Nation Topics - Citizens United | The Nation

How can we build an effective movement against corporate personhood?

How the politics of the super-rich became American politics.

Bribes from billionaires? Super PACs buying campaigns right and left? Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos.

A week full of progressive victories—SOPA, Keystone and Wisconsin recall efforts—bring great reminders about the long game of organizing.

The populism of the right is coalescing around the race-bating extremism of Newt Gingrich—and Citizens United is greasing the wheels.

We need a constitutional amendment to stem the flood of corporate money that’s poisoning our democracy.

These new political monsters have let loose an avalanche of scorched-earth, negative campaign ads—and enriched TV stations in the process.

What can you do to help overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision?

Awash in Super PAC money, defined by negative TV ads, degraded by dumbed-down media and poisoned by voter suppression—this is not what democracy looks like.