Lunchtime Reads

Marketplace has been following campaign contributions heavily this year, ever since the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling from the Supreme Court.

The Center for Public Integrity has published a piece detailing how corrupt the system has become, and it's not just the Republican money machine.

The Citizens ruling was one of those head-scratching SCOTUS decisions, because now what's happening is that corporations, rather than just donating money to both parties, are shelling out money to outside interest groups, and remaining anonymous in their donations. Our political system just got more about dollars rather than ideas.

It's rare when Thomas Friedman writes a column that is actually intellectual, and this one is a winner.

Vanity Fair, another fine source of feature journalism that I read as much as I can of, has a new piece telling us that John McCain is basically a broken politician.