WASHINGTON -- "One percenters" in the nation's capital are wealthier than are rich people elsewhere in the country, and the Cato Institute's David Boa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.13.2012
WASHINGTON -- A split is opening up between two forces that helped to launch the Tea Party in 2009. FreedomWorks, a free market/limited government adv...
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 04.10.2012
Everyone seems to be investigating Charles and David Koch lately, with exposés of their corrupt political behavior popping up in places like the New ...
David Paul | Posted 05.29.2012
Lost in the arguments of conservatives and right-wing activists was the fact that the individual mandate -- the essential element that would bring tyranny to our homes -- was initially raised as the preferred strategy for health care reform by the right.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- Anyone wondering why the ultra-conservative billionaire industrialist Koch brothers are trying to seize control of the libertarian Cato ...
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 05.13.2012
The drumbeat for war in Iran is getting louder, but opposition is coming from a seemingly unlikely source: the Cato Institute. This libertarian think ...
Kevin Dowd | Posted 05.09.2012
The most likely outcome of a Koch takeover is that Cato would be eviscerated, the brand would be destroyed and the Kochs would take over an empty shell -- in short, the outcome would be a catastrophe, and even the winners would gain nothing.
David Isenberg | Posted 05.08.2012
Given that some of the people the Koch brothers want to put on CATO's board are firmly in the neocon camp, one doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to see that a Koch-controlled CATO Institute is one big win for unbridled militarism and one big setback for those advocating small government and individual liberty.
Kansas City Star | Dave Helling | Posted 05.08.2012
Merits of the case aside, though, the dispute could provide an interesting test of the limits of federal tax law relating to organizations like Cato -...
Slate | David Weigel | Posted 03.05.2012
On Friday afternoon, as the Washington offices of the Cato Institute were emptying out for the weekend, the libertarian think tank's president sent an...
AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 05.01.2012
TOPEKA, Kan. — Billionaire brothers and political donors Charles and David Koch are pursuing a lawsuit in their native Kansas over the ownership...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.01.2012
Are the Koch brothers funding Limbaugh? I'm not sure Rush has ever sent them an invoice. But he doesn't have to. And that's what's so insidious about what the Kochs do.
Fernando Espuelas | Posted 03.24.2012
As last week's "pile-up" showed, it's time to reveal the candidates' proposed solutions for the wrecks they truly are.
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Posted 01.19.2012
By Ambreen Ali Roll Call Staff The Brookings Institution ranked once again as the world's top think tank in an annual survey out today. The inf...
David Coates | Posted 02.11.2012
It is the moment for all of us with the requisite skills to make a sustained contribution to the creation of a progressive economic consciousness in contemporary America. If we do not, and if we do not do it quickly, then heaven help us all after November 2012!
The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 01.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a District of Columbia case involving police use of a global positioning system...
Kert Davies | Posted 01.01.2012
"People and Power" on Al Jazeera has been working for months on the Koch Brothers expose. It premiered last night and is the best TV story of the Kochs thus far.
Tony Newman | Posted 12.21.2011
President Fox is part of a growing choir of world leaders speaking out against the drug war.
Rob Warmowski | Posted 12.14.2011
Of all of the huff-puffing attempts by political groups to catch up to and co-opt Occupy Wall Street, none are so awkward and laughable as that of the...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 11.29.2011
Charles and David Koch built an distortion machine to do their dirty work for them. Through think tanks, academic research, political donations and co...
The Nation | Yasha Levine and Mark Ames | Posted 11.29.2011
There's right-wing hypocrisy, and then there's this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed the benefits...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.31.2011
If the CATO Institute sincerely wants to help get our economy back on track and create jobs, they need to support small businesses, federal small business contracting programs, and my campaign to end the diversion of small business contracts to corporate giants.
Eric Alterman | Posted 10.25.2011
Koch naturally thinks his money better spent as he sees fit, and I don't blame him. The very money he should be paying in taxes goes into tax-deductible organizations designed to increase his wealth and influence.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.24.2011
It is time for anti-small business elements in Washington to be run out of town, and time for President Obama and Congress to develop a real jobs program based on the Small Business Act and the SBA.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 08.22.2011
Almost overnight, a historic and popular service, like Social Security, faces extinction. But behind this outcome, the Koch echo chamber has been churning for years.
Posted 04.23.2012