Podcasts by 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 Sean Morrow.
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Who Is Rebekah Mercer? from 2021-05-18T07:00
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. Since 2004, Rebekah Mercer has been the director...
ListenWho Is Pete Buttigieg? from 2021-05-11T07:00
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 surprisingly popular presidential candidate in 2020, ...
ListenWho Is Andrew Yang? from 2021-05-04T07:00
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’s running for Mayor of New York City, and this...
ListenWho Is Geoengineering? from 2021-04-27T07:00
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 humanity--and the rest of the Earth’s animal and plan...
ListenWho Is Big Weed? from 2021-04-20T07:00
Americans aren’t in agreement about much these days, but there does appear to be one thing that they overwhelmingly support: legalizing the medical and recreational use of cannabis. Across the coun...
ListenWho Is Deb Haaland? from 2021-04-13T07:00
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 no longer be pursued. The policy of removal, e...
ListenA Conversation with Mary Kay Henry from 2021-03-30T07:00
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 beginning of the “Fight for $15.” In 2021, raisin...
ListenWho Is Tom Vilsack? from 2021-03-23T07:00
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: former Governor of Iowa Tom Vilsack. And it’s...
ListenWho Is The Partnership for America's Health Care Future? from 2021-03-16T07:00
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 everything to do with money, and the moneyed interest...
ListenWho Is Arizona? from 2021-03-09T08:00
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 the organizing that led to Georgia turning blue...
ListenWho Is Police Unions? from 2021-03-02T08:00
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 officers are a manifestation of this agreement, to ...
ListenWho Is Domestic Violent Extremism? from 2021-02-23T08:00
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 hundreds more injured, in what remains the dead...
ListenWho Is Ali Khamenei? from 2021-02-16T08:00
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. Often positioned as a primary global antagonis...
ListenWho Is Ronald Reagan? from 2021-02-09T08:00
Ronald Reagan, a man who was first elected President more than forty years ago, remains one of the most impactful and influential conservative politicians in American history. Reagan, who made it i...
ListenComing Soon: Who Is? The Podcast: Season Three from 2021-02-02T19:20:45
"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 correspondent Sean Morrow dives deep into the st...
ListenWho Is A Conversation with Rev. Dr. William Barber II from 2020-10-30T07:00
“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 Bonus episode!If you listened to “Who Is Elect...
ListenWho Is Electoral College? from 2020-10-27T07:00
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 institution called the Electoral College. Born out o...
ListenWho Is Kamala Harris? from 2020-10-20T07:00
After a lifetime of firsts--from San Francisco District Attorney to California Attorney General to the Senate--Kamala Harris could become the first woman to serve as Vice President. Born in Oakland...
ListenWho Is Leonard Leo? from 2020-10-13T07:00
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 as a result of the activity of Leonard Leo, th...
ListenWho Is Andrew Wheeler? from 2020-10-06T07:00
Andrew Wheeler, the current Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is the most important member of the Trump Administration that you’ve never heard of. Extremely effective, Wheeler h...
ListenWho Is QAnon? from 2020-09-29T07:00
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 is involved in an organized conspiracy of Satani...
ListenWho Is Vladimir Putin? from 2020-09-22T07:00
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 in St. Petersburg, when it was still known as Le...
ListenWho Is Voter Suppression? from 2020-09-15T07:00
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 their interests in government. For that reason, a...
ListenWho Is Black Lives Matter? from 2020-09-08T07:00
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 acquitted of all charges in the case of Martin’s death....
ListenWho Is Jeff Bezos? from 2020-09-01T07:00
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 thirty years later, Bezos, the wealthiest human...
ListenWho Is Big Meat? from 2020-08-25T07:00
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 industrial complex? Whether it’s beef, chicken, o...
ListenWho Is Mark Zuckerberg? from 2020-08-18T07:00
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: Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. As a result, the ...
ListenWho Is George Soros? from 2020-08-11T07:00
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 twentieth century. A survivor of World War II who nar...
ListenWho Is Paul Singer? from 2020-08-04T07:00
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 check-writing billionaires, where do they make th...
ListenWho Is Chuck Schumer? from 2020-07-28T07:00
How did Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the son of Abraham Schumer, an exterminator, and Selma Schumer, a homemaker, become the most powerful Democrat in the Senate? Schumer’s path to power i...
ListenWho Is Nikki Haley? from 2020-07-21T07:00
After serving as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump Administration, former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, the first woman to lead the state, has fast become one of...
ListenWho Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? from 2020-07-14T07:00
In 2018, after defeating a powerful corporate Democrat in one of the biggest political upsets in American history, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the most prominent progressive in t...
ListenComing Soon: Who Is? The Podcast: Season Two from 2020-07-10T02:38
"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 Morrow dives deep into the stories and backstori...
ListenWho is Charles Koch? from 2020-03-03T08:00
A billionaire among billionaires, Charles Koch is one of the most powerful men in the world. By all accounts a brilliant businessman, Charles inherited his father’s company when Lyndon B. Johnson w...
ListenWho is Mike Pence? from 2020-02-25T08:00
Vice President Mike Pence, who has described himself as “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,” for decades, was born a Catholic Democrat, but rose to prominence as an Evang...
ListenWho is Tom Cotton? from 2020-02-18T08:00
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, Tom Cotton, aim to cut the government assistance...
ListenWho is Mike Pompeo? from 2020-02-11T08:00
As Democrats nationwide consider who their party will nominate to challenge President Trump in November, Republicans look ahead -- to 2024. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, after a meteoric rise thr...
ListenWho is Stephen Miller? from 2020-02-04T08:00
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 had the greatest impact on the most people. Po...
ListenWho is Jared Kushner? from 2020-01-28T08:00
Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump, is probably the most powerful person in the United States who we know the least about. The grandchild of immigrants who escaped the Holocaust, Kushner is the...
ListenWho is Mohammad bin Salman? from 2020-01-21T08:00
How did Saudi Arabia get away with the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the kidnapping and alleged torture of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and even 9/11? How doe...
ListenWho is Mark Esper? from 2020-01-14T08:00
In the United States, war is big business. The Department of Defense, led by Secretary Mark Esper since 2019, has a budget of $738 billion this year. And while many of those dollars pay for those w...
ListenWho is Nancy Pelosi? from 2020-01-07T08:00
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful woman in the United States. The first woman to lead the House of Representatives--and third in line to the presidency--she’s passed landmark l...
ListenWho Is Fox News? from 2019-12-17T08:00
On this episode of Who Is, host Sean Morrow explores the backstory of Fox News and its founders: media savant Roger Ailes and Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch. A sophisticated mix of media and...
ListenWho Is Bernie Sanders? from 2019-12-10T08:00
Sen. Bernie Sanders is America’s most prominent self-described democratic socialist, and he’s running for president--as a democrat. Born in Brooklyn, Sanders arrived in Vermont via Chicago, where h...
ListenWho Is Joe Biden? from 2019-12-03T08:00
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been in politics for like, ever. Elected to the Senate nearly fifty years ago in 1973, Biden was Obama’s Vice President and is now running for president himself ...
ListenWho is Elizabeth Warren? from 2019-11-26T08:00
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running for president. A mother who had her first child at 22, Warren vaulted from Oklahoma to the halls of Harvard and on to the Senate. On this episode of Who Is, host Se...
ListenWho Is John Roberts? from 2019-11-19T08:00
Who Is the most powerful person in America? Perhaps Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts. Appointed for life, Justice Roberts could cast the decisive vote—defining the law of the land—wh...
ListenWho Is Betsy DeVos?/Who Is Erik Prince? from 2019-11-12T08:00
Billionaire and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater are siblings whose decisions have shaped America’s youth and defense systems. Are they genius strategists l...
ListenWho Is Mitch McConnell? from 2019-11-05T08:00
Who Is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell? Host of Who Is Sean Morrow flew to Kentucky to find out, where he interviewed the people who have covered McConnell from his home state for decades. I...
ListenIntroducing: Who Is? from 2019-10-28T15:30
“Who Is?,” an original podcast by NowThis, explores the back stories of well-known, powerful people in the U.S. Over the course of sixteen 30-45minute episodes, the podcast will look at top leaders...
ListenIntroducing: Who Is? from 2019-10-28T15:30
“Who Is?,” an original podcast by NowThis, explores the back stories of well-known, powerful people in the U.S. Over the course of sixteen 30-45minute episodes, the podcast will look at top leaders...
ListenIntroducing: Who Is? from 2019-10-28T15:30
“Who Is?,” an original podcast by NowThis, explores the back stories of well-known, powerful people in the U.S. Over the course of sixteen 30-45minute episodes, the podcast will look at top leaders...
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