Episodes
Citizens United at 14: The Amendment We Never Had
Fourteen years after the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have First Amendment rights to spend unlimited money on elections, we assess the damage and explore the only real solution: a constitutional amendment that returns sovereignty to human citizens.
The Revolving Door: From Congress to K Street and Back
Lobbyists become legislators. Legislators become lobbyists. We examine the architecture of the revolving door — the structural mechanism by which the regulated become the regulators — and why existing cooling-off periods are a facade.
The Price of a Vote: How Dark Money Bought the Senate
We trace the flow of dark money through the 2022 midterm elections, examining how shell corporations and 501(c)(4) nonprofits laundered billions in untraceable donations into the chambers of Congress — and what that means for the legislation that came out the other side.