COMMONS MAGAZINE
Politics and Government Just as government is needed to help markets function efficiently and fairly, government is also necessary to facilitate a thriving commons – through regulatory oversight, access mandates, taxes and due process. Yet a key point of the commons movement is that government is not the sole means for fulfilling the aspirations of “we the people.”
While Red State public universities are fielding topnotch basketball teams, state politicians are slashing university budgets. (By Brad J. Ward under a Creative Commons license)
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The Supreme Court holds that corporations are "persons" with free speech rights
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