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  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    4/8/2021

    The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment

    Fred Wertheimer has been battling the influence of money in politics since the 1970s. Writer George Packer asks if, at age 82, he will finally match his ideas to the political moment. 

  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    3/3/2021

    The Far Right’s Big Money Strategy Has Poisoned Our Politics

    by Marc C. Johnson

    The 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo ruled that spending money to influence a campaign is free speech, launching the era of big money in politics long before the much-maligned decision in Citizens United v. FEC. 

  • SOURCE: New Yorker
    4/12/2020

    How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

    by Jane Mayer

    Finally, someone who knows him very well told me, “Give up. You can look and look for something more in him, but it isn’t there. I wish I could tell you that there is some secret thing that he really believes in, but he doesn’t.”