Kenneth Griffin

One Percenters Buying Themselves an Aristocracy

The U.S. Constitution guarantees separation of church and state. What this nation needs now is separation of wealth and state. Without such a protection, Americans stand to lose their democracy. They’ll be ruled instead by an aristocracy of 1 percenters. That’s the 1 percenters’ plan. To them, it was no more than a perk when [...]

Right-Wing Billionaires Behind Mitt Romney

They’re trying to buy a presidency – and they expect a big payoff on their investment Presidential politics has always been a rich man’s game. But now, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United that upended decades of limits on campaign donations, financing a presidential race is the exclusive domain of the kind [...]