Watch Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream on PBS. See more from Why Poverty?. Not even a week after Buzzfeed’s relationship with the Koch Brothers is exposed do we learn that a near civil war erupted in public television over documentaries that focused on Charles and David Koch. In an expose written by [...]

The Koch Brothers seem to be in the middle of a strategy shift. Previously the billionaire oil barons who made their money the old fashioned way (they inherited it) used various think tanks like the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation to launder their deregulation and tax cut agenda. Now the Kochs, after advancing astroturfing [...]

Sometimes it seems like the system is rigged and the rich just keep getting richer – it seems that way for a reason, it’s true. From the Los Angeles Times: The richest people on the planet got even richer in 2012, adding $241 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [...]

My original working assumption on the subject of a carbon tax, basically a levy on fossil fuel usage, working its way into the fiscal cliff negotiations was that I appreciated the thought, but doubted the reality. It’s not that a carbon tax wouldn’t raise revenue and also contribute in a smart way to reducing greenhouse [...]

Others can have at the prurient Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal. While it may be fun watching Cain bob and weave to try and “recollect” these claims in the best possible light, I maintain that the much more damaging issue for Cain is the fact that a network of private corporations directly paid for many [...]

Jon Walker has already highlighted the allegations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain, dating back to his time at the National Restaurant Association. I know you’re terribly shocked about these allegations of a man in a position of power sexually harassing a woman. But for what it’s worth, I’m not sure that these allegations are [...]

A provocative new video from Brave New Films exposes what appear to be serious environmental crimes in Crossett, Arkansas, caused by waste product at a Georgia-Pacific plant. Georgia-Pacific is owned by Koch Industries. In the video, the citizens of Penn Road, a residential neighborhood behind a channel into which the Georgia-Pacific plywood, paper mill, and [...]

Tom Coburn’s big vote in the Senate on repealing $5 billion a year in ethanol subsidies is today, one that has support from both the Club for Growth and the Sierra Club. In fact, even the Koch Brothers – the KOCH BROTHERS! – support repeal. “Koch Industries has opposed federal mandates and subsidies for decades,” [...]