by Eric Lotke | Jan 23, 2010 | Blog
You know by now about the Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. FEC. Corporations are people, and corporate spending on political campaigns is the same as free speech. Here’s what Barack Obama said in Audacity of Hope, when he was halfway between a community...
by Sara Robinson | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
My little series on the turn of the decade (which started last week) was originally conceived as a two-parter: a look back to the past, and a look ahead to the future. That changed a bit this week, when the present rose up and made itself known in a very big way....
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
Mostly I'm posting this because of the cool picture. I mean, just look at this thing: Tesla Motors lands $465M loan with feds to build Palo Alto plant Tesla Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday signed a landmark $465 million loan agreement that will...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
What a week. Call it the Shock Doctrine in reverse: The Massachusetts election and yesterday's Supreme Court ruling may force the Democrats to move to the left to ensure their political survival. They're now faced with a choice they clearly didn't want: forcefully...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on PBS late Thursday said that President Obama doesn't really want to break up the banks. But one of the authors of a report that looks at the impact of increased consolidation in the banking sector says that Geithner's resistance...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
The Supreme Court yesterday allowed corporate executives to tap into their company's resources and use that money to directly influence elections instead of for the profitable operation of the company. This use of company funds isn't considered bribery because the...
