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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 15, 2026[News] House Passes Permanent Daylight Saving Time, Reviving a Century-Old Fight Over the ClockThe House voted 308-117 to end the twice-yearly clock change and keep the country on daylight saving time year-round, but the bill faces a divided Senate and a real scientific dispute over whether permanent daylight time or permanent standard time is the healthier choice....more21minPlay
July 15, 2026[News] Federal Officials Swap the President's House Slavery Panels Overnight in PhiladelphiaThe National Park Service took down the panels telling the story of the nine people George Washington enslaved and installed a reworked 11-panel set overnight, acting under a 2025 executive order while the city's lawsuit continues....more23minPlay
July 15, 2026[News] A Divided Appeals Court Ends a 61-Year Louisiana School Desegregation Case Without Ever Ruling the Schools IntegratedA divided three-judge Fifth Circuit panel lifted more than sixty years of federal court supervision of the Concordia Parish schools after the Justice Department reversed its longstanding position and joined the school board in a stipulated dismissal, so no court ever decided whether the district had eliminated the vestiges of segregation....more21minPlay
July 15, 2026[Throughline] Daylight Saving Time and Federal Time PolicyFor most of the nineteenth century, an American did not so much read the time as look up at the sun....more1h 4minPlay
July 15, 2026[Throughline] The Russia-Ukraine WarTo understand why Russian tanks rolled toward Kyiv in 2022, you have to start roughly eleven centuries earlier, with a medieval federation of principalities called Kyivan Rus....more1h 11minPlay
July 15, 2026[Throughline] The International Criminal Court and U.S. OppositionWhen the Second World War in Europe ended, the victorious Allies had to decide how to deal with the surviving leaders of the Nazi regime....more1h 1minPlay
July 15, 2026[Throughline] Media Consolidation and American AntitrustFor roughly two decades before World War II, the American motion picture business ran as a closed loop controlled by a handful of firms....more55minPlay
July 15, 2026[Throughline] Presidential Tariff Authority and Emergency Economic PowersThe framers of the Constitution did not leave the taxing power to inference....more52minPlay
July 14, 2026[News] Trump Reimposes a Naval Blockade of Iran as Strikes Reach Deeper and the War Spreads Across the GulfPresident Trump has ordered a full naval blockade of Iran's ports and a third and fourth night of strikes reaching toward the Bushehr nuclear area, as Iran hits US bases and Gulf tankers, the Houthis strike Saudi Arabia, and oil climbs back toward $87....more21minPlay
July 14, 2026[News] Trump Cuts Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by Roughly 90 Percent, Reviving the Public-Lands FightPresident Trump signed two Antiquities Act proclamations cutting Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments from a combined 3.2 million acres to roughly 302,600, reopening the excluded land to mining and reviving an unresolved fight over whether a president may shrink a monument a predecessor created....more24minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.