Professor Adam Winkler on Limitless Political Spending

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Professor Adam Winkler on Limitless Political Spending

To understand how political spending spiraled out of control—projections estimate $9.7 billion spent on ads alone during the 2022 election cycle—I spoke to Professor Adam Winkler, a professor at the UCLA School of Law. His book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights was a finalist for the National Book Award.We chatted about changes to election processes in the 1880s and 1890s, and how a political operative named Mar…