Tag: big money in politics

The 42 right-wing Republican senators and House of Representatives members who voted two weeks ago to challenge US election results want us to believe...

Do you know anyone who might have donated to the "Donald J. Trump Election Defense Fund"? Well, it probably won't make any difference, but you...

Tuesday was the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court case that re-wrote the political landscape. On January 21, 2010, the nation's highest court handed down...

Everyone can afford to buy advertising space on billboards in order to spread his or her political views, right? Everyone can buy political influence, right? That's...

While it's true the "Third-Way" wing of the Democratic party is up to some of its old tricks trying to discredit progressives possibly flirting...

One step forward, two steps back. That's a way to describe two recent policy revisions the Democratic National Committee (DNC) instituted as the party formulates...

There has been another mass shooting in America. Yesterday's shooting at a Jacksonville, Fla. video gamers’ competition makes the 235 mass shooting in this country to date. The 24-year-old gunman--whose...

Know anyone who still thinks elections don't matter? If so, ask that person why right-wing billionaires like the notorious Koch brothers are prepared to spend up...

In her book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein argues that countries like the United States will never have effective climate policies...

Dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey is bad enough. Now we learn Texas has another problem--chemical poisoning. Thursday morning, the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby,...

An incredible, perhaps unprecedented, number of grassroots organizations formed during the 2015-16 presidential campaign season. As a result, communities all over the country have been...

There is a nefarious force out there actively working to rob you of your right to vote, speak freely, and rest comfortably under sacrosanct constitutional...

Environmental racism is the intentional - and sometimes unintentional - allocation of nuclear testing, extraction, and disposal of hazardous waste that occurs in and...

Between 2005 and 2014, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation -- Koch as 'in the multi-billionaires who have been funding the Tea Party since...

Some believe greed is a real mental illness. Taking one step closer to proving this theory is hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffen, who feels...