Hillary's Mystery Money Men
Russ Baker & Adam Federman : Campaign Finance
The men behind the money that made Bush now want to claim the Clinton campaign. Is someone cooking the books at Hillary Inc.?
Lobbies/PACs
2007
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Rudy's Bird of Prey
Ari Berman : Campaign Finance
Giuliani's conservative kingmaker knows all about the ugly side of Third World debt. He invented it.
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Rudy's Dirty Money
Ari Berman : Campaign Finance
A closer look at the Texas energy interests fueling the former New York mayor's presidential campaign.
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AIPAC Alternative?
Philip Weiss
Can left-leaning Jews coalesce into a lobby to offset the influence of AIPAC?
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K Street's Favorite Democrat
Ari Berman : Senate
When Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is every lobbyist's best friend, is economic reform possible?
2006
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AIPAC Runs Right
Eric Alterman : Electoral Politics
American Jews are liberals and support Democrats. Why, then, do Jewish organizations, supported by contributions of liberal Jews, strategize with Republicans on how to smear these same Democrats?
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Can Justice Be Trusted?
The Justice Department meddled in a case against Jack Abramoff in Guam in 2002; last week, Bush nominated the current Abramoff prosecutor to the federal bench. Can the DOJ credibly continue this investigation?
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Abramoff's Evangelical Soldiers
Leaders of the Christian right are paying the price as evidence mounts of their complicity in a sordid GOP gambling-industry scheme.
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Exile on K Street
Scandals abound in the smoking remains of the Alexander Strategy Group.
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On Roy Blunt's Promise to Reform Lobbying Rules If He Becomes House Majority Leader
With plenty of friends on K Street, Roy Blunt is not as forthright as his name suggests.
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Ethics-Go-Round
The House Ethics Committee has been defunct for a year: If now is not the time for both parties to get serious on Congressional ethics, when will it be?
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Everyone's a Reformer
For a long time on Capitol Hill, no one was interested in lobbying reform. Now everybody wants to get in on the act.
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A Member of Congress Tries to Recall Jack Abramoff
Calvin Trillin : Corporate Influence in Washington
Testing a Congressman's memory of the former super-lobbyist: Good old what's-his-name...but me? I hardly knew him.
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Kickback Mountain
: Senate
Cleaning up Congress after the Abramoff scandal involves far more than limits on gifts and perks. It requires barring the 'legalized bribery' of major campaign contributions.
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Shame of the Once-Young Republicans
Robert Scheer : Republican Party
What irony that Jack Abramoff and other once-young Republicans, who hectored their elders about defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now be accused of deeply betraying both.
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Abramoff's Sordid World
Robert Scheer : Conservatives & The American Right
The unfolding Jack Abramoff corruption scandal exposes the hypocrisy of the GOP "revolution," which promised to restore morality to Washington but instead sank deepinto a cesspool of corruption.
2005
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The Ney Scandal Grows
As Justice Department investigators follow the cash flow from lobbyist Jack Abramoff's influence-peddling scandal, the evidence mounts against Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney. Who's next?
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Abramoff's Last Stand
Senator John McCain's latest Senate inquiry into über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff strikes deep in the corrupt heart of the Bush Administration.
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I Think I Heard a Liberal Say
For working in the shadows of K Street pay-to-play, here's to The Hammer getting the slammer.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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