A look at how the world economy and individual lives were changed forever by the pandemic, and where that leaves us now. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/the-post-pandemic-normal-will-never-be-the-way-it-was

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The Post-Pandemic Normal Will Never Be the Way It Was

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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 Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, August 24, 2021. Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Secretary of Defense PDF and © U.S. Air Force/ZUMA Press Wire Service/ZUMAPRESS.com

Stop the World… So America Can Get On

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

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 News About the News

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

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

Criminalizing Mental Illness

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 Second American Revolution — Will It Ever Be Won?

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

Haiti: Can a Vibrant Culture Save a Failed State?

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/

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