Political parties have been an important actor in American politics since this country’s founding. Parties have been a boon to First Amendment freedoms of political speech and association. They’ve allowed individuals to join together and speak with one voice about the issues of the day. They’ve allowed candidates to associate with a brand and more easily convey their message to…
The dead cannot ask for favors. And a political committee cannot offer them to the dearly departed. This is especially true when the deceased ...
What kind of people do we want running the government? Former Washington Secretary of State, diplomat, and current Chairman of the Board of the ...
Can the government control a private organization’s identity, leaders, and message? In a decision threatening all three of these First Amendment liberties, a divided ...
Five years into his jail sentence for corruption, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is down to his last appeal, now at the U.S. Supreme ...
We live in politically polarized times – that’s about the one thing most Americans can agree on. A more contentious question is what – ...
Earlier this month, Jonathan Rauch – a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution – and Raymond J. La Raja – an ...
By Bradley A. Smith As part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform" of 2002, virtually everything these local parties do was brought into the web ...
On Monday, the American Enterprise Institute hosted an event titled “Is Congress Broken?” It featured contributing authors and editors of a book by the ...
Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) is a founding member of the Freedom Caucus and the latest conservative to come out with a book criticizing the ...