The massive amounts of money the Koch brothers are putting behind a man who has promised to privatize Social Security solves one more mystery – the unprecedented actions that Charles and David Koch launched back in March of this year to protect their interests in the nonprofit Cato I...
Fred Koch made his first fortune building refineries for Stalin's Soviet Union, and became a fervent anti-Communist. In his office, Charles keeps a framed letter Fred wrote to his first two sons, when he took out an insurance policy for them: "'If you choose to let this money destroy y...
Koch Industries, a fossil fuels and chemicals conglomerate that has been a serial polluter of the air and water for decades. According to Forbes, Koch has a net worth of $59.8 billion, making him the 17thrichest man in the world. C...
A spokesperson for Crystal Bridges responded to the question of regionalism that since opening on 11/11/11 some 1.3 million people through free admission have visited the museum. The 500,000 annual attendance breaks down to 60% within a day of travel, 20 % with five days of driving, and 2...
Members of his artistic circle included the painters Karl Ludwig Fernow, Eberhard Wächter, Joseph Anton Koch (who was the most outstanding of this German group), and Gottlieb Schick. Italy Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo: Susannah and the EldersSusannah and the Elders, oil on canvas by Pompeo ...