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Anna Massoglia & Kaitlin Washburn: 2017 Financials of the Koch’s Dark Money Network

Charles and David Koch maintain an extensive, powerful network of nonprofit organizations to further their libertarian and conservative ideological values. Four nonprofits at the crux of the network — the Charles Koch … Continue reading

December 7, 2018 · Leave a comment

Sandy Solomon: Notes from the Times

We watch purchase of power become protected right: they claim that money equals nothing less than speech. Bad enough that once wasps broached the ceiling. Near the patch, across the … Continue reading

June 27, 2018 · Leave a comment

Marc Jampole: Dark Money And American Democracy

Jane Mayer’s book Dark Money does a thorough job of dissecting the 40-year campaign of a small coterie of billionaires to change the American political agenda for their own selfish ends. … Continue reading

February 8, 2016 · Leave a comment

Robert Reich: How the Trade Deals Boost the top 1% and Bust the Rest

Suppose that by enacting a particular law, we’d increase the U.S.Gross Domestic Product. But almost all that growth would go to the richest 1 percent. The rest of us could … Continue reading

February 18, 2015 · 1 Comment

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