By Zack Kaldveer From Wall Street's financial crises to Big Crypto's election war chest, decades of corporate power have reshaped our economy, our laws, and our democracy Crypto evangelists sold Americans on a revolution in money that would free ordinary people from the grip of powerful banks and Wall Street. Instead, cryptocurrency has become a speculative industry whose billionaires and corporations are spending enormous sums to influence elections, weaken regulations, and

By Zack Kaldveer In 1971, corporate lawyer Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warning that American business was under attack. Among his complaints were politicians and activists who portrayed tax breaks as benefiting “only the rich” and who dared to set the “rich” against the “poor,” and “business against the people.” Powell’s solution was not subtle. Corporate America needed political power, and that power “must be assiduously cultivated”

By Zack Kaldveer We are living through an extraordinary political moment. Thom Hartmann nails why it matters. Thom, author, broadcaster, and narrator of Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, has released a powerful new video about the populist moment unfolding in America and the choices it presents. At its core, he argues, populism emerges when people lose faith in institutions they believe no longer serve them and begin searching for alternatives. In Thom's words, “At its co

by Zack Kaldveer More than 50 years ago, corporate lawyer Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce calling on American business to organize for political power and exert greater influence over the institutions that shape public life. In 2011, our documentary Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? traced how the ideas laid out in the Powell Memo helped inspire a decades-long campaign that transformed American politics and our economy. Today, anoth

Something is wrong in America, and people know it.