Whowhatwhy's Podcasts

When an authoritarian regime offers no ideology, no story, no reason to believe, it plants the seeds of its own destruction. Minneapolis and Iran show this story. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

The old rules are gone. The new ones aren't written yet. And no one in charge knows how to write them. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

The inside story of how greed, ambition, and rivalry destroyed AI's safety mechanisms — and why human failings, not technology, are driving us toward catastrophe. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

A jury just shattered Big Tech's legal shield. Meta and YouTube: guilty of engineering addiction. This is social media's tobacco moment — and AI is next. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

New questions about Iran challenge what we think we know — about power, society, and risks that rarely surface in mainstream coverage. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

War without strategy. Drones without limits. Data without wisdom. How the Iran conflict is stumbling toward World War III — and no one can explain why. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

China loses two oil partners to US action. Their response? Strategic patience. Are we watching restraint or preparation for what's next?

Iran didn't ask for regime change. It asked for bread. How a protest movement got hijacked — and turned into a war nobody planned for. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

The guardrails weren't real — they were simply norms. The Constitution wasn't a firewall. And the Madisonian dream? Always more myth than reality. So now what? Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

China is the justification for our AI policy, our defense spending, our tariffs, even our alliances. What if we're wrong about all of it? Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

They're booing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Canada. What's happening to our closest neighbor is a preview of what Trump does to both countries and companies. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

The largest massacre in modern history happened in 48 hours. Shay Khatiri on what comes next in an Iran on the brink. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

While America abandons climate action, the world races ahead—and watches in dismay. A look at the cost of US denial and what's happening without us. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

Can democracy survive computerized vote counting? Systemic and man-made vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure may threaten integrity. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org

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