A history of federal campaign finance law / Anthony Corrado -- Money troubles / Dan Froomkin -- Designed for impotence / Joshua Wolf Shenk -- Scandal of the past, present and future / Ellen Miller and Micah Sifry -- Got money? / Ron Schaumburg and Timothy Kelley -- Movin money around Washington / Steven and Allison R. Hayward -- The new money game / Romesh Ratnesar -- Tobacco and its money have minority allies in New York / Clifford J. Levy -- Social In-security / Common Cause -- Bought and paid for / Mark Hertsgaard -- Corporate cash pours into conventions / Mike Allen -- Campaign overhaul mired in money and loopholes / Karen Foerstel and Peter Wallsten, with Derek Willis -- Double down: a look at soft money fund-raising by leadership PACs / Holly Bailey -- The reform quandary / Jeremy Lehrer -- One cheer for soft money / Steven E. Schier -- The First Amendment is not a stop sign against reform / Bob Schiff -- Campaign finance reform: faulty assumptions and undemocratic consequences / Bradley A. Smith -- Campaign primer's first lesson: cash flows from contacts / Guy Gugliotta -- Free money / James V. DeLong -- A look at... roadblocks to campaign reform / Milton S. Gwirtzman -- The first step in campaign finance reform: fix the FCC / Pat Choate -- Profiteering from democracy / Charles Lewis -- Senate approves disclosure measure / Helen Dewar -- Taking offense / Jonathan Cohn -- The hard fight against soft money / William Greider -- Political reform comes from communities / Ric Bainter and Paul Lhevine -- Clean money in Maine / Marc Cooper.