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With the Finish Line in Sight, Dems Have to Keep Their Eyes on the Prize No side trips to Impeachment City or the Land of Woke. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/elections/with-the-finish-line-in-sight-dems-have-to-keep-their-eyes-on-the-prize/

2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits Of the 16 climate indicators analyzed, seven showed record extremes. https://whowhatwhy.org/science/environment/2026-state-of-the-climate-report-shows-a-planet-reaching-its-limits/

Armored Amphibian Lived Entirely At Sea 237 Million Years Ago, Fossils Suggest PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because… https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/armored-amphibian-lived-entirely-at-sea-237-million-years-ago-fossils-suggest/

Tracking Early Voting in Midterms — More Than Half Cast Ballots Early or by Mail PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers beca… https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/tracking-early-voting-in-midterms-more-than-half-cast-ballots-early-or-by-mail/

No Quantum of Solace — Musk Goes Full Bond Villain From spending half a billion dollars (which is less than he makes every day) on buying himself a compliant Congress, to controlling wheth… https://whowhatwhy.org/science/artificial-intelligence/no-quantum-of-solace-musk-goes-full-bond-villain/

As Trump Tries to Steal Another Election, Here Is a Helpful Reminder About 2020 It’s important not to forget that the midterms won’t be the first election Donald Trump tried to stea… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/as-trump-tries-to-steal-another-election-here-is-a-helpful-reminder-about-2020/

Billionaires Think Your Votes Are Worth Millions — You Should Too These four tech bros are spending over a half billion dollars to buy your vote. That is a measure of how important your vote is. https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/billionaires-think-your-votes-are-worth-millions-you-should-too/

Social (Media) Justice? Young Americans Are Sitting Out the Revolution When I was your age, I walked through gallons of tear gas. https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/social-media-justice-young-americans-are-sitting-out-the-revolution/

Trump Concocts Lawsuit to Help the GOP Steal Alaska Senate Seat The only thing that the Trump administration's complaint — that seeks to award a close Alaska Senate election to the Repub… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/elections/trump-concocts-lawsuit-to-help-the-gop-steal-alaska-senate-seat/

Election 2026: How Little We Know Hard to know what to make of an election where an honest result would be a shocking result. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/elections/election-2026-how-little-we-know/

Election 2026: How Little We Know Hard to know what to make of an election where an honest result would be a shocking result. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/elections/110646/

Election 2026: How Little We Know Hard to know what to make of an election where an honest result would be a shocking result. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/elections/110646/

Trump Earns Iowa’s Prestigious ‘Man of the Century’ Award Donald Trump's streak of amazing accomplishments and feats continued Thursday night. He is now state Rep. Joe Mitchell's (R-as though t… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/trump-earns-iowas-prestigious-man-of-the-century-award/

Have We Lost Sight of What Politics Is For? Can we defend democracy without sacrificing the friendships and human connections that make it worth saving? The paradox of political obsession. https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/have-we-lost-sight-of-what-politics-is-for/

Hackers Exploited Web Scripting Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because … https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/hackers-exploited-web-scripting-vulnerabilities-days-before-they-were-patched/

Trump’s Extortion and Bribery Tour May Come to a High School Gym Near You With a mix of false promises and gross threats, Donald Trump is trying to coerce Americans into votin… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/trumps-extortion-and-bribery-tour-may-come-to-a-high-school-gym-near-you/

Why the 10th Anniversary of ‘Black Jeopardy With Tom Hanks’ Matters Two weeks before Donald Trump was elected for the first time, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch that holds the key to healing … https://whowhatwhy.org/culture/why-the-10th-anniversary-of-black-jeopardy-with-tom-hanks-matters/

‘Digger’ Has a Lot Of Haters. Here’s Why They’re Wrong. In trying to capture the absurdity of the climate crisis, Alejandro G. Iñárritu made something weird, messy, and downright thrilling. https://whowhatwhy.org/culture/arts/digger-has-a-lot-of-haters-heres-why-theyre-wrong/

Colorado Wildlife Overpass Cut Vehicle-Animal Collisions By 91% PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprisin… https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/colorado-wildlife-overpass-cut-vehicle-animal-collisions-by-91/

As Discontents Flare Up, Fascists Feed on the Flames Will violence, disorder, and chaos play into the hands of France’s far right? https://whowhatwhy.org/international/as-discontents-flare-up-fascists-feed-on-the-flames/

Republicans Would Probably Rather Talk About Epstein Than Trump’s Corruption Americans have taken note of the unprecedented government corruption and self-dealing … https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/republicans-would-probably-rather-talk-about-epstein-than-trumps-corruption/

RFK Jr.’s Next Move RFK Jr. just announced a new vaccine safety initiative. Here’s what happens next. https://whowhatwhy.org/science/health-medicine/rfk-jr-s-next-move/

Poll Workers May Mark Your Ballot. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry. PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surpri… https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/poll-workers-may-mark-your-ballot-heres-why-you-shouldnt-worry/

Par for the Course Faced with the looming midterms and mounting economic, domestic, and international crises, Donald Trump has turned his attention to matters he can (perhaps) control: a legal battle surrounding the renovation of the East Pot… https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/par-for-the-course/

President Correctly Identifies a Giraffe How many Americans could succeed when faced with the daunting challenge of being shown the drawings of four different animals and then being asked to point out the gi… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/president-correctly-identifies-a-giraffe/

Climate Crisis Likely Caused World’s Largest Penguin Colony to ‘Crash’ “Big Oil is doing everything in its power to turn this beautiful, miraculous world into a wasteland.” https://whowhatwhy.org/science/environment/climate-crisis-likely-caused-worlds-largest-penguin-colony-to-crash/

California Settles 23andMe Data Breach Claims for $6 Million PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, tro… https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/california-settles-23andme-data-breach-claims-for-6-million/

Ads That Could Sink Trump and Trumpism The ads that should be running now: America needs to hear and see the horror, again and again. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/ads-that-could-sink-trump-and-trumpism/

There’s a New Global Cybersecurity Threat Outpacing Regulation, and It’s Not AI A group of cybersecurity researchers unveiled evidence showing that an Israeli spyware operation w… https://whowhatwhy.org/international/theres-a-new-global-cybersecurity-threat-outpacing-regulation-and-its-not-ai/

Angry at Ukraine, Trump Defies Congress and Waives Sanctions on Russia Trump turns to Russia’s Putin for support, in the hope that Russian diesel fuel can make up for shortages … https://whowhatwhy.org/international/ukraine/angry-at-ukraine-trump-defies-congress-and-waives-sanctions-on-russia/

Rare Family of Barn Owls Moves In, Captivates NYC PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, … https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/rare-family-of-barn-owls-moves-in-captivates-nyc/

Trump Endorses Netanyahu in Race Where People Still Like Him Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a thorny road to reelection on October 27.  https://whowhatwhy.org/international/trump-endorses-netanyahu-in-race-where-people-still-like-him/

Billionaires Broke US Politics; It’s High Time for Americans to Fight Back None of America’s many problems and injustices can be addressed without putting in place me… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/billionaires-broke-us-politics-its-high-time-for-americans-to-fight-back/

Now That Katie Zacharia Has Returned to Not Practicing Law, What Will Trump Do? Donald Trump face-planted this week as a consequence of failing to vet an applicant for a very importan… https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/now-that-katie-zacharia-has-returned-to-not-practicing-law-what-will-trump-do/

Bestie Bailout: Trump Gives a Helping Hand to Putin and the Finger to Congress Donald Trump has bailed out his pal Vladimir Putin once again and protected him from new s… https://whowhatwhy.org/international/ukraine/bestie-bailout-trump-gives-a-helping-hand-to-putin-and-the-finger-to-congress/

Donald Trump Is the Quintessence of Ruthless Capitalism, and He May Be Its Doom We’ve seen that everything Trump touches dies, but is the capitalism cat on its ninth lif… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/donald-trump-is-the-quintessence-of-ruthless-capitalism-and-he-may-be-its-doom/

Saturday Hashtag: #InfluenceLinchpin Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/saturday-hashtag-influencelinchpin/

Capital Confusion — What Does It Take to Get Fired by Trump? We know that lying and corruption aren't fireable offenses in this administration, so what went wrong for Katie Zacharia and Kimb… https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/capital-confusion-what-does-it-take-to-get-fired-by-trump/

The Greatest Threat to America May Be White Christian Men Where Trump converges with the Cornell 7. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/the-greatest-threat-to-america-may-be-white-christian-men/

What One Subway Death Reveals About a Country That Stopped Listening A man died on a subway and a divided country knew whose fault it was before it knew his name. The real story is a country t… https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/what-one-subway-death-reveals-about-a-country-that-stopped-listening/

‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are … https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/nightmare-scenario-zero-click-spyware-infecting-phones-via-targeted-ads/

Zelenskyy Says Strikes on Russian Refineries Will Resume Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not hold back (much) in an interview with the ’Financial Times‘ in which he strongly crit… https://whowhatwhy.org/international/ukraine/zelenskyy-says-strikes-on-russian-refineries-will-resume/

The Future of Commuter Rail Could Be Taking Shape in Boston A new fleet of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can electrify without installing miles of overhead wires. https://whowhatwhy.org/science/environment/the-future-of-commuter-rail-could-be-taking-shape-in-boston/

Rare Fossil of T. Rex Cousin On Display In NYC Before Auction PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, t… https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/rare-fossil-of-t-rex-cousin-on-display-in-nyc-before-auction/

If You Like Sane Presidents, It’s Been a Bad 24 Hours This is your periodic reminder that Donald Trump is crazy.  https://whowhatwhy.org/opinion/if-you-like-sane-presidents-its-been-a-bad-24-hours/

Webb Telescope Reveals Massive Structure, Challenges Understanding of Universe PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because… https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/webb-telescope-reveals-massive-structure-challenges-understanding-of-universe/

Trump and the GOP Are Not Putting Their Money Where Their Mouth Is When it comes to predicting how the midterms will go, actions speak louder than words, and the decisions on where … https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/trump-and-the-gop-are-not-putting-their-money-where-their-mouth-is/

It Cost $40K To Sink a Ship and Make a Reef. PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, … https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/it-cost-40k-to-sink-a-ship-and-make-a-reef/

Chevron Gave $150K to Bay Area Group Accused of Using AI to Fight Heat Pump Rule The group claimed victory after regulators recommended delaying landmark rules that woul… https://whowhatwhy.org/science/environment/chevron-gave-150k-to-bay-area-group-accused-of-using-ai-to-fight-heat-pump-rule/

An Idea for ‘Christian’ Hegseth: Why Not a Crucifixion Instead? Former Fox News morning show host Pete Hegseth literally wears his religion on his sleeve/biceps. However, as his thirst for a public exe… https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/an-idea-for-christian-hegseth-why-not-a-crucifixion-instead/