Amazon gives in: Retailer resolves big publishing dispute with Hachette
The publisher is hailing the agreement as "great news"
Thursday, Nov 13, 2014 5:06 PM UTC 0Amazon.com, amazon v. hachette
Amazon.com, amazon v. hachette
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Amazon's dirty energy problem is about to get even worse
While the rest of the Internet goes green, Amazon's bringing its next big data center to coal country
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Lindsay Abrams
Amazon.com, amazon v. hachette
“It embarrasses them, they feel ashamed”: Why America still can’t talk about race
Founder and CEO of progressive think tank tells Salon how to save the American dream, and the "fate of the nation"
Thursday, Nov 13, 2014 1:30 PM UTC 0angela blackwell, policylink
Progressives’ overlooked winning formula: How Democrats can rebound in 2016
The post-election consensus is that the party is missing a broad economic message. It need only look to the left
Thursday, Nov 13, 2014 12:15 PM UTC 0Next New Deal, Democrats
Wall Street and Hillary Clinton: The risk Democrats run by embracing the “big tent”
New report shows that Wall Street is as ready for Hillary as it gets. Here's why that should make Democrats nervous
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014 8:20 PM UTC 0Hillary Clinton
Wall Street’s radical new rival? Why this investment firm says it’s catering to the 99 percent
Former White House aide Andrei Cherny tells Salon he's building a new investment firm devoted to the middle class
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014 1:30 PM UTC 0Wall Street, Inequality
Why America is the most unequal society in the developed world
The reason we're not more upset about the ever-expanding pay gap? We're clueless about how big it really is
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014 12:15 PM UTC 0AlterNet, Wall Street
“I couldn’t understand why they were doing this”: JPMorgan whistle-blower and Matt Taibbi sound off on MSNBC
Alayne Fleischmann exposes the bank's "massive criminal securities fraud" VIDEO
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2014 2:31 PM UTC 0Video, JPMorgan Chase
Food giant sues start-up for calling its egg-free alternative “mayo”
Unilever will not abide Hampton Creek, which developed a sustainable mayonnaise alternative
Monday, Nov 10, 2014 4:15 PM UTC 0Food, Sustainable food
Loretta Lynch’s Wall Street friends: What you should know about AG nominee’s finance past
Looking for accountability for financial crimes that wrecked the economy? Here's why the status quo is more likely
Monday, Nov 10, 2014 3:17 PM UTC 0loretta lynch
Newark’s chaotic schools mess: Why Chris Christie’s new debacle is mired in protest
Chris Christie and Cory Booker tried to reform a troubled city's school system. Here's what they wrought instead
Monday, Nov 10, 2014 1:30 PM UTC 0School, Education, Newark
America’s worst corporate ogre: How Big Coal is shamelessly plotting to stay alive
Pumped up by GOP wins, Peabody Energy is teaming up with a PR firm to sell the world on "clean coal" for the poor
Monday, Nov 10, 2014 11:59 AM UTC 0Cigarettes, Big Tobacco, big coal
Michael Lewis on Wall Street: “I have much more time for the vulgarity than I do for the hypocrisy”
Exclusive: The great Michael Lewis on the legacy of "Liar's Poker," Wall Street and strip clubs, and Paul Krugman
Sunday, Nov 9, 2014 9:00 PM UTC 0michael lewis, Liar's Poker
11 jobs where an honest day’s work earns you poverty
The current minimum wage is a maximum shame on America. Just look at our fast food and casino workers
Sunday, Nov 9, 2014 1:00 PM UTC 0AlterNet, Fast food, Minimum wage
The end-of-the-world diet: Inside the crazy world of survivalist cuisine
Ebola, ISIS, global warming: There's never been a better time to be in the survival business. Here's what's on sale
Sunday, Nov 9, 2014 11:58 AM UTC 0Apocalypse, Food, science-fiction
Subprime lenders can now disable your car while you’re driving on the freeway
A frightening new report reveals that as many as 2 million cars are now outfitted with GPS-based kill switches
Saturday, Nov 8, 2014 6:00 PM UTC 0AlterNet, kill switches
The inside story of JPMorgan Chase’s $9 billion coverup
Whistle-blower Alayne Fleischmann says she witnessed criminal securities fraud -- and was paid for her silence
Saturday, Nov 8, 2014 3:00 PM UTC 0AlterNet, JP Morgan Chase
Corporate America’s oily trick: How big business uses “yellow-dog contracts” to crush basic rights
Your job contract or cellphone agreement could have secret language that ruins your life. Here's how it works
Friday, Nov 7, 2014 10:58 PM UTC 0yellow-dog contracts
U.S. added 214,000 jobs in October as unemployment rate falls to 5.8 percent
The Labor Department releases its latest jobs report
Friday, Nov 7, 2014 1:58 PM UTC 0Unemployment, unemployment rate
The sneaky, systematic ways employers are stealing our wages
Fast food workers aren't the only victims. Wage theft is rampant across the labor force, and much of it is legal
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2014 11:30 AM UTC 0AlterNet, wage theft, Fast food
“The police of the Internet”: Why the human costs of social media are greater than you think
Whether we realize it or not, a lack of violence or porn in social networks is no happy accident, Adrian Chen says
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014 5:43 PM UTC 0adrian chen, Wired, Facebook
This company is trying to make eating bugs sexy
"They're more eating a concept than they're eating insects"
Monday, Nov 3, 2014 9:10 PM UTC 0bugs, Climate Change
“A country is not a company”: Paul Krugman exposes business elites’ cluelessness about economic policy
The economist assails the notion that a business background confers special economic expertise
Monday, Nov 3, 2014 1:45 PM UTC 0Paul Krugman
Don’t call it gentrification
“Dispatches Against Displacement” author James Tracy on fighting to keep cities from becoming rich-only playgrounds
Sunday, Nov 2, 2014 4:00 PM UTC 0James Tracy
“Working full-time and yet still needing public benefits”: Leading expert urges McDonald’s to come to the table
Harvard Law's Ben Sachs tells Salon his idea to bring the fast-food wars to a negotiated, mutually beneficial peace
Friday, Oct 31, 2014 4:52 PM UTC 0Fast food strike, Fast food
Meet Monsanto’s new “director of millennial engagement”
GMOs: All the cool kids are doing it
Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 7:50 PM UTC 0Monsanto, millennials, GMOs
Supreme Court’s corruption naiveté: What a new report says about money’s poisonous effect on politics
The high court's view that money doesn't corrupt collapses under scrutiny
Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 3:02 PM UTC 0Supreme Court, Campaign Finance
Big banks’ stunning setback: Meet two officials saying no to Bank of America
After relying on out-of-court settlements to skirt big consequences, banks have finally met their match. Here's why
Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014 10:59 AM UTC 0Banks, Settlements
America’s disastrous drug war in Afghanistan
The U.S. has spent $7.6 billion on counternarcotics, and the country's opium industry is now bigger than ever
Sunday, Oct 26, 2014 7:00 PM UTC 0GlobalPost, Afghanistan, Opium
How we beat the 1 percent: This is how the moneyed classes get dethroned
People with money know how to speak money. To win the debate, we must first learn their language. Here's how
Sunday, Oct 26, 2014 4:30 PM UTC 0Capitalism, Money
Chevron greases local elections with dark money
Reports reveal the multinational has been pumping cash into Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn's Senate campaigns
Saturday, Oct 25, 2014 4:00 PM UTC 0BillMoyers.com, Chevron
23 ridiculous products you need to survive America’s “Ebola apocalypse”
The disease has landed in New York City, and a few online retailers are cashing in on the resulting panic
Saturday, Oct 25, 2014 2:00 PM UTC 0GlobalPost, ebola, amazon, Etsy, uber
“Hot goods’” hot mess: Minimum wage crackdown sparks backlash
Unrest in the Pacific Northwest threatens a provision of federal wage law protecting American farm workers
Saturday, Oct 25, 2014 2:21 AM UTC 0FairWarning, Minimum wage
Silicon Valley will destroy your job: Amazon, Facebook and our sick new economy
The "sharing economy" makes Silicon Valley rich and takes from the rest of us. We ignore this at our imminent peril
Friday, Oct 24, 2014 10:59 AM UTC 0amazon, uber, technology
Piketty’s prophecy comes true: The planet’s middle class is rapidly going extinct
New research reveals the superrich have grabbed half the world's resources -- and their wealth is only growing
Thursday, Oct 23, 2014 10:30 AM UTC 0AlterNet, Thomas Piketty
Vox on Amazon: Way off-base, not entirely wrong
Publishers aren't perfect. But no one who cares about a diverse literary marketplace can actually side with Amazon
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014 10:59 PM UTC 0amazon, Matt Yglesias, Vox, Books
“I cannot continue to live and work like this”: How Wal-Mart drove me to shut down Park Avenue
Despite having a job, I forgo electricity in the summer. My car was repossessed. My day-to-day life would shock you
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014 10:58 AM UTC 0Walmart, waltons, poor
