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Who Is?
“Who Is?,” an original podcast from NowThis, explores the biographies of influential people in the United States and beyond. Now in a third season, “Who Is?” presents deep dives into the stories of political power players, the donor class, and more. The podcast is hosted by NowThis correspondent Sea...
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Who Is Inherited Wealth?
If you work hard in the United States, there is no limit to the possibility of what you might achieve. That’s the American Dream. But the reality is t...
Who Is Rebekah Mercer?
Rebekah Mercer may be the most powerful woman in conservative politics today, and she’s never held--and probably will never run for--elected office. S...
Who Is Pete Buttigieg?
Mayor Pete is now Secretary Buttigieg, which means that the former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is now a member of the Biden Administration. A surpri...
Who Is Andrew Yang?
In 2020, Andrew Yang ran for president, and although he never really had a serious chance, he became a familiar name, and a familiar face. In 2021, he...
Who Is Geoengineering?
Unless you’re lucky enough to live on another planet, you’ve probably heard about the climate crisis. It’s a problem we must address if we want humani...
Who Is Big Weed?
Americans aren’t in agreement about much these days, but there does appear to be one thing that they overwhelmingly support: legalizing the medical an...
Who Is Deb Haaland?
In 1851, then Secretary of the Interior Alexander H.H. Stuart wrote the following: “What is to become of the aboriginal race? … A temporary system can...
A Conversation with Joan Rohlfing
Does the nuclear command authority of the United States protect the world from an ill-considered strike by the Commander in Chief? Short answer: No. B...
A Conversation with Mary Kay Henry
In 2012, hundreds of fast-food workers in New York City walked off the job to demand higher wages and the right to unionize, in what would mark the be...
Who Is Tom Vilsack?
Do you eat food? If you answered yes, you are impacted by the United States Department of Agriculture, and the person who is currently in charge of it...
Who Is The Partnership for America's Health Care Future?
Politicians have been trying to “fix” health care in the United States for nearly a century, and they really never manage to do it. Why? It has everyt...
Who Is Arizona?
In 2020, Arizona and Georgia, two traditionally red states, turned blue. And while Stacey Abrams has received a lot of credit and media attention for...
Who Is Police Unions?
One of the defining characteristics of the modern nation state is that the state has a monopoly on the use of force. In the United States, police offi...
Who Is Domestic Violent Extremism?
On April 19th, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City; 168 people were killed, and...
Who Is Ali Khamenei?
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic people in the world....
Who Is Ronald Reagan?
Ronald Reagan, a man who was first elected President more than forty years ago, remains one of the most impactful and influential conservative politic...
Coming Soon: Who Is? The Podcast: Season Three
"Who Is?," an original podcast from NowThis News that explores the lives of the powerful, is back for a third season. On "Who Is?," host and NowThis c...
Who Is A Conversation with Rev. Dr. William Barber II
“Nobody would be fighting this hard to suppress the vote—the lie about voter fraud—if the vote was not powerful.” - Reverend Doctor William Barber II<...
Who Is Electoral College?
In 2000 and 2016, the candidate who lost the popular vote was elected president. Somehow, that’s democracy at work, and it’s thanks to a baroque insti...
Who Is Kamala Harris?
After a lifetime of firsts--from San Francisco District Attorney to California Attorney General to the Senate--Kamala Harris could become the first wo...
Who Is Leonard Leo?
What do John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh have in common? They made it onto the Supreme Court of the United States in part...
Who Is Andrew Wheeler?
Andrew Wheeler, the current Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is the most important member of the Trump Administration that you’ve...
Who Is QAnon?
It’s one thing to believe that a powerful elite exerts an outsize influence on American democracy. But it’s another thing to believe that this elite i...
Who Is Vladimir Putin?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is one of the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet. And yet, much of his story remains a mystery. Born i...
Who Is Voter Suppression?
In the United States, political power is allocated when Americans go to the polls and vote for the candidates whom they believe will best represent th...
Who Is Black Lives Matter?
On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. On July 13, 2013, Zimmerman was acquitte...
Who Is Jeff Bezos?
In 1993, Jeff Bezos noticed that use of something called “the web” was up 2300 percent. So, he moved to Seattle and started a company: Amazon. Nearly...
Who Is Big Meat?
On the first season of “Who Is?,” Sean Morrow explored Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and the military industrial complex. But what about the meat in...
Who Is Mark Zuckerberg?
There are more than 7 billion people on the planet, and as of this year, nearly 3 billion of them use Facebook or one of the platforms it owns: Instag...
Who Is George Soros?
In some ways, George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who turns 90 this week, is the sum of the worst horrors and greatest triumphs of the twenti...
Who Is Paul Singer?
On Who Is?, Sean Morrow talks a lot about the system--and the powerful financial interests that exert a profound influence on it. But who are these ch...
Who Is Chuck Schumer?
How did Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the son of Abraham Schumer, an exterminator, and Selma Schumer, a homemaker, become the most powerful De...
Who Is Nikki Haley?
After serving as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump Administration, former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, the first...
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
In 2018, after defeating a powerful corporate Democrat in one of the biggest political upsets in American history, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Co...
Coming Soon: Who Is? The Podcast: Season Two
"Who Is?," an original podcast from NowThis News that explores the lives of the powerful, is back. On "Who Is?," host and NowThis correspondent Sean M...
Who is Charles Koch?
A billionaire among billionaires, Charles Koch is one of the most powerful men in the world. By all accounts a brilliant businessman, Charles inherite...
Who is Mike Pence?
Vice President Mike Pence, who has described himself as “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,” for decades, was born a Cathol...
Who is Tom Cotton?
Arkansas is one of America’s poorest states. Today, it’s also one of its reddest, and the politicians it sends to Washington, like its star senator, T...
Who is Mike Pompeo?
As Democrats nationwide consider who their party will nominate to challenge President Trump in November, Republicans look ahead -- to 2024. Secretary...
Who is Stephen Miller?
Who is Stephen Miller? One of three Senior Advisors to the President--along with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump--Miller is arguably the person who has...