What A Day
Episodes
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 in a case over the creation of a religious charter ...
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 your music-listening habits. The entertainment mogul...
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 House and Senate, Medicaid is one of the big progr...
A House Divided
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's make-or-break week in the House for President Donald Trump's 'one big, beautiful bill.' House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he still believes ...
Why One Yale Professor Chose To Leave The U.S.
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Times recently published a video op-ed by a group of Yale University professors who say they’re leaving the U.S. for jobs at the Univer...
The Art Of The Deal: Mideast Edition
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump is expected to wrap up the first major international trip of his second term today when he returns from the Middle East. His fo...
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 to end birthright citizenship. Lower courts have bl...
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 shaking a Magic 8 Ball for economic tea leaves, and ev...
Can The India-Pakistan Ceasefire Hold?
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire Saturday, after days of fighting along their shared border and in the contested region of Kashmir. While the ...
Millennials And Gen Zers Step Into Leadership
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2025, and if you're a Millennial or Gen Zer, there's a good chance that you are qualified to manage and lead other people, even run for political...
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, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the 267th pope of t...
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 United States is running roughshod over the rights o...
Elon Musk Go!
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and, depending on whom you ask, the perceived head of the Department of Government Efficiency, is taking a big st...
Netanyahu Threatens to Escalate War In Gaza
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel was 'on the eve of a forceful entry to Gaza.' His announcement came just hours after his sec...
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 sacrificing for by prattling on about how kids these days...
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 Trump’s second term… kind of. Rumors of Waltz’...
In Trump vs Universities, Students Are Stuck In The Middle
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump has fundamentally reshaped the federal government’s relationship with many of the nation’s...
Trump is Tariff-ied
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump cruised to victory in the 2024 election largely because voters said they trusted him more on the economy. But 100 days into his second...
100 Days In Trump’s America 2.0
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We made it, ya’ll. One hundred days of President Donald Trump’s second term down. Only 1,362 to go…. not that we’re counting (we're definitely...
Why Some Migrants Say They'll Self-Deport
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration's relentless assault on immigrants keeps marching on. Over the weekend, federal officials said they arrested nearly 800 peopl...
Job Cuts Come For the State Department
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent part of his Thursday gilding President Donald Trump's lily, saying during an Oval Office Q&A with reporters that ...
Will Trump Abandon Ukraine?
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is putting pressure on Ukraine to accept a U.S.-backed peace plan with Russia that closely aligns with Moscow's goals in the ...
MAGA Baby Bucks
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MAGA is in full-on panic mode about the declining birth rate in the U.S., and so the doors of the West Wing are wide open to figuring out how to get m...
A Week of Big Cases At SCOTUS
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's a busy week at the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, the justices heard oral arguments in yet another legal attack on Obamacare, this time over requ...
America At A Tipping Point
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump still hasn’t hit the 100-day mark of his second term, but it feels like the country is already hitting some kind of inflectio...
How Trump’s Shredding Green Regulations
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is running through our constitutional rights like a bull unleashed on the streets of Pamplona. For days now, the high-stakes ...
Dems Go To Bat For Due Process
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador Wednesday to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who the ...
How RFK Jr. Has Already Reshaped Public Health
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda on the road this week, stopping in Ind...
Trump's Deportation Standoff Keeps Getting Worse
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office Monday. Their conversation centered on immigration, and speci...
We Went To The 'Fighting Oligarchy' Rally
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress is out of session this week. Democrats are keeping busy with planned town hall events in red and blue districts nationwide. But a certain pro...
House Republicans Pass Big Beautiful Bill feat. Rep. Ro Khanna
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re not feeling better after President Donald Trump paused the largest of his previously planned tariffs on 75 countries on Wednesday, you’r...
Trump: Now You Tariff… Now You Don’t
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When most of us woke up Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump was still very excited about the tariffs he imposed on dozens of countries that had ...
Supreme Court Gives Trump What He Wants... For Now
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration three successive wins this week, albeit temporary ones. On Tuesday, the justices halted a lower cour...
Trump’s Market Meltdown… And Your Wallet
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The stock market continued to have a not very good time Monday as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs on everyone, even penguins. And counter...
Massive Crowds Tell Trump 'Hands Off' My Government
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of thousands people across the country spent part of their Saturday at ‘Hands Off’ rallies to protest President Donald Trump and his admi...
Trump Tariffies The Markets
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If Wednesday was ‘Liberation Day’ in America, then Thursday was its day of reckoning, as the reality of President Donald Trump’s decision to lev...
Trump Launches Tariff-Palooza
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday was ‘Liberation Day’ in Trump’s America. For everyone else, it was a day of sheer economic panic, as President Donald Trump unveiled h...
Why Planned Parenthood Is Back In Front Of SCOTUS
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in a big case about healthcare access and Planned Parenthood. The years-long court fight c...
Trump's TBD Tariffs
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Economists, Wall Street traders — really, anyone who has a stake in the health of the U.S. economy — are all holding their breaths right now ahead...
Musk Throws Millions Into Wisc. Supreme Court Race
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wisconsin voters will head to the polls Tuesday (if they haven’t already) to choose a new member of the State Supreme Court. The race between two st...
Is Any Immigrant Safe In Trump's America?
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration spends a lot of time trumpeting all the ways it’s cracking down on immigrants in the United States. From the very public ra...
Trump’s Next Chat Scandal: The Coverup
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Atlantic published the entire Signal conversation centered on strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen between multiple administration officials and, ...
This Group Chat Should Have Been An Email feat. Sen. Mark Warner
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were on Capitol Hill Tuesday for what was supposed to be a routine ann...
Sec. Pete Hegseth Is In My DMs
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has been busy since assuming office earlier this year. Zeldin's been pushing President Donald...
Trump Wants To Be King
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In just about two months, President Donald Trump has managed to thoroughly shake U.S. democratic structures to the core. From firing thousands of fede...
The Miseducation Of Donald Trump feat. Former Sec. Arne Duncan
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to officially start shutting down the Department of Education. The thing is... he can't do t...
The Trump Administration's All-Out Assault On Judges
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we in a constitutional crisis? That’s the big question on the minds of legal experts across the country right now, as President Donald Trump and...
Trump Sows Chaos Abroad
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday was a big day in foreign policy news. Israel launched a barrage of airstrikes on Gaza Monday night, its first attack since a ceasefire with Ha...
Trump’s Law-Bending Attack on Migrants
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In both court and in interviews Monday, the Trump administration doubled down on its decision over the weekend to deport more than 250 migrants, mostl...
Dems: Chuck's Not Like Us
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer may have kept the U.S. government from shutting down last week, his decision to help Republicans pass a spe...
Is Bipartisanship Dead? feat. Leader Hakeem Jeffries
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s shutdown day in America, with lawmakers facing a midnight deadline to pass a government funding bill that keeps the proverbial lights on. After...
Are We At Risk Of Another Pandemic?
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a rough time for people who worry about infectious diseases. A new study shows bird flu is more widespread in U.S. cows than previously thought...
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...