WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts

The dean of UC Berkeley's Law School looks at how the courts have prioritized criminal control over civil rights for suspects and defendants. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/what-the-hell-happened-to-police-and-criminal-justice-reform

The Koch family is aging out. Peter Thiel has picked up the mantle as the new Midas of the extreme right. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/ peter-thiel-is-the-new-koch /

Rick Doblin, a pioneering researcher on psychedelics, details how these once-criminalized drugs may afford whole new possibilities in the treatment of mental illness. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/are-psychedelics-the-cutting-edge-treatment-for-mental-illness

Middle East scholar and author Shay Khatiri breaks down the realpolitik of the emerging relationships between the Taliban, Iran, Russia, and China. Spoiler alert: The US plays no role. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/iran-russia-china-and-the-taliban

Award-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman examines how 9/11 opened the door to America's worst historical impulses and led directly to Donald Trump and January 6th. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/the-direct-line-from-9-11-to-january-6th

This Labor Day marks a fundamental shift in the nature of work. What's the future for employers and employees? Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/labor-day-and-the-changing-nature-of-work

Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army officer, professor, and author, argues that American foreign and military policy must adapt to a radically changed and morally pragmatic world. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/stop-the-world-so-america-can-get-on Image Caption: The fall of Saigon, April 30, 1975 (inset). Americans and Afghan refugees leaving aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Ha...

A conversation with author, journalist, and professor Tom Nichols, who believes that the US has become a nation of adolescents and toddlers. Photo credit:  Rosa Pineda / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)  and  Eran Kampf / Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)   Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/america-is-no-longer-a-serious-nation

Harvard law professor Martha Minow on the state of the news business today, and why she thinks the government should play more of a role. Street Corner News. Photo credit: Silecyra / Flickr (CC BY 2.0),  https://www.flickr.com/photos/72999797@N03/6822063821

The story of the water defenders — a community in El Salvador that took on an international mining corporation and, against impossible odds, won a historic victory. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/a-grassroots-victory-against-corporate-greed

Why America's punitive and often violent response to those with mental illness makes our communities less safe and more inhumane. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/crime-punishment-and-homelessness-the-common-thread

A deep look at why cultural and political battles of the 1960s are far from over, and how the leaders gave us the world we live in today. Read More: www.whowhatwhy.org

The investigation of the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse won't find the real people behind the assassination, according to longtime Haiti scholar Amy Wilentz, who offers insightful analysis of Haiti's past, present, and future. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/?p=62712&preview=true&preview_id=62712

The real story of the divisions of 2020 and whether we can ever be made whole again. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/george-packer-explains-it-all/

The emotional importance of Juneteenth, as told by a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian and Texas native Annette Gordon-Reed. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/?p=62498&preview=true&preview_id=62498

A conversation with Jonathan Rauch about the forces and ideas that once held the country together — and are now unraveling. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/?p=61546&preview=true&preview_id=61546

Former congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich learned early in his career the old adage that the "duty of youth is to challenge corruption." Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/ the-man-who-fought-city-hall

A look at the burgeoning world of private spies, the elimination of any privacy, and the price we may pay as a society Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/?p=61294&preview=true&preview_id=61294

A look at how the unraveling of Bill Gates's private life may reveal public malfeasance — some of which may even affect public health. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/06/11/bill-gates-has-always-shown-us-who-he-is/

The real gun problem stems from criminals, drugs, and law enforcement. Not mass shootings and politics. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/06/11/why-we-may-never-solve-the-gun-problem/

A conversation with Nicholas Wade, the science journalist whose deeply researched work has given credence to the Wuhan lab leak theory of SARS-CoV-2. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/06/04/what-happened-in-wuhan/

One of the original JFK assassination investigators breaks down the 58-year-old case into its basic parts. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/28/the-original-inconvenient-truth/

Palestinian peace activist Yousef Bashir brings a singular insider's perspective to the conflict in Gaza. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/21/a-palestinian-american-struggles-for-peace-in-our-time/

A leading global blockchain and crypto expert, Eloisa Marchesoni, really really tries to explain the future of money in plain english. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/14/can-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-ever-be-explained-in-plain-english/

Lawyer and author Dan Kovalik, who supports the ongoing movements for racial and gender equality and justice, makes the progressive case against cancel culture. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/05/07/should-cancel-culture-be-canceled/