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Feb 17 2010 - 1:42pm

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Junk Food Nation (Corporate Lobbying, Health)

The recent conflict over what America eats is an example of how in Bush's America corporate interests trump public health.

Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor
The Myth of Small-Donor Clout (Campaign Finance, Presidential Election 2004, Corporate Lobbying, Politics)

Contrary to popular opinion, large donors dominated
fund-raising even more than usual in the 2004 election cycle.

Nick Nyhart
Facing It (Corporate Lobbying, George W. Bush)

The mask of corporate America

R.O. Blechman
Minority/Majority (Corporate Lobbying)

Friends of predatory lenders stay in the minority, while foes move toward the majority.

David Sirota
Debunking 'Centrism' (Corporate Lobbying, Parties, Politics)

It's what corporations want, not the public.

David Sirota
DeLay on the Hot Seat (Racism and Discrimination, Corporate Lobbying, Society)

Two investigative bombs with long fuses are sizzling under Tom DeLay, America's Machiavelli of gerrymandering and shakedown fundraising.

Jack Newfield
Dick Cheney and the $5 Million Man (Political Figures, Corporate Lobbying, Corporations, White-Collar Crime, Society)

Will Dick Cheney be indicted for past Halliburton abuses?

Doug Ireland
The Big Money Election (Corporate Lobbying, Electoral Reform, Politics)

Click here for info on how you can help save Arizona's Clean Elections Act.

The Editors
The New Scopes Trials (Bush Administration, Science, Corporate Lobbying, Politics)

Eric Alterman and Mark Green would like to thank Jenny Stepp for her research on this article.

Eric Alterman and Mark Green
Making Money on Terrorism (Corporate Lobbying, War on Terrorism)

The Bush Administration's apparent motto: "Leave no defense contractor behind."

William D. Hartung

Blogs

With ALEC Exposed, Common Cause Demands an IRS Audit of Corporate-Funded Group's Gaming of State Lawmaking
John Nichols

Revelations about American Legislative Exchange Council project to link corporate interests with state legislators to impose an agenda that protects polluters, privatizes public education, breaks unions and undermines democracy raises questions about whether group is “evading lobbying disclosure laws,” violating tax breaks designed to encourage charitable contributions and doing “an end-run around state ethics laws.”

July 15, 2011
The 'Badger Advocates': Corporate Advocates, Not UW-Madison Advocates
StudentNation

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison a group of corporate lobbyist will be working to turn the university into a quasi-private "public authority" institution. Other states that have gone down this road have seen tuition skyrocket. 

March 8, 2011
I’m Not in Love…
Eric Alterman

Some musical selections, and on News Corp.'s donation to the Republicans.

August 19, 2010
Tell Congress to Get Serious About Corporate Campaign Abuse
John Nichols

Ask your House member to co-sponsor Constitutional amendment for fair elections; or find a candidate who will.

March 31, 2010
Make CEOs Take Responsibility for Democracy-Warping Ads
John Nichols

As someone who has written several books and dozens of major articles on judicial interventions in our politics, and who has covered literally hundreds of campaigns in every state of the country, I have made no secret about my sense that the best response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to let corporations spend freely on campaigns is a constitutional amendment to protect our democracy from being overwhelmed with corporate cash.

February 11, 2010
Free Speech for People
Peter Rothberg

My colleague and friend John Nichols' new post appropriately lauds Rep. Donna Edwards' proposed legislation to redress the damage done by the Supreme Court in its decision in the case of Citizens United v. FEC to abandon long-standing precedent with the purpose of permitting corporations to dominate the political discourse.

February 2, 2010
Groundhog's Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth
John Nichols

The 2009 stimulus bill that was supposed to spur job creation at a sufficient rate to prevent double-digit unemployment might have done so if it had been approved at the level and with the focus intended by the serious players in the U.S. House who initially crafted a real response to the recession.

February 1, 2010
Blocking Bernanke is Smart Economics, Smart Politics for Dems
John Nichols

If the Democratic Party wants to lose – or, to be more precise, wants to lose badly in 2010 and 2012, it need only maintain its current loyalty to the most powerful interests on Wall Street.

January 25, 2010
Teddy Roosevelt Was Right: Ban ALL Corporate Contributions
John Nichols

What to do about the decision by U.S. Supreme Court to -- in the words of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold -- "(ignore) important principles of judicial restraint and respect for precedent" in order to make corporations the dominant players in American politics?

January 21, 2010