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Bipartisanship is dead; can it be resurrected?

By Thomas Reese — February 20, 2024
(RNS) — Partisanship is baked into our political system because of gerrymandering, primaries and campaign financing.

The lesson of Silicon Bank: Regulations protect good businesses as well as consumers

By Thomas Reese — March 20, 2023
(RNS) — Libertarian capitalists are hypocrites. They hate government regulations, but when they are in trouble, they expect the government to bail them out.

COMMENTARY: Free speech just got more expensive

By Justus Baird — April 8, 2014
(RNS) Money turns our ears toward the well-articulated pleas of the well-financed and makes it really hard to hear other voices from the community -- many of whom have legitimate grievances.

Dinesh D’Souza indicted on charges of violating election law

By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — January 23, 2014
(RNS) Conservative Christian activist Dinesh D’Souza has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of arranging excessive campaign contributions to a U.S. Senate candidate.
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