Economy / Business - OtherWords

CEOs Should Pay for Their Own Three-Martini Lunch

Buried in last year’s COVID-19 relief deal is a provision to make taxpayers cover expensive corporate lunches.

How the GOP abandoned democracy and became an accomplice to insurrection, and what must be done now.

The COVID-19 relief bill will help, but much more needs to be done to combat the pandemic and make the country stronger in the face of future crises.

The special gifts I’ve arranged for special people.

The Senate GOP leader’s refusal to pass COVID-19 aid without corporate immunity should be the scandal of the year.

What better symbol of agri-industry’s vision of “food” than the ubiquitous Butterball turkey so many ate for Thanksgiving?

The House just took a huge step toward repealing the marijuana prohibition. What’s next?

Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.

The federal government owns 92 percent of all student debt owed in this country. Canceling it could provide a huge stimulus.

More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony.