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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 27, 2026[News] The U.S. Air Campaign Against Iran Has Stopped, and Its Own Commander Reportedly Advised ItAmerican strikes on Iran have stopped for three days while mediators report progress, and reporting says the top U.S. commander in the Middle East advised that the bombing had reached the limit of what it could achieve....more34minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor Is Charged With Bribery, and the Indictment Is Narrower Than the ScandalA state grand jury has charged Hawaii's lieutenant governor, who spent a decade running the House money committee, along with a lobbyist and three current or former officials, over campaign contributions and an emergency Covid testing appropriation....more26minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] What 350,000 Haitians Just Lost: How Temporary Protected Status Actually Works, and What Happens the Day It EndsProtections that let roughly 350,000 Haitians live and work legally in the United States lapsed on Monday, and understanding what that actually changes requires understanding a statute almost nobody has read....more38minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] Why a 1996 Liability Shield, Not the First Amendment, Blocked Texas's Social Media LawA Fifth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 that Section 230 preempts Texas's mandate that platforms filter what minors see, deciding the case on a federal statute rather than on free speech, and blocking one provision while leaving the rest of the law standing....more33minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] The Government Bought Into Thirty Companies. There Is No List of What It Owns.Federal agencies have taken about $26.7 billion in equity and equity-like positions in private companies since January 2025, but no agency publishes a consolidated list, the statute most often invoked never mentions equity, and the best public accounting is kept by a private think tank....more33minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] Nuclear Regulation and Radiation SafetyThe modern architecture of radiation protection, with its dose units, its legal limits, its monitoring badges and its federal regulator, is a response to a period in which none of those things existed....more1h 9minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] The Energy Department Told a Federal Court It Cancelled $7.6 Billion in Grants Solely Because of How Those States VotedIn a filing made to avoid discovery, the Energy Department conceded that hundreds of clean-energy grants were cancelled for one reason, that the recipients sat in states that voted against the president, and the same method is now visible across transit, health and public safety money....more35minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] How America Measures Adolescent Health, and How It Keeps Getting It WrongBefore a country can argue about whether its children are getting better or worse, it has to decide what counts as evidence....more1h 15minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] The End of "Duration of Status": A Technical Visa Rule That Starts a Clock With Three-Year and Ten-Year ConsequencesDHS is replacing open-ended admission for foreign students, exchange visitors and journalists with fixed expiry dates, quietly bringing about two million people into contact with re-entry bars that only bite on the day they leave....more39minPlay
July 27, 2026[News] Three Appeals Courts, Two Answers, and the Question of Who Can Halt a DeportationA federal appeals court has ruled that a district judge may still hear a detained immigrant's challenge to his own confinement, splitting from two other circuits and setting up a question the Supreme Court will probably have to answer....more32minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.