Reading Time: 5 minutes FEC nominee Allen Dickerson has a record of fighting anti-corruption measures, and campaign finance reform advocates warn his confirmation could halt any efforts to get the agency back on track.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Home-delivery workers, calling their employer’s bluff on being forced to arbitrate disputes, have filed thousands of individual claims — at great cost to the company.
Reading Time: 4 minutes After six years of winning legal fights, the Supreme Court may turn out to be one hurdle too high for opponents of the massive Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Reading Time: 3 minutes A decade later and billions of dollars deep, Congress is finally considering a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling.
Reading Time: 2 minutes More movement on the investigation of billions in laundered funds that may have passed into the United States. Could suicides of bank officials be related?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two months, two high-profile investigations, two dead bankers, two alleged suicides. Something just doesn’t seem right.
Reading Time: 5 minutes How a grassroots coalition beat the banking lobby in California — and how other states could be affected.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Enlightening excerpt from Dick Russell’s ‘Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth’ — a cynical tale about how Big Oil deceived the public.
Reading Time: 4 minutes An undercover investigation into an “organic” Texas dairy found horrific examples of livestock abuse. Now two nonprofits are demanding accountability and change.
Reading Time: 3 minutes New research reveals the ways big businesses suppress wage growth, and thus the prospects of upward mobility for their workers