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Today's stories and the historical context you need to understand them, in one audio briefing from AskWhy.News.
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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 articles and evergreen throughlines, read aloud.
Unknown Host hosts AskWhy.News, a general show with 296 episodes published.
Today's stories and the historical context you need to understand them, in one audio briefing from AskWhy.News.
"Reporter's privilege" is the claim that a journalist has a legal right to refuse to identify a confidential source or to hand over unpublished newsgathering material, even when a court or grand jury demands it.
For most of the internet's commercial history, the places where digital business happens have narrowed to a handful of controlling points.
In the 1870s, the British survey ship HMS Challenger dragged its dredges across the deep Pacific during a four-year voyage that founded the science of oceanography.
Read Article I of the Constitution looking for Congress's power to investigate, and you will not find it.
The 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 chall
In 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 America
One 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 head
A 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 t
Washington 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 l
The 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 w
The 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…
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.
As 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
Indiana 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 revi
A 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.
A 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.
A 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.
Nearly 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.
The First Amendment is short, and the sentence that matters here is shorter still: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
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