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Jan 18, 2025 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
While there are still climate-change deniers, the ongoing tragedy in Los Angeles makes the increasing threat hard to ignore. There is no question that the fires that devastated Los Angeles are emerging as one of the most tragic and costly natural catastrophes in American history. What just happened might still be dismissed by climate-change deniers as one of nature’s outliers — a once-in-a-lifetime disaster that is not likely to happen again.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
Despite France’s best efforts, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the country’s extreme-right National Front, was impossible to ignore Before Donald Trump’s politically driven hate campaign against undocumented immigrants, France was forced to deal with its own right-wing populist firebrand: Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
Carter may have been overshadowed by other American presidents, but he lived longer than any other, and his legacy is substantial. The long-enduring media image of President Jimmy Carter is the soft-spoken guy in the cardigan who stumbled through an oil-embargo energy crisis and failed to rescue scores of US hostages in Iran.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
What comes next will be a new phase in the Pan-Arab search for identity. The sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime in Syria might look like just another demonstration of unpredictability in Middle East politics, but, at least for the moment, the results appear to be fairly positive.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
Politics For better or worse, the public has voted. It’s now up to a Republican Congress to show its spine before it’s too late.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
The future of the US will depend on how Americans from all walks of life respond to this unprecedented assault on our form of government. Donald Trump’s election victory is widely attributed to the public perception (hyped by the right-wing propaganda machine) that the US economy under Joe Biden was a disaster in slow motion. In fact, far from being a disaster, the US economy is considered by the rest of the world as a model of sustained success.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
The election will decide whether Donald Trump gets the opportunity to impose his dark vision on our nation. In the last few days leading to the election, Donald Trump and his followers have abandoned any pretense of moderation or civility. Trump’s ballyhooed rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden degenerated into a festival of hatred for immigrants, anyone of color, and liberals in general.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
How far do Iran and Netanyahu intend to go? As late as last weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be on a roll. After wounding more than 3,000 Hezbollah militants with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies and then killing Hezbollah’s long-time leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Netanyahu announced that no country in the Middle East was beyond the reach of an Israeli attack.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | William Dowell
Politics False rumors spread by Donald Trump and JD Vance have become a nasty new meme concerning foreign immigrants. Does anyone seriously believe that illegal Haitian immigrants are rampaging through Springfield, OH, in a sudden effort to steal neighborhood dogs and cats for dinner? Donald Trump has made a lot of outrageous remarks lately, but his latest bit of insanity has pushed the limits.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | James M. Dorsey |William Dowell
With the US presidential election fast approaching, what to do about Israel and Gaza has become a leading foreign policy issue. WhoWhatwhy’s International Editor William T. Dowell and contributor James M. Dorsey — an expert on the Middle East who also publishes ‘The Troubled World’ on Substack — discussed what’s at stake and the possible options. William T.
