Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

The roles of giant, transnational corporations and government have slowly reversed. Government is now more an instrument of such corporations, than the corporations are instruments of government. They are no longer, not even indirectly, an instrument of the populace they affect. In effect, they are free from civic duty.

When you think closely about the terms under which industrial democracies have operated, it is more logical to treat them as a form of government controlled by their employees. Thinking of mass democracy as government controlled by its employees helps explain the difficulty of changing government policy. Government in many respects appears to be ru

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But just as we see with the most successful entrepreneurs, the state could regain its effectiveness by sealing an alliance with the most potent party of the day, the multitude. Building this alliance starts by providing the multitude with what they want: fairness and quality at scale. And the problem is that instead of improving, the quality of pub

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