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By 07/15/2015

Democracy Suffers, Cuba’s Capitalism & Birds on Prozac: July 15, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Republicans Dominate States with Poor Democratic Health, Study Finds By Klaus Marre A new study shows that there is a wide gap between states when it comes to providing access to the ballot box for their citizens. States won by President Barack Obama generally performed much better with regard to ballot […]

By 07/13/2015

El Chapo’s Escape, Merkel’s Europe & Pluto’s Big Moment: July 13, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Drug Kingpin’s Escape Highlights Complicated US Relationship with El Chapo By Klaus Marre A well-known drug kingpin has escaped from a Mexican prison, and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said that the government will work with Mexico to aid in his recapture. As the search begins, it’s worth looking back […]

By 07/10/2015

Syria Is Burning, The Pope Is Pontificating & Bumblebees Are Dying: July 10, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: Fanning the Flames of Syria By Jeff Schechtman Just how bad is the situation in Syria? Four million Syrians have fled the country in the past four years as its cities smolder and civil war rages on. Strategic dysfunction on the part of the international community, led by the US, continued airstrikes, and […]

By 07/09/2015

Boston Bomber’s Backstory, Ghost Schools & The Surveillance State: July 9, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Marathon Bomber Appeals Conviction: Do His Lawyers Know Something We Don’t? By James Henry Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers continue the legal formalities necessary to build a case for appeal, despite an unequivocal admission by the defendant of his own guilt. Is there anything to be gleaned from an appeals trial about the […]

By 07/08/2015

The FBI’s Trickery, China’s Slide & Pot Profits: July 8, 2015

  NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy FBI’s Amazing Trick to Avoid Accountability By Matt Connolly Only the astonishingly unaccountable FBI could get away with consistently not recording its investigative interviews not only of suspects but of witnesses—then having its agents write up reports based on “memory.” A former Deputy District Attorney tells the story of one […]

By 07/08/2015

FBI’s Amazing Trick to Avoid Accountability

Only the astonishingly unaccountable FBI could get away with consistently not recording its investigative interviews not only of suspects but of witnesses—then having its agents write up reports based on “memory.” A former Deputy District Attorney tells the story of one judge who felt uncomfortable letting the Bureau wing it when he himself was in the hot seat.

By 07/07/2015

A Death in the Bronx, The Cost of Cyberwar & Revisiting Laos‏: July 7, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Youth, Wrongfully Jailed for Years, Kills Self—Who’s Responsible? By Ralph Lopez Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder spent three years in jail without a trial before the charges were dropped—including more than two years in solitary. His experience left him a broken young man. Before he killed himself, he attempted to expose how authorities […]

By 07/06/2015

Greece’s Defiance, China’s Crash & The Race for the Arctic‏: July 6, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy An All-American Independence Day Primary By DonkeyHotey, Klaus Marre and Maria Adelmann If three’s a crowd, then 19’s a party. WHO Angela’s Ashes: How Merkel Failed Greece and Europe On Sunday, the Greeks sent a resounding message to the Eurozone’s leadership by overwhelmingly voting “No” on the bailout referendum. But it’s […]

By 07/03/2015

American Pride, Ferguson Exposed & The War of the Worlds: July 3, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: Finally, a Meaningful Report on Ferguson, MO By Jeff Schechtman WhoWhatWhy podcaster Jeff Schechtman gets the lowdown on the federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown at the hands of a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri. What was that really about? Was there more to it than an isolated event? […]