Apple Becomes First Trillion-Dollar Company
Aug 2, 2018 The milestone reached Thursday marks the latest triumph of a trend-setting company that two mavericks named Steve started in a Silicon Valley garage 42 years ago.
A Fresh Look at Labor Issues in ‘Sorry to Bother You’
Jul 2, 2018 Boots Riley’s promising film debut takes on casual and institutional racism, corporate greed, class subjugation and coarsening public discourse.
Tech Giants Are Destroying Privacy, Producing Inequality and Undermining Democracy
Apr 18, 2017 Author Jonathan Taplin discusses how novelist Ayn Rand's cruel libertarianism has permeated Google, Amazon, Facebook and the White House.
Eight Syrian-Americans We’d Miss
Sep 4, 2016 Here are a few of those with at least some Syrian ancestry who wouldn’t be here if Trumpism had kept their ancestors out.
Golden Globes: A Contender for Best Comedy
Jan 12, 2016 The scandal-plagued awards show gets a nod for spotting groundbreakers, but the back-scratching nature of the ceremony makes it a little hard to swallow.
Whether Dealing With Jewish Refugees in ’30s or Syrians Today, U.S. Falls Short of Its Own Ideals
Nov 17, 2015 If we’re going to bomb Syria, we need to take care of the displaced.
Enough of This Nonsense About Steve Jobs Being an Artist
Sep 22, 2015 The triumph of Steve Jobs, Apple and tech in general was ushering in a new language of business. The iPhone is not a hand-held computer; it is an “extension of oneself.” And Jobs and his disciples are not merely businessmen and technicians but also “poets and artists.”
Can Apple, Google and Facebook Save Us From Big Brother?
Sep 11, 2015 The big tech companies have the resources to launch a campaign for privacy that could change the world. As one scholar and researcher has written, “They may be our best chance out of this surveillance mess.”
Jobs and Schmidt’s ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ to Suppress Wages
Jan 25, 2014 Emails unveiled in federal court suggest Apple founder Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a secret and perhaps illegal pact not to hire each other's workers and to keep salaries low.
Apple $290 Million Richer, Courtesy of Samsung (and a Federal Jury)
Nov 22, 2013 Because Apple Inc. could really use another electronics giant's spare change, Samsung Electronics Co. will be forking over some $290 million to give the tech empire Steve Jobs built a helping hand.
