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Donald Trump, hosts, African leaders
Rights & Liberties US Politics

Trump Administration Is Now Murder Incorporated. Watch Your Back

Russ Baker 01/12/26

Eyes are focused on the streets of Minneapolis — but the worst crime scene is in Washington, DC.

NATO, Greenland
Cartoon International

In the Land of the Green

Ted Rall 01/12/26
Donald Trump, Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve
Economy US Politics

The Upside to Threatening Powell: A Blueprint for Post-Trump Accountability

Klaus Marre 01/12/26
Inside, Renee Nicole Good, Honda Pilot
Justice US Politics

A Cold Rage: My Thoughts and Feelings About the Murder of Renee Nicole Good

Jonathan D. Simon 01/11/26
DonkeyHotey_Kristi_Noem_Domestic_Terrorist_3x2.jpg
Cartoon

When DHS Sends Its People, They’re Not Sending Their Best. They’re Sending…

DonkeyHotey 01/11/26

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

Economy

Donald Trump, Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve
Economy

The Upside to Threatening Powell: A Blueprint for Post-Trump Accountability

Klaus Marre

In order to be able to dictate the US monetary policy himself, Donald Trump is looking for a pretext to get rid of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And DOJ just gave him one. 

Farmworker, Suvarna Yadav, collapsed, extreme heat
Environment Labor

Extreme Heat Turns Work Deadly

Sanket Jain 01/08/26
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

Elections

Aftyn Behn, Tennessee, special election, campaigning
Elections

TN Special Election Ends Up Not Too Close, But Too Close for Comfort for GOP

Klaus Marre
Poll workers, count ballots, Detroit
Elections

They Do Audits, Don’t They? A Hard Look at What They Say Makes Elections Secure

Christopher Bystroff
Election Day morning, Fairfax, VA, 2025
Elections

Election 2025: The Verdict Was Clear but Will the Midterms Be Free and Fair?

Jonathan D. Simon
Speaker, Mike Johnson, official portrait, 2024
Elections

GOP Lives in Denial After Election Night Shellacking

Klaus Marre

International

Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump
International

Will Europe Cave?

Jonathan D. Simon 01/08/26

Does the continent that remembers Hitler dare to call Donald Trump’s bluff on Greenland?

Manuel Noriega, Nicolás Maduro, after capture, US military
International

Venezuela Isn’t Panama

James M. Dorsey 01/07/26
Protestors, Times Square, invasion, Venezuela, kidnapping, Nicolás Maduro
International US Politics

Trump’s Plan for Venezuela: A Hope, a Prayer, and Golf

Lucian K. Truscott IV 01/05/26

Justice

Donald Trump, hosts, African leaders
Rights & Liberties

Trump Administration Is Now Murder Incorporated. Watch Your Back

Russ Baker
Inside, Renee Nicole Good, Honda Pilot
Justice

A Cold Rage: My Thoughts and Feelings About the Murder of Renee Nicole Good

Jonathan D. Simon
ICE Agents, costume party, protest, Broadview, IL
Rights & Liberties

On Second Thought, Minnesota ICE Shooting Was Domestic Terrorism

Klaus Marre
Capitol, Trump, Protesters, tear gas
Rights & Liberties

What If Capitol Hill Cops Had Treated Trump’s Mob Like ICE Treated a MN Mom?

Klaus Marre

Technology

Microsoft, Wisconsin, Mount Pleasant, data center
Environment

The Fight to Stop Data Center Creep

Zeb Larson 12/18/25

Generative AI isn’t inevitable, and people are already fighting hard to keep power-hungry data centers out of their communities.

Friction, match, spark
Culture Technology

The Great Un-Humaning: What We Lose When Everything’s Easy

Jill Filipovic 12/10/25
Oil and gas industry, pushing fossil fuels, arms race
Environment Technology

No, the US Doesn’t Need Fossil Fuels to Win ‘an AI Arms Race’ Against China

Joe Fassler 10/02/25

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
Zohran Mamdani, scaffolding policy
Journalism & Media

Who Is Zohran Mamdani? And How Do You Know?

Russ Baker
Washington Post, building, sign, Washington, DC
Deep Dives

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

Jonathan D. Simon
Donald Trump, podium
Journalism & Media

Under a Vindictive Trump, Journalism Is Becoming a High-Risk Occupation

WhoWhatWhy Staff

Environment

Farmworker, Suvarna Yadav, collapsed, extreme heat
Environment Labor

Extreme Heat Turns Work Deadly

Sanket Jain 01/08/26

From India’s cane fields to US factories, rising temperatures are driving a surge in workplace injuries worldwide.

Farmers, equipment operators, Right to Repair, laws
Environment US Politics

State Laws Aim to Protect Environment, Consumers as Trump Wages War on Climate

Brad Reed 01/06/26
Amazon rainforest, lungs of the world
Environment

This Year in Conservation Science: Whales, Birds, and Killer Roads

John R. Platt 12/31/25
Climate Change, Camp 2007, Protest
Environment

Our Best Climate & Environment Stories of 2025

Whowhatwhy Editors 12/24/25
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

Podcast

Microplastics, Water Bottles, Tires, Medical Waste, and Plastic Bags, da Vinci man

From Ocean to Bloodstream: The Reality About Plastic

Jeff Schechtman
Death row, Angola Prison

What ‘Law and Order’ Really Costs Democracy

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

WhoWhatWhy’s Top 10 Podcasts of 2025 — Part 2

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

WhoWhatWhy’s Top 10 Podcasts of 2025 — Part 1

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

NATO, Greenland

In the Land of the Green

Ted Rall
DonkeyHotey_Kristi_Noem_Domestic_Terrorist_3x2.jpg

When DHS Sends Its People, They’re Not Sending Their Best. They’re Sending…

DonkeyHotey
Surveillance, spying, citizens, police, scanners, pre-crime

On the Road Again

Ted Rall

Editors' Picks

science, oceans, ecosystem, biodiversity, Argentina, squid jigging, overfishing

‘Mad Fishing’: The Super-Size Fleet of Squid Catchers Plundering the High Seas

Whowhatwhy Editors
defense contractor, shell game

Saturday Hashtag: #DODShellCorpAlert

Sean Ogden
biodiversity, mammals, Congo, Virunga National Park, mountain gorillas, rare twin birth

Birth of Rare Mountain Gorilla Twins Recorded in Congo Park

Whowhatwhy Editors
climate crisis, global warming, sunlight, reflection, experimentation, safety

We Can Safely Experiment With Reflecting Sunlight Away From Earth. Here’s How.

Whowhatwhy Editors
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