Zephyr Teachout

And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of this office be maximized to stop corruption at the national level.

Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.

It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.

People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.

Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.

The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.

President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

So one of the things I want to focus on is how we can show how taking on private financing is taking on this fundamental democratic threat.

You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.

Amazon’s outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all.

Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.

Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.