Who What Why

3 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Mansur Mirovalev

Zhirinovsky boasted that Moscow should rule lands from “Kabul to Istanbul,” and Russian soldiers would one day “wash their boots in the Indian Ocean.” What unites the suspected killer of a turncoat intelligence officer, an arms trafficker who served 10 years in a US jail, and a lawmaker who snubbed accusations of sexual harassment?

4 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Jennifer Oldham

Science Proposed rules would force operators to measure methane emissions, fix leaks and — in some cases — install gas collection systems. Remember the banana peels, apple cores, and leftover pizza you recently threw in the garbage? Today, your food waste, and your neighbors’, is emitting climate-warming greenhouse gases as it decomposes in a nearby municipal landfill.

5 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Ted Rall

We’ve proven we’re really good at saying no to new technology. Artificial intelligence — especially artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI system capable of understanding, learning, and making decisions with human-like awareness and autonomy — poses an existential threat to humanity, not only in terms of replacing humans on the job but in a possible SkyNet-like scenario in which robots choose their own targets and decide to start killing us.

1 week ago | whowhatwhy.org | Jeff Schechtman

A former NATO ambassador shows how Trump has shattered 80 years of global trust in just 120 days, forcing allies to act without America for the first time. In just 120 days, President Donald Trump has accomplished what no foreign adversary could achieve in eight decades: the systematic destruction of America’s global leadership from within.

1 week ago | whowhatwhy.org | Klaus Marre

Congressional Democrats worried about getting primaried by younger challengers actually willing to fight the Trump administration should do their party a favor and get out of the way. There was a story in Politico last week about how “messy Democratic primaries” may make it more difficult for the party to win back the House next year.