Why Companies Aren't Just Writing Checks To Charities Anymore
Charitable giving is up, but executives aren't just throwing money at causes anymore. They're focusing on engaging their employees in volunteerism, a ...
Charitable giving is up, but executives aren't just throwing money at causes anymore. They're focusing on engaging their employees in volunteerism, a ...
Sharon Bonner | Posted 03.11.2012
The U.S. Constitution mentions voting rights more than any other right. But both locally and nationally, we are witnessing organized efforts to limit eligible voters from casting their ballots.
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 11.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- Corporations should not fear disclosing their political spending, says a report co-authored by a Harvard Law School professor and the wa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.18.2011
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) seems to have few Democratic allies in Congress interested in rejecting corporate dollars and undisc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.16.2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold issued Democrats a dire warning at the annual Netroots Nation conference here on Thursday...
AP | By MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 07.27.2011
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A U.S. judge has ruled that the campaign finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is uncons...
The Washington Post | Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam | Posted 05.25.2011
The new Republican leaders in the House have received millions of dollars in fresh contributions from banks, health insurers and other major business ...
Gideon Rosenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011
Dissatisfaction with our political system runs much broader than the progressive community, and it would be a huge mistake to frame the current threat to American democracy as a solely progressive issue.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
Gold's Gym is facing a backlash from LGBT activists over its CEO's $2 million donation to American Crossroads, the conservative political group affili...
WASHINGTON POST | T.W. Farnam | Posted 05.25.2011
The Supreme Court's decision this year in Citizens United, which lifted campaign spending restrictions for companies and interest groups, has indirect...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In the last round of ads it will run before the election, the progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org is going back to the well, raising the specter of ...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
Amid this year's heated debate over corporate campaign cash, the top donor to House and Senate campaigns is a company that was an also-ran in politica...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Voter concern over corporate influence on elections and lawmaking was the most potent force in the closely-watched Democratic Senate primary campaign ...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Driven by increasing anger at Democratic policies and by recent Supreme Court decisions unshackling corporate contributions, business and conservative...
Sen. Michael Bennet | Posted 05.25.2011
Since I first came to the Senate about a year ago I've been consistently frustrated by how the filibuster is abused to bring progress to a halt.
Daniel J. H. Greenwood | Posted 05.25.2011
All that's required to fix the United Citizens decision is a statute that demands that politically active corporations be what Justice Kennedy myth claims they are: associations of citizens.
Posted 01.20.2012