Courts & Law

Jack Daniel’s vs. the People’s Right to Spoof Corporate America

Jim Knipfel / Truthdig Jul 7, 2023 A little-noticed 9-0 decision points ominously toward a post-parody culture. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

TD Original

The Farce of Microsoft’s Anti-Racism and the Capture of Academia

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Apr 17, 2023 In recent years, most large tech corporations have begun pushing anti-racism public relations and touting their donations to Black causes. There is no company more steeped or skilled in this practice than the elder of the group, Microsoft. By deploying fleets of flacks, messaging professionals and hired intellectuals, the company has managed to maintain a pristine image as a “moral leader” of Big Tech, while avoiding and deflecting attention from its deep and sordid history of collaboration with police, prisons, intelligence agencies and militaries. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Politics

Why Is ESG Under Attack by Republicans?

Akielly Hu / Grist Mar 27, 2023 What is ESG, the investment strategy under attack by Republicans? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Federal Government Plans Breakup of Organ Transplant Monopoly

Malena Carollo / The Markup Mar 24, 2023 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to breakup the organ transplant monopoly. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Technology

Despoiling the Final Frontier

Kurt Cobb / Resilience Mar 14, 2023 Companies that plan to put tens of thousands of satellites into orbit to create space-based internet are going to harm the Ozone layer. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Food Corporations Earn Billions While Millions Go Hungry

Davi Martins / Open Democracy Mar 6, 2023 Twenty of the world’s biggest food corporations paid $53.5 billion to their shareholders over the past two years. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Opinion

Nader: Corporate Personhood is at the Root of Inequality

Ralph Nader / Nader.org Feb 6, 2023 Inequality between corporations and citizens affects the Congress, state legislatures, elections, and the selection of judges. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Business & Economy

How the Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich

Robert Reich / Substack Feb 2, 2023 Federal debt has skyrocketed because tax cuts on corporations and wealthier Americans have reduced government revenue. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Business & Economy

Doctors Seek to Bar Corporate Control of Health Practices

Bernard J. Wolfson / Undark Jan 3, 2023 Organizers are pushing for stiffer prohibitions on the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Profit and the Hippocratic Oath

John Cole Dec 29, 2022 Dig deeper

Labor

2022 Labor Year in Review

Jenny Brown / Labor Notes Dec 20, 2022 With more unions, strikes, and leadership contests, labor took big strides in the right direction in 2022. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

World

Ethiopian Researcher Alleges Facebook Is Responsible for His Father’s Death

Mukanzi Musanga / Open Democracy Dec 16, 2022 Meta is accused of failing to remove posts inciting racial hate and violence in Africa, particularly in Tigray. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )