The emotional importance of Juneteenth, as told by a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian and Texas native Annette Gordon-Reed.
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A conversation with Jonathan Rauch about the forces and ideas that once held the country together — and are now unraveling.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/?p=61546&preview=true&preview_id=61546
Former congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich learned early in his career the old adage that the “duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
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https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/the-man-who-fought-city-hall
A look at the burgeoning world of private spies, the elimination of any privacy, and the price we may pay as a society
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A look at how the unraveling of Bill Gates’s private life may reveal public malfeasance — some of which may even affect public health.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/06/11/bill-gates-has-always-shown-us-who-he-is/
The real gun problem stems from criminals, drugs, and law enforcement. Not mass shootings and politics.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/06/11/why-we-may-never-solve-the-gun-problem/
A conversation with Nicholas Wade, the science journalist whose deeply researched work has given credence to the Wuhan lab leak theory of SARS-CoV-2.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/06/04/what-happened-in-wuhan/
One of the original JFK assassination investigators breaks down the 58-year-old case into its basic parts.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/28/the-original-inconvenient-truth/
Palestinian peace activist Yousef Bashir brings a singular insider's perspective to the conflict in Gaza.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/21/a-palestinian-american-struggles-for-peace-in-our-time/
A leading global blockchain and crypto expert, Eloisa Marchesoni, really really tries to explain the future of money in plain english.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/14/can-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-ever-be-explained-in-plain-english/
Lawyer and author Dan Kovalik, who supports the ongoing movements for racial and gender equality and justice, makes the progressive case against cancel culture.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/07/should-cancel-culture-be-canceled/
Outspoken Sen. Mazie Hirono (D) opines on Asian American hate crimes, the corruption of Trump, her “usual suspect” colleagues, and how she came to find her authentic voice and became the most honest and plain spoken member of the staid US Senate.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/04/30/a-conversation-with-hawaii-senator-mazie-hirono/
A secret, shadowy army of tax attorneys, accountants, and wealth managers are inventing new ways to hide trillions for the super rich.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/04/23/the-rich-are-different-they-dont-pay-taxes/
Elizabeth Kolbert explains why climate change is just the tip of the iceberg. We are causing geological and ecological changes that will drastically alter this planet and it’s species forever.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/04/16/we-are-the-first-species-to-manage-its-own-extinction/
Cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth looks at how the new cyberwarfare could destroy the world as we know it.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/04/09/software-could-end-the-world/
The author of Tangled Up in Blue, Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks, looks deep inside the policing of America’s cities.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/04/02/police-culture-is-all-about-violence-can-it-be-changed/
Households account for 70 percent of all climate pollution, according to climate scientist Dr. Kimberly Nicholas. She makes the case for individual action being just as important as government and corporate efforts to stem climate change.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/26/the-future-of-climate-change-rests-with-joe-biden-xi-jinping-and-you/
An alarming look at the current erosion of medical consent in the treatment of African American patients.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/19/vaccines-black-americans-and-medical-consent/
An up-close look, by a former member of Parliament, at the excess of corporate power and wealth in the British monarchy.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/15/the-royals-have-outlived-their-value/
A look at the genetic superiority of women.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/12/in-genetics-its-always-international-womens-day/
Brutal slave labor in China is responsible for many of our daily consumer products. And global corporations collaborating with the Chinese government know all about it — and profit from it.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/03/05/minimum-wage-in-china-zero/
A new wave of international films is sweeping the globe. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Apple+, and Disney+ are not only changing the way we view films, they are changing the way we see the world.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/02/26/its-a-small-world-after-all/
Author and investigative journalist Criag Unger thinks he has found the unified field theory behind the Trump-Russia connection — and why Trump is still a security risk.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/02/19/was-trump-a-russian-asset/
Why is achieving racial equality so hard? Princeton’s Chair of the Department of African American Studies shows us why, through the lens of James Baldwin.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/02/17/eddie-glaude-jr-james-baldwin-and-black-history/
How economic populism grew into a toxic stew of resentment, nationalism, racism — and the bloody riot of January 6, 2021.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/02/12/why-populism-is-toxic/