on his nomination to be the next secretary of Health and Huma...
Biden Puts His Stamp On Federal Courts
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are expected to score a big win this week. If all goes to plan, they’ll get their 235th judge on the federa...
What Happens When Rebels Take Over Your Country?
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a week since Syrian rebels overtook the country’s capital and forced out the longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad. This has all been a lon...
What Praising The UnitedHealthcare Shooter Says About America
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has sparked a massive reaction online that’s veered into support for the alleged shooter, with an ...
How Senate Dems Can Fight feat Sen. Tammy Baldwin
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are just 39 days away from President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. But Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong in 2024, and h...
Biden’s Unresolved Conflicts
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a tense time in international politics right now. And it’s coming at a pretty tough time for the U.S., as President Joe Biden gets ready to h...
Is TikTok Doomed?
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok’s days in the U.S. may be numbered after a federal appeals court upheld a federal law late last week to force the ban or sale of the social m...
How Rebels Gained Control of Syria
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Donald Trump stopped by 'Meet the Press' on Sunday for his first network sit-down interview since winning back the White House. During...
Can the Trump Administration Undo the Sexual Revolution?
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s rhetoric glorifies an America where men are in charge and women are subjugated. Rights that many of us took for granted for decades—no fau...
Will Senate Stymie Trump feat. Sen. Jacky Rosen
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are only two weeks left for the 118th Congress to legislate. And there’s a lot to do. Lawmakers must pass a federal spending package to preven...
Trump’s DoD Pick Scrambles To Salvage His Nomination
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to meet with senators, trying to salvage his nomination to be the next defense secreta...
Will Supreme Court Uphold A Trans Youth Healthcare Ban?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court will hear a landmark case over trans rights today. In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the justices will weigh the constitutionality of a 2023 Tenn...
What Trump's Pick Means For The Future Of The FBI
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to staff his next administration have been…questionable. His selection over the weekend of Kash Patel to lead...
Does Trump Need To Keep His Promises To Keep His Voters?
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With fewer than 50 days until Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump spent the long holiday weekend inviting more people to join his administr...
Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams: Plotting Our Way Forward by Looking Back at History
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The What A Day team is off this week, but we're excited to share an episode of Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams. In this episode, Stacey speaks wi...
Stacey Abrams on America's Food Insecurity Crisis
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, and many of us will celebrate with full tables. But for millions of Americans, food insecurity is a...
Trump's Cabinet, A Hodge-Podge Of Loyalists
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been just three weeks since the election, and President-elect Donald Trump has already named most of his cabinet picks, including all of the bi...
Can Trump Deport Millions Of People?
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to declare a national emergency – and maybe even use the military – to deport around 11 million undocum...
How Sexual Misconduct Became Part of the MAGA Cause
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s something that many of Trump’s cabinet nominees have in common, it is being credibly accused of sexual assault. Why is Trump—and MAGA...
Bye bye, Gaetz. Hello, Attorney General Pam Bondi
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In news that was somehow both genuinely surprising and 100 percent predictable, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration to be the n...
Can Trump Really Bypass Senate To Fill His Cabinet?
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The reality show that is President-elect Donald Trump’s White House appointments keeps on rolling. In the last few days, Trump has picked World Wres...
1,000 Days of War In Ukraine
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday marked 1,000 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, plunging the European continent into its largest and deadliest conflict since Wo...
Trump's Plan To Make Us Pay More
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Donald Trump made a lot of questionable promises on the campaign trail. But one of the biggest ones was his promise to improve the eco...
ACLU Ready To Fight
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, Donald Trump’s presidential win came as a surprise to many people, which inspired resistance and energized liberals and progressives across...
What Are the Symptoms of a Dictatorship?
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump would love to be a dictator. His affinity for strongmen like Victor Orbán and Vladimir Putin is no secret. But will he actually take the countr...
Trump’s Dr. Brainworm
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans clinched a governing trifecta late Wednesday after a handful of congressional race calls cemented the party’s House majority. As for Dem...
Matt Gaetz, Future AG?
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump cabinet pageant continues! And we’re all about to find out which of the judges – aka our elected U.S. senators – are willing to let Pr...
Tech Bros Tasked With Gutting Government
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Donald Trump announced more appointments on Tuesday, giving us a fuller picture of what his incoming administration is going to look l...
Trump Loyalists Get Cabinet Prizes
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The incoming Trump Administration 2.0 is starting to take shape. And as expected, it’s a Democrat’s worst nightmare. President-elect Donald Trump ...
GOP Sees Limit To Trump's Popularity
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re starting to get a fuller picture of what the incoming Congress is going to look like under President-elect Donald Trump. Republicans have clin...
What the 2024 Voter Breakdown Reveals About America
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump won over America by securing electoral votes in all seven swing states and gaining ground in historically blue areas. On this week's "How We Got...
Democratic Soul Searching feat. Jon Favreau
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden addressed the nation Thursday for the first time since Election Day. He promised to “honor the constitution on January 20th” a...
VP Harris: 'Time To Roll Up Our Sleeves'
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris officially conceded to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday in her first public comments since the election. Speakin...
Trump Declares Victory
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welp. That happened. Former President Donald Trump declared victory in the presidential race in the early hours of Wednesday morning. As of 3 am Wedne...
The Final Countdown
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Election Day! Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump spent their final full day on the campaign trail converging on the ...
A Polling Surprise Feat. Nate Silver
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Election Day is tomorrow! More than 75 million people have already voted. And a slew of new polls released over the weekend show good news for Vice Pr...
The Far-Right War for Trump's 2025 Agenda
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If Trump wins the presidential election, Project 2025 gives us an inkling of what his next term might look like. But due to a power struggle within th...
Do Something! Get Out And Vote!
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump spent their Thursdays courting voters in the Southwest. Trump started his day in New Me...
Trump Slings More Garbage
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday, Major Puerto Rican stars with tens of millions of social media fo...
Harris Delivers Closing Argument in Washington, D.C.
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing arguments in a speech at the Ellipse in Washington D.C. — where then-President Donald Trump encou...
Trump’s MSG Fallout + A Conversation with a Ga. Poll Worker
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With one week left until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris plans to deliver her closing arguments today with a speech at the Ellipse in Washi...
Harris' A-List Surrogates Take Center Stage
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former President Donald Trump made his closing pitch to voters Sunday at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. His speech leaned heavily ...
Are The Polls Wrong...Again?
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is winning the presidential race according to some polls. But others say Harris is ahead. What’s the point of following the polls if they cont...
Trump Could Lose, But Still Be In Power
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are preparing to make their closing pitches to voters ahead of Election Day. The Harris...
VP Harris Says She Thinks Trump's A Fascist
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris was in the Philadelphia suburbs for a CNN Town Hall with Anderson Cooper and an audience of what the network ...
Harris Campaign Ready For Post-Election Legal Battles
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roughly 20 million people have already voted in the upcoming election, either by mail or in person. And as the ballots keep pouring in, Vice President...
Elon Musk's Pay-To-Play Scheme To Get Trump Elected
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's officially two weeks until Election Day, and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants you to vote — for former President Donald Trump, obviously. I...
Trump Serves Up Fries And Lies At McDonald’s
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In-person early voting kicked off this weekend in Nevada, one of the key swing states that will decide the upcoming election. Like all the other major...