Here's a constitutional tension with no clean answer: the First Amendment says Congress shall make "no law" restricting free speech. But what happens when unlimited political spending by corporations drowns out the voices of ordinary citizens? In Citizens United v. FEC (2010), the Supreme Court chose free speech over anti-corruption safeguards -- and four justices wrote a blistering dissent saying the majority had just handed American democracy to the highest bidder.

Here's a constitutional tension with no clean answer: the First Amendment says Congress shall make "no law" restricting free speech. But what happens when unlimited political spending by corporations drowns out the voices of ordinary citizens? In Citizens United v. FEC (2010), the Supreme Court chose free speech over anti-corruption safeguards -- and four justices wrote a blistering dissent saying the majority had just handed American democracy to the highest bidder.