Agents of Behemoth

Dennis Aftergut and Fred Wertheimer write about a New Yorker feature entitled "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie" which talks about two dangerous threats to American democracy today -- election subversion and dark money.

In the United States, inequality tends to be framed as an issue of either class, race or both. Consider, for example, criticism that Republicans’ new tax plan is a weapon of “class warfare,” or accusations that the recent U.S. government shutdown was racist. As an India-born novelist and scholar who teaches in the United States, I have come to see America’s stratified society through a different lens: caste. Many Americans would be appalled to think …

Microsoft, Google, Centene, Koch Industries, and others support committee that gave millions to elect Lake.