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.
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…