NYC Campaign Reform NYC Campaign Reform
The success of Michael Bloomberg's $69 million race for Mayor of New York against Mark Green was widely seen as a setback for campaign finance reform. But the Bloomberg campaign de...
Feb 14, 2002 / Editorial / Richard Kirsch
Post-Campaign Reform Reform Post-Campaign Reform Reform
Hurray for campaign finance reform--well, kind of.
Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / David Corn
Bush to Lay: What Was Your Name Again? Bush to Lay: What Was Your Name Again?
If you believe President Bush, Kenneth Lay--one of his top financial backers and his "good friend"--was merely an equal-opportunity corrupter of our political system, buying off ...
Jan 15, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Connect the Enron Dots to Bush Connect the Enron Dots to Bush
The connections between Enron and the Bush administration run deep—and they should be investigated.
Dec 11, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Friends at Court Friends at Court
The Supreme Court, in the final week of June, handed down three decisions, each of which seems to endorse a valuable social principle. In the first, involving the right...
Jun 28, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Independents’ Day Independents’ Day
It's fitting that the first senator to become an independent in more than thirty years hails from Vermont, the state with the most advanced independent politics in the nation. Ver...
May 31, 2001 / Editorial / Micah L. Sifry
Clean Elections at Stake Clean Elections at Stake
For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns.
May 29, 2001 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Beyond McCain-Feingold Beyond McCain-Feingold
The Senate's passage of McCain-Feingold was welcome if only as a comeuppance to the Trent Lotts and Mitch McConnells who had arrogantly defied popular sentiment by keeping the ...
Apr 5, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Senate Shocker! Senate Shocker!
US Senator Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democratic side of the McCain-Feingold juggernaut that is on the verge of winning Senate approval of the most significant campaign finance ...
Mar 28, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Taking Care of Business Taking Care of Business
The corporate class is flying high in Washington. With George W. Bush--CEO style and all--in the White House and the Republicans controlling Congress, the business community has b...
Mar 15, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors