CORPORATE INTEGRITY PROJECT
NLPC promotes integrity in corporate governance, including honesty and fair play in relationships with shareholders, employees, business partners, and customers. In doing so, NLPC places special emphasis on the following:
- Asserting that the social responsibility of the corporation is to defend and advance the interests of the people who own the company, the shareholders. True responsibility is fidelity to one’s own mission, not someone else’s or someone else’s political agenda.
- Exposing the seeking of influence on public officials by corporations, which is the inevitable result of high levels of government spending and intervention in the marketplace.
- Combating practices that undermine the free enterprise system, including corporate giving to groups hostile to a free economy.
Exxon’s CEO Feuds With Trump Once Again, This Time Over Venezuela
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump signaled he may bar ExxonMobil from re-entering Venezuela after CEO Darren Woods opposed the President's plans to get U.S. companies to invest in the nation's oil projects: “I’ll probably be inclined to keep Exxon...
Ford Lit $19B on Fire with EVs; Now GM is Up to a $7.6B Write-Off
NLPC has repeatedly highlighted the impracticality of electric vehicles (both in recent years and during the Obama administration). Now, following Ford's announcement last month that it would take a $19.5-billion write-down on its EV investments, General Motors...
Dear Corporate America: THIS is How You Respond to Anti-Law Enforcement Behavior
After a few days of one of its franchisees' recalcitrance to repent over denying services to ICE agents at one of its Hampton Inns in Lakeview, Minn., Hilton Worldwide stripped it of its branding. Alpha News snapped a photo of a crane removing the hotel's sign on...
Meta’s Smart Glasses Open a New Front for Data Collection and Privacy Risk
Meta’s pause on international expansion for its Ray-Ban smart glasses is a reminder that demand for AI-enabled wearables is racing ahead of real safeguards. NLPC has pressed the company—and its competitors—on AI and data-privacy risks. These devices can record audio,...
JPMorgan Chase Dumps Proxy Advisers, a Win for Conservative Shareholders
JPMorgan Chase’s break with ISS and Glass Lewis is a watershed for corporate governance—and a tailwind for conservative shareholder activism. For years NLPC has argued that the proxy advisor duopoly exerts outsized sway over investor vote outcomes. They almost always...
Ted Cruz Says Ford CEO ‘Terrified’ That He Might Have to Answer for Losing $19B on EVs
Ford Chairman/CEO Jim Farley has reportedly bailed on a planned hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which motivated Chairman Ted Cruz (pictured above) to postpone the session. According to Politico: “Well, for whatever reason,...
Trump’s SEC Chairman Aligns with Pro-DEI Woke Corporations
In early December we explained how the Securities and Exchange Commission, under President Trump's handpicked Chairman Paul Atkins (pictured above at his swearing-in), has washed its hands of resolving disputes between public companies and their shareholders when it...
Science Behind Gender Transitioning Collapses; Corporations are Culpable
This month saw a series of revelations, policy developments, and personal testimonies disseminated in the media related to the emotionally and physically destructive ideology and practice of trying to change an individual's gender. For context, NLPC's Corporate...
Disney’s Board STILL Marred by Leftism, Wokeness and Failure
Two-and-a-half years ago NLPC produced a 27-page report to our fellow Disney shareholders, which called upon them to vote against the entire slate of board of director nominees, after gross negligence with their oversight responsibilities led them into a period where...
Trump Admin Pauses Offshore Wind Projects and Dominion’s Costs Will Balloon More
The inefficiencies (especially compared to alternative generation) and the extreme costs to electricity customers of Dominion Energy didn't put a stop to the utility's development of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Nor did concerns about...
Reuters: Bank of America ‘Ripe for Activist Treatment’
Reuters columnist Stephen Gandel says Bank of America could soon draw an activist campaign, citing years of trailing performance and a widening valuation gap with JPMorgan Chase. Gandel flags an aging board, underperforming wealth unit, and muddled capital-allocation...
Red State AGs Investigate Big Tech’s ‘Green’ Claims
Back in September, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, joined by his counterparts in 15 other states, launched an investigation into Big Tech’s renewable energy marketing, alleging “misleading energy use claims” that could violate state law and distort the true...
Ford’s $35-Billion Bonfire: Why Does Jim Farley Still Have a Job?
If any other CEO in America had incinerated $35 billion of shareholder capital on a failed ideological crusade, security would be escorting him or her out of the building with a cardboard box in hand. Yet, at Ford Motor Company, CEO Jim Farley (pictured above in a...
Chair of Ben & Jerry’s Gets Booted from the Board
Last week we highlighted news reports that Anuradha Mittal (pictured above), the radical anti-Semite who led the board of directors for Ben & Jerry's under Unilever's ownership, was formally denounced by the company as unfit to lead. This week the ice cream...
MELTDOWN: NLPC’s Warnings About Ben & Jerry’s Chairwoman are Finally Heeded
It took five years, a corporate spin-off, and a damning financial audit, but the corporate owners of Ben & Jerry’s have finally reached the same conclusion that NLPC reached in 2021: Anuradha Mittal is unfit to lead. The latest news out of Unilever's spin-off of...
Reid Hoffman’s ‘Google Before Going’ Excuse Ahead of Epstein Island Visit is Bunkum
A few weeks ago, we questioned the veracity of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman's (pictured above) denials regarding his knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s background while helping solicit donations for the MIT Media Lab. The evidence suggested that Hoffman’s claim of...
Financial Times: NLPC’s Anti-DEI Campaign Bears Fruit
The Financial Times recently covered how National Legal and Policy Center's campaign to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion incentives from executive pay has made progress, with notable wins at several big name companies: PepsiCo and Mastercard recently ended a...
GM CEO Mary Barra Helped Build the EV Trap She Now Complains About
Not to be outdone by Ford CEO Jim Farley—who we recently noted suffers from a severe case of political amnesia regarding his role in the EV mandate disaster—General Motors CEO Mary Barra has entered the chat with her own revisionist history. Speaking at the New York...
NLPC Again Presses Microsoft to Increase AI Risk Transparency
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” proposal at Microsoft's 2025 annual shareholder meeting. The proposal requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of external data...
Ford’s CEO Pretends He Wasn’t the Co-Pilot of the EV Crash
There is a specific kind of amnesia that seems to afflict corporate America whenever a new administration enters the White House. This week, Ford CEO Jim Farley (pictured above standing next to President Trump in the Oval Office) exhibited a severe case of it....
Will Disney Choose Another Committed Leftist to Succeed CEO Bob Iger?
As mentioned previously, Disney plans to choose CEO Bob Iger's successor soon prior to the expiration of his contract at the end of 2026. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the decision has been likely narrowed to two in-house candidates: The company is widely...