A new book shows that paying frontline workers well makes good business sense. But that isn’t why it will happen.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

In the most polarized Congress probably ever, there are still plenty of Taylor Swift fans, and the Senate will hold a hearing on the monopoly ticket-peddler Tuesday.

How can the World Economic Forum earnestly pretend to address global crises while being funded by the corporations that fuel these crises?

Devotees of the legendary role-playing game could end up on the losing side of the next big intellectual property war.

The rental car agency is getting away with subjecting its customers to false arrests and imprisonment. How bad do things have to get before there are real consequences for bad behavior?

As the industry consolidates, it runs the risk of putting profits ahead of kids—and setting back the movement for universal childcare.

The most powerful dynasty in the nation’s capital isn’t the Kennedys, or the Bushes, or the Clintons. It’s the Mars family.

Call it Style Guide Liberalism: a well-intentioned fixation on inclusive jargon that ultimately alienates many Americans—and not just those on the right.

Democratic governors are pitching their states as havens for companies that want to protect their employees’ reproductive rights, but Big Business has never been a reliable ally of such causes.

A new report on corporate excess shows how the explosion of stock buybacks is exacerbating economic inequality.

The grim first-quarter GDP number has people invoking the R-word. We’ll see. In the meantime, take that trip to Costa Rica you can’t afford.

Covid initially drove wages up, especially for working-class people. But that’s over—another illustration of capital’s dethronement of labor.

Disney’s decision to oppose Florida’s “don’t say gay” law is all about appealing to consumers. Conservatives just can’t handle the fact that their political ideology is toxic in the American marketplace.

Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s returning CEO, says the coffee chain is getting into scammy NFTs. But that’s nothing compared to the scam that corporations have been pulling on workers for decades now.

State GOP lawmakers are pushing bills to blacklist financial institutions that make net-zero pledges, but a new report shows that banks’ promises don’t match their balance sheets.

It’s not just the pandemic, inflation, or the war—it’s how they blend together to disrupt the foundations of our lives.

The message that could galvanize voters in the midterms is at Democrats’ fingertips. Why do they resist grabbing it?

The corporations flexed their muscle—and won—even in this very progressive state. That’s because it was never about better health care or taxes, but corporate power.

Good question. The answer is that corporate success these days looks an awful lot like failure.