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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 20, 2026[News] Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Is Approved, Resolving the Piracy but Not Fair UseA federal judge granted final approval to the largest known U.S. copyright settlement, closing the question of how Anthropic acquired millions of books to train Claude while leaving unsettled the broader question of whether training on copyrighted work is fair use....more24minPlay
July 20, 2026[Throughline] PFAS, the Forever Chemicals, and the Long Fight Over RegulationTo understand the fight over sewage sludge, you first have to understand the chemicals at the center of it....more48minPlay
July 20, 2026[Throughline] Disparate Impact and the Fight Over Civil-Rights EnforcementTo understand why anyone would build a legal tool aimed at consequences rather than motives, look at how discrimination actually operated once explicit racial rules began to fall out of favor....more45minPlay
July 20, 2026[News] A Federal Appeals Court Strikes a State Assault-Weapons Ban for the First Time, Splitting the Circuits Before the Supreme Court's AR-15 CaseThe Third Circuit became the first federal appeals court to strike a state ban on semiautomatic rifles and large-capacity magazines, deepening a circuit split the Supreme Court has already agreed to resolve next term....more25minPlay
July 20, 2026[News] EPA Scraps Its Own Science and Kills the PFAS Sewage-Sludge RuleFederal regulators withdrew a peer-reviewed risk assessment and replaced enforceable limits with voluntary advice, leaving forever chemicals in farmland fertilizer unregulated and untested....more31minPlay
July 20, 2026[News] American Soldiers Are Dying in a War Congress Never AuthorizedAs American troop deaths mount and the fight spreads to a second oil chokepoint, the unresolved question is who gave the president authority to wage this undeclared war....more41minPlay
July 20, 2026[News] U.S. Ends Automatic Protection for Newly Listed Threatened SpeciesThe government has scrapped the fifty-year-old rule that automatically shielded newly listed threatened species from being killed, trapped, or harassed, replacing it with a slower species-by-species process that wildlife experts in both red and blue states say they are not equipped to backfill....more31minPlay
July 20, 2026[Throughline] The UK Premiership: Succession Without Elections and the Labour RealignmentThe most disorienting thing about the day Andy Burnham walked into Downing Street is how little of it was written down anywhere....more1h 5minPlay
July 20, 2026[News] Andy Burnham Becomes UK Prime Minister as Labour Breaks With StarmerismAndy Burnham took office today without a general election, the latest mid-term handover in a decade of churn and a decisive turn away from Keir Starmer's centrism....more30minPlay
July 20, 2026[Throughline] AI Training, Copyright, and Fair UseCopyright is the body of law that gives the creator of an original work a set of exclusive rights over how that work may be used....more39minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.