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AskWhy.News

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 articles and evergreen throughlines, read aloud.

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300 episodis

  1. [Daily Briefing] The Daily Briefing for October 30, 2026 11:47
  2. [Throughline] Card Interchange Fees, the Durbin Amendment, and Agency Power 1:04:21
  3. [News] Twenty-One Attorneys General Say Treasury Repealed a Law by Exempting Nearly Every Company It Covered 29:14
  4. [News] Appeals Court Throws Out the Fed's 21-Cent Debit Card Swipe Fee Cap 22:49
  5. [News] A Judge Calls the Justice Department's Noncitizen Voter List Not Credible, and Prosecutors Subpoena the People Counting the Ballots 31:29
  6. [News] The U.S. Used Its Forced Labor Law to Shut Out China's DNA Giant, and Kept the Evidence to Itself 29:34
  7. [News] A Grand Jury, a Magistrate and a Judge Said No on the Same Day. The Justice Department's Answer Has Been to Blame the Jurors. 29:14
  8. [News] Flávio Bolsonaro Broke a Court Exit Ban, and Washington Had Promised Him Entry Before He Crossed 24:55
  9. [News] EPA Proposes to Scrap the Super Emitter Program and Loosen Methane Rules for Low-Producing Wells 27:09
  10. [News] The Pardon Wiped the Debt: How Trump's Clemency Erased Millions Owed to Crime Victims 27:40
  11. [News] Bird Flu Has Spread on a Utah Mink Farm Since August, and No Agency Will Take Charge 25:38
  12. [News] Israel's Ministers Said What the Hebron Operation Was For. The UN Took Them at Their Word. 28:52
  13. [News] A Week From Election Day, the Justice Department Is Demanding Things No Statute Clearly Gives It 31:30
  14. [News] Anthropic's IPO Sells Shares, Not Control: What Public Buyers of Its Five-Class Stock Actually Get 32:40
  15. [News] The President's Oil Stocks and His War: What the Filings Show, What the Democrats' Math Claims, and Why No Rule Stops It 27:18
  16. [News] "Prioritize Colorado": Testing the Federal Pressure Campaign Over Tina Peters, Action by Action 32:38
  17. [News] A Judge Says Career Prosecutors Cannot Be Fired at Will, the Same Day a Third Comey Charge Is Unsealed 30:29
  18. [News] Flávio Bolsonaro Refused to Recognise Brazil's Election Result, and His Own Party Recognised It the Next Day 29:49
  19. [News] The Tag Said Mali: How Deportees Protected From Their Home Countries Were Sent Back Through Ghana 29:53
  20. [News] Serbia's Students Beat Vucic at the Ballot Box. The State He Built Has Not Been Voted Out Yet. 24:26
  21. [News] The Alaska Gas Startup on the Table With Putin Was Allegedly Funded in Part by the Russian Firm It Needed Treasury to License 26:19
  22. [News] A Personalized Cancer Vaccine Clears Its Biggest Test Yet 27:33
  23. [News] Ken Paxton's Blind Trust Put $600,000 Into a Convicted Fraudster's Company. Records Suggest It Was Not Blind. 21:02
  24. [News] The Government Asked to Drop Its Appeal. The Court Quoted the President Back at It and Ruled the Los Angeles Guard Deployment Unlawful. 26:04
  25. [News] Alabama Governor Spares Toforest Johnson From Execution Over Doubts About the Evidence That Condemned Him 24:26
  26. [News] AI Found the PHP Flaw. People Had to Fix It, and There Were Too Few of Them. 29:29
  27. [News] Finland Licenses the World's First Permanent Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel 26:09
  28. [News] Three Fathers, No Hearing: The Full Fifth Circuit Rules the Constitution Gives Unadmitted Immigrants Only What Congress Does 26:29
  29. [News] The Justice Department Sues to Stop Alaska From Certifying a Senate Race Before a Single Vote Is Counted, and Only if the President's Candidate Loses 28:11
  30. [News] The Adviser With Questionable Authority: What the Record Shows as Justice Department Prosecutors Reportedly Examine Corey Lewandowski 27:48
  31. [News] The Case Against Louise Lucas Has Two Halves: Hard Drug Evidence and a Thin Bribery Theory, Unsealed 12 Days Before an Election 31:49
  32. [News] OpenAI's Coding Agents Weakened Safety Monitoring, and One Denied It 32:34
  33. [News] "If We Don't Win, There's No Money": Trump Puts Federal Aid on the Ballot 22:43
  34. [News] A Judge Tells Homeland Security Agents to Stop Knocking on Citizens' Doors Over Voting, and Holds the Agency to What It Says It Already Does 32:06
  35. [Throughline] The Taxing Power and the Limits of Enumerated Powers 1:25:58
  36. [Throughline] National Parks and the Public Trust 1:23:38
  37. [News] The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Congress Can Ban a Still in Your House to Protect a Tax 27:19
  38. [News] Twelve Years After Nigeria Beat Ebola, a Strain With No Vaccine Spent Twelve Days in Abuja Unnoticed 28:01
  39. [News] The President Says the Golf Course Plan Is Final. His Lawyers Told the Court Nothing Is Final. 26:51
  40. [News] A Judge Lets Trump's Contractor DEI Order Stand by Reading It Narrowly 29:58
  41. [News] The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Judges May Test the White House's Own Account of DOGE 28:20
  42. [News] Europe Cannot Sanction E1, So It Is Warning the People Who Would Build It 27:19
  43. [News] Twenty-Eight Charged, Twenty Thousand Accused: What California's Noncitizen Voting Cases Actually Allege 24:15
  44. [News] Arizona Joins Nevada in Suing Its Own Water Master 21:40
  45. [News] The Supreme Court Will Decide How Much Harm Asian American Students Must Prove Before a School's Motive Counts 26:26
  46. [News] France Answers Its Riots With Curfews. Its Own Record Has Never Shown a Curfew Ending One. 27:17
  47. [News] The Agency Built on Consent Was Asked to Hack a Voting Machine in Secret 23:41
  48. [News] California Opens Its Ocean Parks to Tribal Initiative, Approving the First Chumash-Nominated Protected Areas 23:47
  49. [News] Every Account Runs Through the White House, and Every Official Says It Wasn't Them 20:27
  50. [News] The President's Drug Stocks and the Law He Signed: What a Committee Report Proves, and What It Cannot 31:41