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NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy FBI: Hanging By A Hair by Klaus Marre The incorrect or erroneous testimony of FBI agents could have sent hundreds of innocent people to jail or to their death. WHO How The Guardian Milked Edward Snowden’s Story WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attacks The Guardian and its hastily-compiled book—The Snowden Files: The Inside […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Is Western Policy on Ukraine Putin’ World at Risk? by Victor Kotsev Western support of the Ukrainian uprising may have been miscalculated—and has the potential to exacerbate an already-strained relationship with Russia. WHO The Super Rich Have a New Way to Buy Elections Until recently, SuperPACs were driven by “bundlers”—heavy-hitting political […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: Think You Know the First Amendment? Think Again. by Jeff Schechtman We take a random walk through what the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights are really all about with Burt Neuborne. Neuborne is the former national legal director of the ACLU and the founder of the Brennan Center […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy How “Genetic Surveillance” Will Reveal Your Personal Details by Andy Roesgen A Chicago professor’s obsession with a single strand of hair leads her to create face sculptures of random strangers—from DNA extracted from bits of trash they leave behind. These creepy creations pose big questions when it comes to privacy and […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Dead Men Tell No Tales by Joanne Potter The prosecution’s message is clear: bring on the execution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev! In the latest development, it turns to a hotshot death penalty advocate to use against Tsarnaev’s hotshot death penalty opponent counsel. But why is the federal government, normally reticent about the […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy The Lincoln Assassination and Cover-Up: Part of an On-Going Story by Peter Dale Scott April 15, 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Even a century and a half later, there are questionable aspects of his death that mirror unresolved questions in much more modern assassinations. What is the […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Tsarnaev Guilty, but Who Made the Bombs? by Joanne Potter Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now faces the sentencing phase of his trial, even with questions about the case left unanswered. The most crucial of these: Who constructed the Marathon bombs and where? 2016 Presidential Race: WhoWhatWhy Curates the Best of the Media Stream […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Obama Faces Tough Crowd at Americas Summit by Sally Kim The goodwill President Obama first enjoyed with our Latin American neighbors has thawed, in large part due to an executive order signed in March that labels Venezuela an “extraordinary threat.” RadioWhoWhatWhy: Lawyers, Guns and Money by Jeff Schechtman University of Minnesota […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Making Sense of Boston April 9, 2015 by Klaus Marre It doesn’t take an expert on the Boston Marathon Bombing to see some major discrepancies in the overall case. There are just too many things that don’t make sense. Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev an FBI Informant? Odds Say it’s Possible April 9, […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy An Open Letter to Our Readers: The Case for Democracy by Klaus Marre Despite the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Voter Registration Act of 1993, there are still issues with voter registration. This, and a seemingly complacent electorate, mean that American elections are left up to a powerful […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Why We Fight With the Pen by Russ Baker The Boston Marathon bombing and trial has not been covered responsibly by the media, which has allowed the case to proceed and the trial to near its end with many important questions unanswered and unexplored. WHO GOP Hawks Set to Ruin Rand […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Shining a Light on the Shadow Candidates by Klaus Marre Federal campaign contribution limits are in place to ensure that the democratic system can’t be bought and sold. Yet watchdog groups have already called out several potential 2016 candidates for abusing the system.. WHO Rolling Stone’s Boss Plays the Victim The […]