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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 23, 2026[News] Executive Privilege Belongs to the President, Not the Aide: An Appeals Court Upholds Navarro's Contempt ConvictionA unanimous D.C. Circuit panel ruled that Peter Navarro could not defy a January 6 subpoena by claiming a privilege only Donald Trump could invoke and never did, leaving intact the misdemeanor statute Congress leans on to enforce its subpoenas....more38minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] Trump Threatens to Bomb Iran's Bridges and Power Plants, the Same Infrastructure the U.S. Condemned Russia for HittingWashington condemned Russia's strikes on Ukraine's power grid as barbaric war crimes; now President Trump vows to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship Iran fires on in the Strait of Hormuz, testing a line in the laws of war the United States itself helped draw....more27minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] The ICC Moves to Fire Its Own Prosecutor, in a Vote His U.S. Sanctions Bar Him From AttendingThe court's 125 member states vote in New York on removing chief prosecutor Karim Khan over sexual-misconduct findings, an unprecedented step colliding with a U.S. campaign to disable the court and the still-unenforced warrant for Netanyahu....more31minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] The EU Just Fined Google $1 Billion. Here Is What the Digital Markets Act Actually Does.Brussels hit Google with its first fine under the Digital Markets Act for rigging search results and locking down its app store, and the real story is the new machinery behind the penalty, not the penalty itself....more33minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] 9.5 Million Borrowers Are in Default, and a New Rule Ties Loans to What Your Degree PaysAs pandemic-era protections end and involuntary collections loom, a record share of borrowers has fallen into default, and a rule finalized this month will cut off federal loans for college programs whose graduates earn too little....more47minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] Indiana Built the First Utility That Powers Only Data Centers, and Waived the Oversight That Protects Everyone ElseIndiana approved a first-of-its-kind subsidiary that generates power exclusively for data centers and ring-fences household bills from their costs, but it did so by exempting itself from the rate-case and permitting review that normally guards the public....more35minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] The Last Step, Not the First: The Justice Department Withdraws Its Times Reporter Subpoenas and Concedes ErrorA judge told the government that subpoenaing journalists is a last resort, not a first move, and rather than be overruled the Justice Department backed down, the second such climbdown in a month....more27minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] New Right Whale Protections Delayed to 2035: What Washington Is Freezing, and WhyA House committee has advanced a bill to extend a moratorium on new fishing-gear rules to 2035, while NOAA separately withdraws and moves to weaken a vessel-speed rule, as fewer than 380 of the whales remain....more27minPlay
July 23, 2026[News] Why the Fish Came Back: A Hawaiian Community's Rules for Its ReefA Native-Hawaiian-led fishing area on Kauaʻi holds more and healthier fish inside its boundaries than outside, and a long argument about how to govern a shared resource explains why, and why it is not settled yet....more27minPlay
July 23, 2026[Throughline] Community-Based Fisheries and the Tragedy of the CommonsThe phrase most people reach for comes from the biologist Garrett Hardin, whose essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" appeared in the journal Science in December 1968 (published as a presidential address to a division of…...more20minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.