Jessica Chastain further cements her status as one of the best actresses working today with “Miss Sloane,” the engrossing new political thriller from “Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden. Chastain stars as Elizabeth Sloane — a brilliant but ethically unscrupulous Capitol Hill lobbyist — who as the film opens is being grilled at a Senate […]
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Film Review: “Merchants of Doubt”
With his new documentary, “Merchants of Doubt,” activist filmmaker Robert Kenner (“Food, Inc.”), sets his sights on the professional pundits-for-hire who present themselves as experts in their field, but in actuality are just shills for corporations who use them to stall any political action that might improve public health, but hurt their bottom lines. Starting […]
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Supreme Court case could deal another blow to campaign finance law
The Supreme Court is set to take up a case that could wipe out federal campaign contribution limits. And if that happens, the public is supposed to pity Washington lobbyists, apparently. An article published yesterday in The Hill, a news site devoted to all things Congress, bears the headline “Lobbyists fear shakedown if Supreme Court […]
