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.
“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.
Canadians have focused their trade anger on President Trump. They’d be wise to also consider their treatment by General Motors.
Abdul El-Sayed can thank the corporate media in part for his success narrowly winning the Democratic primary for one of Michigan’s U.S. Senate seats. His anti-Israel comments, and those of his campaign pal Hasan Piker, are routinely characterized as “perceived as antisemitic,” “facing backlash over rhetoric targeting Jewish Americans,” or…
NBC News deserved the humiliation it suffered after General Motors revealed that Dateline had rigged its infamous 1992 pickup-truck explosion with model rocket engines.
What history largely forgot is that GM’s trucks really did pose a serious safety hazard—and that the automaker had a documented history of punishing major publications whose coverage it didn’t like.
Three decades later, as federal regulators scrutinize safety issues involving more than two million GM vehicles, that forgotten history offers an uncomfortable lesson about the state of automotive journalism.
IBM once represented the pinnacle of American engineering and managerial excellence. Today, it employs more people in India than in the United States and ranks among the S&P 500’s “Low-Wage 100.”
Its CEO, Arvind Krishna, still gives the company a distinctively American influence, hauling in the largest compensation package in the Low-Wage 100 at $38.0 million, or 765 times the company’s median pay of $49,630.
Reports that General Motors has adopted a controversial employee-ranking system that Microsoft, Ford, Goodyear, and other companies abandoned years ago have triggered widespread criticism.
Meet Mary Barra’s Montana ranch hand overseeing GM’s HR practices.
Uncle Sam’s national debt surpassed $40 trillion in recent days, and America now spends more servicing that debt than it does on national defense. History shows that many once-great empires collapsed after debt service eclipsed defense spending.
What should alarm and anger everyday Americans are the bipartisan policies responsible for this crushing debt and how the wealthiest Americans ultimately benefit.
Silicon Valley sold Uber as a technology revolution.
A recent Government Accountability Office report documents it has become the new poster corporation for taxpayer subsidized low-wage labor.
Some thoughts on how Democratic Socialists could disrupt the company that best embodies the excesses of unfettered capitalism.
Remember #MeToo?
A New York Times investigation found that female lawyers representing Uber questioned women suing the company over alleged sexual assaults about their clothing, drinking, childhood trauma, sexual histories, and even whether they were wearing underwear on the night they were assaulted.
The executive ultimately responsible for Uber’s legal strategy is Tony West, the former senior Obama Justice Department official who oversaw the DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women and later played an influential role in Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign.