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Lessig on the Issues

Lessig’s position on key issues. By Lessig. Comment, criticize, ask questions.

The First Reform

The first priority of a Lessig administration would be to fix the corruption that has crippled Congress, by enacting legislation to restore…
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Oct 17, 2015

The Economy

Americans are still suffering from the economic collapse triggered in part by Wall Street’s recklessness. Though the economy has grown…
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Oct 17, 2015

Tax Reform

Taxes in America should be progressive and efficient. Today they are neither — or at least, not enough. We have flattened the traditionally…
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Oct 16, 2015

Social & Financial Security

The market is a powerful engine for economic growth. We should encourage it where appropriate, and celebrate the achievements that are…
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Oct 16, 2015

National Security & Foreign Policy

Throughout our history, America’s strength has come only in part from its might. Much more important are our actions for right.
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Oct 16, 2015

Criminal Justice Reform

Our criminal justice system is an embarrassment to our tradition and our values. The #BlackLivesMatter movement is the most recent reminder…
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Oct 16, 2015

Health Care Reform

The Affordable Care Act (which out of respect for our President, I will refer to as Obamacare) represents enormous progress towards…
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Oct 16, 2015

Achieving Equality

The fundamental aim of my administration will be to restore — or perhaps, for the first time, to achieve — the equality of citizens in…
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Oct 16, 2015

The Internet

The Internet is infrastructure for the 21st century. It is the most important driver of economic and social transformation in America in…
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Oct 16, 2015

Innovation Policy

Since the founding of America, the American government has secured to creators and inventors the protection of limited monopolies, to give…
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Oct 16, 2015

Reforms to Support Work

Our economy is changing. We have left the time when people work for one company for their whole life. We have entered a time when workers…
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Oct 16, 2015

The So-Called “War on Drugs”

The “war on drugs” has been the most self-destructive war in American history since the Civil War. Motivated by the same naive idea that…
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Oct 16, 2015

Immigration Reform

America’s tradition is to welcome immigrants to this country. Almost all of us have ancestors who came here, and very few with a visa…
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Oct 16, 2015

Education

Since the founding of this nation, we have recognized the need for the government to subsidize education. Education benefits the student…
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Oct 16, 2015

The Emerging Surveillance Society

The war on terror has led America to compromise a fundamental American value: that the state must leave us alone unless it has evidence to…
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Oct 16, 2015

Protecting Our Environment

Our values teach us that we don’t own this planet. We hold it in trust for our children. And we must pass to them as rich and diverse a…
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Oct 16, 2015
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