In New York, the business lobby resorts to apocalyptic ads to stop a ban on noncompete provisions.
Money Politics & Power
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Breaking the Dominion Uniparty in Virginia
Clean Virginia and its opposition to the state’s monopoly utility was a hidden driver of election results.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Culture of Corporate Criminal Impunity Continues
Attorney General Merrick Garland continues to let big companies skate.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Slow Cooker of Corporate Flameouts
A band of Reddit contrarians tried to make Rite Aid the first meme stock. A truly staggering series of miscues thwarted their dreams.
Posted inBooks
Lies My Corporation Told Me
A new book lays out 150 years of corporate stooges making bogus arguments.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Apple’s Cooperation on Right to Repair May Be a Bait and Switch
The White House praises the tech giant’s support for federal pro-repair legislation—but Apple’s vertical dominance puts into question what a national right-to-repair law would actually look like.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Corporate Capture of DEI
How America’s capitalists sugarcoat reactionary policies with cheap support for diversity, equity, and inclusion
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan
The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The NIH’s ‘How to Become a Billionaire’ Program
An obscure company affiliated with a former NIH employee is offered the exclusive license for a government-funded cancer drug.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The No Spin-Off Zone
The Kroger-Albertsons merger shows us why regulators need to permanently divest the concept of, well, divesting.
