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Merck CEO Shows the Power of Corporate Conscience

Business can take a stand "against intolerance and extremism" in the Trump era.

August 15, 2017 at 10:30 AM UTC

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American voters are obligated to pass judgment on President Donald Trump. Increasingly, American corporations may find that they, too, have little choice.

After Trump failed to call out the racists responsible for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, Merck & Co. chief executive officer Kenneth Frazier made an announcement on Monday: He was resigning, he said via Twitter, from Trump's American Manufacturing Council.