The IRS Scandal Isn't About Taxes—It's About Disclosure
Tea party groups could have registered as nonprofit 527 political committees, but they didn't. How the GOP love of secret donations has fueled the growth of 501(c)(4)s. More »
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Norm Ornstein is a contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. More
Norm Ornstein is a contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He served as codirector of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and participates in AEI's Election Watch series. He also serves as a senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission. Ornstein led a working group of scholars and practitioners that helped shape the law, known as McCain-Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, with Thomas E. Mann; and, most recently the New York Times bestseller, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, also with Tom Mann.
Tea party groups could have registered as nonprofit 527 political committees, but they didn't. How the GOP love of secret donations has fueled the growth of 501(c)(4)s. More »
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The president's critics are willfully ignorant of both recent political history and the checks and balances in our system. More »
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