Consumers don’t change things. Citizens change things.

Legislators are supposed to the “public servants.” They work for us; we pay their salaries. So why do so many of them think it’s the other way around. One citizen had a chance to explain that to Rep. Don Young (R. Alaska).

The United States was founded on the principle that no individual is above the law. We are, as John Adams said, “a nation of laws, not men.” But that principle is under assault, as Glenn Greenwald explains in his powerful new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.