A Nonprofit, Reader-Supported News Organization
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy No Love For Snowden By Klaus Marre The chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs recently praised whistleblowers, though he has been an outspoken opponent of Edward Snowden. Why the double standard when it comes to Snowden? WhoWhatWhy Media Extras: Russ Baker’s Jeb Bush Analysis By Russ Baker […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy The One-Party Ticket: Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush By Dan Engelke Gore Vidal once quipped that there is only one party in the United States: “The Property Party… and it has two right wings.” Thus is the state of the 2016 campaign over the last 96 hours. Hillary Clinton ‘relaunched’ her […]
Gore Vidal once quipped that there is only one party in the United States, “The Property Party…and it has two right wings.” Thus is the state of the 2016 campaign over the last 96 hours. Hillary Clinton ‘relaunched‘ her campaign on Roosevelt Island over the weekend and Jeb Bush, finally, declared his candidacy. While these […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Magna Carta Celebrates 800th Birthday—How Far Has Liberty Come? By Klaus Marre On the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a bipartisan group of worried senators serve as a reminder that no president is above the law. WHO Dianne Feinstein vs. the CIA The New Yorker dives deep […]
Big Coal, legally mandated to clean up mining-operation messes left behind in several states, could end up sticking taxpayers with the bill for its dirty deeds.
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: The Future of Outsourced Warfare By Jeff Schechtman Blackwater may have become a symbol of all that can go wrong when government contractors outnumber trained military personnel, but what really happened in the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan? WhoWhatWhy’s Jeff Schechtman sits down with Blackwater founder Erik Prince to […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Editorial: Sheriff Out of Town, Election Cash Outlaws Rule By Klaus Marre A WhoWhatWhy editor laments the FEC’s regulatory collapse in the face of blatant election law dance-arounds. WhoWhatWhy Media Extra: Paul DeRienzo on Thom Hartmann By The WhoWhatWhy Team Paul DeRienzo appeared on the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Buying an Election: Here Comes the Big Money Tsunami By Jon Hecht Campaign finance watchdog groups are calling on the Justice Department to launch investigations into the “non-campaigns” of some presidential “non-hopefuls” for flagrant violation of campaign spending limits. But when the agency responsible for enforcing such laws refuses to do […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Drone Deaths, Obama, and a Better Use for These Craft By Lisette Cheresson Earlier this year, two innocent hostages—one American, one Italian—were killed by a US-led unmanned drone strike meant to target al-Qaeda. By some estimates, the drone strikes that President Obama has authorized have murdered more innocent people than the […]
“Who do we want? Scott Walker! Why do we want him? Because we’ve filled his coffers in exchange for small government initiatives!” – say the Koch brothers, Bradley Foundation, and many others. OK, they didn’t actually say that, but they have poured money into small-government think tanks that have, you guessed it, supported small-government Wisconsin […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: The Whistleblower’s Dilemma: Loyalty vs. Moral Obligation by Jeff Schechtman Whistleblowers are often ostracized for their willingness to speak out against corruption and unchecked power. What is it in human nature that’s so scared of transparency and truth? RadioWhoWhatWhy’s Jeff Schechtman speaks with former whistleblower Wendy Addison, recognized for bringing […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy WhoWhatWhy Exclusive: Our Homeless, Explosive Radioactive Waste by Paul DeRienzo A formidable glitch occurred just as the United States prepares to embark on a multi-billion-dollar program to restart production of nuclear weapons. An explosion at an underground waste dump in New Mexico—complete with some sky-high kitty litter—is highlighting the dangers inherent not […]