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Don’t Be Duped by Corporate Spin: Regulation Protects Us All
The media must be the public's watchdog on regulatory issues, not a conduit for corporate anti-regulatory spin.
How Tammy Baldwin Sent the Koch Brothers and Their Minions Packing
Baldwin used ALEC to effectively frame her opponent as doing the bidding of corporate special interests.
Parents Deliver Ashes of Diabetic Children to Price-Gouging Insulin Manufacturer
When people die from lack of access to medicine, health care profiteers should expect resistance.
Millions in Masked Money Was Funneled Into the 2018 Elections
Partially-disclosing groups have already reported $405 million in 2018 election spending.
Dark Money Paid New Trump Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s Salary for Years
Whitaker previously served as the executive director of FACT, a dark money funder of the conservative movement.
The Rise of Shadow Parties
Republicans and Democrats have found a new way to set up super PACs and rake in dark money.
New Database Reveals Extent of Drug Makers’ Patronage of Lawmakers
A new database tracks campaign donations from drug makers over the past 10 years.
How Billionaires Bought Kavanaugh’s Seat on the Supreme Court
Justice Kavanaugh is a major win for the right-wing project to restore corporate power through the courts.
Moving Toward Plutocracy: Bill Moyers Talks to Ben Fountain About the Trump Age
Ben Fountain’s "Beautiful Country Burn Again" is a bold, brave book about the state of politics in the era of Trump.
Was Susan Collins’s “Yes” Vote the GOP’s Final Surrender to Trump?
Idolized by both sides, Maine’s “moderate” Republican reveals herself to be just a partisan flunky after all.