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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 03, 2026[News] The FBI Surges Hundreds of Analysts to Reopen Georgia's Thrice-Counted 2020 ElectionA leaked internal memo orders roughly 260 FBI analysts to review Fulton County's 2020 ballots by July 17, reopening a result the state's own Republican officials certified and three counts confirmed....more25minPlay
July 03, 2026[Throughline] Europe, Russian Gas, and the Nord Stream PipelinesTo understand the politics, start with the physics. Natural gas at ordinary temperature and pressure is a diffuse, low-density fuel, which makes it awkward to store and to move....more33minPlay
July 02, 2026[News] Trump's 327 Stock Purchases, Filed 14 Months Late, Raise Questions About Trading Ahead of a Market-Moving Tariff ReversalA 927-page annual financial disclosure filed with federal ethics regulators reveals that investment accounts owned by President Trump made 327 individual stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before Trump announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping tariffs that sent the S&P 500 up 9.5 percent, one of the largest single-day market surges in the index's history....more50minPlay
July 02, 2026[News] How the One Big Beautiful Bill Rewrote the Rules for Every Student Loan BorrowerNew borrowing caps, two replacement repayment plans, the end of SAVE, and back-to-back federal court orders blocking the administration's public service forgiveness restrictions took effect simultaneously on July 1, 2026, leaving millions of borrowers facing consequential decisions with weeks-long deadlines....more1h 46minPlay
July 02, 2026[News] Russia's Largest Strike on Kyiv: Missiles, Drones, and a City in MourningRussia launched its largest combined missile-and-drone assault on Kyiv since the start of the full-scale invasion, killing at least 21 people and overwhelming Ukrainian air defenses already strained by a critical shortage of Patriot interceptors....more27minPlay
July 02, 2026[News] Medicare Opens a $50-a-Month GLP-1 Bridge, Working Around a Law That Has Blocked Weight-Loss Drug Coverage Since 2003A new 18-month federal pilot called the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge lets eligible Medicare beneficiaries get Wegovy, Zepbound, and Foundayo for $50 a month by using CMS demonstration authority to sidestep a 2003 statutory bar that Congress has never repealed....more43minPlay
July 02, 2026[News] Iran's Supreme Leader Is Dead, His Son Now Rules, and the World Is Watching a Funeral Four Months in the MakingThe body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been in cold storage since February 28; his son Mojtaba was installed as Supreme Leader in March under IRGC pressure; and as a six-day state funeral begins this week with burial set for July 9, indirect US-Iran nuclear talks have paused and the question of what kind of Iran the world now faces is only beginning to come into focus....more1hPlay
July 02, 2026[News] When the Grid Hit Its Limit: The DOE Emergency and America's July 4 Heat CrisisA dangerous heat wave over the July 4, 2026 holiday weekend pushed the US Department of Energy to invoke rarely-used wartime emergency powers over the nation's largest electric grid, directing data centers off the grid and power plants past their environmental limits to prevent cascading blackouts....more37minPlay
July 02, 2026[Throughline] Iran's Supreme Leader and the Politics of SuccessionThe Islamic Republic of Iran rests on a theological concept with no real precedent in the prior history of Islamic governance: velayat-e faqih, which translates as the "Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist." The doctrine…...more31minPlay
July 02, 2026[Throughline] Federal Student Loans and RepaymentThe modern federal student loan system traces its origins to the Higher Education Act (HEA), signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 8, 1965, at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State College....more50minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.