Silicon Valley’s congressman has become a lightning rod. He’s just fine with that

David Gamage was out to dinner with his wife and was already a few drinks deep late last year when his phone buzzed. According to the name on the screen, the call was coming from California congressman Ro Khanna. Gamage, a tax law professor at The University of Missouri, was initially skeptical; he’d never spoken with Khanna before. But the outreach also made some sense. The Democratic lawmaker had recently voiced support for a California ballot initiative that Gamage and several other tax sc...