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Money & Politics
  • Democracy & Government
    What Clinton Gets Right, And Wrong, About Wall Street Reform
    December 9, 2015
    | Isaiah J. Poole
    The progressives that Clinton is clearly trying to win over need to keep pressing for bolder reforms.
  • Money & Politics
    The Legislator(s) Who Sold Out New York
    December 2, 2015
    | Zephyr Teachout

    This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post. There's an old corruption joke that you'll find variations of in India, in Nigeria, in China -- I've heard versions from everywhere. A bureaucrat from China visits an Indian counterpart and sees the beautiful home and asks, "how did you get this beautiful house?" The Indian functionary answers, "Can you see that bridge?" "Yes" "10 percent," says the bureaucrat, smugly. Then, a decade later, the Indian counterpart returns the ...

  • The Legislator(s) Who Sold Out New York
    December 2, 2015
    | Zephyr Teachout
    Zephyr Teachout writes that while the state Assembly speaker has been convicted of corruption, he's only a small piece of New York's dishonorable system.
  • Money & Politics
    America Has a Hidden Climate Denial Network and New Research Maps It Out
    December 1, 2015
    | John Light
    Corporate funding has played a huge role in influencing our national conversation on climate.
  • Environment
    Fossil Fuel Projects Could Be as Harmful as 5 Keystones
    December 1, 2015
    | John Light
    Though President Obama rejected the controversial pipeline, activists on the West Coast are waging an even bigger fight.
  • Money & Politics
    America Has a Hidden Climate Denial Network and New Research Maps It Out
    December 1, 2015
    | John Light
    Corporate funding has played a huge role in influencing our national conversation on climate.
  • Money & Politics
    Don't Let Wall Street Get Away With Reform Rollbacks
    November 30, 2015
    | Dennis Kelleher
    Members of Congress shouldn’t fall for these tactics. They should see these provisions for what they really are: special interest giveaways to Wall Street that have no place in this year's appropriations bill.
  • Money & Politics
    Don't Let Wall Street Get Away With Dodd-Frank Reform Rollbacks
    November 30, 2015
    | Dennis Kelleher
    Members of Congress shouldn’t fall for these tactics. They should see these provisions for what they really are: special interest giveaways to Wall Street that have no place in this year's appropriations bill.
  • Corruption Is as Bad in the US as in Developing Countries
    November 27, 2015
    | Rebecca Gordon
    Living in America sometimes resembles taking part in a Ponzi scheme, and its likely to get worse before it gets better.
  • Daesh/ISIS Is Not Israel's Problem -- For Now
    November 23, 2015
    | Michael Winship
    As nations confront the threat of Daesh/ISIS, Israel still has time to make a brave peace with Palestinians.


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