NYT Follows Walmart’s Weird OSHA Fight

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2011 at 02:40 PM

The New York Times reported this weekend that a judge upheld $7,000 fine OSHA levied against Walmart for the trampling... More

Audit Notes: The Sovereign Risk Genie, Regulatory Complexity, Wal-Mart and Bank Fees

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2011 at 07:22 PM

The Economist's Greg Ip says the European crisis, at its core, is not about Silvio Berlusconi or even Italian debt... More

Blodget Asks a Taboo Question on Wages and Profits

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2012 at 04:08 PM

I like this Henry Blodget thought experiment on how much more major companies could afford to compensate their ill-paid employees.... More

Farm to Table

Tracie McMillan reports on the American way of eating

By David Riedel   Apr 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | By Tracie McMillan |... More

NYT Obscures Wal-Mart, EDF Link

Article overlooks green group’s close ties to Walton Family Foundation

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 25, 2012 at 06:59 AM

A recent New York Times article about the Environmental Defense Fund’s efforts to help Wal-Mart “cut waste” painted an incomplete... More

Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM

The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More

Stories I’d Like to See

Cheney’s heart, CVS and privacy, and Walmart’s guns

By Steven Brill   Apr 17, 2012 at 12:14 PM

In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

The Times’s Extraordinary Wal-Mart Investigation

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 23, 2012 at 06:38 PM

David Barstow's epic Wal-Mart investigation in the Sunday New York Times has already lopped $10 billion off the company's market... More

Walmart’s Unions

They do exist—outside the U.S.—as a Washington Post story shows

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM

It's well known that Walmart is viciously anti-union. It's not much known is that the company is much more accomodative... More