How the increasing influence of dark money groups after Citizens United helps to explain the shutdown and default brinksmanship.
Joe Hines
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How The Richest Americans Are Doing Better Than Ever, In Two Charts
The rich are richer than they’ve been since the 1920s and it’s only getting worse.
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Conservative Tropes About Low-Income Excess Are Wrong
New data shows that on almost every measurement of well-being, low and middle-income families are worse off since the recession.
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Ezra Klein’s Blind Spot
He argues that the poor are more influential in Washington than ever. That’s just not true.
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Jerry Perenchio: California’s Sheldon Adelson
The former chairman of Univision is bankrolling the opposition to Proposition 30.
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Understanding Poverty: What the Census Doesn’t Tell Us
How we measure poverty is outdated
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Corporate Tax Myths
There’s no corporate income tax in Bermuda. Can we really compete with that? In The Wall Street Journal today, John McKinnon and Scott Thurm revive the zombie of too-high corporate taxes causing businesses to flee offshore. Needless to say, they give too large a megaphone to international outsourcers and too little to their critics. Based […]