Toyota is routinely referred to as a Japanese company. But the executives driving the company’s U.S. success are as American as apple pie.
Trump Hands Detroit a ‘Belching Emissions’ Bailout
President Trump believes relaxing federal fuel economy standards will help GM and Ford. President Biden believed billions in federal incentives and tougher mandates would make them more competitive.
GM and Ford shouldn’t be relying on changing political regimes to determine their business strategies. Toyota and Hyundai don’t have that luxury.
In-N-Out Burger: Capitalism Grilled to Perfection
This week marked the 56th anniversary of economist Milton Friedman’s seminal capitalism manifesto in The New York Times Magazine, which declared that the primary responsibility of corporate executives is to make money for their shareholders, while obeying the law and society’s basic ethical customs. Wall Street enthusiastically embraced Friedman’s doctrine…
Mary Barra’s Rolling Cineplexes
The culture at General Motors under Mary Barra’s more than 12 years of leadership has been to always be smarter by half. The company’s privacy scandal, which garnered a formal rebuke from the FTC and a $12.75 million civil penalty in California and sparked dozens of class-action lawsuits, is but…
“Complicated”: The Media’s Leftist Sanitization
There’s a word mainstream news organizations default to when massaging inconvenient truths about political candidates they sympathetically embrace: “complicated.”
From Abdul El-Sayed and Ilhan Omar to Kamala Harris and Bill Clinton, a look at one of corporate media’s favorite euphemisms.
Built Ford Tough: The Fords Fire Back at Trump
Donald Trump picked a fight with Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy picked one with Ford Motor Co.
Neither Ford responded by lying down.
The power of standing up to bullies.
The Case for Pass/Fail Big Ten Football
Being the empathetic person I strive to be, I awoke this morning deeply worried about the mental health of University of Michigan’s first-semester students. The trauma they endured last night watching their beloved Wolverines football team nearly lose their season opener to Kalamazoo’s unranked Western Michigan University must have caused…
Judge Treadwell Turns the Lights Back on in Georgia
Two of America’s most prestigious law firms—Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden—have agreed to cough up $2 million to fund ethics and professionalism instruction at Georgia law schools.
U.S. District Judge Marc T. Treadwell effectively called two of their partners liars, finding that Richard Bernardo and Geoffrey Wyatt made “false representations” in what he described as “a widespread, long-running cover-up.”
There’s delicious irony in who Treadwell is, who these lawyers are, and how he caught them.
What Dana Nessel Can Learn From Ilhan Omar
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently told Jewish Democrats they need to sacrifice their own “comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people” for the greater good of humanity.
Years ago, Ilhan Omar delivered a very different message to American Muslims: “We are not to be bullied. We are not to be threatened. We are not to be terrorized.”
A primer on the biblical story of Queen Esther.
CBC Canada’s 9/11 “Terrorism” Whitewash
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”
That was the order given to journalists at Canada’s taxpayer-supported CBC broadcast network as the 25th anniversary of 9/11 approaches. The ensuing backlash forced CBC to reverse course.
The leaked directive wasn’t an isolated lapse. It reflects a troubling institutional record that extends from CBC’s coverage of the October 7 Hamas massacres to its reporting on the Nazi past of former Liberal cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland’s maternal grandfather.