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The Hispanic Republican Vote
Reading Time: 19 minutes Every four years the Hispanic vote is suddenly rediscovered by politicians and pundits. What gets forgotten
Election Transparency Can Be Achieved: Scrutineers, Part VIII
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nearly 100 percent of votes cast in the US are counted by “black box” computers, generally
Up Close and Personal with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown
Reading Time: 12 minutes Sherrod Brown still dreams of the time when America’s great debates were actually aired on the
Trying to Stop the Election Attacks: Scrutineers, Part VI
Reading Time: 19 minutes A recent Public Service Announcement from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Could Tripling Our Population Make Us Great Again?
Reading Time: 14 minutes America faces a daunting array of problems: homeless people on our streets, a frayed democracy, roads
Vote Counting, the ‘Blue Shift,’ and Electoral ‘Delay’
Reading Time: 22 minutes For most of our history the Electoral College worked as intended. It wasn’t until 1992, and
Fox News — A Fair and Balanced Look
Reading Time: 18 minutes Millions of words have been written about Fox News — most of them hyperbolic and anything
Will He Go?
Reading Time: 17 minutes One of the few elections that Donald Trump lost in 2016 was the Iowa primary. When
Problems with Electronic Poll Books: Scrutineers, Part IV
Reading Time: 22 minutes In this episode of the Scrutineers Series, host Emily Levy interviews election security advocate and social
The Pathology of Government Secrecy
Reading Time: 15 minutes Everyone talks about the need for transparency in public affairs, but what the government means by
We Had the Tool to Prevent Lockdowns and Death
Reading Time: 28 minutes Testing is emerging as the key to stopping the COVID-19 pandemic. What’s clear is that the
Pete Hamill in His Own Words — and Voice
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I think of Pete Hamill I think of the old Brooklyn. New York tabloids. Ireland.
Why Are White Evangelicals Primed for Trump’s Fear-Mongering?
Reading Time: 15 minutes Why do self-described evangelicals overwhelmingly support an irreligious commander-in-chief? Why do megachurches demand to stay open
Scrutineers Part II – Bennie Smith
Reading Time: 26 minutes What happens when a financial analytics manager applies his skills to how we determine the winners
The High Cost of Free Speech
Reading Time: 14 minutes Stanley Fish is one of our nation’s most noted academics on the subject of free speech.
McCarthy to Cohn to Trump
Reading Time: 18 minutes Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most dangerous demagogue of them all? Father Coughlin? Huey
Even If You Vote… Will It Count?
Reading Time: 19 minutes You stand in line for hours to vote, or finally manage to receive a mail-in ballot
Trump Loses, Remains President?
Reading Time: 18 minutes Mary Trump, President Donald Trump’s niece, has written a tell-all book that portrays her uncle as
Putin, Putin, Putin
Reading Time: 21 minutes With the exception of Donald Trump, no public figure occupies more of the world’s psychological real
Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?
Reading Time: 12 minutes Today, we can’t even agree on the basics of a disease that has killed almost 130,000
Police, Wall Street, Pentagon, and White House Crime: What’s the Connection?
Reading Time: 21 minutes Two million Americans are infected with COVID-19 and 110,000 have died. Thirty-five million Americans are out
Election Day Is 165 Days Away… Be Afraid!
Reading Time: 19 minutes No matter which side of the political debate you’re on, election security seems to be the
From the Front Lines of the Fight for Fair Elections
Reading Time: 19 minutes The COVID-19 pandemic has already affected the 2020 election, as demonstrated by April’s chaotic Wisconsin primary,
Not All It Can Be: The US Military Is Failing
Reading Time: 17 minutes The US military is one of the few institutions that the vast majority of the public
Religious Nationalism and the Reopening of America
Reading Time: 17 minutes Many of the anti-lockdown protesters we’ve seen in places like Michigan, Florida, and Texas are part
The Pandemic and the Press
Reading Time: 14 minutes Journalism is a lot like police work: It often requires shoe-leather reporting and showing up where
Badger State Shame: What Actually Happened in Wisconsin
Reading Time: 16 minutes While some people are happy with the outcome of Wisconsin’s primary, the ongoing litigation is a
COVID-19 and the Billionaires
Reading Time: 13 minutes Americans are struggling. As of today, over 16 million people have filed for unemployment in the
Why Do Pandemics Often Start With Bats?
Reading Time: 14 minutes While people across the world were celebrating the holidays with loved ones at the end of
Will Economic Inequality Bring Down Our Entire System of Government?
Reading Time: 18 minutes Are politics and economics even more interdependent than we think? Our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy
Bloomberg Demonization of ‘Abandoned’ Youth Feeds Ugly Stereotype
Reading Time: 17 minutes Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has been challenged over comments he made about New York’s controversial “stop
Is Nevada About to Repeat the Iowa Clusterf**k?
Reading Time: 17 minutes Yes, they are still counting votes in Iowa, which raises many questions: How did the Democratic
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Reading Time: 14 minutes You may think that today’s political and cultural divide today is wide, but it’s nothing compared
Jarring Eyewitness Accounts Shed Light on the Cruelty of Slavery
Reading Time: 18 minutes Some 70 years after emancipation, a team of unemployed writers and journalists located over 300 formerly
Exposed: Partisan Gerrymandering Based on Race
Reading Time: 19 minutes Voter suppression is real and has had a measurable impact on elections this past decade. That
An Experiment in Decency
Reading Time: 17 minutes A federal investigation following the 2014 protests in Ferguson, MO, revealed that much of the town’s
WhoWhatWhy’s Top Podcasts of 2019 — Part 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here are the final five of our curated list of podcasts that we think reflect both
Has America Lost Its Grip on Reality?
Reading Time: 11 minutes If you watched any part of the impeachment hearing this week, you know that there are
Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy
Reading Time: 16 minutes Revealing the misconduct of others is always dangerous. Yet by exposing public and corporate corruption, whistleblowers
What If Everybody Is Wrong About Stopping Climate Change?
Reading Time: 15 minutes The prevailing scientific sentiment on the global ecological crises is that the only road to a
As Earth Chokes on Plastic Waste, Industry Expands Production
Reading Time: 19 minutes It’s no secret that plastic waste products — especially single-use items — are polluting the land,