Bits and pieces of Democracy 2.0
There is a LOT of new democracy thinking and experimenting going on – way more than I could put into a reasonable …
Randomly selected legislators? You’ve got to be kidding!
It’s easy to dismiss the idea of a randomly selected legislature. After all, how could a bunch of ordinary people create workable, …
Many politicians feel as trapped by the system as we do
Buried beneath the obvious and tragic dysfunction of the U.S. Congress and its ridiculous partisan tirades are some politicians who actually long …
Our big chance to grab back US elections from Big Money
New US Senate legislation would put an end to big money and corporate domination of the US electoral process. It proposes the …
Major legislation to counter Citizens United / Big Money in elections
Political life in the US is being distorted by the hidden big money interventions enabled by the US Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens …
End-of-year lists and wiser democracy
Several end-of-year lists for 2013 demonstrate that things are, indeed, getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster. Personally, …
How to address corruption in the U.S. government and elections NOW
There’s a flash of hope here: A remarkable U.S. transpartisan group called Represent.Us is promoting a brilliantly designed Anti-Corruption Act. Check it out! The proposed law pulls together a number of anti-corruption and money-out-of-politics ap…
Must-read article on approaches to money in politics
The debate over corporate power and money in politics is beginning to generate some significant light – good analysis, integral thinking, creativity – as well as heat – passion, slogans, quick response. If both of these forces of nature can synerg…
Strategies to rein in corporate power?
There are many emerging strategies to counter corporate control of our political life (quite in addition to efforts to counter their control of our economic lives). Seeing this as a necessity if we are to have effectively empowered public wisdom, …
Can Congress overturn Citizens United without addressing corporate personhood?
This is a critical development: See http://bit.ly/xiMvYM. This article claims that Citizens United and other such recent decisions were NOT, in fact, based on a corporate personhood argument (see the pretty decisive excerpts below and other excerp…