Corporate America weighs in on Georgia’s voting-rights law
Politically engaged consumers increasingly push companies to take sides in political disputes
THOUGH THE divide has never been tidy, for the past century Republicans have been seen as the party of big business in America and Democrats as the party of labour. Under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama the Democrats found friends in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, but they never overcame the Republican formula of cutting taxes, opposing regulation and reaping corporate campaign support.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Political baseball”
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