Episode 5: Jim Geraghty of National Review Online on Obama's Second Term

In Federalist Paper Number 10, James Madison addressed the universal problem of special-interest politics:By a faction (interest group), I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.