A Nonprofit, Reader-Supported News Organization
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: “If you think you know what’s going on in Mexico, you’re misinformed.” By Guillermo Jimenez There’s more to the second prison break by Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo than meets the eye. A podcast. WHO Criminal Inquiry Is Sought in Clinton Email Account Two inspectors general requested a Justice Department inquiry […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Pope, with Green Reforms, Keeps Odd Company By Carmelo Ruiz Will the Pope’s courageous stand on the environment extend to challenging those who hypocritically associate themselves with it? WHO The US military’s Trillion-Dollar Boondoggle Scott Beauchamp takes a hard look at the costly, disastrous F-35 “fighter” jet. Many think “the most expensive weapons […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy WhoWhatWhy Investigation Shows Broke Teens Rot in Chicago Jails for Years Awaiting Trials By Ralph Lopez In response to a WhoWhatWhy Freedom of Information Act request, Chicago officials admitted that many teens who are unable to make bail sit in the city’s jails, sometimes for years, before their cases go to […]
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 […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Tsarnaev Faces More Charges: In Case He Gets Off? By James Henry Middlesex County District Attorney Marian T. Ryan wants Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to stand trial for the murder of MIT cop Sean Collier and the shootout in Watertown, Massachusetts. According to experts, individuals charged with federal capital crimes are almost never […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 employed extraordinary pressure to compel confessions of guilt.