What’s to blame for mass cancellations and dysfunction at the formerly beloved Southwest Airlines? Long Island has a new Congressman-elect, Mark Santos. But nothing he told us about himself seems to be true. Ironically, his lies make him look worse than the reality of his hardscrabble upbringing. Supreme Court is allowing Section 42 to remain...
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How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began
The corporate takeover of American politics started with a man and a memo you’ve probably never heard of.
In 1971, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, a corporate attorney who would go on to become a Supreme Court justice, to draft a memo on the state of the country.
Powell’s memo argued that the American economic system was “under broad attack” from consumer, labor, and environmental groups.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806), a renowned lawyer and then politician who served under four Prime Ministers as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years, has made an astute observation that still meaningfully resonates today: “Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, […]