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Money & Politics
  • Money & Politics
    New Thinking on Rescuing Our Politics from Plutocrats
    January 20, 2016
    | Richard Hasen
    In his new book Plutocrats United, election law scholar Rick Hasen argues that the problem isn't that politicians are corrupted by special interests — it's that they have no incentive to pay attention to anyone but the rich.
  • Money & Politics
    How to Corral the Donor Class
    January 20, 2016
    | Gilad Edelman
    When it comes to money in politics, the real problem is not corruption, but inequality.
  • Environment
    Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style
    January 19, 2016
    | Bill McKibben
    Even as fossil fuel companies see the writing on the wall, they're pushing new projects and policy that will keep us polluting for years to come.
  • Activism
    We Can Do This, America. Seven Steps to Reversing Citizens United.
    January 12, 2016
    | Derek Cressman
    It can be discouraging to realize that it often takes decades to overturn a Supreme Court decision, but one campaign finance reformer says the good news is that we're already 40 years into that struggle.
  • Money & Politics
    Why Victory in the Fight Against Big Money Is Closer Than You Think
    January 12, 2016
    | John Light
    In a Q&A, veteran campaign finance reformer Derek Cressman says Americans are becoming increasingly aware that something has to change about the growing amount of money in politics.
  • Money & Politics
    The Roberts Court Finds a New Way to Stack the Deck For the Rich
    January 12, 2016
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes that arguments before the court yesterday in a case involving unions and money could mean less political clout for working people.
  • Democracy & Government
    Don't Let Trump Fool You: Right-Wing Populism Is the New Normal
    January 11, 2016
    | Bill Moyers
    Right-wing populist candidates have sprung up all over Europe as well as in the US. It's the product of democracy in crisis, says Gary Younge.
  • Money & Politics
    Do Candidates Dream of Electric Sheep?
    January 8, 2016
    | Tim Murphy
    Clone armies, super PAC spawns and Potemkin headquarters. Welcome to the age of the Uncampaign.
  • Money & Politics
    2016 Will Test the Power of Super PACs
    January 7, 2016
    | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
    The candidates shaking up both party's primaries, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, are not reliant on super PACs in the same way candidates were in other recent federal elections.
  • Democracy & Government
    Mike Lofgren on the Rise of the 'Deep State,' Washington's Shadow Government
    January 6, 2016
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    A new book further explores the "red thread" that connects the war on terror, the militarization of America's foreign policy, rising inequality and the dysfunction that plagues our government.


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