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Mike Pence, coronavirus, life
Politics & Policy
December 20, 2020 | DonkeyHotey
Tags: Abortion, cartoon, Mike Pence, Opinion

With Thousands Dying, Pence Hails Trump As Most ‘Pro-Life’

Reading Time: 2 minutes Vice President Mike Pence celebrated the “pro-life” accomplishments of the Trump Administration with a room of mostly maskless supporters.

Rapid corona tests
Health & Medicine
December 19, 2020 | Mary Ann Asson-Batres
Tags: coronavirus

Fast, Cheap, and Under Control: At-Home Testing Can Rein in COVID-19

Reading Time: 5 minutes Worldwide vaccination against COVID-19 is still a long way away. But controlling it in the meantime can be a lot easier and cheaper than lockdowns.

Donald Trump, 2020, election
Politics & Policy
December 19, 2020 | Ted Rall
Tags: cartoon, Donald Trump

Trump’s Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Defeat

Reading Time: < 1 minute There are sore losers, and then there’s Trump.

COVID-19, vaccines, US, pandemic
Health & Medicine
December 18, 2020 | Mary Ann Asson-Batres
Tags: coronavirus

The Week in Pandemic: Social Distancing

Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to WhoWhatWhy’s weekly COVID-19 roundup. There’s a lot of virus coverage out there, so this feature will give you a dose of the latest news.

Donald Trump, Mount Rushmore, aerial review
Podcast
December 18, 2020 | Jeff Schechtman
Tags: podcast

Why the US Is More Like WeWork and Theranos Than Apple

Reading Time: 17 minutes A contrarian history of the US dismissing notions of exceptionalism and triumphalism.

New Jersey MVC, meeting cancellation notice
Institutions & Accountability, Politics & Policy
December 17, 2020 | Mary Ann Koruth

MVC Delays Rule-Making Even as NJ License Law Takes Effect in Two Weeks

Reading Time: 3 minutes A landmark law allowing undocumented immigrants to drive takes effect in NJ in two weeks. Where are the rules needed to implement it?

Politics & Policy, Power & Influence
December 17, 2020 | Marc Finaud

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Before They Eliminate Us

Reading Time: 4 minutes At a time when the world is struggling to combat COVID-19 and young people are mobilizing against the climate crisis, we tend to forget that other very existential threat: nuclear weapons.

Pavel Krisevich
Life & Culture, Power & Influence
December 16, 2020 | Mansur Mirovalev
Tags: world

Crimes and Punishments of Radical Artists in Putin’s Russia

Reading Time: 6 minutes Today’s Russian performance artists want nothing less than to annihilate political power.

respect the vote, Wisconsin, capitol
Elections & Voting
December 15, 2020 | Emily Blumenthal
Tags: Donald Trump, Joe Biden

Wisconsin Supreme Court Tosses Trump Election Lawsuit

Reading Time: 4 minutes A conservative judge crossed party lines to cut off any legal avenues for further challenges to the results as the electoral college confirmed Biden’s victory.

Donald Trump
Elections & Voting
December 15, 2020 | Klaus Marre and DonkeyHotey
Tags: Donald Trump, Opinion

What Will Trump Do Next? We Already Know

Reading Time: 4 minutes Even in 2019, WhoWhatWhy saw signs indicating that, in order to stay in office — and out of jail — Trump would be willing to take US democracy down with him.

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