Why do corporate boards so overpay US CEOs?
Corporate boards simply play by market rules. If they don’t, they risk losing their executive talent.
Talking sense about immigration
In the end, isn’t it time to challenge the notion that people in general, and immigrants in particular, can be easily divided into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys?
Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 15
DNA confirms Elizabeth Warren's ancestry, Trump says 'we won' in regards to Christine Blasey Ford, Bernie Sanders rips White House for dismissal of climate science, and more.
Job growth remains slow in September, but unemployment rate falls to 3.5 percent
Manufacturing employment hit a record low as a share of private sector employment.
From fringe idea to law of the land — a look inside the creativity...
Beautiful Trouble examines the principles and theories guiding this growing insurrection in defense of Black lives.
We need publicly owned utilities
California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations.
NRA board member Ted Nugent calls Parkland students poor, pathetic liars with no soul
Nugent: "The evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul."
Shutoffs continue as people of Detroit fight for water as a human right, Part...
Michigan has meanwhile presented itself as the ground zero of water problems, as the people of Detroit worked to make themselves a model for solutions.
We are being out-evolved
As we have anointed our own species Homo sapiens, the wise men, I’d say it’s time to reassess. I’m thinking Stultus homines, Stupid men.
Recent disasters reveal racial discrimination in FEMA aid process
But if the FEMA response to recent disasters is any indication, storm victims could face barriers in securing federal aid – especially if they're not white.