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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. US Renewable Energy Farms Outstrip 99 Percent of Coal Plants […]
Palace politics? Or an unhappy accident?
Congress should pass legislation to create national standards for policing to regulate local and state police departments so violence-prone and violence-craving individuals don’t end up as cops.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) wants to control what students learn, read and think. That is likely a winning strategy to win the GOP nomination. The question is whether the rest of America is on board with backing a book burner.
From neoliberalism to evangelicalism, a look at history, power, myth, and paranoia in our current politics, and an alternative vision of liberal democracy.
In north Brazil, the combined effects of a hydroelectric dam and earth-shifting livestock have altered the landscape — and upended people’s lives.
A rant on technology, capitalism, and the future.
What real estate, oil wells, racism, and yogurt containers reveal about the disparate damages caused by fossil fuels.
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. Brazil’s New President Works to Reverse Amazon Deforestation (Maria) The […]
Santos could have been spotted earlier; Presley stories leave out what mattered most: the effects of Scientology.
The Livermore announcement is impressive as a feat of engineering but, after 60 years, they are nowhere close to a commercially viable energy source.
Felicia Kornbluh argues that the movement must now focus on broader issues and on grassroots politics, not the courts.