political manipulation Massive Cambridge Analytica leak reveals global election manipulation: Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil Cory Doctorow
american enterprise institutes Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
envision healthcare Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room "surprise bills": private equity firms that own doctors' practices Cory Doctorow
charles koch A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial Cory Doctorow
forensic accounting A loophole in nonprofit law means that corporate lobbying is at least double the official figure Cory Doctorow
american conservative union Grifty conservative PACs raised millions pushing racist Obama conspiracies to elderly, low-income supporters, then kept almost all of it Cory Doctorow
apic Offshore illegal GOP campaign megadonors receive record FEC fines after The Intercept reveals their crimes Cory Doctorow
the rich are different Spiegel claims ties between Germany's neofascist movement and secretive billionaire Cory Doctorow
0.0001 percent America for sale: 38% of all election funding comes from 0.0001% of Americans (2,210 people account for 25% of the total) Cory Doctorow
paid-for-videos If you tell Facebook you're a senator looking to buy political ads, they just take your word for it Cory Doctorow
federal election commission The documentary Dark Money exposes how corporations buy elections and lawmakers Andrea James
oligarchy on the display Supreme Court decision will rip away Dark Money's veil of secrecy Cory Doctorow
John Konkus Scott Pruitt's EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial industry to find "scientists" and other "experts" Cory Doctorow
but not scotland Bipartisan amendment forces UK government to impose transparency on its offshore tax havens Cory Doctorow
Richard Uihlein Koch is abundant and low value: how the super-rich are buying American politics Cory Doctorow
expensively sown doubt Koch-backed climate deniers are exploiting the reproducibility crisis to discredit climate science Cory Doctorow
