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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 29, 2026[News] More Than Thirty Minnesota Water Systems Lost Their Automation to a Coordinated CyberattackAttackers reached the control systems of more than thirty Minnesota water utilities over two days in July, forcing several onto manual operation, and the reason a sector everyone calls critical was that exposed is a twenty-year argument nobody has settled....more31minPlay
July 29, 2026[News] A Tax Committee Subpoenaed a Newsroom's Donor List. Unlike a Prosecutor's Subpoena, There Is Almost No Way to Fight It.The House Ways and Means Committee has ordered BreakThrough News to produce the identities of its foreign donors and its internal communications by August 7, using a tax-jurisdiction hook and a branch of government whose subpoenas the courts will rarely touch....more33minPlay
July 29, 2026[News] A Bipartisan Push Would Order the Speaker to Take the President to Court Over the Iran WarA resolution filed by Democrats and cosponsored by Rep. Thomas Massie would compel Speaker Mike Johnson to sue the administration for waging a war Congress has twice voted to end, using a legal theory built to fix the exact flaw that has sunk every previous war powers lawsuit....more30minPlay
July 29, 2026[News] The FCC Ordered ABC Into a License Review Years Early. Three Former Chairmen Say That Has Never Been Done.The FCC ordered Disney to file renewal applications for ABC's eight owned stations years ahead of schedule, two years early for the earliest of them and as much as five for the latest, and on July 28 thirteen former FCC officials appointed by presidents of both parties told the Commission in its own docket that the proceeding is unprecedented and unconstitutional....more30minPlay
July 29, 2026[News] France Is Burning at Six Times Its Normal Rate. Portugal and Greece Are Running Below Average.Roughly a third of a million people have been evacuated in France and Spain, but the satellite record shows the crisis is not continent-wide, and the reason France is the outlier has as much to do with accumulated fuel as with heat....more27minPlay
July 29, 2026[News] Charged, Downgraded, Dropped: The Justice Department Abandons Its Case Against Labor Leader David HuertaThirteen months after arresting the head of SEIU California at an immigration raid under a Civil War era conspiracy statute, prosecutors walked away, which is neither the vindication his side claims nor the accountability the government describes....more30minPlay
July 29, 2026[News] More Than 18,000 Americans Have Been Sickened by a Parasite the Food Safety System Was Never Built to CatchA cyclospora outbreak has reached more than 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases nationwide with no reported deaths, and the fight over whether it is under control has exposed how thinly America oversees the fresh produce it urges people to eat....more32minPlay
July 29, 2026[Throughline] Critical-Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Public UtilitiesAlmost every argument about protecting American drinking water from cyberattack ends at the same wall, and the wall is arithmetic....more1h 32minPlay
July 29, 2026[Throughline] Wildfire Suppression, Land Management, and the Fire ParadoxFire is not an intruder in the Mediterranean landscape. It is older than almost every plant that now burns, and vastly older than any institution that has tried to control it....more1h 26minPlay
July 29, 2026[Throughline] Western Water Law and the Colorado RiverEvery argument now taking place over the Colorado River runs on a rule invented by gold miners who had never seen the river....more1h 38minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.