Filling the Empty Seats at the F.E.C. Won’t Fix America’s Corrupt Elections
If the law of diminishing returns applied to American politics, the resignation of the vice-chair of the Federal Election Commission (F.E.C.), Matthew Petersen, on Monday, would be a single data point on the downslope of democracy. The F.E.C. is the sole agency tasked with overseeing and enforcing campaign-finance laws, and Petersen’s departure leaves it without […]
