Jane Mayer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has a new book out this month about the political power of America’s wealthiest citizens, including the billionaire libertarian activists Charles and David Koch. Among Dark Money’s myriad revelations—we haven’t finished it yet!—is that one or both of the Koch brothers…
Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out a key detail from…
Charles and David Koch, whose combination of right-wing extremism and endless income makes them two of America’s Most Notorious Thugs, are the subjects of a new retrospective that highlights how their construction and pipelines before Katrina, and their aggressive lobbying after it, helped worsen the damage to the…
Charles and David Koch held a retreat at a California resort this weekend, where Republican candidates gathered around a pool of Koch money, attached vacuum cleaner extensions to their snouts, and gazed pleadingly at them. All conditions seemed ripe for—could it be—yes, praise Jesus, we’ve got ourselves another …
Sen. Marco Rubio vs. Hillary Clinton in 2016’s presidential race? Maybe, according to two new polls leading up to election day 2016, which is only about 563 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes and er, 5 seconds away. Give or take.
The Koch brothers—the duo of darth vaders whose shady corporation, Koch Industries, is so IRL nefarious their biography could be a plotline from a Nicholas Cage movie—have been using their endless coffers of money to gobble up ad time on The Daily Show. Yes, The Daily Show. With Jon Stewart.
Some of you might have thought that President Obama has been campaigning by trying to tell people what he wants to do with this country, but if you believe what Ann Romney has to say about his strategy, it turns out he's actually secretly been trying to convince us to not vote for Mitt Romney. Bananas!
David and Charles Koch are billionaire brothers behind Americans for Prosperity and the Tea Party Movement. But they're not the only politically active Kochs in the throwing money at politicians in 2012. There is a third Koch, a Bill Koch, who has given seven figures to Mitt Romney's SuperPAC, and he's got a marital…
Occupy protests took a dangerous turn this weekend when three protesters, one of them pregnant, were hit by a car in DC. A 78-year-old woman was also hurt when she was caught between protesters and police.
Rachel Maddow has had an "aha" moment which is sort of hilarious but is also sort of scary. Basically she's decided that Herman Cain is a joke—not in the sense that we all know he's a joke because he has very few qualifications to be president and also has overly simplistic policy ideas and does incredibly stupid…
