What A Day
Crooked Media
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 3 episodes
When We're in Charge: The Next Generation's Guide to Leadership
Amanda Lippman
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
When We're in Charge
Amanda Litman
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Project
How Project 2025 is Reshaping America
David Graham
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Lawless
The Miseducation of America’s Elites
Ilya Shapiro
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What You Are Looking For is in the Library
Machiko Ayawama
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Bush country
John Podhoretz
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dividing Lines
How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
Deborah Archer
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
One Person, No Vote
Dick Durbin
Carol Anderson
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue
A story of climate and hope on one American street
Mike Tidwell
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Spell Freedom
Elaine Weiss
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Reactionary Spirit
Zach Beauchamp
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Dead Cat Tale Assassins
P. Jelly Clark
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Ukrainian Night, An Intimate History of Revolution
Marci Shore
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
Al Franken
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Defending Globalization
Scott Lincicome
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Original Sin
Henri Blochet
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Black Pill
How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Elle Reeve
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Prequel
An American Fight Against Fascism
Rachel Maddow
