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Facing Down Corporate Election Greed

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Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections

Season 3 Episode 43

Days ahead of the midterm elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent US Senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral process but to democracy itself.

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What the 1% Don't Want You to Know
24:50
Economist Paul Krugman explains how the US is fast becoming an oligarchy.
Fighting for the Four Freedoms
24:50
Historian Harvey J. Kaye on why FDRs Four Freedoms are now more important than ever.
All Work and No Pay
24:51
Activist Saru Jayaraman talks to Bill about food workers fight for a living wage.
Public Schools for Sale?
24:51
Education historian Diane Ravitch on the private sellout of public schools.
Who's Buying our Midterm Elections?
24:51
Two investigative journalists on the role of dark money in this year's midterm elections.
No Escaping Dragnet Nation
22:34
Julia Angwin on how the US has become a dragnet nation where mass surveillance rules.
Ian Haney López on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race, Part 2
22:35
Bill continues his conversation with author Ian Haney López about "strategic racism."
The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight
24:50
Former GOP Congressional Analyst Mike Lofgren on America's "Deep State."
Putting Political Corruption on Ice
24:50
Two Americans fighting the good fight against greed and corruption in politics.
Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil
24:51
Environmentalist Bill McKibben says it’s time for Obama to stand up to oil companies.
Ian Haney López on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race
22:34
How dog whistle politics use race to influence your vote.
David Simon on America as a Horror Show
24:50
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire,' on the state of the union beyond the Beltway.
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