The Corporate Takeover of America

NOW PLAYING: When America’s governors recently gathered for the National Governors Association’s (NGA) annual summer meeting, they were “treated to amusement parks, historical sites, championship golf courses, five-star dining, an al fresco concert and a rousing fireworks finale”—much of it paid for by corporations eager to spend time with the nation’s most powerful government chief executives. Sadly, as John Whitehead reminds us in this week's vodcast, the corporate buyout of American politics is taking place at every level of government, from the White House all the way to the governor's mansion.