It’s Not Just Who Votes, It’s Who Counts the Votes
Reading Time: 23 minutes Investigative journalist Stephen Singular talks about his book Stolen Future, and the great mystery that still surrounds the 2000 presidential election.
Jamal Khashoggi’s Secret Interview
Reading Time: 13 minutes A conversation with international journalist and screenwriter Rula Jebreal about her final interview with Jamal Khashoggi.
Immigrants and First Generation Americans Are Winning Local Elections
Reading Time: 19 minutes As Americans focus on the midterm elections for Washington politicians, a new group of candidates is surfacing in local races, enabled by district elections and public financing.
When They Take Away Your Vote, Who Ya Gonna Call?
Reading Time: 13 minutes A glimpse at the legal battles being fought against the type of voter suppression that is currently being exposed by WhoWhatWhy.
Capitalism Without Capital
Reading Time: 18 minutes A world-renowned economist looks at the growing power of an economy of intangibles and why the markets, especially the tech sector, may be so volatile for years to come.
The Geopolitical Downsides of Fracking Are Downright Scary
Reading Time: 16 minutes How American oil independence is, in reality, a bad idea from an economic and geopolitical perspective.
Will a California Third Party Lead the Way to Break Partisan Gridlock?
Reading Time: 16 minutes The push for a third party in California might energize a rethink of the two-party system nationwide. Former congressman — and former Republican — Tom Campbell explains his support for that effort.
Kavanaugh and #MeToo Raise New Questions About Youth Drinking Culture
Reading Time: 14 minutes Fraternities, one of the earliest manifestations of male privilege, remain training grounds for drinking and sexual abuse in a changing era.
Migration Expert Slams ‘Barbarity’ of Trump Policies
Reading Time: 20 minutes Global migration is a huge problem. In order for nations to deal with it effectively and humanely, its root causes and historical lineage must be understood.
Is America Now a Fascist Country?
Reading Time: 14 minutes A look at how a country filled with sexism, racism, nostalgia, and class division is ripe for fascist politics to take over via seemingly democratic means.
The 2008 Crash Was Not a Singular Event
Reading Time: 16 minutes On the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, a reinterpretation of what happened — and a warning of the dangers that might lie just ahead.
The Global Elite’s Efforts to Change the World
Reading Time: 19 minutes Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctum of a new gilded age.
Voter Suppression 101
Reading Time: 17 minutes A look at how voting laws are being subverted to suppress minority participation, and at the resultant degradation of democracy.
Quagmire in Afghanistan: 17 Years and Counting
Reading Time: 15 minutes Is there a way forward in Afghanistan? A conversation with Laurel E. Miller, a senior foreign policy expert at RAND.
How Corporations Force States to Stifle Local Rule
Reading Time: 15 minutes The American Beverage Association basically extorted California’s government into preempting the authority of cities and counties to impose soda taxes over the next 12 years. Unfortunately other large corporate interests are also using similar tactics to get what they want.
Temp Work: The Waste Product of the Service Economy?
Reading Time: 17 minutes Cornell professor Louis Hyman explains the history of the unmaking of American work, how temporary work took over the economy, and why the gig economy may yet have a silver lining.
Are Americans Afraid of Optimism?
Reading Time: 18 minutes The US and the world are doing better by almost every metric. So why is there so much pessimism?
The Next Generation of Conservatives Is Hoping to Make Its Mark… After Trump
Reading Time: 17 minutes A look at how the next generation of Republicans is doing in the Trump era.
The Iran Nuclear Deal and the View From Tehran
Reading Time: 16 minutes Want to understand the consequences of pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal? What it means for the US, Iran, and rest of the world? Listen to this conversation with Iran scholar and former Iranian ambassador and government official Seyed Hossein Mousavian.
The Mouth That Roared — How Rush Limbaugh Changed America
Reading Time: 18 minutes How the journey of the most-listened-to national radio talk show host in America may have changed US politics forever.