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Jacob (Jake) Sivak, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, is a retired professor in the School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, where he

Approach to a societal problem. that's what functioning democracies do. and you see mayor nan whaly who's been doing a phenomenal job turning dayton around. they've got so many positive things happening down there trying to rebuild that town and that community, getting them ready for the new economy, and then you get something like this. we need a functioning congress, a functioning democracy. we need to quit with the left and right. we need to get into new and better. we need to elevate the conversations. we need to find some common ground so we can get to some higher ground. and that's reall...

Demonstrated and manifesting itself in local elections. but the president lately has been calling out billionaires with an outsize influence on politics. take a listen. >> there aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way. where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bank rolling whoever they want, however they want, in some cases undisclosed and what it means is ordinary americans are shut out of the process. >> ordinary americans are shut out of the process, the president says. how can this big money be countered? >> well, that's the million-doll...

Axiron. stick with innovation. stick with power. stick with technology. get the flexcare platinum. new from philips sonicare. some stories making news this morning. the supreme court is looking to once again change limits on federal campaign contributions. after hearing arguments tuesday, it seems the justices are split on whether they should lift the legal limit one can give to political candidates. president obama weighed in. >> there aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever t...

>> there aren't a lot of functioning democracies that work this way where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want, however they want. >> reporter: the original plaintiff is an alabama businessman who says he's baffled that he can donate to candidates across the country, but once they hit a specific r dollar limit, he can't spend another dime. meaning he can't give to all the candidates he'd like to support. john roberts questioned it saying "you could not have a rule that says the post or the "new york times" can only endorse nine candidates." others ...