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Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s Guide to the New World of Campaign Finance
More money will be flowing from more players with more opportunities to hide the source.
Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity
In Philadelphia, budget cuts have led to fire departments closing on a daily rotating basis, delaying response time. (Photo: Sam Blackman)
Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism – Part I
The growing numbers of zombies in the mainstream media have huge financial backing from the corporate elite.
Newt Fakes It
Gingrich has posed as a candidate for a decade now to promote his books, speeches, lobbying business, and other hustles.
Does “Democracy” Still Mean Anything? (And in Case It Does, What Is It?)
It is a possibility – nay, a likelihood - that the link between public agenda and private worries, the very hub of the democratic process, has been broken.
In the Twilight of the Social State: Rethinking Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History
We no longer live in an age in which history's “winged messengers” bear witness to the suffering of millions.
Incoming GOP House Chairs Plan to Investigate Climate Scientists, Probe Muslim “Radicalization,” Repeal Healthcare Reform
When the 112th Congress is sworn in Wednesday, Republicans will hold a newfound edge in the House after four years in the minority.
Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture
We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …
Revenge of the Zombies: Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and the Return of Dark Times
The new zombies have an increasing presence in the death chambers of high finance, the highest reaches of government and in the forefront of mainstream media.
Interregnum
Sovereignty nowadays is, so to speak, underdefined and contentious, porous and poorly defensible, unanchored and free-floating.