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/
A personal look inside the final days and multimillion-dollar shakedowns of the Trump pardon process.
A look at how religious nationalism — more than politics — spurred the events of January 6.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/29/josh-hawley-told-us-who-he-was/
A look at why facts, data, and truth have little to do with what we believe.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/22/unity-is-probably-impossible/
Why the US Senate is no longer “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” and where it went wrong.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/15/why-is-the-us-senate-so-fked-up/
As tech companies move from blue states to blue cities inside red states, what are the long-term political consequences?
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/12/the-new-color-purple/
More than 1.4 million votes have been cast for the Georgia Senate runoff race set for January 5. Here’s what voters need to know.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/22/mobilizing-voters-for-the-georgia-runoff-scrutineers-part-x/
A contrarian history of the US dismissing notions of exceptionalism and triumphalism.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/18/why-the-us-is-more-like-wework-and-theranos-than-apple/
Longtime socialist professor and activist Victor Wallis lays out his socialist agenda.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/11/sketches-of-a-socialist-dream/
A conversation with Gene Sperling, one of the few progressive economists advising Joe Biden.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/08/whose-economy-is-it-anyway/
An in-depth look at why the push to get schools back open is in part about the unspoken limits and failure of remote leaning.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/04/why-even-a-pandemic-cant-make-remote-learning-work/
As Georgia gears up for its runoff senate elections, the Coalition for Good Governance advocates for transparency and security from the state government.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/30/noise-about-gas-election-system-scrutineers-part-ix/
A conversation with Dr. Michael Mina about a new kind of testing that may be a more effective virus-fighter than a vaccine.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/26/testing-is-broken-contact-tracing-has-failed-theres-a-better-way/
A look at how the Republican party, long associated with draconian immigration and racial policies, continues to gain Hispanic voters.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/20/the-hispanic-republican-vote/