Periodic Table of State Corruption
(Click to enlarge) A recent report graded all 50 states on the risk of corruption, based on their laws, enforcement, and political culture. Not a single state scored higher than a “C”…
Infographic: Corruption Targets Children’s Heart Surgery
You might think that greed and political cronyism would leave some things alone — maybe children, or heart surgery, or heart surgery performed on children. No one, you might think, would mix…
Infographic: Money Controls American Government
You may sense that America’s political system, and its government, is broken. That’s true. But how do you convince your family over thanksgiving? And how do you figure out how we could fix that…
Infographic: Money Wins Congress (Again)
Do politicians win elections because of their ideas? Their character? The passion of their supporters? Or do they win because of the size of their campaign war chests — filled with millions of dollars by powerful…
Infographic: How Economic Elites Buy Political Influence
If you think Congress is useless and broken, you’re wrong. It does a lot… to represent the interests of its wealthy donors. Here’s how it happens.
Money Wins Congress in 2012
If we look even more closely, we can see a relationship between dollars raised, and voted gained: