Corporations are temporarily turning off the money tap after helping to fund an insurrection. Let’s make the change permanent.

Liberals lined the campaigns of Senate hopefuls with mountainous piles of campaign loot, only to watch it all burn up on election night.

Despite eye-popping hauls from small-dollar donors in 2020, they’re showing no signs of disavowing big-money super PACs if they sweep the November election.

The urgency of beating Trump in November has once again set campaign finance reform on the back burner.

He still supports Trump and worships campaign donors. It may cost Republicans their Senate majority.

The young base of Bernie Sanders may never love the Democratic nominee, but there’s a middle ground on which they might meet.

Why the GOP is poised to create large-scale voting chaos this year

A coalition of conservative political organizations is asking the Supreme Court to weaponize the First Amendment in the service of dark money.

The former New York mayor is trying to spend his way to the White House.

By constantly tallying candidates' fundraising hauls, journalists perpetuate a misleading narrative about how elections are won.

A litany of naive decisions has enshrined a system in which the rot lives right out in the open.

After the 2016 election and its fallout, it's astonishing that the vice president would team up with someone tied to despotic foreign actors.

The indictment of two shady cronies of Rudy Giuliani only proves that the real crime is what's legal.

There's a solid dirty money case to be made against the Democratic contender, but Ed Rendell is the wrong person to litigate it.

The banal, evil, all-destructive reign of Mitch McConnell

A new campaign finance disclosure rule was hailed as a "victory for transparency." But most groups found a way around it.

The Massachusetts senator has a big plan to clean up Washington, but the Supreme Court has proven hostile to anti-corruption laws.

As the Arizona senator struggles with brain cancer, one reporter looks back on his time in Washington.