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Today Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr.
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A billionaire among billionaires, Charles Koch is one of the most powerful men in the world. By all accounts a brilliant businessman, Charles inherited his father’s company when Lyndon B. Johnson was in the White House, and, over decades, has transformed privately held Koch Industries into a massive multinational conglomerate with annual revenues of well over a hundred billion dollars. Since the 1970s, he’s not only reinvested that money in his company, but funneled it into American politics, financing ideas, organizations, and politicians, which together present a carefully engineered attempt to dismantle the regulatory state, and perhaps government itself. And he’s been very successful: Charles Koch, more than anyone else, may epitomize the pervasive influence of money on American democracy. On the final episode of the first season of Who Is, Sean Morrow explores the biography of Charles Koch, and the history of the Koch Network, for a look at how the very, very wealthy seek to control the political process, and what the rest of us can do about it.
Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His most recent book is State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States -- and the Nation
Christopher Leonard, Author of Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
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Who Is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell? Host of Who Is Sean Morrow flew to Kentucky to find out, where he interviewed the people who have covered McConnell from his home state for decades. Is Mitch McConnell a political genius or just somebody willing to play outside the rules?
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Phillip Bailey, Louisville Courier-Journal
John Cheves, Lexington Herald Leader
Al Cross, Director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky
Alec MacGillis, ProPublica
Alex Pareene, The New Republic
Watch the video series at NowThisNews.com
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