The road to nowhere. (Correspondence).

PASSAGE OF THE McCAIN-Feingold law was the most significant victory in a generation over the influence of money in politics. In "The Road to Nowhere" [August 12], Ellen S. Miller and Nick Penniman call it "an archival retrieval" because it reinstated the unlimited contributions ban in the 1974 law. By the same logic, D-Day was an archival retrieval, given that France previously had been free. The authors argue that the effort to ban unlimited contributions from corporations, unions and wealthy individuals somehow detracted from the push for public financing of ...