Boycotts

China is using its economic growth as a lever to demand countries stay away from the Nobel ceremony in Oslo today honoring an imprisoned Chinese dissident.

Target made itself, well, a target for a gay-rights boycott when it made a $150,000 contribution to a pro-business political group. It turns out the group supports a gubernatorial candidate who once attended a fundraiser for a virulently anti-gay nonprofit. Accusations of homophobia are a hard blow for the brand, which has previously enjoyed a gay-friendly reputation.

It's a rare day that Target is the object of consumer scorn, but that day has come. The retailer is under fire for donating money to a political action committee that supports a conservative politician opposed to gay marriage. It's quite a tangled web and Target is now facing a boycott as gay...

Arizona's been through economic boycotts before. But the controversy over the state's new immigration law is already having an impact on Arizona's tourism industry.

Passing the nation's toughest law on immigration may end up doing serious damage to both Arizona's reputation and its tourism industry, one of its largest revenue sources. Already, cities across the nation are calling for boycotts of the Grand Canyon State after the law was approved on Friday.

A lot of Americans are understandably peeved by the fact that General Motors received a massive taxpayer-funded bailout designed to rescue the company from a long series of poor business decisions.Some people are upset about it enough to refuse to buy GM's cars as a matter of principle and a show...