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The Evil Company Buying Subway (And the Rest of Your Favorite Chains)
Roark Capital has made billions exploiting 1.4 million workers, fighting minimum wage laws, and stealing workers' pay.
Apr 3, 2024
BREAKING: Pharma Giants Slash Inhaler Prices Amid Investigations Into Their Greed
AstraZeneca announces it will cut inhaler costs from $645 to just $35 in a major win for the Biden administration and Bernie Sanders.
Mar 18, 2024
Musk Is Building a Company Town in South Texas. What Does He Want?
“They could fund infrastructure that is beneficial to the company, but on the public dime.”
Feb 20
This Is Why Your Furniture Sucks Now
How bad trade deals and IKEA ruined Americans’ couches and tables.
Jan 17
Elon Musk Told Corporations to Leave Delaware. Here’s What Happened Next.
“Our budget is being held hostage and we're supposed to just listen to the demands, but we have not been told who they’re coming from.”
Mar 19
The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Big Corporate Cash Grab
Here’s a look at the industries that won in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and one that didn’t quite get everything it wanted.
Jul 2
How This Legal Worker Visa Became a Human Trafficking Scheme
“Our agricultural production has depended on workers who are in some ways not fully free.”
Apr 26
BREAKING: Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Win a Union, Making History
In a landslide vote, workers in Chattanooga have won the first U.S. union at a non-union car company in decades. The VW election could alter the auto…
Apr 20, 2024
This Is the Loophole That’s Screwing Up the Tax System
People making $45k a year are paying a bigger share of taxes than billionaires like Blackstone’s Stephen A. Schwarzman.
Feb 6
Pharma Lobbyists Are Behind This Shadowy Group Attacking Drug Pricing Reforms
Seniors 4 Better Care is not really a seniors group — it's a front for a lobbyist-led shell group.
Feb 25
Trump’s Federal Funding Chaos Puts Meals on Wheels on the Chopping Block
We rode along on a delivery to see how draconian cuts would impact senior services.
Mar 4
The Department of Labor Just Gave Millions of Workers Overtime Pay
If you make under $58,656, you will soon be entitled to overtime.
Apr 23, 2024
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