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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] 67 Strikes, 221 Dead, and a Cocaine Flow the Government's Own Assessment Says Never SlowedPresident Trump has said at least fifteen times that the boat strikes cut drug trafficking by sea by 97 or 98 percent, and his own Drug Enforcement Administration concluded internally that cocaine price and availability have not been noticeably affected....more35minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] FDA Drug Approval and the Politics of MifepristoneAlmost every argument in the United States about a drug that is hard to obtain runs back, sooner or later, to a small number of disasters and to the statutes Congress wrote in their aftermath....more1h 26minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] Section 230 and the Fight Over Platform RegulationLong before anyone had to decide what a social media company owes the people who use it, American law had worked out an answer to a version of the same question about newspapers, bookshops and telephone wires....more1h 12minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] Impoundment and the Power of the PurseThe American Constitution does not divide the spending power evenly among the branches of government....more1h 2minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] Public Corruption Law: Bribery, Honest-Services Fraud, and the Limits After McDonnellNearly every American corruption case, from a small-town councilman pocketing an envelope to a cabinet secretary handing out oil leases, turns on a single, deceptively simple question....more1h 41minPlay
July 27, 2026[Throughline] Russia and Iran: From Conquest and Occupation to Arms SupplierThe relationship that today sees Iranian weapons components moving north across the Caspian began as its exact opposite....more1h 7minPlay
July 23, 2026[Throughline] Congressional Subpoena Power and Contempt of CongressRead Article I of the Constitution looking for Congress's power to investigate, and you will not find it....more42minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] America Moves to Auction the Seabed: The World's First Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale and the Regime It BypassesThe Trump administration wants to sell 20-year mining rights across more than 31 million acres of ocean floor off American Samoa, the first sale of its kind anywhere, while a parallel push into international waters challenges the UN regime that treats the deep seabed as the common heritage of mankind....more32minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] Trump's Generic-Drug Tariff Threatens the 90 Percent of U.S. Prescriptions That Come Cheap From India and ChinaIn a Truth Social post, the president set a phased tariff on imported generics rising to 100 percent in 2028 and 200 percent in 2029, aiming to reshore production of the low-margin medicines that fill nine in ten American prescriptions but mostly originate in India and China....more31minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] A Signed Nuclear Deal, Rewritten by Post: Trump Ties Saudi Reactors to Recognizing IsraelOne day after signing a 30-year civil nuclear pact with Saudi Arabia, President Trump declared on social media that the deal is void unless Riyadh recognizes Israel, and insisted it bars enrichment, as the agreement heads to a Congress with a live statutory path to force the nonproliferation gold standard the reported text omits....more43minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.