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Corporate Violence That Doesn’t Go Bump In the Night.
Modern supply chains hide and muffle violence, and businesses take advantage — reaping benefits while disavowing responsibility.
 • Reynolds Taylor
A Very Real Thanksgiving.
I’m taking this week off, but couldn’t miss sliding into your inboxes to wish you a beautiful Thanksgiving.
 • Reynolds Taylor
OpenAI's Corporate Restructure Is a Hoax. (It Wants Your Trust — Don't Give It.)
This isn't the sexiest AI topic to report on, but it matters. A lot.
 • Reynolds Taylor
Holding Corporations Liable for Human Rights Abuse Overseas is Hard and Important.
Whereas CSR depends on individual business heroes and deputizes consumers as regulators, corporate *accountability* responds to and shapes incentives…
 • Reynolds Taylor
Dems Hit Back, Citizens United, and Railroads (Yes, Railroads).
Big day yesterday, but our series on Citizens United continues! This one's about how once, a very long time ago, elected officials really did try to…
 • Reynolds Taylor
Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not — Never Was — An Adequate Vehicle for Change.
It goes like this: Markets are not fair, kind, or wise, but market winners *can be.* That's enough, right?
 • Reynolds Taylor
The Road to Ruin and Back Again: Citizens United.
Corporate dominance over U.S. elections... the drafters of the U.S. Constitution never saw it coming. But we can claim no such excuse.
 • Reynolds Taylor
Irrational Unreasonable
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