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police lights, crime scene
Rights & Liberties US Politics

The Light Is Flashing Red for the US as Trump Starts the War He Wants

Lucian Truscott IV 06/10/25

“We couldn’t have scripted this any better.”

Eddystone Generating Station, Eddystone, Pennsylvania
Environment

Trump Administration Rescues Another Dying Fossil Fuel Plant

Jake Johnson 06/10/25
ICE Protests LA
Rights & Liberties US Politics

The GOP Is Getting High Off Its Own Supply (of Hate)

Klaus Marre 06/10/25
LA Protests, Police Riot,
Cartoon Rights & Liberties

Interpretation of the Streets

Jon Richards 06/10/25
Donald Trump, mugshot, PO1135809
Opinion Rights & Liberties

The Beauty of America Is That Even Bad Guys Get Their Day in Court

Klaus Marre 06/09/25

International

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, speaks, National Unity Day, online rally
International

Russia’s Proto-Trumpist Party a Magnet for the Far Right

Mansur Mirovalev 06/04/25

Zhirinovsky boasted that Moscow should rule lands from “Kabul to Istanbul,” and Russian soldiers would one day “wash their boots in the Indian Ocean.”

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Announces, Drone Attack, Russia
International Ukraine

Ukraine’s Trojan Trucks: Lessons for Us

Claire Berlinski 06/03/25
Donald Trump, Qatar, Sheikh Tamim, Al Udeid, Air Force Base
International

Qatar at Center of Battle for Hearts and Minds

James M. Dorsey 06/03/25

Health & Medicine

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sworn in, HHS Secretary
Health & Medicine

RFK Jr. Isn’t Bothered by Measles

Paul Offit
medicaid, protester
Health & Medicine

GOP’s Reconciliation Bill Would Boot 8.6 Million Americans Off Medicaid

WhoWhatWhy Staff
Microplastics
Environment

What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic?

Neha Pathak
Protest, Sign, Tax Cuts for Billionaires Medicaid Cuts for You
Health & Medicine

Millions Stand to Lose Medicaid Coverage If Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Passes

Klaus Marre

Rights & Liberties

police lights, crime scene
Rights & Liberties

The Light Is Flashing Red for the US as Trump Starts the War He Wants

Lucian Truscott IV 06/10/25

“We couldn’t have scripted this any better.”

ICE Protests LA
Rights & Liberties US Politics

The GOP Is Getting High Off Its Own Supply (of Hate)

Klaus Marre 06/10/25
ICE Protest, Los Angeles
Rights & Liberties US Politics

Trump Is Itching for Death and Destruction

Klaus Marre 06/09/25

Environment

Eddystone Generating Station, Eddystone, Pennsylvania
Environment

Trump Administration Rescues Another Dying Fossil Fuel Plant

Jake Johnson
240,000 pounds of invasive Silver Carp removed
Environment

Illinois Must Protect the Great Lakes From Asian Carp. Toxic Ash Is in the Way.

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Behold thy Landfill.
Environment

Colorado’s Landfills Generate as Much Dirty Air as 1 Million Cars in a Year

Jennifer Oldham
Climate Change, pollution
Environment

Methane Trackers Meet a New Moment

Emily Sanders

One Small Thing

Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, Law Library stacks

One Small Thing: Remember, People Matter

Darlena Cunha
Ron DeSantis, Fruitless Efforts, HB 1205

One Small Thing: Use Your Efforts to Help People

Darlena Cunha
Old Colorado City Library

One Small Thing: Stand Up for Our Institutions

Darlena Cunha
Poster, Miracle at Kat Cammack’s Office Initiative

One Small Thing: Finish What You Start

Darlena Cunha

Economy

President, Donald Trump, announcing, tariff Liberation Day
Economy

Trump Lays the Groundwork for Blaming Economic Downturn on Everybody Else

Klaus Marre 06/03/25

After putting the US economy on thin ice, Donald Trump is looking for someone to blame when it crashes. 

Donald Trump, UK, Oval Office
Economy US Politics

TACO Wednesday at the White House: Trump Loses His Cool, Then a Key Decision

Klaus Marre 05/29/25
Donald Trump, Auto, Tariffs, Oval Office
Economy US Politics

Fresh Off Crypto Grift Party, Trump Is Giving Himself Another Tariff High

Klaus Marre 05/23/25

Criminal Justice

Pam Bondi, podium, speaking
Criminal Justice

Trump Administration Lied When Saying It Couldn’t Get Abrego Garcia Back

Klaus Marre
en. Mark Warner, questions, FBI Director Kash
Criminal Justice

US Arrests a Prominent MS-13 Leader… Maybe

Klaus Marre
Donald Trump, speaks, FII Priority Summit, Miami, FL
Criminal Justice

Trump Finds New Conspiracy Theory to Embrace in Post-Midnight Rant

Klaus Marre
Eric Adams, subway crime, photo op
Criminal Justice

Dems Have Some Questions About Trump’s Shady Deal With Indicted NYC Mayor

Klaus Marre

Art

red staircase, Cannes Film Festival, Les Marches du Palais
Art

Why Cannes Still Matters: Dreams, Art, Parties, and the Enduring Magic of Cinema

Jeff Schechtman 05/24/25

Amid yacht parties and red carpets, Cannes proves cinema still matters — where art fights commerce and collective dreams refuse to surrender to algorithms.

Dominant curve, Wassily Kandinsky, painting, 1936
Art Culture

‘Watchful Waiting’ in Central Park: A Poem

Gerald Jonas 03/30/25
Bob Dylan, Festival de Pedralbes
Art US Politics

What Everybody is Missing about Bob Dylan’s JFK Song

Richard Eskow 03/01/25
Comedian, Bill Hicks, Laff Stop, Austin, Tx, 1991
Art US Politics

Comedy at a Crossroads: Why the World Needs Bill Hicks More Than Ever

Brian Baccus 02/26/25
Surfaces meeting, Wassily Kandinsky
Art

MULTI – VERSE

Gerald Jonas 02/16/25

Podcast

Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping

The China Paradox That Will Define the 21st Century

Jeff Schechtman
Securing Our Future London Summit, EU leaders

The Dismantling of the Global Order That America Created

Jeff Schechtman
The banality of the banality of evil, Banksy

When Thinking Stops, Evil Spreads: The Danger in Our Everyday Compliance

Jeff Schechtman
Trump Rally, Trump Supporters, Close-up

Hijacking America: The Silent Coalition Behind Democracy’s Decline

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

LA Protests, Police Riot,

Interpretation of the Streets

Jon Richards
Donald Trump, First They Came, Pastor Martin Niemoller, ELon Musk

Republicans Want Trump To Lay Off of Elon and Stick to Smiting the Defenseless

DonkeyHotey
Donald Trump, Cruelty is the point, content creator

Oppression, Fairly

Ted Rall

Editors' Picks

Barn owls, London

What a Hoot! Owl Sightings Take Off in London

Whowhatwhy Editors
science, pollutiAon, wildlife, plastic waste, dissolvable, seawater

Scientists in Japan Develop Plastic That Dissolves in Seawater in Hours

Whowhatwhy Editors
Food Safety Scientists, Corporations

Saturday Hashtag: #FederalRegulatoryFailure

Sean Ogden
nature, biodiversity, marine life, Tasmania, 'doomsday fish' discovery

Rare ‘Doomsday’ Oarfish Washes Up On Tasmania’s Wild West Coast

Whowhatwhy Editors
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