Corporations

Official seal. Border says Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service. In the center a golden eagle perches on a pair of shaking hands against a blue background.

Donald Trump Is Shuttering a Little-Known Labor-Management Agency That Supports Collective Bargaining Donald Trump Is Shuttering a Little-Known Labor-Management Agency That Supports Collective Bargaining

The administration’s latest assault on independent agencies is also an attack on working people.

Mar 28, 2025 / Lynn Rhinehart

A Gulfstream G650ER jet prepares to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on November 7, 2023.

These Activists Are Right: The World Doesn’t Need Any More Private Jets These Activists Are Right: The World Doesn’t Need Any More Private Jets

Local activists in Massachusetts have taken on the private jet lobby—and they might just win.

Mar 26, 2025 / Chuck Collins

Mark Carney stands at a Liberal Party of Canada podium.

Trump’s Threat to Canada Won’t Be Defeated by Centrist Nostalgia Trump’s Threat to Canada Won’t Be Defeated by Centrist Nostalgia

You can’t fight fascism with cozy memories.

Mar 24, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Exploitation

Exploitation Exploitation

The US economy benefits from the labor of immigrants, including undocumented workers.

Mar 24, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

Eric Schmidt, David S. Cohen, General Mark A. Milley, Alex Karp, and Andrew Ross Sorkin speak for The Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security panel during the AI Expo for National Competitiveness on May 7, 2024, in Washington, DC.

At This Point, Silicon Valley Militarists Aren’t Just Greedy—They’re Bloodthirsty At This Point, Silicon Valley Militarists Aren’t Just Greedy—They’re Bloodthirsty

By all means, let’s unite around a common purpose. But that purpose shouldn’t be a supposedly more efficient way to build killing machines.

Mar 21, 2025 / William D. Hartung

Mario Savio, a leader of the University of California Free Speech Movement, center, with Jack Weinberg and Susan Goldberg and other arrested demonstrators during their trial, Berkeley, California, 1965.

America Needs a New Free Speech Movement America Needs a New Free Speech Movement

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

Mar 19, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

Union workers hold signs during a strike outside a King Soopers grocery store location in Westminster, Colorado, on January 12, 2022.

Want a Better Grocery Store? Support Union Workers. Want a Better Grocery Store? Support Union Workers.

Workers are on the front lines of an increasingly bleak shopping experience, and they bear the costs of understaffing, underinvestment in facilities, and feeble safety measures.

Mar 19, 2025 / Ella Fanger

President-elect Donald Trump rings the opening bell on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 12, 2024, in New York City.

Donald Trump Is Crashing the Economy, but Wall Street Is Afraid to Speak Out Donald Trump Is Crashing the Economy, but Wall Street Is Afraid to Speak Out

Everyone knows Trump is messing up, but fear and greed prevent resistance.

Mar 14, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Elon Musk at the first Trump cabinet meeting.

The Cossacks Work for the Czar—and Musk Works for Trump The Cossacks Work for the Czar—and Musk Works for Trump

The president’s narcissistic management style is at the root of cabinet infighting.

Mar 10, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Elon Musk (L) shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump backstage during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is All About China Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is All About China

Greenland and its resources are merely the latest potential casualty of Trump’s quest for global domination and his fear of China’s economic power.

Feb 27, 2025 / Joshua Frank

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