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  • Letters From an American
    Countdown
    October 24, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    This version of our government is not popular. Republican senators who will vote for Barrett represent 14.3 million fewer Americans than the Democratic senators who oppose her confirmation. Schumer today warned his Republican colleagues: “The majority has trampled over norms, rules, standards, honor, values, any of them that could possibly stand in its monomaniacal pursuit to put someone on the court who will take away the rights of so many Americans.”

  • Economy & Work
    Statehouses Hosting Biggest Political Money Fights
    September 5, 2017
    | Ashley Balcerzak
    While federal government dithers, policy battles rage in legislatures.
  • Money & Politics
    How SCOTUS Campaign Finance Rulings 'Distorted' US Democracy
    March 15, 2017
    | Lauren McCauley
    Campaign finance rulings contributed $1.3 billion, nearly half of the spending in the 2016 presidential election
  • Money & Politics
    Like Kryptonite to Campaign Finance Reform
    December 2, 2016
    | Marty Kaplan
    Trump could not have announced a more in-your-face betrayal of his promise to clean up Washington than his pick of Donald McGahn.
  • Money & Politics
    New Lawsuit Aims to Be 'Death of the Super PAC'
    November 7, 2016
    | deidrefulton
    "For too long, opponents of campaign finance reform have set the agenda in the courts. Today, we're taking back the initiative."
  • Money & Politics
    Last Night: Debating the Merits of the Third Debate
    October 20, 2016
    Moyers' contributors deliver their verdicts and reactions on the third and final debate.
  • Money & Politics
    Why Overturning Citizens United Isn't Enough
    October 20, 2016
    | Adam Eichen
    You don't have to think our democracy works perfectly to be appalled at Donald Trump's attack on it.
  • Democracy & Government
    Three Key Issues Missing From the Debates
    October 19, 2016
    | Karin Kamp
    The presidential candidates have not been asked questions on some of the critical issues facing us, and Chris Wallace has no plans to ask them.
  • Economy & Work
    The Law Professor Who Wants Mary Jo White Fired
    October 14, 2016
    | Kathy Kiely
    An investment-banker-turned-law-professor and corporate transparency advocate shares his thoughts on what has to happen during the next four years.
  • Money & Politics
    Talking Democracy with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
    October 12, 2016
    | Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
    Campaign finance reform advocate predicts victory will come like snow off a roof after a New England spring thaw: "in a big woosh."


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