After Monsanto Binge, Bayer Could Dictate What We Eat
If Bayer completes its takeover of Monsanto, it would become a company with Orwellian control over how we grow our food and what we eat.
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June 17
British MP’s Murder and the EU Referendum, McCain Blames Obama for Orlando, User Privacy Bill Defeated in Wake of Orlando, and More Picks
Russ Baker: Don’t Rush to Judgment in Orlando Shooting
A mainstream narrative is quickly taking shape, as it did following the Boston Marathon bombing. In this week’s podcast Russ Baker begins to ask the questions that will lead to a deeper understanding of events in Orlando.
Campus Rape Epidemic Extends Far Beyond Frats
Sexual violence is endemic in unexpected places on college campuses, not just in “jock” environments like fraternities — and administrators aren’t doing enough to stop it.
June 15
North Dakota Keeps It Local, FDA OKs ‘Assisted Bulimia’ Pump, MI6 Has a Get Out of Jail Free Card, and More Picks
Why You Haven’t Yet Seen Our Coverage of Orlando
The battle for ad dollars and pageviews has become a race to the bottom, in which being first is more important than being correct. Please bear with us as we are once again going against the grain.
June 9
Strippers Win Important Labor Fight, Far-Right Party in Austria Challenges Election Results, Alberta’s Blackhole Oil Patch, and More Picks
Getting Away Clean — Why Guilty Bankers Rarely Do the Perp Walk
Some banks have had to pay impressive-sounding fines, but the executives that plunged the world economy into chaos have largely escaped any sort of punishment.
What Did the Death of Bobby Kennedy Mean?
How might the world be today had Bobby Kennedy lived? And who was behind his death? Paul Schrade, one of his closest confidants, who was also shot that night, looks back.
“GMOs? Hell, No!” A Report from an Anti-Monsanto Rally
In late May, hundreds marched down Broadway to protest against Monsanto, which the marchers decried as a serial creator of toxic agricultural products, with as much corrupting influence over their government as Goldman Sachs.
Classic Who: US Government Experiments on Americans — LSD and MK-ULTRA
This late-90s article by future WhoWhatWhy founder Russ Baker, on how a CIA experiment ruined a man’s life, was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine — which then declined to run it. Not published in the United States at the time, it ran in major publications around the world, and, later, on WhoWhatWhy. It is still explosive, and we thought it worth republishing.
Keeping the Lid on Trade Deals: A “Transparent” Facade That Bolsters Secrecy
Can one of the Administration’s top officials — the person who defends its trade secrets — also serve as its “Transparency Officer?” Openness advocates don’t think so.