Citizens Unite Against ‘Citizens United’ Citizens Unite Against ‘Citizens United’
MoveOn.org is leading a coalition of advocacy groups to overturn the Supreme Court decision.
Jul 29, 2010 / Feature / Ari Berman
Wall Street Not Giving to Dems: Good Riddance Wall Street Not Giving to Dems: Good Riddance
Isn't it time legislators focus on diminishing the strings-attached purchasing power of corporate campaign contributions?
Jul 8, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Money Primary The Money Primary
In recent primaries, winners clinched nominations by spending big.
Jun 9, 2010 / John Nichols
Republican Justice(s) Republican Justice(s)
Citizens United and Bush v. Gore don't stand alone. A decade worth of Supreme Court decisions has tiled the electoral playing field toward the Republicans.
May 21, 2010 / Herman Schwartz
Judging Elena Kagan Judging Elena Kagan
Obama's Supreme Court nominee should be "borked."
May 13, 2010 / The Editors
How to Turn Congess, Inc., Back to Just Congress How to Turn Congess, Inc., Back to Just Congress
The biggest political scandal of our age is the pay-to-play system that buys up Congress, pollutes our political system with special-interest cash and deep-sixes the kind of bold ...
May 11, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Noted. Noted.
Morton Mintz on what Rehnquist would have thought of Citizens United; John Nichols on net neutrality.
Feb 4, 2010 / The Editors
How to Get Our Democracy Back How to Get Our Democracy Back
There will be no change until we change Congress.
Feb 3, 2010 / Feature / Lawrence Lessig
Corpus Ex Machina Corpus Ex Machina
Citizens United raises the questions: why is speech the functional equivalent of money, and why are corporations considered persons?
Jan 28, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Political Fever Political Fever
Since recent shock waves of populism, Obama has made some bigger promises.
Jan 28, 2010 / William Greider