HIV — On the Rise in Eastern Europe and the Deep South
Reading Time: 2 minutes The head of the NIH claims an AIDS-free world is on the horizon. But administering drugs is the easy part — educating populations less so.
How Driverless Cars Could Make Us Better Drivers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just in time for your journey home from the family jamboree — some sci-fi hope for less stressful journeys in the future.
Paralyzed Patients Walk in Nerve Stimulation Breakthrough
Reading Time: 2 minutes Years after traumatic spinal injury, three people have managed to defy the odds and walk again.
Tiny Robot Drug Delivery Service — Into Your Eyes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Squeamish readers should probably look away now, as this is a story about tiny robots burrowing into eyeballs.
Voting Machines — Unregulated, Unverifiable, Easy to Hack
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Tuesday, millions of Americans will cast their ballots on antiquated machines built when many voters were still in diapers. These machines use software that is even older. They are easy to hack, yet election officials don’t want to recognize that this is a problem.
Obtaining Voter ID — Piece of Cake or Disenfranchising Obstacle?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Proponents of voter ID say that it’s so easy to get — what’s the big deal? They are perhaps unknowingly revealing their ignorance of the difficulty — sometimes impossibility — of obtaining it faced by those without adequate means. Meet an organization that is helping them and a 54-year-old man who just voted for the first time.
Closing Polling Locations — Fiddling With the Vote
Reading Time: < 1 minute State lawmakers are trying to stack the deck against their opponents — and closing polling places is an extremely effective course of action.
Propaganda or Foul Play? How Kemp and Abrams Supporters View Voter Suppression News
Reading Time: < 1 minute WhoWhatWhy attended recent campaign events for Georgia gubernatorial candidates Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams. Talk about two different worldviews — and worlds!
Fighting the Good Fight Against Voter Suppression
Reading Time: < 1 minute Beatrice Williams understands well the dark history of voter suppression in Georgia — her own family experienced it. And she understands the importance of the upcoming election — that’s why she’s doing everything she can to help others vote.
Understanding the Devastating Impact of ‘Shelby County v. Holder’
Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2013 the US Supreme Court delivered a devastating decision that would lead to a host of state voter suppression laws, with which Americans continue to struggle today as they head to the polls.
Kemp Video With ‘Racist, Politically-Motivated Message’ Triggers Outrage, Then Disappears
Reading Time: 4 minutes After a tone-deaf video from Georgia’s Secretary of State, originally released in 2016, was ridiculed online, it was suddenly removed this week. But don’t worry, we saved a copy before it was pulled. So see for yourself whether the outrage is deserved.
Exclusive: WhoWhatWhy Finds Voting Machines Unguarded
Reading Time: < 1 minute Shocking video shows voting machines sitting in an unlocked room in a public place in Georgia’s Fulton County the day before early voting started.
Electronic Voting Systems ‘Designed to Obliterate All Proof’
Reading Time: 2 minutes A federal judge agrees with a tiny nonprofit that electronic voting is a violation of constitutional rights.
Why Can’t Americans Rank Their Votes?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Only one state in the US allows voters to rank their candidates for federal and state elections. But enthusiasm for the system is growing nationally. Could, and should, this be the voting system of the future?
Drowning in Plastic — A Solution?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Engineers have created a man-made coastline to catch the junk we’ve thrown into the Pacific.
The Rich Are Loving the Economy — It’s a Different Story for Regular Americans
Reading Time: 4 minutes According to President Donald Trump, the economy is doing stupendous — thanks to him. But the reality on the ground is that American workers have seen better days, back when unions were prevalent and had real leverage.
Leave My Culture Alone — Breakthrough on Hearing Not Welcomed by All
Reading Time: 3 minutes Scientists have found a piece of the hearing jigsaw puzzle. But does the deaf community want to be “fixed”?
Second Hand Smoke Causing a Western Smog Age
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seattle has become dangerous this week — along with a lot of the western United States — as smoke particles block out the sun and block up lungs.
More Marijuana Legalization Coming — Could Trump Be On Board?
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2018 has been a good year for marijuana legalization. And it may only be getting better come November.
‘No Future’ Youth to Get Day in Court — Just Before Midterms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The US Supreme Court has upheld a group’s right to sue the federal government because climate change is robbing young Americans of their future — and the court date couldn’t be much trickier for the GOP.