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Good Company

Progressive-minded companies can mount an effective counter to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but only if they get off the political sidelines. A response to Ryan Grim.

Spring 2016, No. 40 – 8 MIN READ

Open for Business

You think the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a business group? It used to be. But today it’s just a tawdry hired gun.

Winter 2016, No. 39 – 16 MIN READ

Everyone's Fight: The New Plan to Defeat Big Money

The 2012 campaign is by now mercifully out of our systems, but it remains worth reflecting on some of the dubious firsts that occurred during this election. This was the first presidential campaign to cost more than $2 billion. It...

Winter 2013, No. 27 – 4 MIN READ

Curing Philanthropy's Blind Spot: One Percent for Democracy

Early in 2009, in the heat of the battle on Capitol Hill over financial reform, Senator Dick Durbin was interviewed by a Chicago radio host about how the negotiations were going. Durbin lamented, The bankshard to believe in a time...

By Nick Penniman Ian Simmons

Winter 2013, No. 27 – 21 MIN READ

Original Intent

How the Founding Fathers would clean up K Street.

By Zephyr Teachout

Winter 2009, No. 11 – 21 MIN READ