Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?

The digital revolution is opening the doors for greater citizen participation in political events and government should create incentives to engage and expand the role of small donors.

Campaign finance reform legislation has served to protect incumbents.

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The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Actrepresents incremental change, designed to fit within the long-existing framework of the Supreme Court's rulings on campaign reform.

Former White House Counsel, now AEI scholar, Peter J. Wallison comments about the "real significance of the Obama campaign's reversal on the use of super PAC."

Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

George L. Priest delivered the seventh of the Institute's 1999-2000 Bradley Lectures on March 6, 2000.