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Money & Politics
  • Can We Safeguard Our Democracy After McCutcheon?
    April 4, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    It's time to wipe out the dark money, and force those wealthy few to stand behind their positions.
  • Bill Moyers Essay: McCutcheon Means “All the Free Speech You Can Buy”
    April 4, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    Democracy’s officially on the auction block. The Supreme Court says it can go to the highest bidder.
  • ExxonMobil Will Keep Doing As It Pleases
    April 4, 2014
    | John Light
    A future in which governments regulate carbon emissions is an unrealistic thing to imagine, and not worth planning for, says the company.
  • How McCutcheon Affects the Minimum Wage
    April 4, 2014
    | Joseph Hines
    The inability of Washington to raise the minimum wage is a prime example of how elite donor dominance impacts real-world policymaking.
  • Clip: What Might America's Plutocrats Do After McCutcheon?
    April 3, 2014
    Legal scholar Heather Gerken tells Bill that McCutcheon is likely to encourage the richest Americans to invest even more heavily in tilting the playing field further in their favor.
  • Originalists Making It Up Again: McCutcheon and ‘Corruption’
    April 3, 2014
    | Lawrence Lessig
    The conservative justices, who often say their rulings represent the founders' intentions, chose to ignore those same intentions on McCutcheon, writes Lawrence Lessig.
  • An "Army of Lobbyists" Is Quietly Fighting for Budget-Busting Corporate Tax Breaks
    April 3, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    They hope to extend the "GE loophole" without a lot of public attention.
  • An Activist Court's Ideology: More Money, Less Voting
    April 3, 2014
    | Ari Berman
    The same people who favor unlimited secret money in US elections are the ones funding the effort to make it harder for people to vote.
  • A Blistering Dissent in McCutcheon
    April 2, 2014
    Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that the ruling "creates huge loopholes in the law" and "undermines, perhaps devastates, what remains of campaign finance reform."
  • Reformers: McCutcheon Will Empower the Oligarchs
    April 2, 2014
    | John Light
    Today, the Roberts Court rolled back 40 years of campaign finance law. Here's a roundup of reformers' thoughts about the decision.


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