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Donald Trump, Navy, Norfolk, VA
Opinion US Politics

Knowing When to Dismiss Trump’s Ravings Is a High-Wire Tightrope Act

Klaus Marre 11/29/25

Donald Trump says so many crazy and false things that it is easy to ignore many of his proclamations. But dismissing him as a raving lunatic could have real-life consequences.

How to, talk, family, during the holidays
Podcast

Eat, Don’t Talk: Why You Did Not Win That Thanksgiving Argument

Jeff Schechtman 11/28/25
Donald Trump, Memorial, Charlie Kirk
Immigration

Trump Goes Full White Nationalist in Anti-Immigrant Thanksgiving Rant

Klaus Marre 11/28/25
Happy Thanksgiving!
Opinion

Giving Thanks to Our Readers

WhoWhatWhy Staff 11/27/25
Dixie Fire, Northern California
Culture Environment

What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters

Kedrick James and Derek Gladwin 11/27/25

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

International

Vladimir Putin, Steve Witkoff
International

Who Is Steve Witkoff, and Why Is He in Charge of Negotiating Ukraine’s Future?

Craig Unger 11/26/25

And who is the mysterious “mutual friend” who got Witkoff to do a favor for a Russian mobster?

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Jakob von Steinle
International

Evangelical Support for Israel Declines Worldwide

James M. Dorsey 11/24/25
Trump and Infantino
Culture International

FIFA Creates Consolation Peace Prize – First Recipient Is a Total Mystery

Klaus Marre 11/05/25

Epstein

Epstein, Trump, protest posters, Washington, DC
Environment

Jeffrey Epstein, Climate Change Doubter

Sara Peach
Good Trouble Protest, Anti Trump, Epstein Files, DC
Epstein

Trump Folds on Epstein Files

Klaus Marre
Best Friends Forever, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Sunset
Criminal Justice

Desperate Donald: Trump Tries New Tactic to Distract From His Epstein Ties

Klaus Marre
Ghislaine Maxwell mug shot
Criminal Justice

Club Fed: Dems Inquire Why Epstein Confidante Maxwell Gets VIP Prison Treatment

Klaus Marre

Opinion

Donald Trump, Navy, Norfolk, VA
Opinion

Knowing When to Dismiss Trump’s Ravings Is a High-Wire Tightrope Act

Klaus Marre 11/29/25

Donald Trump says so many crazy and false things that it is easy to ignore many of his proclamations. But dismissing him as a raving lunatic could have real-life consequences.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Opinion

Giving Thanks to Our Readers

WhoWhatWhy Staff 11/27/25
President Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud
Opinion US Politics

Paying Off Trump Is the Price of Doing Business These Days

Klaus Marre 11/18/25

Culture

Dixie Fire, Northern California
Culture

What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters

Kedrick James and Derek Gladwin
San Francisco, Poet
Culture

What Comes of Saying Hello: The Beauty and Bounty of Talking to Strangers

Russ Baker
People, working together, hands
One Small Thing

One Small Thing: Keep On Keeping On

Darlena Cunha
Elon Musk, billionaires, income inequality
Art

Billionaires Rewrite the News. The Rest of Us Deal With Reality

Russ Baker

Economy

Donald Trump, tariffs
Economy

Trump Inadvertently Admits That US Businesses Pay for His Tariffs

Klaus Marre 11/24/25

Albeit unintentionally, Donald Trump on Sunday finally spelled out who ends up paying for his tariffs… and it’s not foreign countries. 

Donald Trump, Numbers, Trillions, Fake
Economy Opinion

If Trump Has Raked in Trillions, Where Is the Money?

Klaus Marre 11/09/25
Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Bill Gates
Business US Politics

Our Craven Country: Why Corporations Keep Bowing to Trump

Neal Gabler 10/16/25

Elections

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
Nope sign, No Kings, Washington, DC
Elections

Americans Deliver a Poll Trump Can’t Ignore (but Probably Will)

Klaus Marre
East Wing, White House, demolition
Elections

The Handwriting on the Rubble: The East Wing and Election 2026

Jonathan D. Simon

Environment

Dixie Fire, Northern California
Culture Environment

What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters

Kedrick James and Derek Gladwin 11/27/25

When catastrophe becomes celebrity, we stop witnessing and start scrolling, turning suffering into spectacle. But we can break that cycle.

Epstein, Trump, protest posters, Washington, DC
Environment Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein, Climate Change Doubter

Sara Peach 11/25/25
The Xylom, RFK Jr,_Climate Change Art
Environment Health & Medicine

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

Lisa Patel, Grace Wickerson 11/19/25
People, dressed in black, standing in a cemetery
Environment

The Anthropologists Holding Funerals for the World’s Dying Glaciers

Bridgett Ennis 11/13/25
Hurricane Melissa, damage, Jamaica
Environment

Richest 0.1 Percent Guilty of the ‘Climate Plunder’ Wrecking Planet Earth

Jake Johnson 11/11/25

Podcast

How to, talk, family, during the holidays

Eat, Don’t Talk: Why You Did Not Win That Thanksgiving Argument

Jeff Schechtman
Andreessen Horowitz, Palantir, Anduril, Flock Safety, Tesla, Fanduel, Draft Kings, Polymarket, Cheddr, DoubleSpeed, Cluely

Who’s Building Our Tech Future? Innovation Without a North Star

Jeff Schechtman
ICE, Chicago

What’s Really Happening in Latino Communities

Jeff Schechtman
Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley

The Radicalization of Silicon Valley: Democracy Is Optional

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine, Peace Plan

Dictatored, Not Read

Jon Richards
trump, Mamdani

Game Changers

Ted Rall
Pam Bondi Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump

Presidential Pampering

Jon Richards

Editors' Picks

climate crisis, global warming, tropical rainforests, Congo basin, vital carbon sink, funding and policy neglect

The Congo Basin Is Earth’s Second-Largest Rainforest. Why Is It Being Neglected?

Whowhatwhy Editors
tech, AI tools, images and video, controversy, backlash, artistic expression

‘Go Generate a Bridge and Jump Off It’: How Pros Are Navigating AI

Whowhatwhy Editors
science, nature, biodiversity, U.S. wildlife, America's 250th birthday celebration, incredible species highlighted

Incredible Wildlife Highlighted to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday

Whowhatwhy Editors
Nintendo, Game Boy,

Saturday Hashtag: #GenomicGameboy

Sean Ogden
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