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Citizens Ignited: We The People spoke at a rally in Seattle to call for reversal of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It
In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government—driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature.
Article V of the Constitution gives the states the power to call for a Constitutional Convention.
Call an Article V Constitutional Convention to Save Our Democracy
Lawrence Lessig and Mark McKinnon: How to sober up Washington
The following op-ed, co-written by HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig and Daily Beast contributor Mark McKinnon , appeared in the Apr. 6 edition of the online publication. by Mark McKinnon and Lawrence Lessig Washington is hopelessly addicted to money and thus to the status quo; drunk with power and incapable of getting sober and fixing itself.
In our December 1992 book issue, REASON asked a number of writers to answer the question, "What should the president read?" by recommending three books for the incoming chief executive. At the time contributors had to make their choices, no one knew who the president would be.
Monstrous Hybrids - Reason Magazine
Beware of “monstrous moral hybrids” — a TIMN perspective
In preparing for Part IV of this blog’s ongoing series on the Occupy protests, I’ve realized that something should be said about “monstrous moral hybrids” as organizations that will surely impede the kinds of democratic reforms that protesters may wish for.
How the Corporate Elite Hijacked America's Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent
America's political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power. For a generation, America's political-economy has been gripped in a vicious cycle. Those at the top of the economic pile have taken an ever-growing share of the nation's income, and then leveraged that haul into ever-greater political power, which they have in turn used to rewrite the rules of “the market” in their favor.
But the surge of cynicism now engulfing America isn’t about government’s size.
Robert Reich (The Defining Issue: Not Government's Size, but Who It's For)
David Koch, executive vice president of Koch Industries, attends a meeting of the Economic Club of New York, Monday, April 11, 2011.
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama
The Corruption Of Our Entire Political Class Explained In One Paragraph
Jim Vandehei hits upon a startling truth about money and politics in his report in Politico about Barack Obama's flip-flop on SuperPACs. The background: Obama has repeatedly denounced the unlimited donation model of SuperPACs as a "threat to our democracy" and implicitly promised that he would abjure them even it came at a political cost. But earlier this week, Team Obama got its SuperPACs.Here we go again.
The Best Congress the Banks’ Money Can Buy | Common Dreams
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