WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts

Two garbage trucks of plastic hit the ocean every minute. Microplastics are in your brain. Recycling doesn't work. What the plastic industry never told you. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Arkansas whipped prisoners until 1968. Now we celebrate El Salvador's concentration camps. A reckoning with punishment's price. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig challenges nearly everything we think we know about gun violence — and, by extension — violence itself. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Eleven federal workers reveal what it felt like to be fired by Musk's DOGE — the emails, the trauma, and the institutional destruction we've never heard about. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

We're not one nation split by politics — we're 11 regional cultures that have been at war since the colonies. And now the divisions are life and death. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

When billionaires mock the Pope with memes and fund "cheating apps," something's gone seriously wrong. The collapse of tech idealism; betting takes its place. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Families who voted for Trump now carry passports to prove they belong here. Inside the fear, resistance, and betrayal reshaping Latino communities. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Tech oligarchs abandon democracy, embrace Trump. Performance or conviction? When they control the platforms shaping reality, does it matter? Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Mangione isn't alone. A generation of alienated young men are reaching the same dark conclusion: The system is broken and only violence can fix it. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Suppressed jobs data, tariffs hitting consumers, and trillions in AI spending built on sand. The one force that still moves public opinion is breaking. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Millions may march this weekend. Some will go home thinking it didn't matter. Here's why they're wrong — and right. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

The economy may be democracy's last hope. Beneath calm headlines, inflation persists and wealth accumulates. The numbers reveal what matters most. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Revisiting my 1998 conversation with Jane Goodall — her voice, her vision, and her timeless reminder of our bond with the natural world.  Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

The bipartisan bet that created unprecedented prosperity for the world also delivered Donald Trump to America. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Today's America can't handle what's coming — not just from Trump but from mass automation, currency wars, China, resource battles. We need radically new politics. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Political violence isn't an aberration in American democracy — it's a defining trait. From the Boston Tea Party to January 6, it's how we settle our differences. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Lying has become a viable strategy for success. How influencers, algorithms, and crowds turn deception into accepted reality in the digital age. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

How tariffs became America's most expensive policy failure, destroying manufacturing jobs they claim to protect while emptying consumer wallets. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

What Ghislaine Maxwell knows about her father Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein may be the final untold chapter of two of the great scandals of our time. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

A decades-long trail of money and kompromat that isn't just scandal — it's a threat to the world order and to democracy itself. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

Russia's brief democratic promise died when Putin chose autocracy over capitalism. A chilling preview of what could happen in America today. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

When government systems collapse under complexity, democracy itself breaks down — fueling the populist frustration reshaping American politics today. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

The journalist who first published Epstein's black book reveals a network of corruption and systemic coverup reaching the highest levels of power. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

How the aristocrat's blueprint for populist conservatism became today's reality. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org

What if everything we believe about changing political minds is wrong? The real work of transformation happens elsewhere. Read More: www. WhoWhatWhy.org