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Why Are “Activist Investors” Silent on Corporate Social Responsibility?
Activist investors should be disrupting the socially and environmentally irresponsible actions of companies.
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Noam Chomsky on How the United States Developed Such a Scandalous Health System
Noam Chomsky discusses the historical and political factors that have created and maintained the US health care system.
House Spending Bill Would Decimate Campaign Finance Rules
Three riders deep inside the House appropriations bill would bar federal agencies from enforcing campaign finance laws.
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the DOJ’s Attack on Affirmative Action and How School Segregation Never Ended
The New York Times is reporting the Justice Department is preparing to investigate universities' affirmative action policies for anti-white bias, in what critics say is the latest assault against …
Trump Considers Prolonging Afghan War to Secure $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits
On Wednesday, two U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan after a suicide car bomber rammed a NATO-led convoy near a major U.S. base in Kandahar. The attack came a day …
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Blinders to Crime
Immigrant Rights Activists in Texas Hope Austin Sit-In Inspires Similar Actions Across US
In what organizers called “the first DACA sit-in of the Trump era,” dozens of immigrant rights activists marched toward the Texas state Capitol building in Austin on July 26, …
Overpaid CEOs May Soon Be Forced to Disclose Outrageous Pay Ratios
Efforts to repeal CEO-worker pay ratio disclosure continue, but the odds of success are growing longer.
How to Fight a Giant: Militant Labor Organizers Catch PepsiCo Off Guard
Laid-off workers' struggle at PepsiCo in Buenos Aires has become iconic worldwide.