04/01/2026
"Outrage at Gilded Age corruption and crony capitalism sparked one of the most sustained periods of reform in our history, including the passage of new campaign finance and ethics laws, the creation of a professional civil service to end the “spoils system” for federal jobs, and two constitutional amendments to make government more accountable to the American people: the 17th Amendment, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, and the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing American women the vote."
A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue.