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April 25, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Southern Autoworkers Call B.S. on Republican Anti-Union Agitprop
That Volkswagen vote in Tennessee was step one. Step two may come next month in Alabama. Yet Southern GOP governors stand pat.
April 21, 2021
Adrian Daub
The Weird, Extremely German Origins of the Wirecard Scandal
How politicians, regulators, and the media fell for an obvious financial fraud
June 28, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Volkswagen gambled its very existence to cheat on emissions.
February 18, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Bob Corker Devastated Organized Labor in Chattanooga. Let It Be a Lesson.
May 10, 2012
Howard Wial
Putting Manufacturing in Its Place(s)
April 19, 2011
James Downie
The Volkswagen Beetle's Formerly Friendly Face
January 5, 2010
Bradford Plumer
A (Partial) Defense Of Dogs
July 16, 1984
James K. Glassman
The Iacocca Mystique
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