Prop 50 Goes Global: How California’s Foreign-Money Ban Became the World’s Newest Political Meme
Somewhere between the Pacific’s gently rotting garbage patch and the Arctic’s freshly-melted real estate, California’s voters have quietly passed Proposition 50—a ballot measure so modest in name (“Campaign Finance: Foreign-Linked Contributions”) that it sounds like a yoga pose for lobbyists. Yet from Berlin boardrooms to Lagos living rooms, the reverberations are being felt like the…