The B Corporation model puts social and environmental responsibility into companies' legal DNA.
Commentary
Elizabeth Palmberg 7-01-2011
Morally and economically, it's wrong for federal budget makers to go after the poor.
Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli 7-01-2011
A U.S.-Colombia trade pact would not address, and might even reward, paramilitary violence.
Lyndsay Moseley 7-01-2011
Off-the-shelf renewable power can meet 100 percent of world need -- if we have the will.
Bethany Spicher Schonberg 6-13-2011
Genetically modified alfalfa is certain to contaminate normal fields -- but not to meet farmers needs.
Ziya Meral 6-13-2011
Will uprisings change the religious persecution faced by Middle East's Christians?
Robert L. Borosage 6-13-2011
Obama's outreach to CEOs does little to stem the return of the economy's bad old days.
Jim Rice 6-03-2011
Renewable energy sources aren't just safer than nuclear power -- they're also cheaper.
Jennifer Kottler 6-03-2011
The Utah Compact has good immigration principles -- but there's still a more excellent way.
Charles A. Kimball 5-01-2011
The "people's revolutions" in North America and the Middle East raise stark questions about the U.S. role in the region.
Michael McDonald 4-01-2011
New software may help the public have a greater voice in the crucial redrawing of voting districts.
Elizabeth Palmberg 3-01-2011
We can't avoid the tough questions on how to change the culture in which we all participate.
Tyler Edgar 3-01-2011
A technique for natural gas drilling threatens drinking water and the environment.
David M. Whettstone 3-01-2011
Finally, reparations for past federal mistreatment of American Indians and African-American farmers move forward.
John Fife 2-01-2011
U.S. militarization of the border takes a stark toll in lives, human rights, and money.
Elizabeth Palmberg 1-01-2011
Back in the Clinton era, Congress and regulators shredded many of the ground rules that had been keeping our financial system working safely since the Great Depression. The people making the big money (and creating the toxic assets) set themselves and their cronies up as the "experts" and told the rest of us not to worry our pretty little heads about it.
The crash of 2008 made it painfully clear it was time to stop letting Wall Street make up the rules. Last June, Congress passed, and President Obama signed into law, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In addition to creating the much-needed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the act contains reforms that can head off future crashes. But, to put that law into action, various agencies have to write ground-level regulations and definitions.
How these rules get written can make Dodd-Frank either an effective, strong law or—if Wall Street’s swarm of lobbyists gets its way—a washed-out shell. "The number of people that have come in requesting to be exempt from the law, or to have the law delayed, has literally shocked me," a Commodity Futures Trading Commission official told Bloomberg News.
If the love of money is the root of all evil, let's just say the devil is trying to get into the details.