Why the Future Is Bright for 100% Clean Energy
Progress report on how renewable, clean energy is becoming the new normal for many Americans and the potential challenges ahead.
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The Rise of the Digital Neighborhood Watch
GOP Blocks Election Security Bills ; Why the Little Ice Age Doesn’t Matter ; and More Picks 7/25
The GOP’s ‘Socialism’ Scam Is About to Backfire
For nearly a century, conservatives have labeled ideas they don’t like as “socialism” to get Americans to vote against their own interests. While that con worked when the Soviet Union was around, young voters today are embracing socialist ideas and turning their backs on the GOP.
You Say You Want a Revolution?
A deep dive into the violence and terrorism of the 1970s and ‘80s and the bombing of the US Capitol.
Coronavirus and the 2020 Election — an Update
There are a lot of moving parts at the moment, but election officials are scrambling to keep elections going amid the coronavirus. Here’s what happened this past week: Congress included $400 million for elections in its emergency $2 trillion stimulus package last week. It’s a step in the right direction, but a drop in the […]
The Perfect Storm: A Pandemic, Natural Disasters, and a Lack of Preparation
The coronavirus already has the entire world in crisis mode. What will happen when COVID-19 coincides with seasonal natural disasters? No one knows, but it’s high time to start figuring it out.
Reparations and Juneteenth
Is $300,000 per person an extravagant amount to pay Black citizens for generational poverty originating with slavery?
Preventing a Catastrophe
The presidential primaries are nearly over — Delaware, New Jersey, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and Connecticut’s elections will take place over the next two weeks — and it would be nice to say in the end that all of the issues we saw have been corrected in time for November. Unfortunately, and not surprisingly, that is […]
Few Ex-Felons Able to Vote Even After Rights Restored
Although their rights to vote were recently restored, few former felons in Iowa and Florida registered to vote in the 2020 election.
Insects Are Vanishing at an Alarming Rate — but We Can Save Them
Domestic Terrorism: A More Urgent Threat, but Weaker Laws ; 2021 Will Be the Year of Guaranteed Income Experiments ; and More Picks 1/12
FTC Orders Company to Quit Surveillance App Business
PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to picks@whowhatwhy.org. FTC Orders Company to Quit Surveillance App Business (Maria) The […]
Hawaiian ‘Paradise’ Faces Rising Tides and Temperatures
Hawaii may be postcard-beautiful, but the state capital is under a triple threat: rising temperatures, rising oceans, and too little rainfall.