Reading Time: 5 minutes In addition to hard-hitting news, WhoWhatWhy brings you insightful, sometimes controversial, sometimes hilarious, and always thought-provoking commentary and opinion. Here are some of our favorite pieces from this year.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The dire state of the environment is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Here are some of our 2020 environmental stories you may have missed.
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Trump’s use of the pardon power is not quite what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Reading Time: 8 minutes As British naturalist David Attenborough — an indisputable “influencer” of today’s youth — has noted on various occasions, time is running out for our planet. The move to action may now lie in the hands of young people. Maybe it’s time to do more than simply pretend that we are listening to the concerns of the new generation.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ted Rall’s political cartoons became appointment viewing for WhoWhatWhy readers in this rollercoaster election year. Here are some of our favorites of 2020.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to WhoWhatWhy’s weekly COVID-19 roundup. There’s a lot of virus coverage out there, so this feature will give you a dose of the latest news.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Podcasts, like radio before them, have become the conversations that shape our perception of the world. The intimacy of voices in your car, in your earbuds, or in the dark has transformed how we listen and learn.
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the things that sets WhoWhatWhy apart from other news sites is that nearly all of our articles come with their own artwork. These “panoramas” offer a visual representation of what the stories are about. Here are some of our favorites from 2020.
Reading Time: 2 minutes There have been significantly fewer premature births during the pandemic. Did the lockdowns have an unintended positive consequence?
Reading Time: 5 minutes WhoWhatWhy covered the pandemic from its first appearance in China and the early lockdowns in Italy through to its impact on the education and health care systems, the economy, and the 2020 election.