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Is there any way to stop ad creep?

  • Written by Mark Bartholomew, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageIt never ends.Daniel Oines/flickr, CC BY

Ethics lawyers and historians have argued that Donald Trump has blurred the line between his public office and private business interests in an unprecedented fashion.

In another sense, it’s part of a much larger social trend.

Commercial entreaties – whether in the form of magazine ads, radio...

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