US elections have never been perfect, but America is now hurtling toward a point where the electoral process itself ceases to function as a means for citizens to effectively control leaders and to guide government politics. This book examines the forces that have sapped election…
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspecti…
In the wake of the Citizen's United decision, elections will be controlled by moneyed interests as never before.
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspect…
Professor Robert W. McChesney and journalist John Nichols believe that capitalism gives large corporations and wealthy individuals too much power. The authors anticipate that exponentially compounding computer power will take over job functions in the future and put people out o…
Argues that unless the United States develops a new economy in which everyone reaps the benefits of revolutionary technologies, the existing social contract of American democracy will be broken.
The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. This book argues that the United States needs a new…