WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts

A conversation with author, journalist, and professor Tom Nichols, who believes that the US has become a nation of adolescents and toddlers.

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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.

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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.

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Why America's punitive and often violent response to those with mental illness makes our communities less safe and more inhumane.

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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.

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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.

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The real story of the divisions of 2020 and whether we can ever be made whole again.

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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.

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A conversation with Jonathan Rauch about the forces and ideas that once held the country together — and are now unraveling.

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Former congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich learned early in his career the old adage that the "duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

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https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/the-man-who-fought-city-hall