A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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How Trump Can Actually Believe We’re in a Golden Age
Does anyone he encounters dare to dispute his delusions?
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The Court’s Ruling Unleashed a Torrent of Race-Based Pro-White Gerrymandering
In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.
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China’s Best Friend? Donald Trump!
Our backward-looking president has dismantled our scientific supremacy and forced allies to view China as the more reliable hegemon.
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The Court Didn’t Just Disenfranchise Blacks. It Also Disenfranchised Cities.
The Republican redistrictings strip cities of congressional representation.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Inequality Killed the Affordable American Car
Given the upward redistribution of wealth and income, it now pays a company to sell just to the rich.
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Objective News Coverage? Not on the Ellisons’ Watch!
With their mega-purchase up for administration approval, they compelled CBS News to honor Trump last week.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Warner Bros. Sale to the Ellisons Illustrates Perfectly Why Shareholder Capitalism Is a Disaster
99 percent of the company’s institutional shareholders voted to approve it. An equivalent share of the company’s workers and Hollywood generally opposed it.
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Hegseth, Xi, Stalin
Paranoid purges of generals and admirals are common to dictators and tin-pot wannabes.
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Amazon and Trump’s NLRB: So Happy Together!
Trump’s appointee as the Board’s general counsel stops an NLRB trial likely to find the company guilty.
