The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the biggest oil and gas lobby group in the country, spending millions of dollars each year advocating on behalf of over 400 corporations who work in the petroleum industry. So why is its president, Jack Gerard, speaking on behalf of the Obama administration? The Hill reports that the Interior
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Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run an international company, according to a report by a British parliamentary committee looking into phone hacking and other alleged abuses at News Corp. Critics have targeted British politicians including Prime Minster David Cameron for their ties to News Corp and its executives. But News Corp’s political
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Now that he’s essentially wrapped up the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney has been enjoying a flood of big money. Apparently, Romney fundraisers “are now saying many of the big donors that had been staying ‘on the sidelines’ in the primary are coming to their camp and writing big checks.” Those donors in the
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The New York Times dropped another bomb on Apple’s “iEconomy” this weekend with an expose that shows how the world’s biggest corporation evades billions of dollars in taxes by creating subsidiaries in low-tax states and countries like Nevada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the British Virgin Islands. While some of Apple’s monumental success is due
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My colleague David Halperin reported last week that the for-profit college division of the Washington Post Company’s Kaplan subsidiary was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for one year, ending in August 2011. He makes the case that we shouldn’t be surprised that for-profit colleges, which receive the large  majority of their
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Ten days ago, the embattled American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate front group better known as ALEC, launched a campaign to improve its public image in the wake of public outcry about its roll in drafting Stand Your Ground laws. The plan was to get conservative bloggers writing nice things about ALEC, an uptick of
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With Gingrich and Santorum out, Mitt Romney is the inevitable Republican presidential nominee. Victory is sweet, but it hasn’t come cheap for the candidate, who has spent a whopping $18.50 per primary vote he received. His campaign alone spent a total of $76.6 million for 4.1 million votes. CNN reports that the money was used
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The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate front group better known as ALEC, is under fire. Thanks to consumer and activist pressure, dozens of corporations and politicians have publicly ended their membership in the organization, which helps write and promote destructive state laws benefiting special interests at the expense of the public good. Last week,
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