Eric Stern, SALON (Salon) – Who says the Koch brothers don’t care about the needy? Lost amid the noise of the presidential election is...
THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Casting himself as a tax-cutting, passionate government reformer, Jeb Bush drew merely polite applause...
JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans for Prosperity, one of the biggest outside groups backed by billionaire conservative donors Charles and David Koch, this...
JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — One by one, the wealthy conservative donors stood up Monday and pledged millions of dollars to the...
(Politico) – The Koch brothers-backed group that helped launch the push for voter ID laws and “stand your ground” statutes has a new project: defending the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEWS ANALYSIS BATON ROUGE, La. – It was a scene that a young, militant Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. could not...
(Politico) – The Koch brothers are freezing out Donald Trump from their influential political operation — denying him access to their state-of-the-art data and refusing to...
(Salon) – According to a recent batch of polling from the New York Times and CBS, hating the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision is one of the precious...
(Politico) – The Koch brothers’ political machine is expanding into new states and recruiting new donors as it seeks to shape the Republican Party —...
(Politicus USA) – At a campaign event in Iowa today, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came out in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Usually bitter adversaries, Koch Industries and the Center for American Progress have found at least one thing they can agree on: The nation’s...
Ashley Killough, CNN WICHITA, Kansas (CNN.com)—Charles Koch, the billionaire GOP donor whose money plays a big role in shaping Republican campaign efforts, said he plans...
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For as often as Democrats attack the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch for their heavy spending on politics,...
(Reuters) – Political groups that took advantage of loosened campaign-finance rules spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. This year,...
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest labor federation took aim Thursday at the conservative Koch brothers in ads designed to highlight the...
Kenneth P. Vogel, POLITICO DALLAS (Politico) — Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Pence, Rick Perry and Ben Carson all sounded like presidential candidates in weekend...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer America’s black colleges are struggling for funds. The Republican Party is struggling to attract black voters. Enter a $25 million gift...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The controversy over the recent donation by the Koch Foundation to the UNCF begs a discussion of politics, education, and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has discontinued supplying...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful government workers’ union will end its support for the United Negro College Fund after the...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist A few weeks ago, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) made a stunning announcement that caused a lot of consternation...
(Politico) – The new group aims to spend more than $15 million in the 2014 midterm campaigns — part of a much larger spending effort expected...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When the Koch Foundation gave the United Negro College Fund $25 million, it set off a maelstrom of comments in...
By Frederick H. Lowe Special to the NNPA from The North Star News & Analysis The ultra-conservative Koch Brothers have announced that they have donated...
(The Washington Post) – 2014 is the Year of the Kochs, apparently. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats are working feverishly to cast the billionaire industrialists...