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Monday, February 14, 2022

Money, Power, and Politics in America

The Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/technology/republican-trump-peter-thiel.html
Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump’s biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.
 
A sharp critique from the political left:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/13/us-republicans-oligarchs-economics-nationalism 

Will Congress take the bold step of barring its members from trading stocks?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/congress-stock-trading-ban/621402/

Democrats Decried Dark Money. Then They Won with It in 2020.