self-interested

We forget that they aren’t merely self-interested careerists willing to whisper home truths while they trumpet lies; they aren’t just willing to sacrifice themselves to the collective-action defense holding that if bravery were necessary, someone else ought to be brave.

California as a Dickensian, self-interested world of excess and disorder?

Or will the next president fit the role, newly fashioned by John Roberts and his far-right colleagues, of a self-interested monarch who conflates his own grudges with the interests of the public, sits high above the law, and relentlessly persecutes his perceived enemies?

“People know them from places outside of politics, which makes their involvement feel deeper and less self-interested,” she said.

Several of those are in California, which has become one of the country’s prime congressional battlegrounds after voters in 2008 took the power to draw district lines away from self-interested lawmakers.