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Building the Future, Not Arguing About It 07/17/2026

Building the Future, Not Arguing About It We spend our time arguing about change. The future may belong instead to the people who quietly build it. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42126115

Progress Should Be Our Most Important Product 07/10/2026

Progress Should Be Our Most Important Product The future is arriving faster than ever. So why are we more anxious than excited? A conversation about progress, innovation, and American ambition. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42030750

Past Its Sell-By Date? America at 250 07/02/2026

Past Its Sell-By Date? America at 250 Five scholars, one uncomfortable question on America’s 250th: Is our democracy’s trouble a rough patch — or built into the 18th-century design itself? Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41946635

As America Becomes a Gerontocracy, Its Future Keeps Getting Delayed 06/26/2026

As America Becomes a Gerontocracy, Its Future Keeps Getting Delayed What if the real crisis isn’t aging leaders, but an aging democracy where power never seems to change hands? Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41811350

Can AI Actually Be the Tool That Brings Government Back to Life? 06/18/2026

Can AI Actually Be the Tool That Brings Government Back to Life? The real threat to democracy isn’t AI. It’s a government that never learns to use it. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41697155

Before the Trillions, There Was Once Joy in Silicon Valley 06/11/2026

Before the Trillions, There Was Once Joy in Silicon Valley A veteran of three tech eras on how the innocence was lost — and whether AI actually might win it back, through what he calls “enlightened AI.” Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41617770

Russia’s Descent Into Madness: Slowly, Then All at Once 06/05/2026

Russia’s Descent Into Madness: Slowly, Then All at Once Putin didn’t seize a democracy — he hollowed one out. Twenty-five years inside Russia’s slow spiral, and what it tells us about our own moment. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41545785

No Rules, No Order: The World on a Knife’s Edge 05/29/2026

No Rules, No Order: The World on a Knife’s Edge From Beijing to Washington to Cuba, the old world order has collapsed. Is this the most dangerous moment since 1945? One man says yes, and the clock is ticking. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41463955

How Civilizations Lose the Signal 05/22/2026

How Civilizations Lose the Signal Everything feels broken at once — but the failures aren’t separate. They’re the same collapse, playing out at different scales. Yet there’s surprising reason for hope. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41391580

Iran’s Nuclear Program Isn’t the Real Story 05/15/2026

Iran’s Nuclear Program Isn’t the Real Story Iran’s real conflict may have less to do with uranium than with a regime losing control of its people, its proxies, and its purpose. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41305610

Betting on Reality 05/08/2026

Betting on Reality Prediction markets are everywhere. But nobody’s explaining how they work, why they beat experts, or why institutions fight them so hard. Until now. Read More: /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41213205

What We Don’t Know About Iran Will Hurt Us 05/01/2026

What We Don’t Know About Iran Will Hurt Us Understanding Iran’s power structure, nuclear future, missile red lines, the negotiations, and what both sides are getting dangerously wrong about each other. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41094005

Power Without Ideology Is Doomed 04/24/2026

Power Without Ideology Is Doomed 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/41000440

Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Legacy Software 04/17/2026

Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Legacy Software 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40906160

AI Is All Humans, All the Way Down 04/10/2026

AI Is All Humans, All the Way Down 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40797905

Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended 04/03/2026

Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40721490

Inside the Black Box: The Questions No One Is Asking About Iran 03/27/2026

Inside the Black Box: The Questions No One Is Asking About Iran 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40639520

The Unexplained War: Stumbling Toward World War III 03/20/2026

The Unexplained War: Stumbling Toward World War III 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40550285

We Cut Off China’s Oil, Attacked Their Partners. They Wait. 03/13/2026

We Cut Off China’s Oil, Attacked Their Partners. They Wait. China loses two oil partners to US action. Their response? Strategic patience. Are we watching restraint or preparation for what’s next? /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40421310

The Iran Nobody in Washington Wanted to Listen To 03/06/2026

The Iran Nobody in Washington Wanted to Listen To 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40337030

American Democracy Isn’t Broken… It Never Worked As Advertised 02/27/2026

American Democracy Isn’t Broken… It Never Worked As Advertised 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40250035

We Are All Wrong About China. We’re Creating the Enemy We Fear! 02/20/2026

We Are All Wrong About China. We’re Creating the Enemy We Fear! 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: /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40172855

Living Next Door to the Predator 02/13/2026

Living Next Door to the Predator 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40095875

Iran’s Maximum Moment: Why This Uprising Is Different 02/06/2026

Iran’s Maximum Moment: Why This Uprising Is Different 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/40018405

The Climate Fight Without America: Why Hope Isn’t Optional 01/30/2026

The Climate Fight Without America: Why Hope Isn’t Optional 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/39932925

Democracy's Pulse Is Beating — But For How Long? 01/23/2026

Democracy's Pulse Is Beating — But For How Long? Can democracy survive computerized vote counting? Systemic and man-made vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure may threaten integrity. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/39847880

From Ocean to Bloodstream: The Reality About Plastic 01/08/2026

From Ocean to Bloodstream: The Reality About Plastic 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: /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/39655955

What ‘Law and Order’ Really Costs Democracy 01/01/2026

What ‘Law and Order’ Really Costs Democracy Arkansas whipped prisoners until 1968. Now we celebrate El Salvador’s concentration camps. A reckoning with punishment’s price. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/39582590

It’s Not Always About Guns or Monsters 12/17/2025

It’s Not Always About Guns or Monsters 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/39438180

Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge 12/12/2025

Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge 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 /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/39380695

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