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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 28, 2026[Throughline] The Government as ShareholderThe United States began its life owning stock in a private corporation, and it began arguing about it almost immediately....more1h 26minPlay
July 28, 2026[Throughline] Voter-Fraud Enforcement in AmericaAny honest history of voter-fraud enforcement in the United States has to begin by conceding the thing that later chapters complicate: for much of the nineteenth century, American election fraud was real, organized, and…...more1h 24minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] Lethal Force Outside Armed ConflictEvery argument about when a state may use force against a boat begins with a question that has no equivalent on land: whose law applies?...more1h 27minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] After Fifteen Years of Decline, a Federal Survey Says American Teenagers Are ImprovingEvery measured mental-health indicator for American adolescents fell between 2021 and 2025 and substance use kept dropping, but the improvement is measured from a pandemic trough, does not extend to anxiety or self-harm, and nobody can yet say what caused it....more31minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] Ukraine's Drone War on Russian Oil Has Produced a Real Fuel Crisis, and an Eighty-Year-Old Question About Whether That Shortens WarsKyiv's drones have driven Russian refining to a two-decade low and forced Moscow to lock its own gasoline inside the country until the end of the year, but the export data, the law of targeting and eighty years of precedent all complicate the claim that this brings the war closer to an end....more35minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] Ukraine Struck the Caspian, an Iranian Sailor Died, and Neither Government Will Say Which ShipKyiv says it struck two sanctioned Russian cargo ships running weapons out of Iran; Tehran says an Iranian vessel sailing the opposite way was hit and a sailor killed, and neither government has produced the paperwork that would show whether these are the same event....more26minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] An Appeals Court Refuses to Unfreeze Trump's Election Order, and the Fight Moves to the Supreme CourtThe First Circuit declined to lift the injunction blocking the President's order to build federal citizenship lists and restrict mail ballots, but it decided only the timing question, not whether a president has any power over elections, and the administration has now asked the Supreme Court to step in before the midterms....more35minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] Ken Paxton Enforced Texas's Voting-Address Rule. Records Suggest He Did Not Follow It.A ProPublica and Texas Tribune investigation found Ken Paxton voted six times from a Collin County home his wife's divorce filing says he left in 2024. He has not been charged, and the complaint about it sits with the Secretary of State....more28minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] Nuclear Regulators Want to Delete the Rule That Keeps Radiation Doses Below the Legal LimitThe NRC has proposed removing ALARA, the fifty-year-old duty to keep radiation exposure well under the legal ceilings, while leaving the ceilings themselves unchanged....more40minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] A Judge Found the FDA's Mifepristone Restrictions Unlawful, and Left Every One of Them in PlaceA federal judge ruled that the FDA never identified the risk its prescriber, patient-form and pharmacy requirements are meant to mitigate, then sent the rule back to the agency instead of voiding it, so nothing has changed for prescribers or pharmacies....more32minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.