Federal prosecutors indicted fifty people yesterday for college admissions fraud at several elite institutions, including Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale. Serious discussion of how college admissions procedures foster inequality is long overdue.
Read more...CalPERS still can’t justify its new private equity business model, and has even retreated to calling it just a concept, yet it wants the board to sign a blank check at next week’s meeting.
Read more...Another Boeing 737 aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff in Addis Ababa yesterday, killing all 157 passengers on board, in circumstances similar to last October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia. Consequences for Boeing depend on what the just-recovered voice and data recorders reveal.
Read more...Kudos to India for banning plastics waste imports, to focus on solving its own waste management problem. Meanwhile, fossil fuel interests ramp up plans to produce more plastics.
Read more...Why whistleblowing is a recent development.
Read more...No one knows what is set to happen on Brexit day.
Read more...Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron, was released Friday after doing twelve years of prison time: a reminder that corporate officers once were once prosecuted and sent to jail for corporate criminal activities.
Read more...Comprehensive overview of eight state-level initiatives promoted by oil and gas industry lobbyists to criminalize pipeline protests.
Read more...More proof that CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost is so busy with self-promotion that she can’t be bothered to have her staff execute adequately on important but not-that-difficult tasks.
Read more...Identifying some core “socialist” views.
Read more...Welcome to reverse location search warrants, yet another technology-enabled violation of your Constitutional rights.
Read more...Cisco joins other big tech companies in calling for a federal privacy law. This is a blatant attempt to shutter what Louis Brandeis called the “laboratories of democracy” – states, such as California, that pioneer new policies to protect their citizens.
Read more...Illinois Supreme Court hands down unanimous decision that an individual needn’t prove actual injury nor adverse effect to recover under the state’s bellwether biometric privacy statute.
Read more...Seventh Circuit hands down major age discrimination decision holding that federal disparate impact protection does not extend to job applicants and applies to employees only.
Read more...Simply breaking up monopolies via century-old economic remedies recommended by antitrust doctrine is insufficient if it is not accompanied by a rebalancing of economic power.
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