Commentary / World Sep 1, 2018
Should shareholders always come first?
by Noah Smith
Elizabeth Warren wants to make companies also consider workers, customers and local communities.
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Business Sep 30, 2016
Angry lawmakers heaped another round of blistering criticism on Wells Fargo's CEO, pressing Thursday for details about what senior managers knew about allegedly illegal sales practices and when any concerns were disclosed. Chief Executive John Stumpf, newly stripped of tens of millions in compensation, told ...
World / Politics Jun 10, 2016
Warren blasts Trump as 'thin-skinned fraud' and spares no mercy for top Republicans
Sen. Elizabeth Warren attacked Donald Trump as a "loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud" Thursday in a scathing broadside also aimed at the top two Republican leaders in Congress. Trump "has never risked anything for anyone and serves nobody but himself. And that is just one of ...
World / Politics Apr 18, 2016
Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren becomes comic book hero
Her parents didn't hail from the planet Krypton, and she was never bitten by a radioactive spider, but that has not stopped Elizabeth Warren from starring as a comic book hero. "Female Force: Elizabeth Warren" tells the true-life story of Warren's rise from Oklahoma schoolgirl ...
World / Politics Aug 25, 2015
President Barack Obama may issue an endorsement in the Democratic primary, his press secretary said Monday, as Vice President Joe Biden considers whether to challenge former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. While Obama considers his selection of the former Delaware senator as his running ...
Business May 11, 2015
Obama hits liberal left's Warren on trade as Senate readies debate
As the Senate prepares to debate his trade agenda, President Barack Obama is sharpening his criticism of a vocal opponent on the left. In a weekend interview with Yahoo Politics, the president said Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is factually wrong and politically motivated ...
World / Politics Apr 14, 2015
Pressured by liberal Democrats, candidate Clinton goes after CEO pay
Hillary Rodham Clinton, under pressure from the left wing of her Democratic Party to aggressively campaign against income inequality, voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters. Striking a populist note, Clinton, who announced on Sunday she was ...
World / Politics Mar 28, 2015
Upset by Warren's calls for break-ups, U.S. banks debate halting some Senate campaign donations
Big Wall Street banks are so upset with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's call for them to be broken up that some have discussed withholding campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, sources said. Representatives from Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have ...
World / Politics Feb 15, 2015
Liberals work to lure Elizabeth Warren into White House race
The scene in the New Hampshire office is one common to any nascent U.S. presidential campaign in the state that holds the country's first primary contest: Young staffers peck away at laptops and unpack boxes of signs with their candidate's name. But the Democrat they ...
World / Politics Feb 2, 2015
For Hillary Clinton, deciding how to prepare for a low-key primary
The challenge ahead for Hillary Rodham Clinton is one faced by few White House hopefuls: running a primary campaign in which she faces little competition, if any at all. Still not officially a candidate, the former New York senator, secretary of state and first lady ...
World / Politics Jul 14, 2014
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is quickly becoming a top Democratic fundraiser and campaign powerhouse, hitting the road on behalf of candidates in key races the party will need to win to retain control of the U.S. Senate in November. Since March, the Massachusetts Democrat, a leader ...
World / Politics Nov 17, 2013
U.S. left gravitates toward 'scourge of Wall Street'
by Dan Roberts
Not many political "rock stars" inspire audience members to knit, but, even by Washington's sedate standards, the darling of America's new left is a quiet revolutionary. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former Harvard professor turned Wall Street scourge, is one of a clutch of unlikely radicals ...