"We could stop the flow of dark money around the world tomorrow by changing the laws around them," he says. "The internet offers so many possibilities for more, for greater transparency around how money is used in politics and how it's... distorts politics" He adds that there are always choices available and those choices exist now.
Journalist and author Anne Applebaum talks about her book, Twilight of Democracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Applebaum discusses the rise of populist and nationalist movements in Eastern Europe as well as in the West, and the appeal of these movements even when they begin to erode or destroy democracy.