Dark Money
Jane Mayer Talks To Philippe Sands
Event 249 • Tuesday 31 May 2016, 8.30pm • Venue: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage. Price: £7.00
The award-winning New Yorker journalist forensically exposes the billionaire Koch brothers’ funding of interest groups, think-tanks and candidate campaigns to manipulate American politics towards their own extreme libertarian interests. She examines the impact on the 2016 us elections and reveals what influence the network has on politics in the UK and Europe.
The White House 2016
Join Bronwen Maddox, Jane Mayer, Jim Naughtie and Mark Thompson
Event 291 • Wednesday 1 June 2016, 7pm • Venue: Telegraph Stage Price: £8.00
The panel assesses the Primaries season and looks forward to the Republican and Democrat Conventions in July. How might Clinton vs Trump pan out? Maddox is editor of Prospect magazine, Mayer a staff writer for the New Yorker, Naughtie a BBC anchor and Thompson is CEO of the New York Times. His Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? will be published in September. Chaired by Guto Harri.
About Jane Mayer's book, Dark Money:
The US is one of the largest democracies in the world — or is it?
America is experiencing an age of profound economic inequality. Employee protections have been decimated, and state welfare is virtually non-existent, while hedge-fund billionaires are grossly under-taxed and big businesses make astounding profits at the expense of the environment and of their workers.
How did this come about, and who are the driving forces behind it?
Dark Money brilliantly illuminates a shady corner of US politics. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the future of democracy.
