Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy Audiobook (Free)

In Captured, U.S. Senator and previous federal government prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse provides an eye-opening take on what corporate impact appears like today from the Senate Flooring, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Cash.

Americans find out something is wrong within their authorities. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal encounters to supply the initial hands-on, comprehensive description of what’s gone wrong, revealing multiple strategies through about Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy which our federal government has been infiltrated and handicapped by corporate and business capabilities. Captured reveals a genuine oversight from the Founders, and shows how and just why commercial power offers exploited that vulnerability: to hit dread in elected reps who don’t “get best” by threatening million-dollar ‘dark money’ election attacks (a threat far better and less costly than the real assault); to stack the judiciary-even the Supreme Court-in ‘business-friendly’ methods; to ‘capture” the administrative agencies meant to control corporate and business behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution’s last bastion for regular citizens; also to create a commercial ‘alternate fact’ on public health and safety issues like environment change.

Captured shows that with this centuries-long struggle between commercial power and specific liberty, we are able to and must consider our American government back to our own hands.