Citizens United
Meet the 'Merchants of Doubt' Who Sow Confusion about Tobacco Smoke and Climate Change
Climate change deniers have borrowed a page from efforts to sow confusion about the link between nicotine and cancer, the hole in the Ozone Layer, and other efforts to protect human health and the environment.
Super PACs Aren't Bad, They're Just Embarrassing
Super PACs may be a terrifying harbinger of the death of democracy, but at least they're good for a dick joke.
Bernie Sanders Is Building a 'Revolution' to Challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016
Vermont's independent Senator Bernie Sanders is angry. And he wants you to get angry too.
Jim Rubens and the Republican Crusade for Campaign Finance Reform
New Hampshire's dark horse Republican Senate candidate is turning right-wing populism into a crusade for campaign finance reform.
The Koch Brothers’ Fake Libertarianism: War, Forced Pregnancies, and Homophobia
The billionaire oil barons want you to think they're selfless libertarian ideologues following their hearts, but following the money tells a different story.
A Harvard Professor Is Crowdfunding a Super PAC to Save Democracy from Money
Larry Lessig is trying to raise $12 million in order to win some elections and prove that radical campaign finance reform is possible and necessary.
On the Front Lines of Wisconsin's Big-Money, Small-Town Iron Mine War
We traveled to northern Wisconsin to check in on the bitter environmental, economic, and political battle raging over a proposed iron mine.
The Democratic Party's Future Is Awash in Dark Money
Amid talk of a left-wing revival inspired by populists like NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and US Senator Elizabeth Warren, corporate titans from finance to natural gas to big retail to telecom are trying to reshape the party of Obama.
Activst Kai Newkirk Wants You to Disrupt the Supreme Court
His plan to overturn Citizens United involves 10,000 people committing acts of civil disobedience across the US.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, the US Just Moved One Step Closer to Full Oligarchy
Money is speech and if you don't have the former, you don't have the latter.
"Dreams from My Real Father" Is Kind of a Tin-Foil Hat "Innocence of Barack Obama"
In recent weeks, conservative operatives have been audience-testing a new Obama documentary that purports to the the _real_ truth about the president's background. ""Dreams From My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception"":http://www...
The Great Inanity of Super PACs: How to Spend Millions to Be Exhaustingly Boring
Plutocrats, it seems, have never been blessed with a handier tool than the super PAC. For them (not to mention career campaign strategists and consultants), it’s a dream come true: a magical conduit where money flows in one side and gets pumped out the...