February 25, 2014Industry groups are challenging the EPA's ability to regulate climate change.
February 21, 2014While deep-pocketed dark money groups on the right should be happy with the proposed rules, that isn't the case.
November 7, 2013Big business has been helping to fuel a tide of legislation to block voters from enacting paid sick day legislation.
June 6, 2013ALEC's report claims to rank U.S. states based on their “economic outlook," but it's ideology that gets a state to the top -- or bottom -- of the list.
April 25, 2013The SEC says its considering a new rule that would require publicly traded corporations to disclose political spending to their shareholders.
September 14, 2012In this excerpt from Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explain the significance of the Powell Memorandum, a call-to-arms for American corporations written by Virginia lawyer (and future U.S. Supreme Court justice) Lewis Powell to a neighbor working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In the fall of 1972, the venerable National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) made a ...
May 20, 2012If tax-exempt organizations continue to pay for issue ads, they'll have to disclose who funds them.
April 18, 2012Economic detectives Hacker and Pierson want your help titling their book about unchecked business power.
April 5, 2012Powerful interests are trying to hit the brakes on financial industry reform, but some states are standing up to them.
