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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 analysis on the big stories shaping today and the creeping trends shaping tomorrow—and when she doesn’t know the answers, she asks someone even smarter to fill us all in. Radical, right? New episodes at ...
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How do we stay free? Just asking questions. Each week, Reason’s Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller scrutinize a current event, controversy, cultural phenomenon or idea with the help of special guests, media clips, visual aids, and data.
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Sports are serious. Jane Coaston and Ryan Nanni are not. An SB Nation absurdism.
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Ana Marie Cox has been covering politics for twenty years, and she's back to make sense of the decade's worth of crazy that's been happening everyday in this election cycle. Here's your countdown podcast to make sense of it all. Tune in three times a week!
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A monthly reality-check on the issues Americans care about most. Host Warren Olney draws on his decades of experience to explore the people and issues shaping – and disrupting - our world. How did everything change so fast? Where are we headed? The conversations are informal, edgy and always informative. If Warren's asking, you want to know the answer.
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Welcome to Day 52 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Ana talked to Jane Coaston from the new podcast “What a Day” about political purity spirals, the plight of journalists on the MAGA beat and Trump’s weakness for admirers no matter how despicable they are. — Watch along on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@90DaysWithAnaMarieCox Learn more about y…
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Welcome to Day 34 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Today Ana talked to New York Times bestselling author Jemar Tisby about white Christian nationalism, democracy in a divided nation and the role race may play on Election Day. — Voting Alert! If you haven't registered to vote yet, time is running out. Many states have strict registration deadlines a…
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Trump Plays Politics With Hurricane Helene
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The death toll from Hurricane Helene topped more than 120 people on Monday across six states in the southeast. Hundreds are still unaccounted for, and the number of casualties is going up. Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the homeland security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the author of ‘The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to …
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Huge swaths of the Southeast are still digging out from Hurricane Helene after the storm made landfall Thursday night along Florida’s gulf coast. As of late Sunday, more than 90 people were reported dead across six states. Tampa and western North Carolina saw some of the worst damage from the storm. Blue Ridge Public Radio reporter Gerard Albert II…
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The California Attorney General sued Exxon Mobil this week for misleading the public on the sustainability of single use plastics. How did plastics recycling go from an exciting promise to a scam perpetuated by Big Oil? Max and Erin tear into Exxon’s decades-long campaign to unwrap the truth—with help from journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis and the …
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Welcome to Day 38 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Today Ana talked to writer and comedian Akilah Hughes about the first entirely online election, climate change, biscuits versus overt racism and other election topics. — Voting Alert! If you haven't registered to vote yet, time is running out. Many states have strict registration deadlines and othe…
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Federal officials on Thursday unsealed an inducement charging New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a litany of corruption and illegal campaign finance crimes, making him the city's first sitting mayor to charged with a crime. But in good news, New York's WNBA team has made it to the league’s semifinals! While 2024 has been a banner year for the WNBA…
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Richard Staropoli: What's Wrong With the Secret Service?
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How well-protected is Donald Trump? On July 13, Trump became the first U.S. president to be shot in more than 40 years, and the first to be shot during a campaign since 1912. Then, incredibly, the Secret Service stopped a second would-be assassin who was stationed with a rifle on the perimeter of Trump's golf course as the former president was one …
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Harris Rolls Out Her "Opportunity Economy" Plan ( feat. Kara Swisher)
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Vice President Kamala Harris laid out what she called her “pragmatic” approach to growing the economy during a speech in Pittsburgh Wednesday. While Harris has been closing the gap with former President Donald Trump, when it comes to which candidate voters trust more to handle the economy, most polls show he still has the edge on one of the top iss…
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Day 40: Guest Host Beto O’Rourke with Judge Andy Brown
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Welcome to Day 40 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox.” Today Beto O'Rourke pinch hits for Ana (she's on the road) with a look at voter registration. Travis County Judge Andy Brown joins Beto to discuss Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s war on voter rights in Travis County, and how it could impact not only the 2024 elections but the future of national…
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Israel, Hezbollah Conflict Risks Bigger Regional War
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In his final address to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, President Joe Biden reflected on his foreign policy legacy and called on world leaders to “end this war” in Gaza. But privately, senior administration officials have reportedly acknowledged that Biden's time is running out to reach a deal for a ceasefire and the return of the remaining host…
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Welcome to Day 41 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Today Ana talked to Wisconsin’s former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes about Joe Biden stepping aside, HBCUs, Dem patriotism vs MAGA nationalism and JD Vance’s friend problem. — Watch along on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@90DaysWithAnaMarieCox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega…
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How To Survive Poll Whiplash (with Jon Lovett)
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Let’s talk about polling! A bunch of new polls have us feeling a whole lot of feelings right now. 'Pod Save America' co-host Jon Lovett joins us for a vibe check on the state of the presidential race, and shares what he thinks we should all take away from the latest polls. Later in the show, New York magazine reporter Kevin Dugan explains former Pr…
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Harris Agrees to 2nd Debate, Trump Makes Excuses
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A slew of new polls shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a slim lead over former President Trump in the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania. With just about a month until Election Day, both presidential running mates spent the weekend campaigning in the state to shore up support for their respective tickets. One person who definitely knows how …
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Why Climate Groups Are Optimistic about Kamala
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Kamala has offered very few details on her climate and energy plans while openly promoting American fossil fuel production. Yet a lot of climate and environmental groups seem to adore her. What’s going on here?! Max and Erin explain how, even though Harris might sound pretty moderate on the campaign trail, Biden has actually tilted the energy econo…
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Welcome to Day 45 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Ana talked to Mo Ryan, TV critic and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, about the catastrophic impact of reality TV on American politics, recent shifts in journalism and her picks for today's political climate. — Watch along on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@90DaysWithAnaMarieCox Learn more …
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North Carolina's Mark Robinson Extremism Revealed (Again)
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In a bombshell story Thursday, CNN reported that the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, Mark Robinson, made crazy statements on a porn website’s messaging board more than a decade ago. Robinson, who’s also the state’s sitting lieutenant governor, reportedly referred to himself as “a black NAZI” and a “perv.” He wrote about wanting…
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Erika Sanzi: What Are Schools Really Teaching?
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What are the schools really teaching our kids? It's back-to-school season, which means the curriculum wars are back on the agenda. The right has accused activist infiltrators of "indoctrinating" the next generation with woke struggle sessions, confusing kids about their gender and sexuality, and turning K-12 campuses into war zones by replacing dis…
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Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants Create Chaos In Springfield, Ohio
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In the week since the presidential debate, former President Donald Trump’s lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have sown chaos in the small city. Members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, started showing up. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said more than 30 fake bomb threats have been called in, forcing schools, governmen…
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Welcome to Day 47 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Ana talked to Media Matters president and CEO Angelo Carusone about the rise of disinformation, Trump-brand information, social media and the decentralization of conservative messaging. — Watch along on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@90DaysWithAnaMarieCox Learn more about your ad choices. Vis…
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Congress Demands Changes From Secret Service
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Questions continue to mount around the Secret Service two days after a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On Monday, the interim director of the service admitted that agents did not search the perimeter of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course, where the alleged gunman waited for 12 hours before he was spotted. Former Secr…
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Welcome to Day 48 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Ana talked to veteran and former Secretary of State of Missouri Jason Kander about voter suppression, the real impact of the gun control debate, and the subtle ways identity politics shape public discourse. — Watch along on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@90DaysWithAnaMarieCox Learn more about…
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The Major Stakes Of State Supreme Court Races
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Voters in more than 30 states will get to weigh in on elections for their state supreme courts this November, with 82 seats up for grabs. While state judicial races often get overshadowed in a presidential election year, the outcomes of these races have massive consequences on people's lives. It's often state supreme courts that get the final say o…
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We're officially fewer than 50 days out from Election Day. While most of the attention has been on the five states that decided the 2020 race for President Joe Biden – Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona — there's another state that went for former President Donald Trump that Democrats are putting back in play this year: North C…
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