Who Cleans the Windows of Glass Houses?

Who Cleans the Windows of Glass Houses?

Et tu, Lou? It turns out that Lou Dobbs has employed undocumented workers to toil on his estates and tend to his family’s numerous horses. According to a recent investigative report in The Nation, the poster boy for the anti-immigrant crowd said he was told the...

Big Chocolate’s Child Slavery Addiction

Sorry to scare you, but on Halloween much of the chocolate Americans will hand out to trick-or-treaters will be tainted by the labor of enslaved children. Hershey’s, NestlĂ©, and the other big chocolate companies know this. They promised nearly a decade ago to...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: A Modern-Day Bull Connor

In April 1963, while confined to jail in Birmingham, Alabama for leading peaceful civil rights demonstrations in what was then considered to be the most segregated city in America, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an open letter challenging a group of local ministers...

Big Food’s Blame Game

Corporations spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year marketing a dangerous product to America’s children. No one disputes the danger of the product. No one disputes that the marketing successfully convinces millions of kids to use the product. Yet these...

Tied to the Tracks

If life were an old-fashioned movie serial we’d be at the scene where Barack Obama is tied to railroad tracks while an oncoming train sounds in the distance. And if it were a movie, he’d escape. I’m not sure how, but at the last moment he’d...