Zephyr Teachout

Google has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power. It has reached a dangerous point common to many monarchs: The moment where it no longer wants to allow dissent.

Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.

Politicians are expected to spend half their time talking to funders and to keep them happy. Given this context, it’s not hard to see how a bribery charge can feel like a technical argument instead of a moral one."

I have always wanted to run for Attorney General, and I always wanted to have a baby, but I did not think I would be doing them at the same time.

And increasingly, as people live online, we are used to making really snap judgments about somebody's character based on their Facebook page or the way their blog feels or look.

The Internet doesn’t just enable cool avatars and the shorter form. It also allows the deeper form: cross-linked blog posts, extensive research, simultaneous screens and raw debate footage that anyone can scan online, at any time."

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It’s not working and we need it working again. It’s not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system."

My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.

I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I met men whose lawyers had never looked into their backgrounds.

New York has really thrived both upstate and downstate when there are tens of thousands of small businesses all representing their different creative impulses.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.