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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.

Dec 3, 2025 • 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.

Nov 26, 2025 • 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.

Nov 19, 2025 • 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…

Nov 12, 2025 • 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…

Nov 5, 2025 • 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?

Oct 29, 2025 • 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.

Oct 22, 2025 • Reynolds Taylor

Irrational Unreasonable

Irrational Unreasonable

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