The independent senator from Vermont tells Bill that big money and big media are keeping critical issues from the American public.

Michael Winship interviews Mayor Gayle McLaughlin about the oil giant’s expensive campaign to defeat her and other progressive candidates in the small city of Richmond, California.

The state's Ethics Commission adopted new disclosure rules on Wednesday, but conservatives are outraged and there may be a fight ahead.

Mitch McConnell is bending every campaign finance rule.

In a live chat with viewers, Bill said that reaching out to fellow citizens and neighbors is an essential step in transforming our broken democracy.

In the post-Citizens United era, nearly 90 percent of Americans think that there is too much corporate money in politics. So why isn't Congress doing anything?

A roundup of this week's news from our Wild West campaign finance system.

An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.

Reporter Bob Herbert on his new book, Losing Our Way, an intimate and heartrending portrait of America in economic despair.

"I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be," she tells the New Republic.