State attorneys general from Tennessee, Kansas, and 11 other states put 100 of America’s largest corporations on notice that, following the Supreme Court decision against racial discrimination at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, private companies would be held to the same standard. In a July 13 letter to CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, […]

News Analysis As Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) await a landmark Supreme Court decision, expected this week, on their racial admissions policies, companies are also watching nervously, fearing that the decision could expose their race-based hiring and training programs to civil rights lawsuits. According to a Harvard Business Review 2022 survey, more […]

President Joe Biden used his veto power on Monday to block a bipartisan action from Congress that would have prevented pension fund managers from investing retirees’ money according to environmental and social-justice criteria. “There is extensive evidence showing that environmental, social, and governance factors can have a material impact on markets, industries, and businesses,” Biden […]

The Senate on Wednesday voted to block the Department of Labor rule that allows those managing retirement funds to invest based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. The White House has signaled President Joe Biden will veto it. NTD speaks to Will Hild, the executive director of Consumers’ Research for analysis. Hild says the […]

As member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) prepare to gather in Switzerland next week to negotiate final terms of an accord that will give the WHO centralized authority over U.S. policy in the case of a pandemic, Republican senators are pushing back with an effort to reinforce congressional power to authorize treaties. The […]

FTX bankruptcy attorneys sent out private letters last week to politicians and PACs who received donations from the company, giving them until Feb. 28 to return the money voluntarily or face legal action. According to a company statement, “to the extent such payments are not returned voluntarily, the FTX Debtors reserve the right to commence […]

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives told the Biden administration in no uncertain terms last week that it won’t approve the deal that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen negotiated with more than 130 other countries to align U.S. corporate tax laws with those developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). In one of the […]

U.S. lawmakers are fighting back against a new Biden administration rule that allows retirement money to be invested according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. Every GOP senator, plus West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, signed on to a disapproval resolution this week in protest of a Department of Labor (DOL) directive which went into […]

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, together with 17 other state attorneys general, has demanded that shipping companies UPS and FedEx explain their newly implemented policies to track and record Americans’ firearms purchases, and disclose whether these policies have been coordinated with the Biden administration. In letters sent on Nov. 29 to FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam […]

The Biden administration, as it has done with other federal agencies, has redirected the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from its core mission of “protecting consumers and promoting competition” to fighting racial inequity and climate change. Created to be an enforcement arm of U.S. anti-trust laws, the FTC has written a new mandate for itself to […]

Of all the businesses that are moving out of blue states, those in the gun industry lead the pack. Storied firearms manufacturers, some of them having operated in northern states for centuries, are now heading South. Remington, founded in 1816 and America’s oldest gun maker, announced in November it was moving its headquarters from New […]

Amidst predictions of a political “red wave” in the upcoming mid-term elections, an economic wave has been building for years with no end in sight as companies flood out of blue states and into red states. And as a result of its political divisions, America appears to now be dividing itself into prosperous, high-growth states […]

In an indication that corporate progressivism may be reaching its high water mark, CEOs are starting for the first time to push back against activist employees, in some cases going so far as to fire them rather than steer their companies into the mire of “woke” politics. Last week, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell became the […]

Amid the deluge of dire predictions that the human population will rise exponentially, deplete the earth’s resources, and overheat the planet, two recent demographic studies predict the opposite—that the number of people will peak within the next several decades and then begin a phase of steady, irreversible decline. In some places, including Japan, Russia, South […]

In its effort to contain inflation, the Federal Reserve has launched what many expect to be an ongoing series of interest rate increases, which are already taking a toll on stock and housing markets, with job losses likely to follow. As weary as Americans have become from paying record high gas and grocery prices, however, […]