Michael Hiltzik

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My latest column: Big business doesn't care about your privacy www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Why hugely profitable corporations don't spend enough to keep hackers from stealing their customers' infowww.latimes.com ATT and UnitedHealth, both multi-billion-dollar corporations, are so inattentive to data security that millions of Americans have been harmed by breaches

My latest column: The Trump shooting shows the stupidity and hypocrisy of our gun debate www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: The Trump shooting and political violencewww.latimes.com America isn't polarized about guns — most Americans want more gun control.

My latest column: Why index fund investing always wins www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Investing through index funds is more popular than ever, so why is it becoming controversial?www.latimes.com More Americans own stocks than ever before, yet the passive index funds they favor are facing increasing partisan criticism. Here's why

My latest column: Another Trump judge makes life worse for working people www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: A Trump judge blocks another pro-worker Biden initiative, this one involving noncompete clauseswww.latimes.com The Federal Trade Commission banned non-compete clauses, which block workers from moving to better jobs. A Trump-appointed judge has blocked it--of course

My latest column: Anthony Fauci, American hero www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Anthony Fauci's memoir strikes a crucial blow against the disinformation agents who imperil our healthwww.latimes.com In his memoir 'On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service,' Anthony Fauci fights back against the right-wingers and anti-vaxxers whose profit-seeking lies have cost the lives of thousands of Americ...

My latest column: The Supreme Court's power grab www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: With its 'Chevron' ruling, the Supreme Court shows that it thinks it's smarter than scientific expertswww.latimes.com After 40 years, the Supreme Court overturns its landmark 'Chevron' ruling, but are the implications for healthcare and environmental regulations good or bad news for businesses and consumers?

My new column: How a surgeon general's warning and Supreme Court ruling may place gun control on the front burner www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: How a surgeon general's warning and Supreme Court ruling may place gun control on the front burnerwww.latimes.com The surgeon general calls gun violence a public health crisis, and Supreme Court conservatives get terrified by a horrific gun owner. Will that lead to more rational gun policies?

My latest column: Pharma-bro Martin Shkreli can't stay out of trouble www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Ex-'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli claims he launched a crypto coin with Barron Trump. Where's the evidence?www.latimes.com Martin Shkreli, famous for jacking up the price of a generic drug, is touting a weird deal he says he made with Barron Trump. But his reputation for fraud precedes him.

My latest column: UnitedHealth is a 'repeat offender' on contraceptive access www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: This huge insurer got caught breaking a law protecting contraceptive access, but its fine is a jokewww.latimes.com UnitedHealth, the nation's biggest health insurance company, flouted New York law by refusing to cover a patient's birth control. That's a sign of how women's healthcare rights are being whittled away...

My new column: The GOP governors' assault on the working class www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: How anti-union southern governors may be violating federal lawwww.latimes.com Six southern governors are fighting the UAW's organizing campaign in their states, but they may have stepped over the legal line.

My latest column: The crummy pollster pushing anti-vaccine lies www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: This GOP-leaning political polling firm has turned into a purveyor of anti-vaccine propagandawww.latimes.com Rasmussen's polls used to be known for their pro-GOP bias. It has now moved on to pushing anti-vaccine nonsense

My latest column: How Musk went from a hero to a drag on Tesla www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Elon Musk thinks Tesla's investors love him. He's very wrongwww.latimes.com Tesla says its shareholders overwhelmingly 'ratified' Elon Musk's absurd 2018 compensation package, but the truth is much different.

My latest column: Another lie from Big Business about the minimum wage www.latimes.com/business/sto...

The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fakewww.latimes.com Fast food lobbyists say the higher California minimum wage law led to a loss of nearly 10,000 jobs. The claim is baseless.

My latest column: A true pioneer signs off www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85www.latimes.com Lynn Conway, who died Sunday at 85, was a leader in the development of personal computers and microprocessor technology, and a symbol for generations of transgender individuals.

My latest column: A medical journal fails its test as a protector of science www.latimes.com/business/sto...

How a blunder by a respected medical journal is fueling an anti-vaccine liewww.latimes.com A British Medical Journal paper about COVID deaths has been touted by the anti-vaccine camp, but they're wrong and the paper shouldn't have been published anyway.

My latest column: The House GOP stoops to defamation www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: After smearing Anthony Fauci, House Republicans proceed to defame a prominent vaccine scientistwww.latimes.com Dr. Peter Hotez is a vaccination expert who has nothing to do with COVID. The GOP's COVID committee just put him in its crosshairs -- but why?

Cruz and Britt conceal the loopholes in their "protect IVF" bill: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Ted Cruz and Katie Britt claim to be protecting IVF with a new bill. Don't believe themwww.latimes.com Republicans Ted Cruz and Katie Britt are lying when they say their proposal would protect IVF nationwide — it would still allow states to prosecute families who use the method to have a child

My latest column: The GOP shows how to smear a devoted public servant www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Anatomy of a smear — Fauci faces the House GOP's clown show about COVIDwww.latimes.com The House GOP attacks Anthony Fauci, one of America's most accomplished public health officials, labeling him a 'criminal' and worse without a speck of substantiation

My latest column: The rightwingers come after UCLA's medical school, and botch the job www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Is UCLA 'a failed medical school'? Debunking a dumb right-wing memewww.latimes.com A right-wing website claims UCLA is 'a failed medical school,' but it's making a transparently racist argument.

My latest column: The DOJ brings down the hammer on Ticketmaster www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: With Live Nation lawsuit, government signals it's fed up with alleged corporate scofflawswww.latimes.com The government's antitrust case against Live Nation follows two allegedly unsuccessful attempts to rein in the company's anticompetitive behavior.

My latest column: Our feckless Democrats open the door to more crypto fraud www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: With Democratic assent, House votes to open loopholes in crypto regulationwww.latimes.com Cryptocurrency advocates are spending millions in political donations to obtain huge gaps in crypto regulations. They're getting their money's worth

My latest column: Who really drove Red Lobster into bankruptcy? Its greedy owners: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: It wasn't just the endless shrimp — Red Lobster's corporate owners drove it into bankruptcywww.latimes.com Red Lobster's private equity owners saddled it with overpriced leases and overpriced shrimp, then blamed customers for its problems.

My latest column: Exxon gets spanked by the biggest public pension fund, CalPERS: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: In a major rebuke to Exxon Mobil, CalPERS will vote against its entire boardwww.latimes.com CalPERS, the nation's biggest public pension fund, makes good on its support of shareholder rights by voting against all 12 Exxon directors.

My latest column: Cowardly Democrats shred their reputation as protectors of science-based policymaking www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Democrats show that they're no better than Trump in allowing politics to interfere with sciencewww.latimes.com EcoHealth Alliance, which developed research allowing humankind to defeat the next viral pandemic, is officially cut off from federal funding. Democrats who connived with the GOP to do this should han...

My latest column: These billionaires want to keep their farmworkers down www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Inside the effort by two Beverly Hills billionaires to kill a state law protecting farmworkerswww.latimes.com The billionaire owners of Wonderful Co. — grower of almonds and pistachios — say a California farm labor law is unconstitutional.

My latest column: Exxon can't handle the truth www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warmingwww.latimes.com Exxon Mobil objects to the Securities and Exchange Commission's rule on shareholder proposals. So why is it suing these small investors instead of the SEC?

My latest column is about the disgusting clown show in which the House--Republicans and Democrats--conducted an all-out attack on COVID scientists: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: How the GOP — with Democratic Party connivance — has undermined a crucial effort to avert the next pandemicwww.latimes.com Republicans and Democrats participated in a bipartisan effort to smear EcoHealth Alliance, which is devoted to helping to avoid another pandemic

My latest column: How dumb can university presidents be? www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: Calling the police on campus protests show that college presidents haven't learned a thing since the 1960swww.latimes.com Why didn't USC and Columbia administrators understand that bringing police onto campus always makes things worse, not better?

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‘“Shit, if only they’d have moved like that when my son was being murdered,” the father of a murdered Uvalde child tweeted above footage of Texas DPS officers in riot gear storming toward unarmed students at UT Austin.’

"These escalations against students are a choice. Police can be patient, even passive. The Texas DPS proved that when they loitered outside the ongoing slaughter of grade-schoolers." www.momleft.com/p/the-kids-t...

The Kids The Guns Are Forwww.momleft.com The same police force that failed Uvalde children is arresting peaceful student protesters at UT Austin. It's not about safety. It's about order.

My latest column: Net neutrality is back! www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Column: After a years-long pause, the FCC resurrects 'network neutrality,' a boon for consumerswww.latimes.com Trump's FCC killed network neutrality, giving internet providers a green light to abuse consumers. Biden's FCC has corrected that error.