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Lawrence Lessig

Season 17 • 12/13/2011

Lawrence Lessig discusses Congress members' extreme dependence on their funders.

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After receiving PolitiFact's lowest grade for his report on the founding fathers' attitudes toward Christmas, Jon goes straight to the source.
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Newt Gingrich's Poverty Code

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Lawrence Lessig

Author Lawrence Lessig examines the way in which money links every issue that Americans -- both liberal and conservative -- care about.
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