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/
Energy expert Daniel Yergin on Joe Biden facing a world whose geopolitics have been transformed by climate, fracking, and an insatiable global demand for energy.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/18/the-geopolitics-of-energy/
Do 1,200 books about the Trump era really help us understand anything?
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/13/booking-trump/
Two distinguished legal scholars examine the state of election lawsuits, and why our elections today need so many lawyers.
An examination of how our current anger and animosity might very well lead to greater violence — and even secession.
In this week’s Scrutineers, Emily Levy talks to one county recorder who has transformed his community from opaque to transparent in terms of voting knowledge.
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While politics seems to be the only topic we’re paying attention to, technology may be the one that’s more important. A talk with author, Cory Doctorow.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/10/23/taming-the-digital-juggernaut/
An examination of the cumulative effect of four decades of stalled income growth and how as a result, 90 percent of workers gave $2.5 trillion of cumulative income to the top 10 percent since the mid-1970s.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/10/16/proof-positive-of-the-winner-take-all-economy/
Have a problem voting? Report it to SeeSay2020.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/10/14/publicly-mapping-election-problems-scrutineers-part-vii/
As the bodies pile up, so does the misinformation — which in turn leads to more bodies. Yet, there’s hope, if people would only listen to science. But will they?
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/10/13/an-expert-calls-out-trump-on-covid-19/
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) shares his passion and hope that progressive causes and the institution of the US Senate can still flourish.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/10/09/up-close-and-personal-with-ohio-senator-sherrod-brown/
The simple and quaint past way of voting is over. It’s a brave new world and the authors of the new WhoWhatWhy e-book help us understand it.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/10/02/is-this-any-way-to-vote-2/
Cyber criminals may be looking to spread false election results. Here’s how you can help.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/09/28/trying-to-stop-the-election-attacks-scrutineers-series-part-vi/