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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy
Description: Today, we’re talking about politics and lobbying in America. It’s hard to imagine a time when the influence of big corporations and billionaires didn’t touch every part of American politics, but the kind of lobbying we have now didn’t really exist before the 1970s. Now, our political debates about everything from energy, finance, and healthcare are deeply intertwined with corporations and their money — and new big players in tech now spend tons of political money of their own.To understand the structure of today’s political lobbying and how we go here, I b...