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Democracy in Peril: Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act
In 1996, President Clinton signed the bill into law. Today, the media industry is donating big to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Why Our Government Isn’t Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US Suffering
Why doesn't the government of a country as wealthy as the US provide for its people? Oppression is a profitable business.
IRS Allows Post-Citizens United Karl Rove Group to Continue Concealing Source of Donors
The Internal Revenue Service decided to grant “social welfare” tax-exempt status to Crossroads GPS.
How Sanders’s Grassroots Fundraising Is Defying the 2016 “Billionaire Primary”
Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign is raking in millions of individual small-dollar contributions.
Ordinary Americans Fought Big Money and Won in 2015
Groups have seized the moment by successfully using grassroots mobilization to push candidates to address money in politics.
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Regulating Banks vs. Displacing Them: Where Clinton and Sanders Disagree on Wall Street
Sanders and Clinton often use similar rhetoric when discussing Wall Street, but their financial policies are far from the same.
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Big Campaign Cash for Clinton From Monsanto Lobbyist
Clinton is widely seen as a friend to genetically engineered crop technology and agrichemical interests.
The Most Expensive Election Ever Is a Billionaire’s Playground: Except for Bernie Sanders
Let's examine the relationships between our 21st century plutocrats and the contenders who have raised $5 million or more.
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Bernie Sanders and Election Season at the Supreme Court
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign is an opportunity to reveal the dangers of the Supreme Court's political overreach.
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2016 Will Be a Test for Super PACs
Sanders and Trump have one distinctive thing in common: they have no Super PACs propping up their candidacies.