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Big money is destroying American populism

Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, Jie Chen

Files on big political donations vanish at FEC

Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, Jie Chen

Romney’s poor state problem

Thomas Ferguson, Walter Dean Burnham

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The truth about the deficit and Social Security

Thomas Ferguson, Robert Johnson