Last month’s Supreme Court decision giving corporations the right to spend unlimited amounts on elections has struck a raw nerve. [Continue Reading...]

By most measures, our nation’s health care system is in shambles. We spend nearly twice more per capita than almost any other western country yet have mediocre (at best) health outcomes. There are nearly 50 million uninsured and tens of millions more with inadequate insurance. The cost of health care is rising at four times the rate of inflation, driving down wages, and economists predict that without reform, health care could bankrupt many of our businesses and institutions, undermining our nation’s economic competitiveness. [Continue Reading...]

There’s a Chinese proverb that says a “crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.” Former President John F. Kennedy used to remind people that the Chinese word for “crisis” was spelled by combining the characters for “danger” and “opportunity.” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel quipped famously at the beginning of the year that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” [Continue Reading...]

By now, the Republicans and Democrats have finished up their respective party conventions, and we’ve all long moved on, affixed to the latest development in this insatiable 24-hour campaign news cycle. [Continue Reading...]

Long before the recent decision by Senator Barack Obama to forego participation in public financing, there has been a growing consensus that our current system of Presidential public financing is in need of repair. [Continue Reading...]

In recent weeks, Presidential public financing has dominated the campaign reporting news cycle. The frontrunner candidates have launched a series of accusations at each other and there have been a muddle of contingent promises to use (or not use) public financing come the general election. [Continue Reading...]