Democracy or Oligarchy?
We are at a pivotal moment in American history. The major issue of our time is whether the United States...
Category: Richest One Percent
ALEC Agenda: Medicaid, Schools, and Exporting Our Gas
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. At this largest of its...
Koch Political Universe Vaster Than Previously Known
Newly-obtained documents show that the billionaire Koch brothers’ political giving is much more expansive than has previously been known. In...
Senate Democrats Dare GOPers to Block Their Dark-Money Disclosure Bill
The 2014 elections are awash in dark money—and it’s only getting worse. The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity alone plans to...
Who Are The Protectors of Privilege? – A Congressional Report Card
Do you wonder which members of Congress routinely side with the richest 1 percent and Wall Street? Which lawmakers consistently...
How Much Wealth Are Our Wealthiest Hiding?
How much are the mega rich hiding offshore? Independent analysts have been working to pin that figure down. The most...
Why the Koch Brothers May Be Good for Solar
Koch Industries is a multinational conglomerate involved in the industries of manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, and energy....
Impunity and the Crimes of Finance Oligarchs
In the global discussion of human rights, impunity refers to de facto immunity from punishment enjoyed by dictators, oligarchs, and...
Exclusive: Inside the Koch Brothers’ Secret Billionaire Summit
This is what happens when Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner and a gang of the world’s richest...
Millions in Poverty Get Less Coverage Than 482 Billionaires
Poverty continues to be a pressing social problem– but it’s hardly mentioned on the network newscasts, according to a new...
Fearing Backlash, Rich Hoard Cash
(Reuters) – As tension over inequality simmers, persistent cash hoarding by multinationals and the super-rich may be one measure of...
Koch-Funded Group Won’t Back Kansas Republicans Who Support Clean Energy
A Republican state legislator in Kansas is being targeted by a new Koch-funded effort to oust those who want to...
A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set
The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street...
Koch Brothers Plan $300 Million Spending Spree In 2014
The billionaire Koch brothers and their political network are planning to spend almost $300 million during the 2014 election cycle,...
How the Koch Brothers Stole Ohio
Renewable energy took a major hit in Ohio last week. Republican Gov. John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 310,...
The 37 Senators Who Voted for Millionaires Over Students
On Wednesday, June 11, Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the...
The Right’s Despicable Class War on the Poor
The old adage about sticks and stones may finally apply more soundly to the rich than the poor. According to...
The Walton Family Shows Little Interest in Charity
Four members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, have a combined wealth of close to $140 billion....
Is David Koch Getting a Tax Writeoff for Dropping $900K on the Walker Race?
The “charitable” wing of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has dropped nearly $900,000 on ads to boost Wisconsin Governor Scott...
Someone finally polled the 1% — And it’s not pretty
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
Judge who ended probe of Koch activities in WI regularly attends Koch-funded junkets
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
Koch Brothers, ALEC, Grover Norquist Target Solar Energy
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
After Huge Tax Cuts For The Rich, Kansas’s Economy Is Foundering
In a time of slack economic growth and high unemployment around the country, Kansas lawmakers thought they had the solution:...
Koch Brothers’ Secrets Revealed In New Book
WASHINGTON — Charles and David Koch are the unofficial standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend immense...
Who Are the Real Takers?
The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes...
Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity plans $125 million election spending spree
The Koch brothers’ main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air...
The Striking Rise of the American Oligarchs
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
Richest Americans See Huge Growth in Income
Here’s a startling fact that illustrates how income inequality is changing the U.S.: The top 1 percent of Americans now...
The ‘Makers’ and the ‘Takers’
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
Paul Krugman: How conservatives and the rich disgraced economics
In his most recent piece for the New York Times, celebrated economist Paul Krugman ponders the ways his chosen field...
The Koch Attack on Solar Energy
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
Show Me the Money: Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri’s Schools
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
Supreme Oligarchy
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
Donald Sterling’s Disgusting 1 Percent Ramblings: Let’s Pity the Racist Billionaire
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
Tech Millionaire Who Beat Girlfriend 117 Times Ducks Jail
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
Top 1 Percent Take Record Share of U.S. Income
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
ALEC and the Koch Brothers Fight Solar Energy with Surcharges
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
U.S. is a World Leader in Class Conflict Over Government Spending
The claim that America is riven by class conflict may come as a surprise to people who like to think...
America’s Mad Dash to Oligarchy
Since Ronald Reagan’s “supply-side” tax cuts for the rich – followed by other giveaways like eliminating the “death tax” so...
Offshore Tax Havens Cost Average Taxpayer $1,259 a Year, Small Businesses $3,923
April 15, Washington – As hardworking Americans file their taxes today, it’s a good time to be reminded that ordinary...
C.E.O. Pay Goes Up, Up and Away!
At 79, Graef “Bud” Crystal is the grand old man of executive compensation critics. Once a top compensation consultant, he...
Koch-Funded Groups Fuel Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Justice Stevens: John Roberts Really Wants To Protect Rich
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is taking aim at the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to eliminate the limit on...
Paranoia of the Plutocrats
Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives...
Koch Brothers Net Worth Soars Past $100 Billion
Charles and David Koch hit a milestone on Wednesday, as a $1.3 billion boost to their collective fortune sent their...
