General Motors

Is Mitt Romney taking Michigan for a ride?
The presidential hopeful crusades for the auto industry of yore -- and looks awfully out of touch with Michigan's economic pain.
How fast can we get to Apocalypse Junction?
A record year for automobile sales and oil prices equals fun for the whole economy and ecosystem.
The UAW strike is over: Did anyone win?
Retrenchment is the order of the day, as workers put away their signs and get back on the job
Win or lose, the UAW is doomed
But labor shouldn't be blamed for the Big Three's failure to compete.
Big business gets on the healthcare reform bandwagon
A coalition of large businesses comes out for a change in America's healthcare system.
General Motors and the housing bust
Stocks slump again on Wall Street, and here's one reason why: GM's financing arm is up to its neck in bad subprime mortgage loans.
If what's good for GM is good for the country ...
George W. Bush returns from Asia to news that General Motors is shutting nine plants and cutting 30,000 jobs.
Road outrage
How corporate greed and political corruption paved the way for the SUV explosion.
Steal this car!
General Motors wants to take its pioneering electric automobiles off the road. But the geeks who drive them won't let go of the steering wheel.
General Motors gets tub-thumped
British pop rockers Chumbawamba take the car company's money and run straight to the anti-globalization movement.
Hopping into hybrids
Automakers hope smog and high gas prices will persuade consumers to embrace their new "green" lineup.
GM's e-mobile magnate
Mark Hogan is in the "Web on wheels" driver's seat, trying to put GM on a collision course with Gen X.
Political football
The right to sue may be tossed around for the next year.
A new kind of strike
The just-settled strike against GM in Flint, Mich., was the first ever to center on global investment issues.
Batteries included
Are electric cars like GM's EV1 high-tech toys -- or saviors of the planet?
Dragonslayer
An interview with Ralph Nader who is organizing a conference in Washington, D.C., in Nov. 1997 to explore how Microsoft is extending its near-monopolistic control of the software business into other industries, including banking, insurance, car dealerships, travel services, real estate and television.

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