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William Ackman, Bill Ackman
US Politics

What Is WRONG With Bill Ackman?

Nina Burleigh 06/30/25

Exhibit A in the Great Mamdani Freakout.

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ukraine, Gaza, Iran
Cartoon

Trump Has Empathy for Leaders Like Him Who’ve Been Treated Very Badly

DonkeyHotey 06/30/25
Bill Moyers, Zohran Mamdani, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jeff Bezos
US Politics

Zohran Mamdani, Bill Moyers, and Making People Mad

Russ Baker 06/30/25
Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Oval Office
Criminal Justice US Politics

Lawless & Disorderly: Trump Just Offered Crooks Another Way to Escape Justice

Klaus Marre 06/29/25
Donald Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, foreign ministers, Congo, Rwanda
Opinion US Politics

We Found That Elusive Socialist Fox News Has Been Warning Us About

Klaus Marre 06/29/25

International

demonstration, supporting, Operation True Promise III
International

What’s Really Behind the Israel-Iran Bombing Campaign?

William Dowell 06/28/25

The danger of cultural misinterpretation, when what you say isn’t what they hear, and vice versa.

Into the Jaws of Death, Normandy, D-Day, World War II
International US Politics

Donald, You Can’t Just Make It All Up — Reality Always Gets the Last Word

Steve Schmidt 06/26/25
Donald J. Trump, welcomes, Benjamin Netanyahu, White House
International US Politics

Trump Bombs Iran and Nukes the Constitution

Klaus Marre 06/22/25

One Small Thing

Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, Law Library stacks
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Remember, People Matter

Darlena Cunha
Ron DeSantis, Fruitless Efforts, HB 1205
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Use Your Efforts to Help People

Darlena Cunha
Old Colorado City Library
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Stand Up for Our Institutions

Darlena Cunha
Poster, Miracle at Kat Cammack’s Office Initiative
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Finish What You Start

Darlena Cunha

US Politics

William Ackman, Bill Ackman
US Politics

What Is WRONG With Bill Ackman?

Nina Burleigh 06/30/25

Exhibit A in the Great Mamdani Freakout.

Bill Moyers, Zohran Mamdani, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jeff Bezos
US Politics

Zohran Mamdani, Bill Moyers, and Making People Mad

Russ Baker 06/30/25
Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Oval Office
Criminal Justice US Politics

Lawless & Disorderly: Trump Just Offered Crooks Another Way to Escape Justice

Klaus Marre 06/29/25

Environment

Minnesota, prairie, 2012
Environment

How America’s Prairie Was Nearly Destroyed — And Why It Should Be Restored

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
banded, bald eagle
Environment

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs

Rebecca Heisman
clean energy, industry smokestacks
Environment

State Bills Are Redefining Gas as ‘Clean Energy’

Emily Sanders
cowboy boot, fence post
Environment

The Myth of the Cowboy and Its Enduring Influence on Public Policy

Tess Wilkinson

Health & Medicine

COVID-19, pandemic, September 11, Donald Trump, George Bush

A Tale of Two Crises: What We Learned and Didn’t Learn From 9/11 and COVID

Doug Ecks
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CDC, Vaccines,

Inoculated Against Reason

Jon Richards
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sworn in, HHS Secretary

RFK Jr. Isn’t Bothered by Measles

Paul Offit
medicaid, protester

GOP’s Reconciliation Bill Would Boot 8.6 Million Americans Off Medicaid

WhoWhatWhy Staff

Technology

Palantir, dragon
Hidden Power

The Most Dangerous Corporation in America

Robert Reich 06/21/25

Peter Thiel’s Palantir epitomizes the potential perversion of miraculous technology to nefarious purposes.

Low Earth orbit, filling with satellites
Environment Technology

Space Industry’s Explosive Growth Could ‘X’ the Earth’s Atmosphere

Syris Valentine 06/12/25
Railway, Police, Kashmir, Srinagar
International Technology

Pakistan & India’s Narrative-Control Internet Battle Leaves the Truth in Shreds

Tauseef Ahmad, Suhail Khan 06/11/25

Economy

Lauren Sü¡nchez, Jeff Bezos
Culture

Bezos Holds Three-Day ‘Tax the Rich’ Rally in Venice

Klaus Marre
Column on the March, C. R. W. Nevinson
Economy

Stopping Trump: It’s the Economy, Stupid!

Jonathan D. Simon
Donald Trump, Trump Always Chicken’s Out, TACO, Taco Belle
Cartoon

Levies’ Labors Lost

Jon Richards
President, Donald Trump, announcing, tariff Liberation Day
Economy

Trump Lays the Groundwork for Blaming Economic Downturn on Everybody Else

Klaus Marre

Justice

Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Oval Office
Criminal Justice US Politics

Lawless & Disorderly: Trump Just Offered Crooks Another Way to Escape Justice

Klaus Marre 06/29/25

More evidence has been revealed that the Trump administration’s indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is, at best, shady.

masked man, American flag
Justice

Unmasked: The Illegal, Covert, and Costly Operations Behind ICE Authority

Sean Ogden 06/28/25
Cammack
Rights & Liberties

GOP Congresswoman Blames the Left for Her Run-In With Florida’s Abortion Law

Laura Bassett 06/23/25
ICE Officer, US Department of Homeland Security
Rights & Liberties US Politics

News Outlets Could Make a Simple Change to Highlight ICE’s Gestapo Tactics

Klaus Marre 06/19/25
police lights, crime scene
Rights & Liberties US Politics

The Light Is Flashing Red for the US as Trump Starts the War He Wants

Lucian Truscott IV 06/10/25

Podcast

Israel, Dirty Harry moment

Israel’s ‘Dirty Harry Moment’: How 12 Days Changed the Middle East Forever

Jeff Schechtman
USA branded car, flat tire, American flag

The American Economy: Coasting on Fumes but Built to Last

Jeff Schechtman
Ukrainian, FPV loitering munition, RPG-7 ammunition

Small Drones, Big Consequences: The Future of Asymmetric Warfare

Jeff Schechtman
Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping

The China Paradox That Will Define the 21st Century

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ukraine, Gaza, Iran

Trump Has Empathy for Leaders Like Him Who’ve Been Treated Very Badly

DonkeyHotey
Gaza war; U.S. bombing Iran; Trump NATO policy; NATO Russia

Some Exceptions Apply

Ted Rall
Donald Trump, tanking in the polls, goes to war with Iran

Explosion in the Ratings

Jon Richards

Editors' Picks

science, oceans, biodiversity, evolution, octopuses, early dominance

Hundreds of Fossils Reveal Squids’ Evolutionary Origins and Early Dominance

Whowhatwhy Editors
Demonstrators, clash, ICE agents, Newark, NJ

Saturday Hashtag: #PrivatePrisonPayback

Sean Ogden
science, safety, Japan, seafloor monitors, earthquakes, early warning system

Japan’s New Seafloor Monitors to Drive Quake Early Warning System

Whowhatwhy Editors
climate crisis, tech, greenhouse gases, shipping industry, cargo ships, pollution, cleanup invention, quicklime

Could New Invention Clean Up Cargo Fleets?

Whowhatwhy Editors
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