Are Americans Afraid of Optimism?
Reading Time: 18 minutes The US and the world are doing better by almost every metric. So why is there so much pessimism?
Buying an Election: Here Comes the Big Money Tsunami
Reading Time: 6 minutes 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 so, what recourse do we have? The election has already been bought.
TVWHY: Russ Baker in St. Paul, Excerpt 4—Our Mindset
Reading Time: 1 minute In this fourth excerpt from a recent talk, WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker discusses propaganda, how we view our country and the world, the issues that matter, and more. You may also watch his complete talk.
TVWHY: Russ Baker in St. Paul, Excerpt 2–Snowden
Reading Time: 1 minute In this second excerpt from a recent talk, WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker discusses the vilification of Edward Snowden. You may also watch his complete talk.
TVWHY: Russ Baker in St. Paul, Excerpt 1–Troublemakers
Reading Time: 1 minute In this first excerpt from a recent talk, WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker discusses who the government considers to be troublemakers. You may also watch his complete talk.
TVWHY: Russ Baker in Santa Fe, Excerpt 4—Why WHO?
Reading Time: 1 minute In this fourth excerpt from a recent talk, WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker discusses “Why WhoWhatWhy?”
TVWHY: Russ Baker in Santa Fe, Excerpt 3—Our Rights
Reading Time: 1 minute In this third excerpt from a recent talk, WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker discusses “security, terrorism and our rights”
TVWHY: Russ Baker in Santa Fe, Excerpt 2—Arab Spring
Reading Time: 1 minute In this second excerpt from a recent talk, WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker discusses “from the Arab Spring to the Miranda Warning”
TVWHY: Russ Baker in Santa Fe, Excerpt 1–POWER
Reading Time: 1 minute In this first excerpt from a recent talk, WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker discusses “Acknowledging Where the Power Resides”
Double Your Muckraking Power! Only through Midnight November 6th
Reading Time: 1 minute An anonymous donor will match all of your Kickstarter pledges to WhoWhatWhy. But only through Tuesday, midnight.
Unstacking the Deck: The Status Quo, Third Parties, and You
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you have trouble figuring out how the presidential nominees are substantively different on the great issues of our time, you’re not necessarily dense. The system as it currently operates encourages candidates and campaigns that hew to the unremarkable and the disappointing.
Obama: “Yes, I’m in a Can”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s look a little further at what ails Obama—and us. It’s about the pretty small part of the One Percent that really calls the shots, and keeps a president from doing what he surely knows he must.