A Democracy for Sale Is No Democracy At All A Democracy for Sale Is No Democracy At All
STUDENT FINALIST: What is really at stake this November is nothing less than the existence of an American republic.
Oct 23, 2012 / StudentNation / Guido Girgenti
Ashindi Maxton: America’s Founding Inequality Ashindi Maxton: America’s Founding Inequality
From the founding of the republic, inequality has been built into our country’s DNA.
Oct 19, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders
Tammy Baldwin: Overturn ‘Citizens United’ Tammy Baldwin: Overturn ‘Citizens United’
The Wisconsin senate candidate rejects the idea of corporate personhood.
Oct 18, 2012 / Video / The Nation Video
Freedom of Beach: Dump ‘Citizens United’ Freedom of Beach: Dump ‘Citizens United’
One thousand San Francisco activists are standing up (by lying down) against the hugely unpopular Supreme Court ruling.
Oct 16, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders
Loophole Allows Saudi Arabian Businesses to Spend Freely in Our Election Loophole Allows Saudi Arabian Businesses to Spend Freely in Our Election
Right-wing blogs are buzzing about a bunk report on Obama’s receiving foreign donations. Citizens United opens up a far more dangerous loophole for foreign cash.
Mitt Romney Embraces Campaign Finance Reform Mitt Romney Embraces Campaign Finance Reform
Today at the Education Nation forum, Mitt Romney finally admitted that money distorts our democracy by improperly influencing politicians, and causing them to ignore their constituents in favor of powerful donors. He even called for action to end this problem, saying it’s “the wrong way for us to go.” Alas, the “powerful donors” that distressed Romney were teachers. His remarks, via Raw Story: “We simply can’t have a setup where the teachers unions can contribute tens of millions of dollars to the campaigns of politicians and then those politicians, when elected, stand across from them at the bargaining table, supposedly to represent the interests of the kids. I think it’s a mistake. I think we’ve got to get the money out of the teachers unions going into campaigns. It’s the wrong way for us to go. We’ve got to separate that.” By saying massive donations can skew political priorities, and saying “we’ve got to get the money out,” Romney is essentially endorsing the intellectual framework of opposition to Citizens United, which allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts influencing elections. Strange, because he has called Citizens United the “correct decision,” and even thinks corporations should be able to write unlimited checks to his campaign instead of bothering with outside groups. Apparently, it’s just the pernicious influence of educators Romney is worried about—not corporations. (Note that the AFT and NEA engage in relatively paltry outside spending, and also disclose their donors). For more on Mitt Romney’s disingenuity, read Ben Adler’s check on the candidate’s miserly donations to charity.
Sep 25, 2012 / Blog / George Zornick
An Appeals Court Strikes a Blow to Campaign Finance Reform An Appeals Court Strikes a Blow to Campaign Finance Reform
A US court of appeals reversed a lower-court decision that would have potentially forced some outside groups to open their books and reveal dark-money donors.
Sep 19, 2012 / Blog / George Zornick
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Supreme Court Works for Corporate Power Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Supreme Court Works for Corporate Power
The Citizens United decision of the “most powerful branch in government” demonstrates that it’s a Court for the 1 percent.
Sep 17, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
‘Citizens United’ and the Corporate Court ‘Citizens United’ and the Corporate Court
Giving corporations the inalienable right to buy elections.
Sep 13, 2012 / Feature / Jamie Raskin
DNC Offers Obama an Opportunity to Show Who the Real Reformer Is DNC Offers Obama an Opportunity to Show Who the Real Reformer Is
The president’s support for an amendment the constitution to overturn Citizens United is a big deal. But will he use Charlotte to position as the 2012 race’s real refor...
Sep 3, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols