A blue/red movement July 2014You might expect such liberal bastions as Boston, Madison, Boulder, and San Francisco to call for an end to corporate... Read more...
The protest spreads July 2014In order of the date of passage, here are the 16 states that have already petitioned Congress to let their... Read more...
The Senate will soon vote on an amendment to overturn Citizens United. History is calling! July 2014So many absurdities abound in our lives that there’s a whole body of philosophical thought called “absurdism,” as well as... Read more...
The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats May 2013Some of you might remember “CREEP” from 1972’s Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could’ve been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself,... Read more...
Here’s who is buying America’s democracy April 2013The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as “Obamacare,” the federal deficit, or states’... Read more...
Wall Street, the Kochs, and Rove lost to the people– so let’s make Washington govern for the people December 2012As I learned from experience in my “vote-for-me” period, the nature of the political scramble is this: You win some,... Read more...
Et tu, Obama? June 2012On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court’s elevation of Big Money over people by okaying... Read more...
The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries–and what they want in return June 2012Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America’s most useful citizens, to sum up our country’s present political plight in a succinct... Read more...
Billionaires’ front groups attack workers, public schools, and young voters June 2011In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state capitol. They... Read more...
The Big Three secret funders of the $75 million campaign to trash Democratic candidates April 2011It’s unlikely that you have heard of a novel entitled Alpaca, but it was a remarkably portentous piece of political writing by... Read more...
Here’s who is buying America’s democracy March 2011In 1986, Richard Kimball, a Democratic state legislator in Arizona, was running for a US Senate seat. In a televised... Read more...
Giving corporations more power to buy politicians of their choice March 2010“For too long,” wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, “some in this country have been deprived of full... Read more...
Heartless Phil and “honorable lobbyists” would run McCain’s White House August 2008The political media establishment is enrapturedby John McCain. Mainline media sparklies, as well as the blatherers on the Fox channel, routinely buff... Read more...
Who are the big-money givers behind the candidates? June 2008Dallas Oilman H.L. Hunt was a billionaire in a time when such massive wealth was unusual, back in the 1950s and... Read more...
Corporations that paid-to-play in the last election April 2007FROM THE “LAND OF THE CLUELESS AND CONNIVING,” meet a couple of gentlemen who insist that America’s political funding system is... Read more...
