Here is a look back at some of our most interesting work from a momentous year.
Over the past week, we presented you with some of the highlights of our election integrity, environmental, and coronavirus coverage. We also picked some of our favorite podcasts, editorials, panoramas, and cartoons.
Now that the new year is about to begin, we are offering one final list of articles that reflect some of the other work that WhoWhatWhy did in 2020. As you peruse it, please give yourself a pat on the back because none of this would have been possible without your support.
Activist Pavel Krisevich (L) stages a performance outside Moscow’s Lyublinsky District Court ahead of a sentence hearing for the Novoye Velichiye extremist group on August 6, 2020. Photo credit: © Artyom Geodakyan/TASS via ZUMA Press
Crimes and Punishments of Radical Artists in Putin’s Russia
Today’s Russian performance artists want nothing less than to annihilate political power.
Mike Lindell, the “MyPillow guy,” at an Address to Young Americans event, featuring President Donald Trump, hosted by Students for Trump and Turning Point Action at Dream City Church in Phoenix, AZ, on June 23, 2020. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
MyPillow Founder Ready to Go to the Mattresses for Trump
Minnesota Republicans aren’t ready to throw in the towel in the race for president, but GOP state legislators are preparing to fold.
Carlos Adrian Ingram-Lopez holding his daughter. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Lopez family
Fatal Errors, Part 1: Police Brutality in Tucson
First of a three-part series about deaths at the hands of police in Tucson, AZ, and Richmond, CA.
Photo credit: North Carolina / Wikimedia
NC Democrats Aim to Slay the Gerrymander Dragon
The battle for the state Legislature will determine Congressional district lines in North Carolina.
A man who showed a press pass argues with a Portland police officer near Ventura Park in Portland, OR, on September 5, 2020, as protesters marked the 100th day of continuous protest. Photo credit: © Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire
At the Center of the Storm
Proud Boys, antifa, BLM protests; Portland, OR, has been at the center of it all, with wildfires threatening to deliver the final blow.
Photo credit: freestocks.org / Flickr
Spotify’s Success May Be the Real Day the Music Dies
When the music’s over, turn out the lights. (The Doors, 1967, available on Spotify.)
Photo credit: Brian Kelley / FLickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) and Craig Taylor / Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Where There’s Smoke, China’s ‘Great Firewall’ Douses the Fire
Posting about sensitive topics on social media is a risky business.
Santa Monica Police Department school resource officer on April 10, 2012. Photo credit: Tomás Del Coro / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Why Policing in Schools Is Complicated
For students of color, do officers in school do more harm than good?
US Attorney General John N. Mitchell, February 19, 1971 (left). US Attorney General William Barr, May 13, 2019 (right). Photo credit: US News & World Report / Library of Congress / Wikimedia and Office of Public Affairs / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
The Arrogance of Power: Bill Barr and the Ghost of John Mitchell
The Hall of Shame for attorneys general is getting a new member, who almost daily conquers new heights in the art of dissembling.
Vigil for George Floyd at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2020. Photo credit: Miki Jourdan / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Black Voices Matter
Instead of wondering what comes next, learn what Black writers have to say.
Tori Satow on a hike in West Virginia. Photo credit: courtesy of Beth Okolish
Water Woes in the World’s Wealthiest Nation
There’s a secret water crisis in America. Two million people across the US lack access to running water and basic indoor plumbing. Keystone, WV, has gone without reliable water for almost a year. Local Tori Satow is fed up and determined to make a difference.
Related front page panorama photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from AbsolutVision / Unsplash.
