Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

The founders created the Electoral College, but the states made it winner-take-all.

Ready to Rumble

Electoral College, Your Days Are Numbered

The founders created the Electoral College, but the states made it winner-take-all. And that's the Achilles Heel where a new group has aimed its arrow.

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Appeal To Conscience

Hamilton Electors Last Way to Stop Trump

If the winner of the popular vote cannot be president, maybe it’s right that the loser shouldn’t be either.

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Weak Tea

Democrats’ Campaign-Finance Reform Sham

Lawmakers ‘lean to the green’—and no, that doesn’t mean they’re environmentalists.

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QUID PRO QUO

How Big Business Kills Third Parties

Air time is oxygen for presidential campaigns, and few organizations control it like the Commission for Presidential Debates, which is funded by major corporations.

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