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.
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.
Trump’s Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Defeat
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are sore losers, and then there’s Trump.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.