What A Day
What A Day
If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What a Day is simple: to be your guide to what truly matters each morning (and the fun stuff you might have missed) in just 20 minutes. Host Jane Coaston brings you in-depth reporting and substantive analysis on the big stories shaping today and the creeping trends shaping tomorrow—and when she doesn’t know the answers, she asks someone even smarter to fill us all in. Radical, right? New episodes at 5:00 a.m. EST, Monday–Friday in your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. Being informed was never this easy.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the What A Day podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Hated By All The Right People
An eye-opening examination of Tucker Carlson’s rise through conservative media and politics, including his ideological transformation over the past thirty years, and the concurrent shifts in the political media landscape.
Jason Zengri
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
When We're in Charge: The Next Generation's Guide to Leadership
Amanda Lippman
#3 Mentioned in 3 episodes
When We're in Charge
Amanda Litman
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Project
How Project 2025 is Reshaping America
David Graham
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Lawless
The Miseducation of America’s Elites
Ilya Shapiro
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Exploring Greenland
Cold War Science and Technology on Ice
Ronald Doel
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What You Are Looking For is in the Library
Machiko Ayawama
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Bush country
John Podhoretz
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The First Eight
A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation
James Clyburn
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The fellowship of the ring
J.R.R Tolkien
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dividing Lines
How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
Deborah Archer
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Russ Buettner
Susanne Craig
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
One Person, No Vote
Dick Durbin
Carol Anderson
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Letter from the Birmingham jail
Martin Luther King Jr
Dion Graham
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Motherland, A Feminist History of Modern Russia from Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue
A story of climate and hope on one American street
Mike Tidwell
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Spell Freedom
Elaine Weiss
