Russ Baker Breaks Down Russiagate, JFK Records and More
WhoWhatWhy Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker recently sat down for a conversation with Pat Thurston, the popular talk host from KGO 810, a major San Francisco-based radio station. Front and center in the...
View ArticleNew Iron Curtain
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View ArticleOp-eds Endorsing Atlantic Coast Pipeline Came From Big Power, Activists Charge
As we reported last April and May, a controversial 550-mile pipeline crossing Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina is roiling Virginia politics — right in the middle of a hotly contested...
View ArticleKey Figure in Trump-Russia Saga Dodges Legal Bullet
One of President Donald Trump’s associates had some good news yesterday. Felix Sater, the subject of a recent in-depth piece by WhoWhatWhy, had a tax fraud claim against him tossed out of...
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How Propaganda Hacks Our Brains
There was a time when the difference between marketing and propaganda was a bright line. Marketing, in the old days, had some responsibility to tell the truth. At the very least, ads could not be...
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Ken Burn’s Vietnam Failure
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View ArticleWhy Are Athlete-Led Anthem Protests So Polarizing?
What exactly is it about anthem protests that make them so polarizing? It seems an obvious question, and a relevant one these days — but the answers turn out to be surprising.After President Donald...
View ArticleThe South’s Monumental History Lesson
One of the arguments offered by those fighting the removal of confederate statues is that it would be tantamount to “erasing history.” Instead of tributes to heroes of the confederacy, they claim,...
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Another Day, Another Country, Another Corporation Hurting Workers
You don’t expect to see a morality play about corporate power vs. workers’ rights unfold before your eyes while you sip a glass of red wine at an outdoor cafe in Madrid’s hip and lively Plaza Santa...
View ArticleNRA’s Silencer Bill
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The Murder of John Kennedy’s Mistress, Part 2
In Part 1 of this absorbing mystery, we saw some of the confounding facts that have made this event so incomprehensible, even after so many decades.Mary Pinchot Meyer, mistress to John F. Kennedy, was...
View ArticleFacebook Helps Chinese Gov’t?
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Classic Who: Texas Concealed Carry Law and the UT Tower Massacre
The Las Vegas slaughter was not the first time a sniper sought out higher ground to target random individuals. More than 50 years ago, the Texas Tower massacre in Austin, Texas, was one of the first...
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How Fake News About Africa is Costing US Taxpayers
Ugandan strongman Yoweri Museveni is like the fireman who is secretly an arsonist, starting fires he then rushes in to put out.In this WhoWhatWhy podcast, journalist and Africa expert Helen Epstein...
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The Ugly Ghost of Tom Price
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