by Eric Lotke | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
People have been wondering for years who runs our country. People or wealthy corporations? Today the Supreme Court settled the debate. Today’s decision, Citizens United v. FEC, tilts the balance of power in the country even farther towards wealthy and corporate...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to make George W. Bush President allow large corporations to spend as much as needed to place their candidates in office, so that they will pass laws: giving them access to government funds restricting their smaller competitors allowing...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
...It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a...
by Bill Scher | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
Whenever I'm discussing with friends the frustrations of the legislative process, the influence of corporate lobbyists invariably comes up. And that usually leads my friends to declare we won't accomplish anything without public financing of political campaigns. I've...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
The numbers in the Research 2000 exit poll released Wednesday by MoveOn.org and Democracy for America speak for themselves: The Massachusetts election was not a call to go back to conservatism. It was, as Robert Borosage on our site said earlier today and as such...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
The blogs and airwaves are full of explanations for the MA Senate special election's outcome, mostly involving people being upset at particulars of the health care bill. But I don't really think that the people who voted were all that well-informed about differences...
