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Moyers and Company
Under the editorial direction of Bill Moyers, the non-profit, award-winning Moyers & Company offer independent news and commentary covering elections, money and politics, inequality, climate change, voting rights, the media and more.
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The President’s Never-Ending Campaign for Cash
Aversion to the whole of idea of super PACs from many Democrats and the left diminished a willingness to give large sums to the Obama re-election effort. But that …
Bill Moyers | Follow the Dark Money
The Mother Jones editors talk about the conspiracy of cash that allows the rich to influence our most fundamental political freedoms.
How to Own an Election
In this Bill Moyers Essay, Bill calls out some of the biggest political and super PAC donors, revealing how easy it is for the wealthy one percent to sway …
Thomas Frank on Money in Politics
When it comes to the vast, corrupting influence of money in politics, historian Thomas Frank has sounded the alarm loudly and often.
Campaign Cash: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Super PACs are available for every kind of race - presidential, congressional or statewide. But there are other ways you can help buy an election.
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On Climate Change, Money Trumps Common Sense
In the Arctic, levels of the heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, a key factor in global warming, have hit 400 parts per million, a level scientists believe has not been …
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Pity the Poor Billionaires
The so-called u201cmega-donors,u201d are upset that their massive contributions are being exposed to public view.
On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons With Torture
If we really want to honor the Americans in uniform who gave their lives fighting for their country, weu2019ll redouble our efforts to make sure weu2019re worthy of their …
A 21 Protest Song Salute
Hereu2019s a list of 21 songs that have done just that u2014 from Woody Guthrieu2019s This Land is Your Land to Public Enemyu2019s Fight the Power.
Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice
Songs of social protest — music and the quest for justice — have long been intertwined, and the troubadours of troubling times — Guthrie, Seeger, Baez, Dylan, and Springsteen …