National Politics:Campaign Finance

News and Commentary

 * New York Times: With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office, by Eric Lipton (Jan 2, 2017)
 * The Atlantic: How American Politics Went Insane, unattributed (July 15, 2016)
 * Washington Post: The Bob McDonnell Supreme Court ruling makes convicting politicians of corruption almost impossible, by Chris Cillizza (June 26, 2016)
 * Washington Post: How the Supreme Court gets corruption totally wrong, by Zephyr Teachout (May 4, 2016)
 * New York Times: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Rolex, by Zephyr Teachout (Apr 29, 2016)
 * Wall St Journal: That’s Odd, ‘Big Money’ Isn’t Buying This Election, by Bradley Smith (Jan 29, 2016)
 * Wall St Journal: Some Candidates, Super PACs Draw Closer, by Beth Reinhard and Christopher S. Stewart (Oct 25, 2015)
 * Boston Globe: The Benghazi circus keeps rolling, by Scot Lehigh (Oct 22, 2015)
 * Wall St Journal: Super PACs Divert Donor Cash From Campaigns, but Can They Compensate?, by Rebecca Ballhaus (Oct 19, 2015)
 * The Nation: The Many Sins of ‘Citizens United’, by Sheldon WHitehouse (Sept 24, 2015)
 * New York Times: Democrats Lay Groundwork to Expand Use of ‘Super PACs’, by Nicholas Confessore (Sept 13, 2015)
 * Boston Globe: From one struggling town, billionaire brothers illustrate how campaign laws favor the wealthiest, by Michael Kranish (Sept 9, 2015)
 * The Commonwealth: Two cheers for a 'dark money' executive order, by Robert G Boatright (Aug 6, 2015)
 * Politico: Koch brothers summon Bush, Cruz, Walker, Rubio to SoCal confab, by Kenneth P. Vogel (July 27, 2015)
 * New York Times: The Only Realistic Way to Fix Campaign Finance, by Lawrence Lessig (July 20, 2015)
 * Boston Globe: Citizens United shouldn’t get all the blame, by Wendy Kaminer (June 6, 2015)
 * New York Times: Poll Shows Americans Favor Overhaul of Campaign Financing, by Nicholas Confessore and Megan Thee-Brenan (June 2, 2015)
 * New York Times: I.R.S. Seeks to Define Political Activity for Nonprofits, by Nicholas Confessore (May 22, 2015)
 * New York Times: ‘Campaigns’ Aren’t Necessarily Campaigns in the Age of ‘Super PACs’, by Nicholas Confessore and Eric Lichtblau (May 17, 2015)
 * New York Times: Britain’s Campaign Finance Laws Leave Parties With Idle Money, by Stephen Castle (May 5, 2015)
 * New York Times: Ads Paid for by Secret Money Flood the Midterm Elections, by Nicholas Confessore (Oct 11, 2014)
 * Politico: How to waste $10 million, by Byron Tau and Kenneth P. Vogel (Nov 6, 2014)
 * New York Times: Secretly Buying Access to a Governor, by the Editorial Board (Oct 10, 2014)
 * New York Times: G.O.P. Error Reveals Donors and the Price of Access, by Jonathan Weisman (Sept 24, 2014)