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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Philadelphia City Hall on June 2, 2020 in Pennsylvania.

Progressive Coalition Urges Biden to Curb 'Excesses of Corporate Power' by Ending White House Revolving Door

Groups call on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to appoint transition and cabinet officials determined to "serve no interest but the public's."

Andrea Germanos ·

Pompeo rode his ample funding from the political action committee of the billionaire Koch brothers straight to the Hill. So linked was he to those fraternal right-wing energy tycoons and so protective of their interests that he was dubbed "the congressman from Koch." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's Own Military "West Point Mafia"

"Courage never quits"?: The price of power and West Point’s class of 1986.

Danny Sjursen ·

We must get big money out of politics, end the flow of lobbyists in and out of government, and strengthen ethics laws. (Photo: Screenshot)

5 Ways Donald Trump Has Not Drained the Swamp

Trump has enlarged and deepened the swamp, but the swamp was there before he got to Washington.

Robert Reich ·

Revolving-door hires and former defense executives in government remain a powerful force for the status quo in Pentagon spending. (Photo: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond / U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons)

Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform

A trillion-dollar future Pentagon budget?

William Hartung ·

Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren gestures as she speaks during a town hall meeting at Florida International University in Miami, Florida on June 25, 2019. (Photo: Rhona Wise / AFP)

After Trump's Former FDA Chief Quietly Joins Pfizer Board, Warren Calls for Resignation 'Immediately'

"I ask that you reconsider this decision," 2020 candidate tells former Trump official

Eoin Higgins ·

Trump and his Republican enablers are playing magicians who distract us by shouting “look here!” at the paranoid fantasy of a Deep State, while creating a Corrupt State under our noses. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump's "Deep State" Is Trump’s Corrupt State

It’s the dirtiest trick of our time, enabled by the most corrupt party in living memory

Robert Reich ·

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means."

AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows Two-Thirds of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now K Street Lobbyists

"No lawmaker should be cashing in on their public service and selling their contacts and expertise to the highest bidder."

Eoin Higgins ·

'Sick, Dystopian Stuff': Former Trump Adviser Kelly Joins Board of Company Running Immigrant Detention Centers

"This one's particularly ugly."

Julia Conley ·

Former coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler getting sworn in on Saturday as EPA administrator. (Photo: EPA)

Earth Day Under Trump: Nearly 50 Years Later, an Environment Movement Under Attack

At the White House, the UN’s latest call for “bold, urgent” action was dead on arrival.

Robert Walker ·

To one degree or another, each has taken steps that have incrementally advanced the supremacy of corporate interests over all others. (Photo: David Ohmer/flickr/cc)

As We Gape at Trump's Sideshow, Corporations Are Picking Our Pockets

When Trump Inc. crashed into Washington—KABLOOIE!—incrementalism exploded into a government of agencies almost wholly owned and run by Wall Street bankers, CEOs, industry lobbyists and corporate lackeys often plucked from the ranks of former Congress critters

Jim Hightower ·

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