How's this for irony: While members of Ryan's district were calling for campaign finance reforms last summer, their congressman was meeting secretly with the Koch brothers.

Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald points out that almost everything "reported" about the big IRS scandal was wrong, and yet no one has been held accountable.

Through Rootstrikers, Lawrence Lessig seeks to stem the influence of money on our political system, what he considers the underlying source of challenges to American democracy.

The academic and political activist will talk about the corrupting influence of money on politics and how to take our democracy back from the billionaires.

In Mark Fiore's new cartoon, Suzy Newsykins describes her summer job at the IRS' "determination center."

Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Mother Jones' Andy Kroll surveys the new landscape of American "democracy" where those with big bucks call the shots.

The revelation that the IRS was targeting conservative social welfare organizations for special scrutiny has generated more outrage than even the IRS is used to receiving.

Lawyers Theodore Olson and David Boies discuss their ideological differences on Supreme Court cases Bush V. Gore and Citizens United.

A new report finds that the number of registered lobbyists in the nation's capitol has dropped in the past few years. But that doesn't necessarily mean there's less lobbying going on.

Los Angeles Times journalist Matea Gold talks to Michael Winship about her efforts to investigate Washington's money trail.