Lobbying

Former DHS Security Secretary Michael Chertoff

Another Terrible Choice for Biden’s “Disinformation Board” Another Terrible Choice for Biden’s “Disinformation Board”

Michael Chertoff’s experience detaining Muslim Americans, justifying CIA torture, and helping to draft the Patriot Act make him an all-too-appropriate choice to advise this Orwelli...

May 27, 2022 / Lev Golinkin

Urvashi Vaid holds up a sign that says

Urvashi Vaid, 1958–2022 Urvashi Vaid, 1958–2022

Telling the truth, standing together, and fighting for liberation.

May 26, 2022 / Obituary / Laura Flanders

AIPAC’s Dangerous New Antidemocratic Project

AIPAC’s Dangerous New Antidemocratic Project AIPAC’s Dangerous New Antidemocratic Project

In the name of supporting Israel, the lobbying group has created a new super PAC that is only too happy to boost candidates that threaten our democracy.

May 20, 2022 / Ezra Oliff-Lieberman

Blue State Activists Are Working to Decarbonize Trillions

Blue State Activists Are Working to Decarbonize Trillions Blue State Activists Are Working to Decarbonize Trillions

And they don’t need Joe Manchin’s permission.

Apr 15, 2022 / Nathan Newman

Clarence and Ginni Thomas, the Supreme Court’s Unethical “It” Couple

Clarence and Ginni Thomas, the Supreme Court’s Unethical “It” Couple Clarence and Ginni Thomas, the Supreme Court’s Unethical “It” Couple

How the Thomases have been able to get away with their decades long abuse of influence.

Feb 9, 2022 / Elie Mystal

A man carries a briefcase with the words 'Profits of Doom'...

There Can Be No Compromise on a Burning Planet There Can Be No Compromise on a Burning Planet

Business interests invaded the environmental policy realm even before climate change emerged as a key issue. It’s time to kick them out.

Oct 27, 2021 / Amy Westervelt

South Dakota state welcome sign

Extreme Inequality Fuels the Rigged World Economy Shown in the Pandora Papers Extreme Inequality Fuels the Rigged World Economy Shown in the Pandora Papers

The United States now rivals the Cayman Islands and European protectorates as an international tax haven.

Oct 12, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Pharma Protesters

Has Big Pharma Bought Enough Democrats to Derail Biden’s Plan? Has Big Pharma Bought Enough Democrats to Derail Biden’s Plan?

If Democrats allow the party’s Manchinema wing to derail prescription drug pricing reforms, they could lose their ability to govern.

Sep 23, 2021 / Column / John Nichols

Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street

Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street

Policies to address America’s enormous wealth disparities are now on the political map in a way they weren’t before Occupy Wall Street.

Sep 20, 2021 / Feature / Bryce Covert

Democracy’s Money Problem

Democracy’s Money Problem Democracy’s Money Problem

Comparing democracies across the world, a new book reveals that when it comes to financing elections they are not that democratic at all. 

Aug 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jan-Werner Müller

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