Joining us as interviewees: Senator Richard Lugar, the long-serving and outgoing Republican Indiana senator; and James Bopp Jr, the lawyer whose work has been immensely successful in deregulating campaign finance and who was instrumental in winning the landmark Citizens United case.
And we debate the larger issues of money and power in American politics with our guests: Melanie Sloan, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; Steven Hoersting, the co-founder of the Center for Competitive Politics, an attorney who is regarded as an architect of the Super PAC system; Clyde Wilcox, a professor of government at Georgetown University and the author of more than 30 books, including Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering; and Larry Beinhart, a novelist and author of the critically acclaimed novel American Hero, which was adapted into the film Wag the Dog.