Fed’s First Black President Is Speaking Out About Economic Inequality
How Police-Union Power Helped Increase Abuses ; Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain ; and More Picks 6/19
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Two Visions of America
It’s Trump’s vision — not that of the protesters — that threatens American democracy.
McCarthy to Cohn to Trump
Joe McCarthy may have been America’s most vicious demagogue. But he passed all his “skills” onto Donald Trump. To understand McCarthy is to understand what we are living through.
A Family Affair: The President’s Niece Strips the Bark Off the Family Tree
Mary Trump explains Donald Trump’s sociopathy — chronic criminality, facility for lying, abusive behavior, lack of empathy, and indifference to right and wrong. And more.
Notes from a Coronavirus Contact Tracer
Tell me whom you infected. Three months working as a COVID-19 contact tracer taught me lessons on how to tackle the virus. Bottom line: there is no magic bullet.
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.)
Good Tuesday Afternoon, and Happy Election Day!
WhoWhatWhy’s Election Integrity Weekly is written by Gabriella Novello, and edited by William Dowell and Sue Rushford. Have a tip or want to suggest a story? Send us an email at ei@whowhatwhy.org. Good Tuesday Afternoon, and Happy Election Day! Voters in Massachusetts who want to cast their ballots in person for the state’s congressional […]
Sports Teams Help Create Election ‘Super Centers’
With a pandemic still raging, athletes and election advocates are teaming up to make voting as exciting as the Super Bowl.
Could Tripling Our Population Make Us Great Again?
Matt Yglesias makes the jaw-dropping argument that 1 billion Americans would make us a better, stronger, and more competitive country.
Campaign Seeks a Billion People to Save the Climate — One Small Step at a Time
Trump’s Treatment Was Tested Using Cells From an Abortion ; Liebermans Haunt Democrats in Key Senate Races ; and More Picks 10/12
New Bill Strips Presidential Authority to Shut Down Internet
The US Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations ; 9 Ways to Reform the Supreme Court Besides Court-Packing ; and More Picks 10/23
The Ten Dumbest Congressmen
How dumb can a congressperson be? This story on investigative journalism during the 1970s can only begin to answer that question. (You didn’t think we were referring to anyone in Congress today, did you?)