The 78 days between Election Day and inauguration may be the most trying in our nation's history. Will Trump accept the results, and even if he finally does, at what cost to the country?
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/28/will-he-go/
E-poll books are used around the US to check in voters. Because they use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, they’re vulnerable to manipulation and malfunction.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/24/problems-with-electronic-poll-books-scrutineers-part-iv/
A case study of author Nicholson Baker’s obsession with trying to understand the dark side of Cold War history, while it’s shrouded in denials of FOIA requests.
Why the current COVID-19 testing method is wrong, and what we need in its place. And why, if used correctly, the right test could control or even end the pandemic.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/14/we-had-the-tool-to-prevent-lockdowns-and-death/
In a year when 50 percent of voters or more are expected to vote by mail in the general election, “the surrender rule” could require millions to vote by provisional ballots. Emily Levy interviews election protection activist Mimi Kennedy about what happens when voters who are listed as having been sent a mail ballot show up to the polls to vote in person. The answer could be suppression.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/10/how-one-simple-administrative-problem-could-impact-election-outcomes-scrutineers-part-iii/
Posthumous podcast: Talking tabloids, immigrant dreams, and Frank Sinatra.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/07/pete-hamill-in-his-own-words-and-voice/
The crazy but important story of what happens when the White House, the Pentagon, and the world’s greatest scientists are forced to work with Hollywood.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/07/hollywood-washington-and-the-bomb/
An in-depth look at why evangelicals are Trump's most unwavering supporters, and their plans for making Christianity great again.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/04/why-are-white-evangelicals-primed-for-trumps-fear-mongering/
How the history of CIA and KGB Cold War covert election interference led us to what we face today.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/07/31/a-democracys-ultimate-threat/
Bennie Smith discovered a high-risk tampering mechanism built into US election systems.
Smith explains what he found, its implications, and how election officials and members of the public can detect this “feature” of our voting systems that belies the principle of “one person, one vote.”
A look at free speech, hate speech, campus speech, and post-truth speech.
Joe McCarthy may have been America’s most vicious demagogue. But he passed all his “skills” onto Donald Trump. To understand McCarthy is to understand what we are living through.
The founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition talks about efforts to stop your vote from being counted — and what you can do about it.
A former US senator looks at how Trump might lose the election — and still remain in power.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/07/10/trump-loses-remains-president/
Investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton looks at the untold, human, and complex story of Vladimir Putin.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/07/03/putin-putin-putin/
A look at the cutting-edge technology that may enable us to actually confront climate change.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/07/01/can-geoengineering-save-the-planet/
Co-creator of S.W.A.T. talks about how 50 years of police shows on television have shaped and undermined our views of policing and race.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/06/26/hollywood-has-sold-us-copaganda/
A police lieutenant with more than 30 years on the force, who is the president of his Black Police Officers Association, gives a personal and inside look at policing.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/06/19/what-it-means-to-be-black-while-blue/
Is there a common link between all the dark things that are happening? Is it hiding in plain sight?
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/06/12/police-wall-street-pentagon-and-white-house-crime-whats-the-connection/
The riots of 1967 and 1968 over racial injustice resulted in over 70 dead and many injured. How do they compare with what we are witnessing today?
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/06/05/is-it-1968-all-over-again/
Saudi Arabia has poured billions of dollars into promoting Wahhabism around the world, engendering violence from behind the cover of NGOs and government agencies.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/05/29/the-terrorist-threat-concealed-by-saudi-soft-power/
Election watchdog Emily Levy provides an overview of what to fear in the next election and what you can do about it.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/05/22/election-day-is-165-days-away-be-afraid/
Gabriella Novello, WhoWhatWhy’s election integrity reporter, discusses what it’s like to cover efforts to protect the right to vote during a pandemic.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/05/19/from-the-front-lines-of-the-fight-for-fair-elections/
A look at the corrosive culture caused by rigid hierarchies and unquestioning loyalty in the US military.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/05/15/not-all-it-can-be-the-us-military-is-failing/
Some Christian nationalists are contesting the coronavirus lockdown to further their own Bible-based, authoritarian agenda.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/05/08/religious-nationalism-and-the-reopening-of-america/