| Mar 27, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyBack in 2010, President Obama declared: “I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests.” That was so 2010. By 2013, the mist of corporate money has fogged over Team Obama’s commitment to such...
| Jan 23, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyIf you live in a swing state you might be wondering, what happened to all the money television stations got for airing the nonstop spew of political ads right up until Election Day? You’d think television stations, whose news departments at least try to lay...
| Nov 14, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyOur billionaires suddenly appear bumbling after their Election Day losses. We’ll never know exactly how much America’s rich pumped into the 2012 campaigns. Hundreds of millions in “dark money” — contributions laundered through groups like...
| Sep 21, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyWhether you’re a Democrat, Republican, tea-partier, liberal, conservative, or in-between, you’re experiencing an election season unlike any in U.S. history. That’s because the rules on political spending have changed in a billion dollar way. In 2010,...
| Jul 30, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyIf there were ever any hope that the Supreme Court’s right wing would temper its assault on clean elections laws, that hope recently slipped away. In a five-four decision issued at the end of June, the Court’s conservative majority — the same five...
