Emails reveal a conservative tactic to promote forced arbitration in Arizona: offer $2,000 to sign a local newspaper op-ed.
corporate power
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Senators Want Juul Punished for Buying an Academic Journal
Sens. Warren and Blumenthal ask the FDA and FTC to review Juul’s sponsorship of an entire edition of the American Journal of Health Behavior.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Sacklers?
Judges have grown accustomed to issuing get-out-of-litigation cards to corporate looters in bankruptcy court.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Big Business as Usual for Biden’s Ambassadorship Picks
A Comcast lobbyist is the latest to snag a top diplomatic post.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What Does Peter Thiel Want?
Inside the conservative tech investor’s play for the Senate
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Biden Can Reinvent Big Pharma
So it can’t buy off competitors to keep prices high
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Amazon Controls Virtually Everything You Watch
Amazon Web Services delivers almost all filmed media in the United States to your screen of choice. How are they leveraging that power?
Posted inDay One Agenda
Biden’s Back on the Day One Agenda
Executive actions on right to repair and noncompete agreements show the power of implementing existing laws that can help people.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Juul: Taking Academic Corruption to a New Level
The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to ‘prove’ that its product has a public benefit.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration
WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House.
