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Supreme Court, Fisheye lens
Courts US Politics

Is SCOTUS Signalling? The Implications of Its Trump v. Illinois Realignment

Jonathan D. Simon 12/24/25

The Supreme Court took its time with this “emergency” case. Was it taking stock of Trump’s descent into madness?

Climate Change, Camp 2007, Protest
Environment

Our Best Climate & Environment Stories of 2025

Whowhatwhy Editors 12/24/25
Donald Trump, addresses the nation, Christmas, New Year, 2025
Economy

In Biden Redux, Trump Tries to Convince Americans Their Struggles Aren’t Real

Klaus Marre 12/23/25
Donald Trump, announcing, $12 billion, aid, farmers
Environment Government Integrity Health & Medicine

How Trump’s Big Ag Bailout Is Alienating His MAHA base

Ayurella Horn-Muller 12/23/25
Donald Trump, Epstein Files release, redactions
Cartoon Epstein

Redaction in Action

Jon Richards 12/23/25

Deep Dives

Trump Tower, Epstein

Stumper: Why Was Jeffrey Epstein Obsessed With Donald Trump Back in 2011?

Russ Baker
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, filibuster scene, Jimmy Stewart

Shutdown Post-Mortem: Straightening Out the Democrats’ Circular Firing Squad

Jonathan D. Simon
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, David Boies, Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein: Dirty Secrets Emerge From a Painful Book — and the Powerful Squirm

Russ Baker
Peter Thiel, Antichrist, The Devil, Greta Thunberg

The Church of Silicon: Peter Thiel’s Gospel of Unfettered Power

Russ Baker

Journalism & Media

Donald Trump, addresses the nation, Christmas, New Year, 2025
Journalism & Media

Prime-Time Trump: Just Lyin’ and Yellin’ in the Rain

Jonathan D. Simon 12/19/25

The networks may be cowards, but Wednesday night they did us all a big favor.

Zohran Mamdani, scaffolding policy
Journalism & Media US Politics

Who Is Zohran Mamdani? And How Do You Know?

Russ Baker 11/03/25
Washington Post, building, sign, Washington, DC
Deep Dives Journalism & Media US Politics

WaPo Editorial Board Canonizes Kirk: It’s Just Another ‘Business Decision’

Jonathan D. Simon 09/17/25

One Small Thing

People, working together, hands
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Keep On Keeping On

Darlena Cunha
Ditch Doge, Hands-Off Protest
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Keep Hounding Everyone

Darlena Cunha
Camp Blanding, Starke, FL, Alligator Alcatraz
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Be Seen and Be Heard

Darlena Cunha
Workers, install, Alligator Alcatraz, sign
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: No One Is Alone

Darlena Cunha

Government Integrity

Donald Trump, announcing, $12 billion, aid, farmers
Environment

How Trump’s Big Ag Bailout Is Alienating His MAHA base

Ayurella Horn-Muller 12/23/25

The administration’s pro-industry tilt — across three executive agencies — is feeding the MAHA movement’s growing discontent.

Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, Web Summit 2022
Government Integrity

Dear Reader, I Hereby Pardon You

Klaus Marre 12/12/25
Pete Hegseth, hosts, drone demonstration, Pentagon
Government Integrity

Hegseth Does Not Know the Meaning of the Word ‘Exoneration’

Klaus Marre 12/04/25

International

aasai herder, watches over, cattle
Environment

The New Scramble for Tanzania’s Savanna

Theophile Simon
Soldiers, small farmhouse, Ukraine
Ukraine

Trump’s Unpredictability and Pro-Kremlin Sympathies Rattle Nerves in Ukraine

Joseph Roche
peace prize
International

Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize Recipient Threatens Venezuela

Klaus Marre
large locust, Ukrainian field
Environment

Locusts and Landmines Threaten Ukraine’s Farmland

Ruchi Kumar

Epstein

Best Friends Forever, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein

Trump Will Never Shake Epstein Suspicion Like This

Klaus Marre 12/22/25

If the Trump administration is trying to convince Americans that there is nothing to see in the Epstein files, it is doing a terrible job.

Lisa Phillips, speaks, news conference, Epstein survivors
Epstein US Politics

DOJ Ignores Epstein Transparency Law

Klaus Marre 12/19/25
Epstein, Trump, protest posters, Washington, DC
Environment Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein, Climate Change Doubter

Sara Peach 11/25/25

Health & Medicine

Donald Trump, announcing, $12 billion, aid, farmers
Environment

How Trump’s Big Ag Bailout Is Alienating His MAHA base

Ayurella Horn-Muller
The Xylom, RFK Jr,_Climate Change Art
Environment

On a Sweltering Planet, ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Puts Kids’ Health at Risk

Lisa Patel, Grace Wickerson
Rick Scott, 2021 Student Action Summit
Health & Medicine

Trump’s Secret Super-Duper Health Care Plan Takes Shape

Klaus Marre
Russell Vought, Adolf Eichmann, accountants
Health & Medicine

The Death of Public Health: The Senseless Wholesale Axing of Vital CDC Offices

Angela Rasmussen

Economy

Donald Trump, addresses the nation, Christmas, New Year, 2025
Economy

In Biden Redux, Trump Tries to Convince Americans Their Struggles Aren’t Real

Klaus Marre 12/23/25

How much do regular Americans care about things like the GDP and the stock market as opposed to their own finances? That is one of the central questions heading into a midterm election year.

Donald Trump, Yokosuka Naval Base
Economy

In Prime Time Trainwreck, Trump Promises Americans the Moon

Klaus Marre 12/18/25
VP JD Vance, podium, speaking
Economy

JD Vance Test Drives the Lies That Republicans Hope Will Win the Midterms

Klaus Marre 12/16/25
Brooke Rollins, Turning Point USA
Economy US Politics

Trump Announces Bailout for Farmers Hurt by Trump

Klaus Marre 12/08/25
Donald Trump, tariffs
Economy

Trump Inadvertently Admits That US Businesses Pay for His Tariffs

Klaus Marre 11/24/25

Podcast

Jeff Schechtman, Podcast, Best-of, WhoWhatWhy, 2025

WhoWhatWhy’s Top 10 Podcasts of 2025 — Part 1

Jeff Schechtman
Gun violence

It’s Not Always About Guns or Monsters

Jeff Schechtman
Elon Musk, government workers, cuts, chainsaw, rage

Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge

Jeff Schechtman
map, history, United States, 1921

What If the America We Think We Live in Never Existed?

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Donald Trump, Epstein Files release, redactions

Redaction in Action

Jon Richards
Donald Trump, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, memorial

Where Will It End? What Other Monuments Will Donald Trump Spoil With His Name?

DonkeyHotey
Media, Dumpster Fire

Saturday Hashtag: #LegacyMediaFail

Sean Ogden

Editors' Picks

2025, positive news roundup, planet Earth, nature, society, progress to celebrate

What Went Right in 2025: Top 25 Good News Stories of the Year

Whowhatwhy Editors
climate change, global warming, renewable energy, California, electrical grid, transformation

How California Became A Clean Energy Powerhouse

Whowhatwhy Editors
U.S. healthcare, Affordable Care Act, Congress, enhanced subsidies expiring, plan B

Millions of Soon-To-Be Uninsured Americans Searching for Health ‘Plan B’

Whowhatwhy Editors
Media, Dumpster Fire

Saturday Hashtag: #LegacyMediaFail

Sean Ogden
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