From Roll Call, Eliza Newlin Carney on campaign finance, the nonprofit world’s new weapon; lobbying rules that were meant to regulate the industry have spawned the emergence of the unlobbyist; and could online advocacy replace K Street’s traditional model? All those millions that America’s billionaires are pouring into super PACs, where do they come from? We can trace a huge chunk of that political cash to the truly massive tax cuts our richest now enjoy. It's a rich man's world: Thomas Frank on how billionaire backers pick America's candidates. Sen. Bernie Sanders on the 26 billionaires buying the 2012 elections. Big donors are a big threat to American democracy: Lawrence Lessig on why we need campaign finance reform. Forty years after Watergate: Pamela Karlan on the decades-long fight against political money. Karl Rove is back, big time. Thanks, Citizens United, for this campaign finance mess we're in: Apologists for this damaging Supreme Court decision are wrong on the facts and the law. Citizens United? Don’t worry your pretty heads about it.
