Corporate Power

Wall Street Gave More Money During 2020 Election Than Any Campaign Season in US History

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stands in lower Manhattan on November 24, 2020 in New York City. As investor's fear of an election crisis eases, the DowJones Industrial Average passed the 30,000 milestone for the first time on Tuesday morning. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

'Completely Unreasonable': Dems Slam GOP Demand for No Corporate Tax Hikes in Infrastructure Plan

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Republicans' insistence that the most profitable companies in the world shouldn't contribute a single penny to investments in roads, schools, and our clean-energy future is simply not acceptable."

Biden Urged to Pick Appointees Who Will Strongly Enforce Antitrust Laws Against Big Tech

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

"America is facing a crisis of online misinformation that is eroding faith in our democratic institutions, threatening public health, stoking radical extremism, and fanning the flames of hatred and division," an anti-monopoly coalition warned on April 15, 2021. (Photo Illustration: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Truth is under siege, and Big Tech platforms have become too big to care—they...

Sanders, Omar Unveil Bill to End 'Absurd Corporate Handouts' to Big Oil

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Demonstrator holding a sign at a protest in Manhattan on March 3, 2021.

"Our resources should go to helping the American people get through this crisis...

If CEOs Really Want to Stop GOP Attacks on Voting, Say Progressives, They'd Support the For the People Act

250 Groups Urge WTO Chief to Ditch Pharma-Friendly Approach and Embrace Vaccine Patent Waiver

'Too Dangerous to Exist': Coalition Calls for Ban on Private, Corporate Use of Facial Recognition

Despite Defeat, Sanders Calls Those Behind Amazon Union Drive an 'Inspiration to Workers' Nationwide

Union to File Charges Against Amazon Over 'Blatantly Illegal Conduct' in Bessemer Election

'Passing the PRO Act Is Not a Spectator Sport': AFL-CIO Leads National Day of Action

While Hospital Janitor Got a $6 Cafeteria Voucher, Its CEO Took Home $30 Million

Decades-Long Corporate Assault on Unions Has Cost Typical Worker $3,250 a Year: Report

G20 Nations Slammed for Calling Covid Vaccines a 'Public Good' While Denying Them to the World

Nearly Two-Thirds of US Voters Back Corporate Tax Hike to Fund Biden Infrastructure Plan

Amnesty International's Annual Global Human Rights Report Details Harm—and Heroism—Amid Pandemic

Jayapal, House Dems Propose Constitutional Amendment to End Corporate Personhood

Further

On Hillary, Lloyd, Us and Them

For those puzzled by the rancor and mistrust so many feel for Hillary Clinton, a lucid Matt Taibbi looks at Clinton's $675,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs to reveal they're about not just money but allegiance. Turns out Clinton declared that "banker-bashing (was) foolish," it takes a village to get out of a financial crisis (in fact caused by a few greedy oligarchs), and public anger is something "we" - oligarchs and Clintons - need to wait out.