self-interested

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.

But at the heart of that theory and the anti-vaccination movement are self-interested advocates who feed one another’s convictions.