US "big box" stores have found a legal argument that works in some states to slash their property taxes. Where they succeed, they could force towns into bankruptcy, or into raising the taxes of everyone else, which would ruin them.

Who wins in court based on current tax laws does not in any sense determine what the right outcome is. The right outcome is to make large and successful companies pay high taxes.

US medical professionals are now organizing for gun control in defiance of a contemptuous statement by the NRA.

Gilded Giving: How Philanthropy Dominated by Super-Rich Threatens Democracy.

It's no longer just children who are being kept too dependent. No longer just adolescents. Now universities are doing it, too.

Some companies are dropping their mandatory arbitration requirements for sexual harassment claims.

That's a step forward, but what about all the other kinds of issues? Pressuring workers go to an arbitrator (that generally favors the employer) to defend their rights is a way of weakening those rights.

It should be illegal for companies to make agreements by which workers are required to use arbitration instead of a court for any kind of issue whatsoever.