Bloomberg News is among the dwindling number of publications I subscribe to that I still perceive as having journalistic integrity. To be clear, I’m talking about Bloomberg’s news reporting, not the publication’s predictable leftist opinion writers whose columns could just as easily be written by AI. Bloomberg’s news reporters, particularly…
More than four years after renowned MIT scientist Dr. David Sabatini was canceled over sexual harassment allegations, a Massachusetts jury found that his accuser defamed him and interfered with his ability to work.
The award: $6 million.
The lawyer for Sabatini’s accuser says society still has difficulty believing women.
The Boston Globe reported the jury consisted of seven women and six men.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.