2005 Year in Review

EthicsDaily.com paid and volunteer writers produced more than 750 articles in 2005. They included news and feature stories; movie, book and music reviews; opinion columns and editorials. Here’s our review of some of the major stories we followed: 1. Natural...

British Baptists Pray for Hostages in Iraq

British Baptist leaders asked churches to pray during the Christmas season for a kidnapped British hostage and three fellow captives being held in Iraq. Norman Kember, 74, a longtime member of Harrow Baptist Church in London, was with two Canadians and an American...

Wal-Mart Employees Denied Lunch Breaks Awarded $172 Million

Current and former Wal-Mart workers in California received an early Christmas present last Thursday when an Alameda County jury ordered the retailer to pay $172 million for denying lunch breaks as required by state law. About 116,000 past and present workers were...

Pro-Wal-Mart Group Forms to Counter Critics

Wal-Mart supporters on Tuesday formed a steering committee of Working Families for Wal-Mart to talk about positive contributions of the retailer and counter criticism from Web sites like WakeUpWalMart.com and a popular documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of...

Poll: Americans Have Mixed Feelings About Wal-Mart

Shoppers expressed mixed feelings about Wal-Mart, rating it a good place to shop but a poor place to work, in a new survey. A poll released last Thursday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found 81 percent of Americans surveyed said Wal-Mart is...