Campaign Finance

• Reason Writers Wearing Goofy Headphones on the Internet: Matt Welch and Timothy P. Carney on Bloggingheads, Matt Welch, October 19, 2010
• According to the Times, Pro-Republican Speech Is Not Technically Illegal, but It Should Be, Jacob Sullum, October 18, 2010
• Are You Still Buying Democracy When Your Opponents Outspend You Two-to-One?, Brian Doherty, October 15, 2010
• Leading Campaign Finance Reformer: 'I Think the Constitution Is Wrong', Jacob Sullum, October 14, 2010
• The President Is Just Asking Questions, Jacob Sullum, October 12, 2010
• Is Citizens United a Big Deal Only Because People Mistakenly Think It Is?, Jacob Sullum, October 11, 2010
• “We figured out a surefire way around the First Amendment”, Damon W. Root, September 30, 2010
• Obama Warns That Corporations Are Taking Over While Insisting They Do Not Have the Power to Do So, Jacob Sullum, September 20, 2010
• What Does Citizens United Have to Do With the Republican Spending Advantage?, Jacob Sullum, September 15, 2010
• I Guess it Depends on the Meaning of the Word "Soros", Matt Welch, August 30, 2010
• California Roundup: Carly On Fire, Weed On Demand, Greedy Old Ginks, and More, Tim Cavanaugh, August 23, 2010
• “Arizona is taking the concept of states being the laboratories of democracy very seriously on multiple fronts.”, Damon W. Root, August 20, 2010
• California Roundup: No Free Speech, No Tax Relief, Plenty of Nurses, Tim Cavanaugh, August 12, 2010
• California Roundup: Troubled Waters, Movie Bombs, and Why Free Speech Shouldn't Apply To Twitter, Tim Cavanaugh, August 2, 2010
• DISCLOSE Act Looks Dead, Jacob Sullum, July 27, 2010
• 'Nobody Is Saying You Can't Run the Ads'?, Jacob Sullum, July 26, 2010
• Connecticut's Matching Funds Struck Down, Jacob Sullum, July 13, 2010
• Schumer's Campaign-Finance Chutzpah, Matt Welch, July 7, 2010
• Kagan and Free Speech: Good News and Bad News, Jacob Sullum, July 6, 2010
• DISCLOSE Act Passes House, Goes to Senate, Jacob Sullum, June 25, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: Honest Services, Private Islands, and a Toronto Police State, Jesse Walker, June 25, 2010
• ACLU Slams the DISCLOSE Act, Jacob Sullum, June 21, 2010
• How Can We Raise Money for Our Campaigns If We Can't Get It From the Government?, Jacob Sullum, June 15, 2010
• DISCLOSE Act Exemption: Only Big, Powerful Lobbies Need Apply, Jacob Sullum, June 14, 2010
• Levelling the Playing Field Against Fringey McMoneypants, Matt Welch, June 10, 2010
• Supreme Court Blocks Matching Money for Moochers, Jacob Sullum, June 8, 2010
• Express Advocacy for Us but Not for Them, Jacob Sullum, June 7, 2010
• Obama Is Not Beholden to Big Corporations. He Is Beholden to the Executives of Big Corporations., Jacob Sullum, May 24, 2010
• Fact-Checking Obama's Fundraising-Letter Claims About Wall Street "Special Interests", Matt Welch, May 24, 2010
• Matching Funds for Your Opponent No Big Deal, 9th Circuit Says, Jacob Sullum, May 21, 2010
• Squinting at Kagan's Views on Campaign Finance Regulation, Jacob Sullum, May 12, 2010
• Former FEC Chair Brad Smith on Obama's Citizen United "Demagoguery", Matt Welch, May 11, 2010
• Obama Fights 'Corporate Takeover of Our Elections', Jacob Sullum, May 3, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: Alcoa, the Southern Strategy, and a New Sort of Sex Scandal, Jesse Walker, April 23, 2010
• Raising Money Is Hard. I'm No Obama., Jacob Sullum, April 13, 2010
• 'The First Amendment Cannot Be Encroached Upon for Naught', Jacob Sullum, March 26, 2010
• Larry Lessig's 'Simple' Solution to Excessive Speech, Jacob Sullum, March 17, 2010
• More on Big Pharma's Bill, Matt Welch, March 17, 2010
• What if We Had a Federal Database Tracking Domestic Political Activity?, Matt Welch, March 8, 2010
• Stopping the "Corporate Takeover" of Politics, One Corporate-Funded Gala at a Time, Matt Welch, February 16, 2010
• When Will the Mainstream Media Report That Alan Grayson Is Nuts?, Tim Cavanaugh, February 10, 2010
• Video: Nick Gillespie Debates Citizens United & Campaign Finance with Larry Lessig on Bill Moyers Journal, February 6, 2010
• Nick Gillespie on Bill Moyers Journal Tonight, 9PM ET, Talking Citizens United & Campaign Finance With Larry Lessig, February 5, 2010
• Taking Money Insurgents Out of Politics, Jesse Walker, February 4, 2010
• Selective Freedom of Speech on the Left and the Right, Jacob Sullum, January 29, 2010
• Stop the Car, Larry. I Want to Get Out., Jacob Sullum, January 28, 2010
• Well, at Least the State of the Union Address Was Televised on C-SPAN, Jacob Sullum, January 28, 2010
• We Must Amend the Constitution to Help Donna Edwards Stay in Office, Jacob Sullum, January 27, 2010
• Why Isn't Hillary: The Movie Worth As Much As Nicole Richie's Shit?, Jacob Sullum, January 26, 2010
• Glenn Greenwald: "unconstitutional actions...can't be justified because of the allegedly good results they produce", Matt Welch, January 25, 2010
• About That Corporate Takeover of Politics, Matt Welch, January 25, 2010
• Are Donation Limits Next?, Jacob Sullum, January 22, 2010
• Obama Bemoans the Stampede While Juicing Up His Cattle Prod, Jacob Sullum, January 22, 2010
• What's Worse, "Disingenuously waving the flag of the First Amendment," or Burning it?, Matt Welch, January 22, 2010
• Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch at CNN.com on Citizens United v. FEC, January 21, 2010
• The Right to Free (Taxpayer-Funded) Speech, Jacob Sullum, January 21, 2010
• The Most Dangerous Place in Washington, Katherine Mangu-Ward, January 21, 2010
• "Bitterly Divided Court" Carelessly "Sweeps Aside" 100 Years of "Important Precedents." Bastards., Katherine Mangu-Ward, January 21, 2010
• It Turns Out the First Amendment Prohibits Congress From Punishing People for Their Political Speech, Jacob Sullum, January 21, 2010
• Citizens United Reaction: Amend that First Amendment!, Brian Doherty, January 21, 2010
• Citizens United, Free at Last, Matt Welch, January 21, 2010
• Challenge to Colorado's Restrictions on Speech About Ballot Initiatives, Jacob Sullum, September 23, 2009
• You Say "Corporate Personhood," I Pinch You in the Sulzberger, Matt Welch, September 22, 2009
• What's So Special About Paper?, Jacob Sullum, September 10, 2009
• More on Citizens United v. FEC, Jacob Sullum, September 9, 2009
• Where Is All This Corporate Corruption I Keep Hearing About?, Jacob Sullum, September 3, 2009
• Institute for Justice Lists Bannable Books, Jacob Sullum, September 2, 2009
• Public-Spirited Do-Gooders Outspend Special Interests by 5 to 1, Jacob Sullum, August 19, 2009
• Shepard Fairey Makes Irony Feel New Again, Tim Cavanaugh, August 16, 2009
• McCain and Feingold Sitting in a Tree, C-h-o-k-i-n-g, Matt Welch, July 1, 2009