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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 10, 2026[News] Australia Agrees to Sell Uranium to India, a Nuclear-Armed State Outside the Nonproliferation TreatyAustralia and India signed an arrangement to unlock long-stalled uranium exports for civilian nuclear power, reviving an old argument about selling atomic fuel to a country that never joined the treaty built to stop the spread of the bomb....more15minPlay
July 10, 2026[Throughline] The INF Treaty and the Return of Missiles to EuropeArms controllers sort missiles by how far they fly, because range decides who can be hit and how quickly....more24minPlay
July 09, 2026[News] Trump Offers Ukraine a License to Build Patriot Missiles, but Experts Say Homegrown Interceptors Are Years AwayPresident Trump told President Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara that the United States would let Ukraine produce its own Patriot interceptors under license, a long-sought win for Kyiv that officials and defense experts say will take many months to years and will not ease the missile shortage now leaving Ukrainian cities exposed....more24minPlay
July 09, 2026[News] John Deere Settles FTC Antitrust Case, Agreeing to Share Its Repair Tools With FarmersA proposed consent order would require the tractor maker to give farmers and independent shops the same repair software its dealers use for ten years, though it still needs a judge's approval and its practical effect is untested....more16minPlay
July 09, 2026[News] Five Days to Comply: The Justice Department Warns All 50 States of Criminal Liability Over Noncitizen VotingThe Justice Department told election officials in every state they could face criminal charges if noncitizens end up voting and gave them five days to respond, while a separate homeland-security grant program now conditions more than a billion dollars in anti-terrorism money on states changing how they run elections, escalating a federal push that courts have repeatedly blocked over a problem researchers find vanishingly rare....more25minPlay
July 09, 2026[News] Rahm Emanuel Tells Israel to Expect Conditions on U.S. Aid, a Marker of a Deeper Democratic RealignmentA pillar of the Democratic establishment told an Israeli audience that unconditional American aid should end, a stance that tracks a large, measurable swing in Democratic voters against U.S. support for Israel, though analysts disagree over whether the change is durable....more22minPlay
July 09, 2026[Throughline] The Right to Repair and American AntitrustAt its simplest, "right to repair" is the claim that the person who owns a product, or an independent shop the owner chooses, should be able to fix it without permission from the manufacturer....more19minPlay
July 09, 2026[Throughline] US Aid to Israel and American Domestic PoliticsTo debate whether U.S. aid to Israel should be "conditioned," it helps to understand what the aid is, because the popular image of a blank check obscures a fairly specific machinery....more23minPlay
July 08, 2026[News] The U.S. Starts the Clock on Removing Syria From Its Terrorism BlacklistThe Trump administration has formally told Congress it intends to lift Syria's 1979 "state sponsor of terrorism" designation, opening a 45-day process that would make Syria the first country ever removed from the current four-nation list and clear the last major U.S. legal barrier to its reconstruction....more28minPlay
July 08, 2026[News] Le Pen Cleared to Run in 2027 as an Appeals Court Upholds Her Conviction but Reduces the BanA Paris appeals court kept Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzling European Parliament funds in place but shortened her ineligibility, lifting the bar that would have kept her off the 2027 presidential ballot, even as it sentenced her to a year under an electronic tag and she vowed to appeal again....more37minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.