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Do-Nothing Congress Gives Inertia a Bad Name

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.26.2013 | Politics
Bill Moyers

If you want to see why the public approval rating of Congress is down in the sub-arctic range all you have to do is take a quick look at how the House and Senate pay worship at the altar of corporations, banks and other special interests at the expense of public need.

Billionaire Koch Wins Battle Over Fake Wine Bottles

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2013 | Business

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - A federal jury in New York on Thursday handed a legal victory to U.S. billi...

Koch Brothers' Political Network Has Major Shakeup Following Big Loss

Politico | Posted 02.20.2013 | Politics

The Koch brothers’ political network spent hundreds of millions to win the White House and the Senate — and came up empty....

How Could the New York Times Screw Up Ed Koch's Obituary?

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 04.06.2013 | Gay Voices
Joe Cutbirth

Love him or hate him -- and plenty of people did both -- former New York Mayor Ed Koch deserved better than he got from The New York Times on Friday. So did we.

How Am I Doing? Koch: The Movie

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.03.2013 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

On Wednesday morning, just after the premiere of Neil Barsky's documentary Koch, the news came on a television crawl: Ed Koch had missed the party, hospitalized. And this morning, on the film's opening day, he has died.

'Deceptive And Intimidating Tactics' Target Voters

Posted 10.24.2012 | Politics

(Reuters) - In Florida, Virginia and Indiana, voters have received phone calls that wrongly told them there was no need to cast a ballot in person...

David And Charles Koch Send Pro-Romney Mailing To 50,000 Employees

Posted 10.15.2012 | Business

David and Charles Koch are "attempting to control their workers' votes" by sending out pro-Romney informational packets and "stifling workplace politi...

Ryan Grim

Billionaire Koch Brother Accused Of Imprisoning Employee

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.13.2012 | Politics

Billionaire William Koch is facing a lawsuit in federal court from a former top-level employee who claims the energy mogul lured him to a secluded pro...

Voter ID Laws Live On

Don Ringe | Posted 12.10.2012 | Politics
Don Ringe

In 2012, the Kochs and Karl Rove have fueled legislation to require stringent voter identification in states they helped pack with Republican lawmakers and governors in the 2010 Republican sweep.

Climate Change This Week: Arctic Death Spiral, Faith Groups Voting Bloc, and More...

Mary Ellen Harte | Posted 11.23.2012 | Green
Mary Ellen Harte

The National Snow and Ice Data center reports that the Arctic ice hit a record new low recently.

David Koch: 'I Believe In Gay Marriage'

Politico | Posted 08.30.2012 | Politics

TAMPA, Fla. -- Billionaire industrialist David Koch, who is helping steer millions of dollars to elect Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans, on T...

Koch Brother Makes Unusual Appearance At Convention

Politico | Posted 08.30.2012 | Politics

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Republican National Convention seems a strange place for a press-shy billionaire benefactor of iconoclastic libertarian causes that...

The Koch Brothers Must Have LOVED Monopoly as Kids

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.22.2012 | Politics
Robert Greenwald

What the Kochs want is to use their vast fortune to influence the political beliefs of people with a millionth their net worth, getting the middle class to buy into the notion that what's good for the rich is good for everyone.

Liberal Group Fights Back Against The Kochs

Politico | Posted 08.21.2012 | Politics

A liberal non-profit group linked to Harry Reid is launching what it says will be a long-term multimillion-dollar advertising campaign targeting the c...

Friday Talking Points -- Another Sad Day

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2012 | Politics
Chris Weigant

We're not going to have our normal partisan talking points today. We're going to follow the lead set by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and we're just not going to go there today.

Koch Brothers Make Ambitious Political Expansion

Politico | Posted 06.15.2012 | Politics

The Koch brothers’ political operation has increasingly come to resemble its own political party -- and later this month in San Diego, it will hold ...

The Koch Brothers Exposed

Rolling Stone | Posted 04.20.2012 | Politics

If the Koch brothers didn't exist, the left would have to invent them. They're the plutocrats from central casting -- oil-and-gas billionaires ready t...

Laissez Cato Faire

Kevin Dowd | Posted 05.09.2012 | Politics
Kevin Dowd

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.

Koch Brothers Waging Extraordinary Campaign

Slate | David Weigel | Posted 03.05.2012 | Politics

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...

Koch Brothers Make Big Move

AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 05.01.2012 | Politics

TOPEKA, Kan. — Billionaire brothers and political donors Charles and David Koch are pursuing a lawsuit in their native Kansas over the ownership...

Lucia Graves

Cancer In Crossett: Koch-Owned Georgia-Pacific Plant Linked To High Cancer Rates, Film Alleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.12.2011 | Green

WASHINGTON -- David Bouie, a 64-year-old resident of Crossett, Ark., says something isn't right on Penn Road. In the 15 homes on his street, 11 people...

Populist Backlash Crushes Art Pope's Forces in North Carolina

Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.12.2011 | Politics
Michael Carmichael

North Carolina's right-wing political boss, Art Pope, is having a bad week. One week after a searing profile appeared in the New Yorker, Pope's ultra-conservative ticket fell under the crushing weight of a populist uprising.

Greenpeace Calls for Congressional Investigation of Koch's Illegal Practices

Philip Radford | Posted 12.05.2011 | Green
Philip Radford

Corporations like Koch Industries are granted the right to operate as a business under U.S. law. When corporations choose to routinely circumvent or break the law, our government has the duty to penalize that illegal activity with appropriate sanctions.

Stunning Koch Hypocrisy Exposed

The Nation | Yasha Levine and Mark Ames | Posted 11.29.2011 | Politics

There's right-wing hypocrisy, and then there's this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed the benefits...

Koch Brothers Compare Obama To Saddam Hussein, Call 2012 Elections 'The Mother Of All Wars'

Mother Jones | By Brad Friedman | Posted 11.06.2011 | Politics

"We have Saddam Hussein," declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of w...