Thanks so much for doing this. Though this comment paints a pretty bleak picture about our efforts to halt unlimited fundraising, I'd really like to know what is realistically within the reach of private citizens. What can we redditors do to affect transparency within our districts? In another vein, why isn't free political advertising a condition of broadcasting licenses?
And I'll admit that I am much more familiar with your work through having read your book (The Taliban Shuffle, which everyone should read) and some of your correspondence pieces with the Chicago Tribune. Are there any unexpected ways that those two bodies of knowledge have overlapped?