Lawrence Lessig

The Bush v. Gore fight has become the template of a disputed election, but many of the worst-case scenarios could end up before Congress, not the Court.

The Democratic presidential candidate explains why his campaign for a “referendum presidency” hasn’t gotten the traction he had hoped for—and how he plans to change that.

The former secretary of state is an unlikely reformer—which is precisely why she might be a particularly effective one.

Democrats love to talk about cutting the influence of money in politics, but are they actually any more eager to fix it than Republicans?

What happens when Congress itself is the problem in politics? The framers of the Constitution thought of a solution for that very problem.

Most Americans want to take money out of government but don't think it's possible. Here's a plan for overcoming our defeatism.

A walk across New Hampshire showed that citizens don't just hate the current system—they're willing to act. The trick is creating a true grassroots movement.

A year after his death, a group of his friends and admirers want to take up his cause of fixing a corrupt campaign-finance system.

If he had met a conservative Court on its own ground, the solicitor general could have notched a victory for liberalism—and helped safeguard campaign-finance protections.

The GOP isn't the only party in need of an overhaul. Liberals ought to be demanding big changes, too -- starting with campaign-finance reform.