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10 Ways to Protect Yourself Against Scams During Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies (Gerry) The author
Victims of Franco Regime Still Search for Justice
Reading Time: 5 minutes When Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died on November 20, 1975, former US President Richard Nixon described
Testing Is Broken, Contact Tracing Has Failed: There’s a Better Way
Reading Time: 24 minutes Rarely do we have guests back on this podcast after only three months. But then rarely
How Did the Bear Cross the Road? Wildlife Corridor’s Success Caught on Video
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nearly 18,000 Airport Workers Sealed In for Testing After 7 COVID Cases Detected (Dana) The author
Trump Campaign Presses On in Wisconsin
Reading Time: 6 minutes While the transition to the Biden administration is finally underway, President Donald Trump’s legal grounds for
Mobile Fingerprinting a Core Tool in US Deportations: Report
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why Republican Voters Say There’s ‘No Way in Hell’ Trump Lost (Reader Steve) The author writes,
Why Can’t Trump and His Supporters Concede? Grief.
Reading Time: 5 minutes President Trump is in denial, and as a result so are his supporters. Much like a
Subsidizing and Innovating Away Climate Change
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Supreme Court Is in Charge Now (Dana) From the New Republic: “After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s
MyPillow Founder Ready to Go to the Mattresses for Trump
Reading Time: 3 minutes MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell might need a good night’s sleep. In recent days the ardent Trump
Lindsey Graham’s the Law-and-Disorder Senator
Reading Time: < 1 minute South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who faces an ethics complaint for allegedly trying to sway
Trump Fails to Convince Michigan GOP Lawmakers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Exhale. Following a tense week politically, more than half of American voters were able to breathe
US Greenhouse Gas Emissions See Historic Plummet
Reading Time: 3 minutes Democrats: Be Afraid (Jeff) From the Bulwark: “The Republican party has won a national plurality exactly
The Hispanic Republican Vote
Reading Time: 19 minutes Every four years the Hispanic vote is suddenly rediscovered by politicians and pundits. What gets forgotten
Remote Learning Is Here to Stay — How Can We Make it Better?
Reading Time: 3 minutes What Will Happen to Border Wall Construction Under a Biden Presidency? (Reader Steve) From the Arizona
The Big Count: What’s Happening With the Census?
Reading Time: 6 minutes One month ago, on October 15, Americans wrapped up the US census amid a pandemic, economic
Arctic Refuge Parceled Out for Sale in Trump’s Final Push
Reading Time: 5 minutes In its last days, the Trump administration is scrambling to make good on a much touted
How Mining Is Rewriting the Surface of Our Planet
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Staggering and Tragic’: COVID-19 Cases Spike in US Children, Top 1 Million (Dana) The author writes,
Don’t Blame the ‘Latinx Vote,’ Organizers Say. Engage It.
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the week since the presidential election was called for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect
Summit Aims to Clean Up Shipping Industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes Public Pressure and Lawsuits Kept USPS From Handing Trump the Election (Dana) The author writes, “There
The Rise of the Recycling Robots
Reading Time: 3 minutes Military Voters Fear They’re Part of Unsupported Fraud Claim (Reader Steve) The author writes, “Some military
Undocumented NJ Residents at Risk Under New Proposed Rules
Reading Time: 3 minutes Later this week, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) will formally decide on rules that
Someone Needs to Tell Him the Party’s Over
Reading Time: < 1 minute The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Donald Trump caricature
Activist Groups Helped Elect Biden but Aim for the Long Haul
Reading Time: 7 minutes During the presidential election, the mythical suburban swing voter became the golden fleece. It wasn’t just
How the Youth Vote Shaped the Election
Reading Time: 3 minutes Young people have the power to shape electoral outcomes, but do they use it? A WhoWhatWhy
Stewing Over Election Loss, President Silent as Virus Surges in US
Reading Time: 3 minutes Biden Can’t Stop America’s Democratic Decline (Russ) The author writes, “A few years ago I developed
How Well Did Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Handle Election Misinformation?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Trump Loyalists Elevated to Powerful Roles at the Pentagon After Firing of Defense Secretary (Reader Jim)
Women of Color Lead On the Ground in Georgia
Reading Time: 5 minutes For decades, the Peach State was reliably red. But an increasingly diverse population in Georgia —
Georgia on Everyone’s Mind
Reading Time: 6 minutes Fifteen days. That’s all the time there is between runoffs for two Senate seats in Georgia
On Veterans Day, the Story of a Liberator
Reading Time: 6 minutes When US soldiers arrived at the Dachau gate on April 29, 1945, they were not prepared
How to Preserve the Privacy of Your Genomic Data
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘Repugnant’ Kentucky State Police Training Included Hitler’s Guidance on Violence (Reader Steve) From the Lexington Herald-Ledger:
Assault Rifles, Prayers, and Outrage Over Election Outcome
Reading Time: 3 minutes As some in the crowd chanted prayers for Donald Trump’s triumph over evil, a dozen men
DHS Rule Aims to Make Qualifying for an H-1B Visa Impossible for Most
Reading Time: 3 minutes Arizona Flips! Navajos Contribute to Historic Shift (Dana) From the Navajo Times: “For only the second
Republicans Hunt for Fraud in Wisconsin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Attacking 1,850 people scattered throughout Wisconsin in both Democratic and Republican strongholds makes the job of
Heartburn Over; Biden Wins the Presidency
Reading Time: 2 minutes — OPINION — Plop, plop, fizz, fizz – oh what a relief it is. Alka-Seltzer should
What if Trump Refuses to Step Down?
Reading Time: 4 minutes — OPINION — The unanswered question today is not the final vote count in swing states,
US Formally Withdraws From Paris Climate Agreement
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose (Dana) From the New Yorker: “No American President has ever
America Decides 2020: What Happens Next, Explained
Reading Time: 3 minutes In America Decides 2020, editors and reporters for WhoWhatWhy explore the critical issues concerning who can
Where Do We Go From Here?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Democracy may be the best form of government we have, but there’s never a guarantee that
Georgia Slogs Through Ballot Count
Reading Time: 2 minutes It wasn’t the sort of leak that is customary in politics but it still set back
GOP Launches Legal Offensive Against Absentee Ballots
Reading Time: 3 minutes Before the polls had closed on Election Day, Tuesday, the Trump campaign and Republican lawmakers had
Dubious Robocalls Warn Millions of Voters to Stay Away from the Polls
Reading Time: 3 minutes As polling places opened on Election Day, many Americans received anonymous robocalls or texts, urging them
Decision Day 2020: Democrats Prepare for Legal Challenges
Reading Time: 3 minutes Polls closed on the east coast with surprisingly few election disruptions across the country. Those issues
Early Voting Woes and Delayed Mail Are Shaping the 2020 Election
Reading Time: 4 minutes More than 96 million ballots have already been cast in this election, nearly eclipsing the turnout
Georgia Lines Up to Vote Despite Difficulties
Reading Time: 4 minutes It took a hurricane to disrupt the steady flow of Georgia voters to polling places to
America’s Values, Dismantled Brick by Brick
Reading Time: 5 minutes –OPINION– It might be days, weeks or (heaven help us) months before we learn the outcome
FL’s Young Republicans and Trump’s Cult of “Hypermasculinity”
Reading Time: 10 minutes It seems as though each day has brought new Trump controversies into the spotlight, each met
Oregon May End Its War on Drugs
Reading Time: 4 minutes Oregon has been the center of national attention for its high-octane clashes between law enforcement and