Ready to Rumble
The founders created the Electoral College, but the states made it winner-take-all. And that's the Achilles Heel where a new group has aimed its arrow.
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
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Appeal To Conscience
If the winner of the popular vote cannot be president, maybe it’s right that the loser shouldn’t be either.
Weak Tea
Lawmakers ‘lean to the green’—and no, that doesn’t mean they’re environmentalists.
QUID PRO QUO
Air time is oxygen for presidential campaigns, and few organizations control it like the Commission for Presidential Debates, which is funded by major corporations.
BROKEN SYSTEM
America’s economic elite call the shots in Washington, and until we fix that, real change will remain illusory.
RIGGED
The next president needs a strategy to end the pernicious influence of money on our political system. Here’s mine.
BROKEN
The 2016 candidates are proposing plenty of bold ideas. But until we find a way to get money out of politics, they’re all stillborn.
ELECTION REFORM
Republicans aren’t known for their hostility to big money in politics. But a reform Republican who harnesses grassroots hostility to crony capitalism could be perfectly positioned to take on Hillary Clinton.
Taking Back Congress
Congress could reform the way campaigns are financed with a simple majority vote. But of course, it won’t. So we will. And here’s how.
Activism
Originalists used a modern interpretation of the term to eviscerate campaign-finance limits. The Framers would be disgusted.