Peter Schweitzer NYT oped: “WE have long assumed that the infestation of special interest money in Washington is at the root of so much that ails our politics. But what if we’ve had it wrong? What if instead of being bribed by wealthy interests, politicians are engaged in a form of legal extortion designed to extract campaign contributions?”

See also this NYT article and a link to the book, “Extortion.”

I’ll be interested to see how, if at all, this differs from Fred McChesney’s “rent extraction” theories.