Videos

William Cohan (Power Failure), Rick Wartzman (Still Broke), and co-authors Erik Conway and Naomi Oreskes (The Big Myth) discussed the costs of capitalism and iconic American companies like W…

Journalist Rick Wartzman, author of Still Broke: Walmart’s Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism, talked about Walmart’s efforts to transform itself from …

A discussion on labor from the 23rd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books that featured Susan Marquis, I Am Not a Tractor!; Rick Wartzman, The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good …

Rick Wartzman talked about his book Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath (PublicAffairs; September 1, 2008). In his book he discusses John …

Rick Wartzman talked about the book he co-authored, The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire, published by PublicAffairs. In the book the authors reco…

Authors, Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman talked about their book, "The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire". The authors recount the story of the Boswell …

On September 4, the Labor Department reported the loss of 187,000 jobs in the private sector during August 1992. Rick Wartzman discussed his front page article on the economy and its impact …