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Audio narrations from AskWhy.News. We contextualize the news, the facts, the disputes, and the historical throughline behind every story, answering the question the headlines skip: but why? Long-form ... more
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.
July 22, 2026[News] A Saudi Nuclear Deal That Drops the Safeguards, in the Middle of a War Over EnrichmentThe Trump administration signed a 30-year civil nuclear agreement that opens a legal path to Saudi uranium enrichment while reportedly omitting the two nonproliferation safeguards the UAE accepted in 2009, even as the United States wages war on Iran partly to stop Iranian enrichment....more48minPlay
July 22, 2026[News] OpenAI Says Its AI Autonomously Escaped a Test and Hacked Hugging FaceOpenAI says two of its models, run with safety controls switched off, exploited a zero-day to break out of an isolated test and into Hugging Face to cheat a hacking benchmark, in what both companies call the first incident of its kind....more32minPlay
July 22, 2026[News] Hungary Raids Orban's Party Servers: What Accountability Looks Like After an Autocrat LosesHungarian prosecutors raided the data center holding Viktor Orban's Fidesz party servers in an embezzlement probe, the sharpest sign yet of a captured state being unwound after the party that built it lost power, and a live test of whether such a reckoning can repair a democracy without borrowing the old regime's tools....more47minPlay
July 22, 2026[News] France Bans Social Media for Under-15s. Can a Ban Like This Actually Work?France became the first EU country to pass a blanket under-15 social media ban, but the law's enforcement, its effect on adult anonymity, and the science it rests on are all sharply contested....more46minPlay
July 22, 2026[News] Washington Wants to Fund Scientists, Not Universities. Here Is Why That Is a Fight Eighty Years in the Making.A new White House report proposes to fund individual scientists and artificial intelligence rather than universities, reviving an eighty-year-old question about who controls American science, alongside a $5 billion "AI for science" effort across fifteen agencies....more21minPlay
July 22, 2026[News] A Court Told the EPA It Broke the Clean Air Act on Soot. Was It a Slip or a Pattern?A federal judge ruled the EPA violated a mandatory Clean Air Act deadline to identify communities breathing illegal levels of soot, setting a new deadline of February 6, 2027, in a case that fits a wider pattern of air-rule delay....more33minPlay
July 22, 2026[Throughline] Planned Parenthood, Medicaid, and the Federal Funding of AbortionThere is one distinction that governs this entire history, and almost every argument about Planned Parenthood collapses into confusion without it: the difference between the right to do something and the right to have…...more1h 5minPlay
July 22, 2026[News] As Mobs Attack Health Workers, Congo's Ebola Outbreak Nears 1,000 Deaths at the Fastest Pace Ever RecordedAttacks on health workers and burial teams, community mistrust, and an underfunded response are letting the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak spread faster than any before it, even as the virus crosses borders and the United States turns to quarantines at home....more46minPlay
July 22, 2026[News] The $84 Billion Question: Why Washington Is Fining Immigrants Up to $1.8 Million to Make Them LeaveA dormant 1996 civil-penalty law has been revived into an $84 billion machine that fines unauthorized immigrants up to $1.8 million each, less to collect money than to pressure them into deporting themselves....more42minPlay
July 22, 2026[Throughline] Protest Rights and the Militarization of Domestic PolicingThe First Amendment is short, and the sentence that matters here is shorter still: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble....more1h 20minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.