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More Evidence Key Dark Money Group May Have Misled IRS
Western Tradition Partnership's alleged big donor says he has actually never heard of the group.
October 30, 2012
Citizens United and the Rise of the Campaign... Stalker?
Armed with high-definition cameras, their job is to follow and film everything a political candidate says and does.
October 30, 2012
Chat Transcript: Targeting the Electorate
Join a live screening and chat for "The Digital Campaign" with the film's correspondent
Hari Sreenivasan. Tonight 10/29 at 7:00 pm ET.
October 30, 2012
Mysterious Docs Found in Meth House Reveal Inner Workings of Dark Money Group
Boxes of records turned over to Montana authorities show that a top person from Western Tradition Partnership interacted with candidates and helped shape their election efforts, possibly violating laws that bar coordination between campaigns and outside groups
October 29, 2012
Family of Executed Texas Man Seeks to Clear His Name
Eight years after Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for the 1991 arson-murder of his three young children, his surviving family members asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to pardon him posthumously yesterday.
October 25, 2012
U.S. Sues Bank of America for $1 Billion Over Mortgage Sales
Prosecutors have charged the bank with fraud for the sale of "defective" home loans.
October 24, 2012
Live Chat 2 p.m. ET Thursday: Inside the Climate Wars
Join a live chat on "Climate of Doubt" with the film's producer Catherine Upin and correspondent John Hockenberry. We'll also be joined by New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert. You can leave a question now.
October 23, 2012
Robert Brulle: Inside the Climate Change "Countermovement"
A sociologist at Drexel University, Robert Brulle's research focuses on the strategy of what he calls "the climate change countermovement." Brulle says the movement "has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act" on global warming.
October 23, 2012
Tim Phillips: The Case Against Climate Legislation
Legislation to combat climate change would be devastating for families and businesses, resulting in "higher taxes, lost jobs," and "less freedom," says Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity.
October 23, 2012
Bob Inglis: Climate Change and the Republican Party
In 2010, Republican Bob Inglis lost his bid for reelection after telling a radio host that he believed humans were contributing to climate change. "The most enduring heresy that I committed was saying the climate change is real, and let's do something about it," he told FRONTLINE.
October 23, 2012
Steve Coll: How Exxon Shaped the Climate Debate
ExxonMobil has driven a wedge into the debate around global warming by fueling doubts in the public mind about whether climate science is legitimate, says Steve Coll, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power.
October 23, 2012