Zephyr Teachout
Zephyr Teachout is a scholar of constitutional law who teaches at the Fordham University School of Law. She ran for governor of New York in 2014. She was national director of the Sunlight Foundation and director of online organizing for Howard Dean's campaign. Follow her on Twitter: @ZephyrTeachout.
ALL POSTS BY Zephyr Teachout
September 7, 2017Can our constitution co-exist with extremes of economic inequality?
December 15, 2015The state with one of the richest progressive traditions has the highest inequality and the most segregated schools, not to mention a tax code that allows hedge funders to get away with murder.
December 2, 2015This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post. There's an old corruption joke that you'll find variations of in India, in Nigeria, in China -- I've heard versions from everywhere. A bureaucrat from China visits an Indian counterpart and sees the beautiful home and asks, "how did you get this beautiful house?" The Indian functionary answers, "Can you see that bridge?" "Yes" "10 percent," says the bureaucrat, smugly. Then, a decade later, the Indian counterpart returns the ...
December 2, 2015Zephyr Teachout writes that while the state Assembly speaker has been convicted of corruption, he's only a small piece of New York's dishonorable system.
March 1, 2015Publicly financed elections -- and a return to trust busting -- are key to ending political corruption in the United States.
November 14, 2014Former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout writes in her new book that the Citizens United decision is bad for politics and displays a poor understanding of history.
