Clout Incorporated: The US Chamber of Commerce and the heart of American capitalism.

Aug 22 2015

It's really representing a very small core of businesses within a larger and more complicated landscape. And those businesses have very particular, self-serving goals to advance their own influence, even where that may contradict what is in the interests of the American economy.

Journalist Alyssa Katz unravels the powerful influence of the US Chamber of Commerce, where dark money and secret lobbying touch all aspects of the American political process, and allow a small group of businesses to prolong their grasp on power and protect themselves from a changing, diversifying economic landscape.