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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.
June 30, 2026[News] Texas Makes Bible Passages Required Reading for 5 Million Public-School StudentsA Republican-led Texas board has voted to require Bible passages in the reading list for every public-school student, the first statewide mandate of its kind, reviving a constitutional fight over religion in the classroom....more31minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] The Supreme Court Upholds State Bans on Transgender Athletes in Girls' and Women's SportsIn a pair of consolidated cases, the Court held unanimously that Title IX permits sex-based teams and, by 6 to 3, that state bans do not violate the Equal Protection Clause....more21minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] The Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Coordinated Party Spending, Unwinding a Post-Watergate RuleBy 6 to 3, the Court freed national party committees to spend without limit in coordination with their own candidates, months before the November midterms....more20minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship, Rejecting Trump's Bid to Rewrite the Fourteenth AmendmentA divided Court held that the Constitution itself guarantees citizenship to nearly every child born on U.S. soil, and the President immediately called on Congress to change it....more21minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] The Imperial March and the $50,000 Question: Why D.C. Paid a Protester Who Followed Soldiers Playing Darth Vader's ThemeThe District of Columbia agreed to pay roughly $50,000 to settle claims that police wrongly detained a man for peacefully mocking the National Guard with a movie theme, while the case against the soldier who summoned them continues....more24minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] The Supreme Court Blocks Trump From Firing Lisa Cook, and Draws a Line at the FedA divided Supreme Court ruled that President Trump cannot remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for now, the first such fight in the Fed's 112-year history, even as the same court expanded his power to fire officials at other independent agencies....more27minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] Thirty Years for Moving a Box: The Prairieland Sentences and the Criminalizing of BeliefEight people tied to a July 4, 2025 anti-ICE demonstration in Texas were sentenced to a combined 450 years, including 30 years for a man who was not there and was convicted only of moving a box of his own zines and poetry....more28minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] Kevin O'Leary's $100 Billion "Wonder Valley" Data Center in Utah Collides With the Great Salt Lake's WaterKevin O'Leary proposed a roughly $100 billion, off-grid AI campus in Box Elder County, and Utahns filed nearly 4,000 protests over the water it would draw from a state already in drought....more28minPlay
June 30, 2026[Throughline] A History of U.S. Travel and Immigration BansTo understand why a president in 2025 and 2026 could bar the nationals of dozens of countries with the stroke of a pen, you have to go back to a Supreme Court that, in the 1880s and 1890s, decided that immigration was a…...more56minPlay
June 30, 2026[Throughline] The Interstate Highway System and the Protection of Public LandsTo understand why a network of high-speed roads came to be entangled with the fate of America's public lands, it helps to begin with the man whose name the system carries, and with the long personal road that led him to…...more54minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.