Surveying the real estate choices of Washington’s contractors, lobbyists and corporate lawyers reveals the raw, nouveau-riche tastes of our capital’s shadow government.

Real change will take more than politicians cutting deals with monied interests. We need a movement led by the public.

It's time for the president to make federal contractors disclose their political spending.

In his new book Plutocrats United, election law scholar Rick Hasen argues that the problem isn't that politicians are corrupted by special interests — it's that they have no incentive to pay attention to anyone but the rich.

When it comes to money in politics, the real problem is not corruption, but inequality.

It can be discouraging to realize that it often takes decades to overturn a Supreme Court decision, but one campaign finance reformer says the good news is that we're already 40 years into that struggle.

In a Q&A, veteran campaign finance reformer Derek Cressman says Americans are becoming increasingly aware that something has to change about the growing amount of money in politics.

The California Supreme Court has cleared the way for voters to demand a constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics.

Living in America sometimes resembles taking part in a Ponzi scheme, and its likely to get worse before it gets better.

Money in politics is actually a nonpartisan issue on which all Americans agree: The system isn't working.