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Justin Elliott: Obama’s Flip-Flops on Money in Politics

February 2013

Four years, four reversals on dark money.

Paul Kiel: Feds Replace Flawed Foreclosure Review With Vague $8.5 Billion Settlement

January 2013

Banking regulators admitted the Independent Foreclosure Review was a big expensive mess and shut it down. But many details about the $8.5 billion settlement that replaces it remain murky.

Stephen Engelberg and Kim Barker: The Flood of Secret Campaign Cash Isn’t All Citizens United

August 2012

The campaign is glutted with anonymous money because of loose FEC oversight, and the Commission is unlikely to become more assertive anytime soon.

Robert Reich: Romney’s Lying Machine

August 2012

Every campaign is guilty of exaggerations, but Romney’s lies are another thing altogether.

Kim Barker: How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare

August 2012

Drawing on documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission, here’s your guide to how 501(c)(4) groups have used their tax status for purposes the law never intended.

Peter Maass: Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?

August 2012

Measuring the cost of cybercrime is trickier than we think.

ProPublica: Inside the Investigation of Leading Republican Money Man Sheldon Adelson

July 2012

Sheldon Adelson made millions off Macau, then used that money to fund the GOP. Now people are taking a closer look at where that money came from.

What Money Can’t Buy

May 2012

Michael Sandel on a society where everything could be up for sale.

Distant Fears

October 2011

At night she wakes and feels the money move.

On the Fly: Robert Reich

April 2011

The former Secretary of Labor on the Great Recession, class warfare, and why President Obama must challenge right-wing distortions with a counter-narrative.

Big Money

September 2010

We played Steal the Bacon / and explored our unmentionables /
behind the gazebo

101 Billionaires

March 2010

At the beginning of 2008, the list of the richest Russians contained 101 billionaires; a magical number that for the time being will not be matched. These photographs document a very different Russia.

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