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What One Subway Death Reveals About a Country That Stopped Listening 10/16/2026

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 that sorts before it thinks. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/43318894

How Fast Food Became the for Modern Capitalism 10/09/2026

How Fast Food Became the for Modern Capitalism Fast food didn’t just change how America ate. It was the testing ground for today’s economy: weakened unions, low-wage labor, and concentrated corporate power. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/43230668

AI Is Making Work Sadder: And What Happens When Everyone Shares the Same Brain? 10/02/2026

AI Is Making Work Sadder: And What Happens When Everyone Shares the Same Brain? AI can do the work — but as it drains the humanity from our jobs and makes every company sound alike, our messy, human imperfection may be our last edge. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/43138198

One Win Is Not a Lasting Majority 09/25/2026

One Win Is Not a Lasting Majority Democrats may win big in November. Whether they can turn a midterm won on backlash into lasting power depends on a distinction most candidates get wrong. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/43029138

In the War Room: How Israel’s Longest War Was Actually Conducted 09/17/2026

In the War Room: How Israel’s Longest War Was Actually Conducted A handful of men who couldn’t stand each other, with no plan or shared vision, deciding a region’s fate one agonizing meeting at a time. The inside story of Israel’s war. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42946943

Reign of Terror: How 9/11 Armed Trump 09/11/2026

Reign of Terror: How 9/11 Armed Trump The war on terror was supposed to keep America safe. Twenty-five years later, it handed Trump the weapons he’s now turning on Americans. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42869520

The Bond Market Always Gets the Final Vote 09/04/2026

The Bond Market Always Gets the Final Vote The bond market is getting restless. What rising yields, $40 trillion in debt, AI spending, and Scott Bessent reveal about the price of money. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42781350

The Religious Movement That’s Done With Democracy 08/28/2026

The Religious Movement That’s Done With Democracy Christian nationalists are no longer trying to win democracy, Rep. Jared Huffman argues. They want to replace it with religious rule — and control American life. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42587435

The Rule of Law Dies When People Get Too Comfortable 08/20/2026

The Rule of Law Dies When People Get Too Comfortable He spent 18 years watching Russia turn law into a weapon. Americans see the same signs but miss where it leads — rule of law dies when people get too comfortable. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42502475

A Timeline of Western Decline 08/14/2026

A Timeline of Western Decline Our current chaos and dislocation didn’t start in 2016. We’ve been the frog on a slow boil since 1945. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42436815

1,500 Companies, $4 Trillion, and No One’s Allowed to Look Under the Hood 08/07/2026

1,500 Companies, $4 Trillion, and No One’s Allowed to Look Under the Hood The biggest companies shaping how we ride, rent, borrow, and think are private — and private means they owe you nothing. A former SEC director on the economy you’re not allowed to see. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42354345

After 250 Years: The American Origins of Fascism 07/31/2026

After 250 Years: The American Origins of Fascism What if the roots of fascism weren’t European at all, but embedded in America’s founding struggles over democracy and race? Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42275160

Can Code Have a Conscience? 07/24/2026

Can Code Have a Conscience? The AI debate is endless. One writer decided to measure it by asking not how smart the machines are, but how humane they are. Read More: www.WhoWhatWhy.org /episode/index/show/whowhatwhy/id/42202090

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

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