The Prospect sits down with Nick Penniman, a reform advocate who is working for a campaign-finance compromise on Capitol Hill.
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Report: The Roberts Court’s Five Campaign Finance Reversals
By now, everyone knows about Citizens United and the flood of unlimited outside spending ushered in by that infamous Supreme Court decision. But that ruling is just one of five major Roberts Court decisions that have completely reshaped the campaign-finance landscape over the past decade, concludes a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice […]
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Ethics Watchdog: NRA Is Lying About Its Political Spending
The National Rifle Association might be misrepresenting the extent of its political activity, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The ethics watchdog filed a new complaint today with the IRS calling on the agency to investigate alleged discrepancies in political spending disclosures. According to the complaint, the reported $12.6 million in […]
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Can Nikki Haley Save Her Party?
In her State of the Union GOP response, the South Carolina governor was deployed as a Trump-stopper.
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Janus: Son of Son of Bush v Gore
Janus, like Friedrichs before it, accomplishes two things: It smashes unions and could help defeat Democrats.
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Sanders, Trump, and Economic Populism
Why populists in both parties are gaining support.
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Why Republicans Wouldn’t Actually Repeal Obamacare
It would be a political disaster, but it hasn’t yet stopped them from trying.
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Perpetually Outraged, Perpetually Outrageous
Donald Trump, a candidate with all the subtlety of talk radio, is the perfect expression of both the politics and media of our time.
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Thinking Harder about Political Correctness
The best response to the right’s indictment of PC culture is a more robust solution to persistent inequality.Â
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Why the Republican Candidates Are Obsessed With “Political Correctness”
The political correctness charge has become an all-purpose answer to criticism of any sort.
