Whowhatwhy's Podcasts

Author and investigative journalist Criag Unger thinks he has found the unified field theory behind the Trump-Russia connection — and why Trump is still a security risk. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/02/19/was-trump-a-russian-asset/

Why is achieving racial equality so hard? Princeton’s Chair of the Department of African American Studies shows us why, through the lens of James Baldwin. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/02/17/eddie-glaude-jr-james-baldwin-and-black-history/

How economic populism grew into a toxic stew of resentment, nationalism, racism — and the bloody riot of January 6, 2021. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/02/12/why-populism-is-toxic/

A personal look inside the final days and multimillion-dollar shakedowns of the Trump pardon process.

A look at how religious nationalism — more than politics — spurred the events of January 6. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/29/josh-hawley-told-us-who-he-was/

A look at why facts, data, and truth have little to do with what we believe. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/22/unity-is-probably-impossible/

Why the US Senate is no longer “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” and where it went wrong. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/15/why-is-the-us-senate-so-fked-up/

As tech companies move from blue states to blue cities inside red states, what are the long-term political consequences? Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/01/12/the-new-color-purple/

More than 1.4 million votes have been cast for the Georgia Senate runoff race set for January 5. Here’s what voters need to know. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/22/mobilizing-voters-for-the-georgia-runoff-scrutineers-part-x/

A contrarian history of the US dismissing notions of exceptionalism and triumphalism. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/18/why-the-us-is-more-like-wework-and-theranos-than-apple/

Longtime socialist professor and activist Victor Wallis lays out his socialist agenda. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/11/sketches-of-a-socialist-dream/

A conversation with Gene Sperling, one of the few progressive economists advising Joe Biden. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/08/whose-economy-is-it-anyway/

An in-depth look at why the push to get schools back open is in part about the unspoken limits and failure of remote leaning. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/04/why-even-a-pandemic-cant-make-remote-learning-work/

As Georgia gears up for its runoff senate elections, the Coalition for Good Governance advocates for transparency and security from the state government. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/30/noise-about-gas-election-system-scrutineers-part-ix/

A conversation with Dr. Michael Mina about a new kind of testing that may be a more effective virus-fighter than a vaccine. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/26/testing-is-broken-contact-tracing-has-failed-theres-a-better-way/

A look at how the Republican party, long associated with draconian immigration and racial policies, continues to gain Hispanic voters. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/20/the-hispanic-republican-vote/

Energy expert Daniel Yergin on Joe Biden facing a world whose geopolitics have been transformed by climate, fracking, and an insatiable global demand for energy. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/18/the-geopolitics-of-energy/

Do 1,200 books about the Trump era really help us understand anything? Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/11/13/booking-trump/

Two distinguished legal scholars examine the state of election lawsuits, and why our elections today need so many lawyers.

An examination of how our current anger and animosity might very well lead to greater violence — and even secession.