The world has known since January that Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, makes millions off the disposal of aborted fetuses. Pro-life Mitt fans consoled themselves with Bain’s assurance that the company didn’t enter the fetus-trashing biz until after Romney left to run the Olympics. (That Romney profited from the deal [...]
Maybe it’s Apple’s fault for having such a sunshiny image in the first place. It’s not as though Foxconn, the Chinese company that has made headlines over the last several years for horrifying working conditions, only makes Apple products. Sure, the company manufactures iPads and iPhones. But it also assembles Amazon’s Kindle, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
