Greed in the Suites Gets a New Yardstick

Greed in the Suites Gets a New Yardstick

During the Great Depression, a pay package for the top executive at National City Bank–the Wall Street giant we know today as Citigroup–scandalized the nation. It clocked in at more than $1 million, sparking an angry Congress to make corporations disclose...

Warning: Shopping May Prove Deadly to Miners

  Anderson Cooper is talking to coal-mining families and politicians in West Virginia again. Ever since that explosion ripped through an underground mine in Montcoal, it seems people all across America are discussing the dangers of mining. If you watched the news...

Corporate Murder

A mass murder has taken place in an American workplace, taking 29 lives. The authorities know who did it, so shouldn’t that person be made to pay for this heinous crime? Yes! But the killer is one of America’s largest coal corporations, Massey Energy...
Seeing China from the New World Trade Center

Seeing China from the New World Trade Center

You can knock us Americans down, but you can’t keep us down. For example, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were crashed to the ground on 9/11. But now, a new tower is rising from those very ashes—a soaring steel and glass monument...