Stories by Arianna Huffington
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Even after the bursting of the stock market bubble and myriad corporate crime cases, the White House is sticking to its Reaganomics guns.
Posted on Sep 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The president wants "No Child Left Behind." But his patchwork plan to transfer kids to better schools would not be better than a single-payer education system.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Take this Labor Day quiz to test your knowledge of the recent gang of crooked CEOs.
Posted on Aug 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Powerful mutual funds managers, emboldened by the call for responsibilty, are wielding their enormous power to keep corporate crime in check.
Posted on Aug 27, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Young black men get singled out among drug offenders for the harshest punishment, then they lose their right to vote. With laws like this, who needs Jim Crow?
Posted on Aug 26, 2002, Source: Salon
Putting the billions of scammed dollars in perspective.
Posted on Aug 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The scandalous CEOs have pushed us too far, and finally are reaping the whirlwind of public fury.
Posted on Aug 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Like the Branch Davidians, the Brunch Bushians found comfort by withdrawing from a world that was confusing, complicated, and just a little too unfriendly of late.
Posted on Aug 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
We can't settle for companies like Citigroup promising to no longer help corporate crooks intent on fleecing us.
Posted on Aug 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Passage of the corporate responsibility bill may not be enough to curb the enormous influence of corporate lobbyists.
Posted on Aug 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The ghosts of Harken and Halliburton -- questionable offshore tax shelters -- are coming back to haunt the Vice President.
Posted on Aug 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
What was it in our collective unconscious that allowed scores of corporate execs to take millions before our very eyes?
Posted on Aug 1, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Corporate America's most notorious continue to enjoy the high life while the victims of their pillage watch their savings slip away.
Posted on Jul 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
We live with a corporate culture in which practices that are blatantly illegal for the man on the street are touted as breakthrough for the man in the boardroom.
Posted on Jul 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Financial frauds that have endangered jobs, retirement funds and the stock market, the "profit uber alles" mindset is endangering the health and safety of the American people.
Posted on Jul 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars.
Posted on Jul 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
All of official Washington is high on corporate punishment. But if past is prologue, then very few of the robber barons will ever see the inside of a jail cell.
Posted on Jul 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The "genius of capitalism" crowd has adopted a new strategy: publicly embrace reform while working diligently behind the scenes to undermine it.
Posted on Jul 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Every scandal produces at least one classic and defining euphemism -- a judiciously chosen word or phrase diligently employed to sugarcoat the sour reality at hand.
Posted on Jul 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
As 'Politically Incorrect' ends its remarkable run, the appropriate farewell is not a eulogy, but a celebration of the show's rare willingness to speak truth to power.
Posted on Jun 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In light of Dennis Kozlowski's sketchy business practices, the indictment of the former star CEO on tax evasion is no surprise.
Posted on Jun 13, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The post-Enron momentum has dissipated to such an extent that one salivating banking industry lobbyist crowed: "Enron is over."
Posted on Jun 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It turns out that the Merrill Lynch financial scandal was just the appetizer to a smorgasbord of greed, corruption and insider dealing.
Posted on Jun 6, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It's now painfully clear that there were terror warning signs aplenty but that they were disregarded by distracted FBI officials who had their eyes on a very different prize.
Posted on Jun 6, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Though missed terror warning signals dominate the headlines, there is another story of warning signs being ignored by our elected officials: the sorry state of our economy.
Posted on May 31, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In the world of CEOs, loans don't bear any similarity to the terms you and I would get if we went to our local bank and asked for a loan. For startes, they're approved by corporate boards. How can all this be legal?
Posted on May 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to mega-millions spent on campaign contributions and lobbying, the pharmaceutical industry has skirted government oversight of patent-extending and price-gouging schemes.
Posted on May 20, 2002, Source: AlterNet
U.S. companies are slashing their tax bills by tens, and sometimes hundreds, of millions of dollars by reincorporating themselves offshore.
Posted on May 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Harvey Pitt, head of the SEC, is the wishy-washiest watchdog since Scooby-Doo.
Posted on May 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Crusading attorney Eliot Spitzer has uncovered evidence that Merrill Lynch gave misleading stock tips to help promote companies its bankers invested in.
Posted on May 6, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In a desperate attempt to trim the budget and minimize the projected $100 billion deficit, Bush served a blow to national security efforts.
Posted on May 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The race for mayor of Newark has become a case study in the nationwide clash pitting reformers vs. the establishment, the afflicted vs. the comfortable.
Posted on Apr 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The media is once again overdosing on its overwrought, over-the-top, overkill coverage of the arrest of D-grade celebrity Robert Blake.
Posted on Apr 24, 2002, Source: AlterNet
We are most able to achieve the heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul connections we long for by letting our ethnic idiosyncrasies flourish.
Posted on Apr 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
As part of a plan approved by a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday, Enron intends to fork over $140 million in retention bonuses to "key employees" possessing "unique knowledge, skills and experience."
Posted on Apr 18, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The shoddy police work exhibited in Tulia, Texas -- shady narc, iffy suspect IDs, a lack of corroborating evidence -- is the norm rather than an aberration.
Posted on Apr 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The president is using the growing crisis in the Middle East to justify his renewed call for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Posted on Apr 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
President Bush is big on rhetoric but weak on action, especially when it comes to the Middle East. Perhaps that is why the Israelis are ignoring him.
Posted on Apr 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
For some reason, politicians on both sides of the aisle are ignoring the issue of charter schools, and our children are suffering as a result.
Posted on Apr 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Unbelievably, the Supreme Court has ruled that anyone living in public housing can be evicted if their family members or guests use drugs -- even if they are unaware of the abuse.
Posted on Apr 1, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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